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| NAND prices can rise 10% in 2017 |
12/29/2016 |
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Market researcher DRAMeXchange predicted that spot prices of NAND flash memory chips could rise by about 10 percent next year.
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| Qualcomm fined $853 million for antitrust in Korea |
12/29/2016 |
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The agency said Qualcomm coerced its customers into signing patent license contracts when selling its chips used in mobile phones in the country, and it didn’t fairly pay for the use of patents held by other phone makers.
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| China to soft land a probe on the moon as soon as 2018 |
12/29/2016 |
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Achieving mankind's first soft landing on the far side of the moon is a newly stated goal. It indicates that China has mastered the underlying technology needed to land on a specific area of the lunar surface.
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| Tesla to roll out Enhanced Autopilot software |
12/28/2016 |
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Tesla announced that all of its new vehicles would include the hardware for full autonomy, which sets the stage for such a service to be rolled out later in 2017 or in 2018.
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| Nokia midrange Android phone to hit market 2017 |
12/28/2016 |
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Nokia E1 handset is expected to come with Android 7.0 Nougat out-of-the-box. It will be reportedly powered by a 4GB RAM and a Snapdragon 600 chipset. It may also have 64GB internal storage.
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| Samsung to cut 2/3 nomal bonus at Mobile Division |
12/27/2016 |
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Samsung is preparing to reduce the division’s employee bonuses. These bonuses are highly related to a division’s revenue and profit. Because Galaxy Note 7’s aftermath cost Samsung billions of US dollars, this division must pay the price by lowering employees’ bonuses.
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| TSMC rebutted report on 10nm trouble |
12/27/2016 |
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Calming fears of a possible iPad shortage, TSMC said its 10nm production had been proceeding as planned, adding that the chip had now entered volume production and was set to bring in profits in the first quarter next year.
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| SK Hynix to advance to 72 layear 3D NAND |
12/26/2016 |
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The company announced on Thursday that it expects to complete designs for 72-layer 3-D NAND in the first half of 2017. It aims to begin production at its plant in Icheon in the second half of the year.
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| Memory that can be washed away |
12/26/2016 |
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This is a security memory device that removes information stored in a memory by realizing a resistive random access memory (RRAM) on water-soluble solid sodium glycerine (SSG) and performing dissolution for less than 10 seconds.
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| Smart watch powered by body heat |
12/26/2016 |
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According to the company, this is possible because of is very low power processor technology, which operates at sub-threshold voltages.
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| Companies are racing to introduce their AI chips |
12/26/2016 |
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Come 2017, experts say the Artificial Intelligence community will intensify its demand for higher performance and more power efficient “inference” engines for deep neural networks.
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| Injunction to bar Infineon from selling GaN-on-Si in the U.S. |
12/23/2016 |
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The preliminary injunction stemmed from a request made by MACOM Technology, which claimed that Infineon's GaN-on-Si RF products use intellectual property rights previously owned by Nitronex and now exclusively licensed to MACOM in certain fields.
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| DRAM demand to exceed supply in 2017 |
12/23/2016 |
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Korea government will not agree to China's intention of licensing DRAM production technologies from Samsung and SK Hynix. Micron Technology was quoted in a recent report saying the company finds less reason to partner with China's emerging DRAM firms by licensing its process technologies.
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| Memory production will grow with latest Capital spending |
12/23/2016 |
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The average prices of DRAM and NAND flash memory chips are expected to significantly improve in the fourth quarter, helped by stronger demand for notebook computers and a supply shortage in the NAND flash market.
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| Memory sales in 2017 projects to reach $85 billion |
12/22/2016 |
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Thanks to both rising prices and volume sales, the memory sector is expected to lead overall semiconductor sales growth. The average annual growth rate for the memory market is forecast to be 7.3% from 2016-2021, about 2.4 points higher than the total IC market during the period.
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