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| Manufacturing sector continue to improve |
7/7/2016 |
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Manufacturing expanded in June as the PMI registered 53.2 percent, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from the May reading of 51.3 percent, indicating growth in manufacturing for the fourth consecutive month.
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| Google: SSD still not reliable as HDD |
7/6/2016 |
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Google said in its recent report that bad block has been witnessed at a 30% to 80% chance in four years of use of solid state drives (SSDs) for servers at data centers.
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| Toshiba and WD to fund Japanese NAND production |
7/5/2016 |
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Toshiba and U.S. partner Western Digital will commit 1.5 trillion yen ($14.6 billion) over three years toward stepping up flash memory production at their jointly run Japanese plant.
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| NAND prices skyrocketed |
7/5/2016 |
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According to industrial sources on July 3, the average fixed price of a NAND flash memory (64 Gb) announced by DRAM Exchange on June 30 rose 10.89% to 2.24 dollars from the previous month.
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| Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is setting up a shop in India |
7/5/2016 |
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Xiaomi is reportedly talking with several state governments to set up new manufacturing plants in the country to keep pace with demand. It is collaborating again with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn for the new manufacturing plants.
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| NEC said to hire 1000 at India software center |
7/5/2016 |
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NTI and its Japan-based parent NEC today announced to jointly set up an Open Source Software centre in India to provide support for OSS used in various businesses in domestic market as well as to clients globally.
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| Analyst's outlook on Micron |
7/4/2016 |
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Full effect of Micron 20nm cost benefits may not be observed until all DRAM products, particularly mobile, have transitioned to 20nm – management commentary suggests this might take another quarter or two.
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| Rambus to buy Inphi memory buffer business |
7/4/2016 |
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Rambus, which re-entered the fabless semiconductor market last year after years of doing business strictly as a technology licensor, said the deal would strengthen its position in the memory buffer chip market.
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| ASE/SPIL merger talks concluded |
7/4/2016 |
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The merger is expected to complete by the fourth quarter of 2017, subject to approval by competent authorities of the concerned countries, approval by ASE's and SPIL's shareholders, as well as the satisfaction of other conditions precedent.
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| Brexit not to affect overall chip industry |
7/4/2016 |
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China is the biggest consumer of semiconductors, accounting for over 50% of the global semiconductor demand. Of course, electronics manufacturers from around the work use Asian ODMs. Europe accounts for less than 10%, and we believe that Britain’s share in that is very minuscule.
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| Micron hit quarterly lost, cut jobs |
7/1/2016 |
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Demand for Micron's DRAM chips for personal computers has continued to fall, while it faces stiff competition from rivals such as Samsung in the market of NAND chips for devices like smartphones.
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| Applied goes to atom level on 10nm process |
7/1/2016 |
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This new tool provides atomic-level precision in the selective removal of materials in 3D devices structures increasingly used for the most advanced silicon ICs.
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| AMD purchased gaming software developer |
7/1/2016 |
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HiAlgo’s software is designed to work with AMD’s Radeon RX Series GPUs, increasing GPU efficiency and improving the overall consistency of gaming experiences. The acquisition lays the groundwork for gaming innovation in Radeon software for GPUs.
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| Interest in 450mm wafer reuced |
6/30/2016 |
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One factor which influenced progress was the economics. “It doesn’t bring a universal cost per die improvement,”
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| Win 10 upgrade has better human interface |
6/30/2016 |
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Cortana will be able to recall more types of information, such as frequent flier numbers or parking locations. Users can also ask Cortana to remember specific photos, such as a wine bottle to buy again later.
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| Volkswagen settles at $14.7 billion |
6/30/2016 |
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The Associated Press reports that more than $10 billion will be used to either buy back or repair 475,000 vehicles equipped with software to manipulate their emissions levels during official testing.
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| Galaxy S7 brings profit breakthrough for Samsung |
6/29/2016 |
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An unexpected boom in sales of memory chips and the wild success of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge put numbers for the quarter at a far more heavenly level than initially expected.
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| NVDIMM finds its way into more servers |
6/29/2016 |
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NVDIMM memory helps to protect data in the event of a system power loss. They are also starting to be used as a way to boost application performance as a tier between fast flash storage and even faster DRAM.
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