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| New Note 7 is now available for recall replacement |
9/22/2016 |
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Samsung first offered on Sept. 2 to replace the affected Note 7 phones, Samsung said it would swap them for models of its other phones, such as the Galaxy S7, until supplies of replacement Note 7 devices became available.
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| Online education program for "autonomus car engineers" |
9/21/2016 |
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Udacity recently partnered with Mercedes-Benz, Nvidia, Otto and Didi Chuxing to conceptualise the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree Program, which covers topics such as deep learning, computer vision, sensor fusion, localisation and controllers.
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| Next Orbit Ventures investing $100 million in India Fab. |
9/21/2016 |
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“We are coming as first investors into this fab project to back India’s growing electronics market, which will reach $400 billion by 2020 as per the government of India’s national policy of electronics 2012 estimates, and requires $100 billion of investment for achieving ‘zero import’ target,”
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| ON Semi closed deal to take over Fairchild |
9/21/2016 |
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The deal has been waiting for regulatory approval from not just the U.S. but also China, where ON finally received the go-ahead from the Ministry of Commerce.
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| Samsung made $891 million on stock investments |
9/20/2016 |
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Samsung disposed of half its shares in ASML and its entire 4.2 percent stake in Seagate Technology. It also sold its 4.5 percent holding in Rambus and the 0.7 percent of Sharp stock that it owned.
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| Intel see PC market on the bounce back |
9/19/2016 |
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Intel Corp (INTC.O) raised its quarterly revenue forecast for the first time in more than two years as suppliers of parts used in personal computers replenish their inventory amid improving PC demand.
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| Samsung reputation hurt by battery fire |
9/19/2016 |
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Cause has been attributed to defects in the battery manufacturing process, in which microscopic metal filings were accidentally rolled into the electrolytic film, potentially puncturing the film, short-circuiting anode-to-cathode in that spot, and getting horrendously hot.
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| Everspin to ship 22nm ST-MRAM by next year |
9/19/2016 |
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The embedded memory be offered initially on Globalfoundries’ 22FDX platform, which uses FD-SOI technology. However, the technology is said to be scalable beyond 22nm and is expected to be available on FinFET and future FDX platforms.
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| GlobalFoundries to skip 10nm process |
9/19/2016 |
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'It’s our view that 10nm will be a short node,' and one which GlobalFoundries will skip in favour of going straight to 7nm in an attempt to get the drop on its rivals. The company's aggressive roadmap sees the first 7nm FinFET-based parts dropping off production lines in the company's Fab 8 facility in New York by 2018.
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| NAND flash sales up 3.4% |
9/15/2016 |
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Consequently. branded NAND flash vendors saw their combined revenues rise in the second quarter ending a 2-quarter streak of sequential decreases.
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| Europe wants to deploy 5G by 2025 |
9/15/2016 |
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The European Union wants to make fifth-generation telecommunications technology available around the bloc and have free wireless connections in every city and major public venue within the next decade.
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| Manufacturing equipment order dropped |
9/15/2016 |
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The U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders report for July 2016 shows that orders dropped 24.8 percent for the month compared to June. Year over year, monthly orders were down 23.0 percent compared to July 2015.
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| VR requirements to push up DDR4 demand and prices |
9/14/2016 |
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In general, using DDR4 modules instead of prior-generation DDR3 variations helps PCs boost processing speed and consume less power. PC makers have stepped up efforts to secure DDR4 machines will grow as VR games become more popular.
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| Apple,s tax bill from EU could be up to $21 Billion |
9/14/2016 |
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem, The Dutch Finance Minister, said: "International tax loopholes are a thing of the past. Apple will have to pay back taxes both in the United States and Europe, so get ready to do that."
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| Samsung to spend $2.26B to build new 3D NAND production |
9/14/2016 |
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Samsung has reportedly invested 2.5 trillion won (US$2.26 billion) to build the chip production line in a bid to meet the increasing demand for 3-D NAND flash memory chip, which stacks storage cells vertically, compared to conventional planar memory chips.
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