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| Bad news hit Toshiba |
2/17/2017 |
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In one day, the company lost its chairman, said it will stop building nuclear power plants, wrote off about US$6.2 billion relating to that business, and postponed its fourth-quarter earnings report for a month.
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| Mobile DRAM continue to grow |
2/17/2017 |
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DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, finds that the global mobile DRAM revenue for the fourth quarter increased by about 20% sequentially to reach around US$5.51 billion.
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| ADI quarterly result beat estimate |
2/17/2017 |
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Company expects revenue to grow 17% over the prior year, which would represent the 4th consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth for ADI.
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| Panasonic/UMC partners in ReRAM memory |
2/17/2017 |
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The partners plan to use a 40-nanometer fabrication process to make ReRAM chips that can run on as little as one-seventh the power of today's NAND flash memory.
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| Index shown increase in manufacturing technology |
2/16/2017 |
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“There has been a significant uptick in shipments for cutting tools, the primary consumable in the manufacturing process, and machine shop spending for the month was up 32 percent from November,”
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| Global IT revenue to grow 3.5% in 2017 |
2/15/2017 |
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Worldwide revenues for IT products and services are forecast to reach nearly ₹160.68 lakh crore ($2.4 trillion) in 2017, an increase of 3.5% over 2016.
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| Quake did minimal disturbance at TSMC |
2/15/2017 |
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Taiwan Central Weather Bureau reported a magnitude 5.6 quake shortly after 1 am on Feb. 11th on local time that was located 12.2 kilometers (7.6 miles) southwest of the city of Tainan.
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| ARM revenue up on Q4 |
2/15/2017 |
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“We intend to at least double the number of employees employed by ARM in the UK over the next five years,” said SoftBank in an undertaking statement.
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| Rumor of Winbond to buy Micron NOR memory unit |
2/14/2017 |
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Winbond shares rallied after the Chinese-language Economic Daily News reported that the Hsinchu firm was seriously studying the feasibility of acquiring Micronfs NOR flash memory business.
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| Apple capital stock hit all time high |
2/14/2017 |
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The largest component of the S&P 500 and a core holding on Wall Street, Apple's stock climbed 0.9 percent to end at $133.29, above its record high close of $133.00 hit on Feb. 23, 2015 and giving it a market value of about $699 billion.
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| Micron to upgrade TaiChung fab to 1x nm |
2/14/2017 |
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Micron Technology Inc plans to spend another US$1 billion this year to complete the upgrading of a DRAM factory in Taichung, a company executive said yesterday.
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| IoT fuels memory growth |
2/14/2017 |
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Toshiba, a major memory maker spending heavily on developing next-generation products, expects "explosive growth of storage capacity,"
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| Drone market to reach $6 billion in 2017 |
2/13/2017 |
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Production of drones for personal and commercial use is growing rapidly, with global market revenue expected to increase 34% to reach more than $6 billion in 2017 and grow to more than $11.2 billion by 2020.
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| Toshiba adds Fab 6 for 3D NAND R&D |
2/13/2017 |
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Fab 6 will be dedicated to the production of BiCS FLASH – a structure that stacks Flash memory cells on a silicon substrate. It is said to realise significant density improvements over planar NAND Flash memory
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| Xiaomi developed its own AP chips |
2/13/2017 |
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Dubbed “Pinecone”, Xiaomi aims to release the first phone featuring the chipset within a month. By developing its own chipset, Xiaomi would be better able to optimise its software for the hardware at hand.
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| IC market is now “global economy-driven” |
2/10/2017 |
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Given the tight correlation between annual worldwide GDP growth rates and IC market growth rates, IC Insights believes that a significant and noticeable IC market cycle will not occur through 2021
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| Samsung takes very different approach from TSMC on 7nm process |
2/10/2017 |
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TSMC’s paper described a test chip that could pass for a commercial part and said it had “healthy” yields. Samsung described its use of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography to repair what was clearly a research device, suggesting what it will call 7nm could still be years away.
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| Toshiba chip unit bid prices rise |
2/10/2017 |
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Toshiba Corp has received bids ranging from 200 billion yen to as much as 400 billion yen ($1.8-3.6 billion) for a 19.9 percent stake in its flash memory business.
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| U.S. move to block Infineon/Cree merger |
2/10/2017 |
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Wolfspeed, a division of Cree, makes devices using gallium nitride, a sensitive powdery compound that can have military applications and has been responsible for the U.S. blocking acquisitions in the past.
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