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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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| GlobalFoundries invested big in Saratoga County, NY |
8/3/2016 |
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GlobalFoundries has invested $1.03 billion over the past seven years to purchase building materials and manufacturing equipment for its Malta, New York, factory, as the company competes to produce the most advanced computer chips in the world.
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| Macronix to overtake Cypress in NOR leadership ? |
8/3/2016 |
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Dr. Chih-Yuan Lu emphasized that with the continual stability of Macronix’s market share, he is confident that they will take the top spot in global market share at the end of the year.
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| ARM expanded IoT team at Israel Center |
8/3/2016 |
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ARM has recruited about 40 engineers in Israel and continues to grow the design centre. Will position it as a leading global IoT engineering research centre.
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| WD's late entry to 3D NAND will help Micron position |
8/2/2016 |
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Western Digital's Q4 concall was mostly bad news for the company, confirming that it is probably a year late in the 3D business. WDC's problems are Micron's opportunities, especially in 3D NAND. The outlook for Micron's NAND business is considerably brighter.
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| MediTek enjorys high revenue growth in Q2 |
8/2/2016 |
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MediaTek has announced pre-tax profits of NT$7.75 billion (US$245.2 million) for the second quarter of 2016, up 46.8% sequentially. Pre-tax EPS for the quarter came to NT$4.93.
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| VR and AR might become the growth engine for memories |
8/2/2016 |
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Industry sources say that the expansion of the VR and AR market is primarily to increase the demand of NAND flash which keeps storing data when a device’s DRAM and power are shut off. To realize 3D VR contents through VR devices, like the Gear VR, requires a lot of memory.
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