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| SK Hynix to launch LPDDR4X |
6/20/2016 |
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The new solution, called low power double data rate 4 X or LPDDR4X, boasts 20 percent higher energy efficiency compared to the current LPDDR4.
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| Chinese robotic company to engage in AI chip |
6/20/2016 |
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Dr. Kai Yu, founder and CEO of the company said the firm is developing “cutting edge computer infrastructure to facilitate AI computing, perception, cognition and real-time decision-making on smart devices.”
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| DRAM price to rebound |
6/17/2016 |
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The price of a DDR3 2Gb chip stands at $0.934, up from $0.888 several days ago, according to market research firm DRAMeXchange. The main contributing factor for the price increase is that more Chinese smartphone-makers are adopting the memory chips with larger storage capacity.
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| Xilinx FPGA now accommodates dual core |
6/17/2016 |
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According to Xilinx, CG devices feature a heterogeneous processing system featuring a dual core Cortex-A53 and a dual core Cortex-R5 real time processing unit and are optimised for industrial motor control, sensor fusion and industrial IoT applications.
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| Investors back out of building India fab. |
6/17/2016 |
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Jaypee Infratech, which was partnering IBM Corp and Israel's Tower Jazz, abandoned plans for one of the big chip plants, STMicroelectronics NV is set to scrap plans to build the other $5 billion plant as its main local partner failed to raise enough money from skeptical investors.
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| Samsung denies rumor of $21.2 billion capex on 3D NAND |
6/16/2016 |
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“The company has not set detailed plans for the investment as the 3-D NAND flash memory business has just started to take off recently,” said the company, adding that recent news reports on the issue were unfounded.
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| Manufacturing technology order down |
6/16/2016 |
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AMT member companies report strong levels of quotation activity, but longer conversion rates for order placement. Manufacturing companies are resistant to make investments in capital equipment out of a sense of caution.
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| Apple wants into renewable energy distributions |
6/16/2016 |
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Apple formed a subsidiary called Apple Energy LLC in Delaware to be operated from the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. It wants to sell that excessive solar energy to end-users at market rates.
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| IBM has tri-level PCM |
6/15/2016 |
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The company claimed last month that it can now put three bits of data per cell (called Triple-Level Cell PCM), which, as IDG notes, is “50 percent more than the company showed off in 2011 with a two-bit form of PCM.
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| Intel to ship 3D XPoint memory this year |
6/15/2016 |
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It's 1,000 times faster than NAND. On top of being faster than current NAND flash memory it's also 10 times more dense meaning enhanced storage in a smaller space.
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| Microsoft offers $26.2 Billion to buy LinkedIn |
6/14/2016 |
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Jeff Weiner will stay on as CEO of LinkedIn and will report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The deal was unanimously approved by both companies' boards, and is expected to close by the end of the year.
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| New smartphones to drive memory market in 2H |
6/14/2016 |
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The oversupply's end will be due to the rollouts of new Android and iPhone models apparently this started "since the middle of June." The issue is not that there are more smartphones.
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| Menta offers embedded eFPGA IP |
6/14/2016 |
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One benefit of embedding an FPGA fabric as an IP core in a chip, says Menta, is that it allows designers to update the silicon at will post production, without re-spinning silicon.
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| Netflix to design UHD streaming hardware in Taiwan |
6/14/2016 |
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Netflix this week launched its Taiwan office in Hsinchu and hired a local engineering team, which is to be in charge of providing certification services for SoC manufacturers, connected TVs, game consoles, set-top boxes and mobile devices.
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| Notebook shipment to rebound |
6/13/2016 |
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.“We previously estimated that this quarter’s notebook shipments would grow about 10 percent from last quarter’s [8.4 million units]. Now we think shipments are likely to grow 20 percent quarter-on-quarter,” a Quanta investor relations official told The Taipei Times.
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| GPU is a key element in Big Data Server |
6/13/2016 |
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Meanwhile, in the graphics world, the sort of advancing performance that occurred in computing a decade ago is still happening. Nvidia's latest 1080 chip announcement almost hit the mark of twice the performance for half the cost of its Titan X predecessor.
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| 19 new fabs scheduled for 2016/17 |
6/13/2016 |
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Breaking down the 19 projects by wafer size, 12 of the fabs and lines are for 300mm (12-inch), four for 200mm, and three LED fabs (150mm, 100mm, and 50mm).
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| TSMC target to raise cash dividends |
6/10/2016 |
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>gOur mission is to create better returns for company shareholders, regardless of weak macroeconomic conditions and a sluggish worldwide semiconductor industry,h Chang said.
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