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| Seagate to ship 60TB SSD in 2017 |
8/11/2016 |
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The drive will be aimed at servers and flash arrays, where it could help meet the growing demand for storage fueled by mobile devices, online video and the emerging internet of things.
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| Samsung factory safetly questioned |
8/11/2016 |
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An Associated Press investigation has found South Korean authorities have repeatedly withheld from workers and bereaved families crucial information about chemicals used at Samsung's computer chip and liquid crystal display factories.
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| Manufacturing orders up in June |
8/11/2016 |
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Orders are likely to get a boost from the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) happening in September, but sustained recovery is not anticipated in the immediate future.
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| 512GB SSD in SIM card package |
8/10/2016 |
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The Toshiba BG SSD Family will be available in 128GB, 256GB or 512GB capacities in both a 16mm x 20mm package (M.2 Type 1620) or a removable M.2 Type 2230 module.
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| India to be 14% of the smartphone market |
8/9/2016 |
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India is fastest-growing market for mobile handsets and globally contributed nearly 7.6% to the global smartphone market in 2015 and is expected to touch 13.5% by 2019 with increasing popularity of smartphones, better availability of data services etc.
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| Surface Pro 5 to have Intel's Kaby Lake chipset |
8/9/2016 |
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The Surface Pro 5 was initially scheduled to be unveiled this June. Considering the device did not debut in June, it seems Microsoft has opted to go ahead with the Kaby Lake processor-powered Surface Pro 5 and, therefore, pushed back the tablet's release to next year.
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| Analyst projects bright future for SK Hynix |
8/9/2016 |
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The company, which is the world's second-biggest memory chip supplier and a critical part of SK Group in terms of profit contribution, is expected to improve earnings in the latter half of this year.
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| China semiconductor companies formed alliance |
8/9/2016 |
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The HECA will cover the development of China's semiconductor industry from the set-up of the industry's architecture, chip production, software/system development and information services.
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| Apple spent $200 million to acquire AI company |
8/8/2016 |
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Apple has reportedly acquired a Seattle-based machine learning startup called Turi. The financial details of the deal remain undisclosed but various reports suggest the deal worth $200 million.
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| “Big 3” spenders to represent 45% of semi Capex outlay |
8/8/2016 |
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“Big 3” spenders are forecast to represent 45% of the total semiconductor industry outlays this year. In contrast, capital outlays by the rest of the semiconductor suppliers are forecast to shrink by 16% in the second half of this year.
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| Can Micron survive with China as the new memory player in town? |
8/8/2016 |
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As Micron has kept posting losses and its stock prices have falling, there are rumors that Chinese firm will acquire Micron again. Market watchers think that the U.S. government will not be able to continuously prevent the lossmaker from voluntary market reorganization.
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| Allwinner chipset to drive VR prices dowm |
8/8/2016 |
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Allwinner's H8VR chipset could free VR headsets from being attached to smartphones or PCs. The H8VR can fit in plastic or cardboard VR headset, and it has a CPU, 4K video processing capabilities, memory and storage.
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| Silicon wafer shipment broke record |
8/5/2016 |
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Total silicon wafer area shipments were 2,706 million square inches during the most recent quarter, a 6.6% increase from the 2,538 million square inches shipped during the previous quarter.
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| Singapore to test autonomous vehicle technology |
8/5/2016 |
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Cetran will spearhead the development of testing requirements for SDVs, as there is no existing international standard. This would allow SDVs to be integrated with existing road traffic, which is an important step for widespread deployment of SDVs.
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| Everspin announced perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction MRAM |
8/5/2016 |
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"The part offered the ‘highest write performance’. The technology can support 1.5million IOPs,”. “This shows how enterprises can apply it to speed applications. The DDR3 interface will make it easy to design ST-MRAM into existing applications."
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| Nanya share of DRAM market continue to fall |
8/5/2016 |
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But Nanya's earnings overall paint a gloomier picture. Group net profit plummeted 91% year on year to 397 million New Taiwan dollars ($12.5 million) for the quarter as sluggish demand weighed on prices, marking the fifth straight quarter of declines.
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| Memory chip prices up |
8/4/2016 |
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Production cuts initiated by the top-three vendors Samsung Electronis, SK Hynix and Micron Technology in the first and second quarters have resulted in tight supply of commodity DRAM chips recently, boosting contract prices.
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| Manufacturing Index at 52.6% |
8/4/2016 |
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A reading above 50 percent indicates that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates that it is generally contracting.
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