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| BlackBerry to exit smartphone business |
6/24/2016 |
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For the three months to end of May, the company reported a $670m (£450m) loss, compared to a $73m profit a year earlier and and a $256m loss in the previous quarter.
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| SMIC now runs 28nm Snapdragon 425 |
6/24/2016 |
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The successful production of 28nm Snapdragon products in Beijing represents an important step for SMIC's 28nm technology.
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| MediaTek: 5G networks will be commercialized in 2020 |
6/24/2016 |
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MediaTek will continue to expand its R&D workforce for its 5G chip development to more than 200 people or even top 300 people, the sources said. The company is targeting a 2018 launch for its 5G product line.
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| IBM to open Power Server |
6/24/2016 |
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A Power-based OpenCompute server will be an alternative to open server designs based on x86 chips. One target for such Power servers is hyperscale vendors, who may be looking for an alternative to Intel chips, which now dominate data centers.
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| New designs will boost DRAM usage and prices |
6/23/2016 |
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The market release of iPhone 7/7 Plus will also generate strong stock-up demand. Respectively equipped with 2GB and 3GB of memory, iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will effectively consume a large portion of the total DRAM capacity.
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| Autonomus car will require lots of advanced SRAM |
6/23/2016 |
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A large amount of SRAM configured as high-performance internal buffer memory is essential for fast and accurate processing of video data. It's also critical to enable multi-port operation allowing simultaneous read and write accesses, which fetch video processing data for operations and store the data after operations finish.
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| NASA tests electrically propelled aircraft |
6/23/2016 |
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It will essentially eliminate the increased fuel usage needed to cruise at higher speeds. The agency estimates that small aircraft could save as much as 40 percent in overall operating costs.
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| Nvidia has GPU card for super computer PCIe slot |
6/22/2016 |
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At the ISC High Performance 2016 show this week in Frankfurt, Germany, Nvidia officials unveiled the P100 GPU accelerator for PCIe, an interconnect technology common on most servers.
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| Samsung to focus on NAND |
6/22/2016 |
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Samsung Electronics significantly increased margins in the NAND flash sector this year through steady cost reduction. Its operating margins in the NAND flash sector will grow from 17 percent last year to 25 percent this year.
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| Samsung Might Trim DRAM Supply |
6/21/2016 |
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Supply relief could finally be on the way, with Samsung's comments during its latest earnings call suggesting it could pare back DRAM supply. This sentiment seems to be supported by SK Hynix's recent projections that industry DRAM supply would fall during the second half of the year
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| Chinese Court: Apple infringed |
6/20/2016 |
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A Beijing court has today ruled that the design of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is very much similar to a local Chinese smartphone brand. It has thus asked Apple to immediately pause the sale of these smartphones in the country.
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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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