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| IC Insight elects Nvidia and MediaTek top growth companies |
11/17/2016 |
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The fastest growing top-20 company in 2016 is forecast to be US-based Nvidia, which is expected to post a 35% on-year increase in sales. The second-fastest growing top-20 company in 2016 is expected to be Taiwan-based MediaTek, which is forecast to post a 29% increase in sales.
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| Government suggested that the connected world needs more security |
11/17/2016 |
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In a report obtained by The Associated Press, the Homeland Security Department described runaway security problems with devices that have been made internet-capable in recent years, a group that includes medical implants, surveillance cameras, home appliances, digital video recorders, thermostats and baby monitors.
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| Wholesale prices stayed flat in October |
11/17/2016 |
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The Labor Department said Wednesday that its producer price index was flat last month after rising 0.3 percent in September. Services prices fell 0.3 percent, pulled down by a record 5.7 percent drop in the price of brokerage and other financial services.
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| Qualcomm opened test facility in Shanghai |
11/16/2016 |
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This is reportedly Qualcomm's first semiconductor manufacturing test facility in the world. The new company will focus on chip and system tests and it will expand to wafer tests in the future.
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| ReRAM startup transfers technology to Leti in France |
11/16/2016 |
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Weebit Nano was founded in 2014 to develop a memory technology invented by Professor James Tour of Rice University with the potential to be 1000 times faster, more reliable, more energy-efficient and cheaper than flash.
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| German Siemens to acquire Mentor Graphics |
11/15/2016 |
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Siemens will pay Mentor Graphics shareholders $37.25 per share, a 21-percent premium to Friday's closing price. Total price comes to $4.5 billion. It expects to fund the deal from cash reserves, Siemens said on Monday.
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| iPhone 8 to have revolutionary wireless charging |
11/14/2016 |
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According to a report in BGR, the Cupertino giant is working with Energous to introduce wireless charging technology for iPhone 8. If rumours are anything to go by, the wireless technology being developed by Apple is like no other we’ve seen yet.
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| DRAM market predicts to grow in 2017 |
11/14/2016 |
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The research report, released by Market information advisory firm TrendForce Corp. (W–M‰È‹Z), indicated that dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips would continue to grow in 2017.
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| Nvidia registered record revenue |
11/14/2016 |
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Revenue rose 53.6 percent to $2.00 billion in the third quarter, blowing past analysts' expectations of $1.69 billion.
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| Trump win creates uncertainty in Tech Industry |
11/11/2016 |
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The Semiconductor Industry Association has long advocated free trade such as the Trans Pacific Partnership and other trade deals and relaxed immigration for foreign nationals with advanced STEM degrees.
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| Everspin showed off 1Gbit MRAMs |
11/11/2016 |
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It went from a 90nm 64Mbit currently in production to a 40nm 256Mbit which is sampling to this 1Gbit which has just got into silicon. All three generations were made by GliFo’s fab in Singapore.
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| Nanya buys 5% in Micron to secure DRAM license |
11/11/2016 |
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Nanya plans to acquire a 5 percent stake in Micron Technology Inc for about NT$31.46 billion (US$1 billion), making the local DRAM chipmaker the largest shareholder of the US memorychip giant.
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| Toshiba forecast up on strong NAND demand |
11/10/2016 |
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Toshiba Corp raised its annual operating profit forecast by 50 percent on Tuesday, saying it expects demand for its NAND flash memory chips to remain strong for the rest of the business year.
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| Next MacBook to feature 3D XPoint SSD |
11/9/2016 |
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Optane SSDs are purported to have 1,000 times the performance of typical flash drives. It will be compatible with the newest PCIe SSDs that use the NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification -- a logical device interface for accessing flash storage via the PCIe bus.
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| SK Hynix to pump up 48 layer NAND production |
11/9/2016 |
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With the planned production, the company’s NAND chip output is expected to more than double from the current 10,000 units of the 12-inch wafers per month to some 20,000 to 30,000 units at the end of this year.
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