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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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| Flaw found in Intel Atom microserver chip |
2/9/2017 |
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In January, Intel added an erratum to the Atom C2000 documentation, stating systems with the chip "may experience [an] inability to boot or may cease operation."
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| EV car battery prices dropped |
2/9/2017 |
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average price of battery packs for cars has dropped from $1,000 per kWh in 2010 to around $230 per kWh in the past year. How much of a difference does that make to the price of a car, you ask? A big one.
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| TDK/Qualcomm JV to develope RF front-end in singapore |
2/7/2017 |
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The venture aims to enable Qualcomm’s RF front-end (RFFE) business unit to deliver RFFE modules and RF filters into fully integrated systems for mobile devices, internet of things (IoT), automotive apps.
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| Intel and Micron race to ship 3DXpoint storage |
2/7/2017 |
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While Intel ships its first low-capacity Optanes for PCs, Micron is already researching the second- and third-generations of 3D Xpoint technology. Micron's 3D Xpoint products are called QuantX.
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| China tightens anti-trust policy |
2/7/2017 |
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Chinese government has recently set up its new detailed regulations or amend old regulations on the anti-monopoly law, and will reveal and implement the 6th anti-monopoly guidelines, which guide the procedure of anti-monopoly investigations, soon.
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| China set new rules for offshore investment |
2/6/2017 |
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China officials announced offshore M&A transactions are subject to additional governmental scrutiny. They include outbound investment by limited partnerships that are popular with private equity and VC finds in China as well as investments by newly set-up companies.
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| STMicro joins Charging Interface Initiative e. V |
2/6/2017 |
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Charging Interface Initiative e. V, an open association founded to develop and establish the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the standard for charging all kinds of battery-powered electric vehicles.
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| Fujisu offers FRAM memory for automotive systems |
2/6/2017 |
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FRAM reduces system complexity and increases data integrity by allowing instant and continuous data storage in applications such as air bag data storage, event data recorders (EDR), battery management systems (BMS), automatic driving assistance systems (ADAS) or navigation and infotainment systems.
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| NXT sales jumped 56% in 2016 |
2/6/2017 |
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Qualcomm has played a critical role in driving the evolution of the mobile industry. The NXP acquisition accelerates our strategy to extend our leading mobile technology into robust new opportunities.
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