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| Samsung announced 10nm 6GB LPDDR4 DRAM |
5/23/2016 |
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Manufactured on the 10nm architecture, these DRAM memory chips are going to boast better efficiency and are going to be powering up the next wave of smartphones and other tablets.
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| Applied Material sales jumped |
5/23/2016 |
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Machines that make flash memory, used as storage in phones and tablets, provided 49 percent of Applied’s total of $1.97 billion in chip equipment orders. That area is being boosted by the switch to chips called 3D Nand. Companies that manufacture smartphone displays also flooded Applied’s order books.
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| 3D NAND has limits |
5/20/2016 |
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3D NAND chips are 32- and 48-layer devices, but the technology will likely hit the ceiling at 128 layers in the 2018 timeframe. Vendors might stack three separate 48-layer 3D NAND devices, creating a 144-layer chip. Even with string stacking, though, 3D NAND could hit the wall at 300 layers.
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| IBM created a Tri-level PCM memory |
5/19/2016 |
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Three-bit PCM could be used as a faster tier of storage within arrays, including all-flash arrays, so the most-used data gets to applications faster. It could also take the place of a lot of the DRAM in systems, cutting the cost of technologies like in-memory databases.
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| DRAM revenue dropped 16.6% in Q1 |
5/18/2016 |
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DRAM industry posted US$8.56 billion in revenue in this first quarter, down 16.6% from the previous quarter. Market oversupply and sliding average selling price were the main culprits behind the revenue decline.
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| AMD introduced M400 series GPU |
5/18/2016 |
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The new series spans Radeon R9, Radeon R7, and Radeon R5-class processors sporting support for DirectX 12, the new Vulkan graphics API, OpenGL 4.4, and AMD’s own Mantle API that “speaks” to its GCN architecture.
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| IDC predicts a down semi market |
5/18/2016 |
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An economic pause in China and emerging markets, and a softening of the overall outlook in the US are key factors that will affect global semiconductor demand in 2016, says IDC.
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| Mobile DRAM taken over 40% DRAM market |
5/17/2016 |
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it is expected that mobile DRAM will continue to take up over 40% of the overall DRAM shipments throughout 2016, outpacing commodity and specialty DRAMs."
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| IC market dropped in Q1 |
5/17/2016 |
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According to the latest report from IC Insight, eight of the top 10 semiconductor suppliers logged annual declines in 1Q16 sales compared with 1Q15, with several seeing sales fall by 25% or more.
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| Apple invested $1 billion in Chinese version Uber |
5/17/2016 |
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That cool billion is likely to buy Apple everything it needs to know about ride-sharing, an installed base of customers for its future robo-cars, and a stronger foothold, both political and economic, in China.
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| AMD named new chairman |
5/16/2016 |
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Advanced Micro Devices announced today that board member John Caldwell has been appointed chairman. Caldwell succeeds Bruce Claflin as chairman of the board.
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