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| Smartwatch market missing its mark |
7/26/2016 |
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IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker showed that smartwatch vendors shipped 3.5 million units in the second quarter of 2016, which was down substantially from the 5.1 million shipped a year ago.
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| Korea needs more fabless company for innovations |
7/26/2016 |
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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are global leaders in the memory semiconductor sector but in the fabless sector, a semiconductor design sector, they are not. According to IC Insights, last year, Korean fabless companies accounted for less than one percent of the entire market.
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| Nokia to go at it again |
7/25/2016 |
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Nokia is reportedly planning for a comeback to the smartphone market with two new smartphones powered by Google's latest Android Nougat operating system version 7.0. The handsets are expected towards the end of 2016.
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| Verizon to get Yahoo for $4.83 Billion |
7/25/2016 |
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Parties as diverse as Warren Buffett and The Daily Mail were interested in buying Yahoo. But after a sale process that dragged on for months, Verizon (VZ, Tech30), long viewed as the frontrunner, is walking away with Yahoo's more than one billion monthly active users.
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| Storage startup gets investment from major players |
7/25/2016 |
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The Auburn-based company, which launched in December 2014, has developed technology to allow cloud data center servers to quickly access solid-state memory that is not physically in or near the server.
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| Flash prices rebounded |
7/22/2016 |
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Buoyed by a significant demand increase as Chinese and Taiwanese smartphone makers introduce products with larger memory capacity, prices of NAND flash memory chips have rebounded significantly.
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| Semi automated Bus will serve the public |
7/22/2016 |
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The bus requires specially equipped bus lanes, so-called BRT lanes (bus rapid transit). It drives at speeds up to 70 kmph autonomously. During the ride, a driver is required to monitor the system, but as long as he does not intervene, the bus can maneuver automatically.
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| Intel revenue increased while profit dropped |
7/22/2016 |
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Intel said that for the quarter ended July 2, it earned $1.3 billion, or 27 cents a share, less than half the $2.7 billion, or 55 cents a share, it earned in the same period a year ago. However, revenue rose to $13.5 billion from last year's second-quarter sales of $13.2 billion.
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| Toshiba to go 64 layer 3D NAND |
7/21/2016 |
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Toshiba is planning to start the manufacturing of the world’s first 64-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips in the third quarter of this year.
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| VR sales to heat up this Christmas season |
7/21/2016 |
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The VR device market is set to heat up in the fourth quarter of 2016 with more new products from Google (Cardboard), Samsung (Gear VR) and Sony (PlayStation VR.
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| Microsoft bets on cloud |
7/21/2016 |
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Microsoft poured billions of dollars into building new data centers around the world, hoping to position Microsoft as the leading alternative to Amazon in selling online computing power — housed in remote centers or "clouds" — to internet startups and big corporations, as well as consumers.
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| Memory system down to atom level demonstrated |
7/20/2016 |
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This allowed the scientists to create a medium with a storage density of 500 terabits per square inch (Tbpsi). That's 500 times denser than the best commercial hard disk and lead-scientist Sander Otte says that it could theoretically allow every book ever written to be stored on something the size a postage stamp.
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| China will threaten the leaders in memory |
7/20/2016 |
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“The import volume of semiconductors in China is around 272 trillion won annually. Even if only half of them becomes self-sufficient, that would strike a huge blow to Korean companies in the long term,”
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| TSMC obtained all order for Apple A11 chips |
7/19/2016 |
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The Taiwan-based foundry will be the sole supplier of Apple's next-generation A11 processor that will be built on a 10nm FinFET process, the report indicated, without citing its sources.
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| Toshiba/WD JV opens new Yokkaichi fab for 3D flash |
7/19/2016 |
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The fab began construction in September of 2014 when Toshiba and SanDisk formed an agreement for the mass production of 3-D flash memory. In May, Western Digital completed its acquisition of SanDisk with this fab.
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| SoftBank to pay $32 billion for ARM |
7/19/2016 |
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The recommended cash deal underlines the desire of SoftBank, which also owns struggling U.S. telecommunications company Sprint, to expand in the so-called "Internet of Things"
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| 75% foundry capacity will be in China and Taiwan |
7/18/2016 |
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China will account for almost 20% of worldwide foundry capacity in 2017. Taiwan is the largest foundry capacity region and accounts for over 55% of 300mm foundry capacity in the world.
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