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| SEMI: Equipment invesment to grow 11% in 2017 |
7/15/2016 |
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"After a tepid 2015, device manufacturers are beginning to ramp their investments in key industry segments. We expect capital spending to improve for the remainder of 2016 and into 2017.”
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| Samsung adds 4TB member to EVO 850 SSD line |
7/14/2016 |
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Positioned as a premium consumer SSD option by the South Korea-based firm, the 850 EVO 4 TB is equipped with Samsung's Triple Layer Cell NAND memory-chip technology and V-NAND technology.
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| Chinese demonstrated quick charge graphine battery |
7/14/2016 |
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Dongxu claims the battery regains its lost charge in 13 to 15 minutes. The battery shouldn’t fall over after a single recharge either. Dongxu says the cell is strong enough to be discharged and recharged 3,500 times.
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| PC shipment to rise again |
7/14/2016 |
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IDC found that PC shipments increased by nearly 5 percent, in large part due to purchases of low-cost Google Chromebooks ahead of the new school year.
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| GE to link with Microsoft cloud on IoT platform |
7/14/2016 |
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“Working with companies like GE, we can reach a new set of customers to help them accelerate their transformation across every line of business — from the factory floor to smart buildings.”
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| Samsung flash memory sales hit all-time high |
7/13/2016 |
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The Korean company earned US$2.62 billion in revenue in the first quarter, up 3.1 percent from the fourth quarter last year, according to a recent report released by IHS, a market research firm.
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| Samsung socket to accept both MicroSD and UFS |
7/13/2016 |
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Samsung revealed that they are working on developing a new slot that will work with both UFS and microSD. This means that in the future, you will be able to use either a UFS memory card or microSD, depending on your preference
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| Cypress merger with Broadcom IoT have challenges on integration |
7/13/2016 |
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Broadcom was good at serving large customers, a profile not exactly compatible with the IoT community. Typically, the still fledgling IoT market attracts a host of smaller customers willing to try different connectivity projects and products.
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| Server to drive new memory technologies |
7/12/2016 |
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“Server semiconductor business has more than twice the profit rates of PC and mobile businesses and it has an infinite amount of growth potential. Along with data center technologies, including cloud, artificial intelligence and neural networks, the memory market will also have dramatic changes.”
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| Taiwan's UMC hits record revenue |
7/12/2016 |
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United Microelectronics (UMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$13.53 billion (US$418.6 million) for June 2016, a monthly record. UMC's revenues for June 2016 represented increases of 6.5% sequentially and 12.2% on year.
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| Latest: Semi revenue to be -1% this year |
7/12/2016 |
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The downward revision came after IC Insights cut its forecast for global GDP growth for the year from 2.7 percent to 2.3 percent, with the researcher saying the global semiconductor industryfs growth is closely correlated with economic growth worldwide.
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| iPhone 7 production has begun |
7/11/2016 |
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Chinese media reported recently that Foxconn had released information about the iPhone7 Plus, saying that the device's dual cameras and wireless charging features would be launched alongside a stable version of iOS 10.
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| TSMC broke ground on Nanging fab |
7/11/2016 |
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TSMC in March signed a US$3 billion investment agreement with the Nanjing City Government to produce chips using the companyfs advanced 16-nanometer production process.
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| MediaTek: 4G phone chip demand up 30% |
7/11/2016 |
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MediaTek Inc (—üᢉÈ) yesterday reported quarterly growth of about 30 percent in second-quarter revenue after revenue hit an all-time high last month, underpinned by rebounding demand for 4G smartphones in China and emerging markets.
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| Samsung and IBM joinly work on spin-transfer MRAM |
7/11/2016 |
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Faster than flash and as dense as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), this universal memory genre is now being readied for manufacturing with a final round of material optimization and engineering finesse at IBM (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).
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| Tsinghua/XMC to seek memory licensing from Micron |
7/7/2016 |
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The Tsinghua/XMC-Micron cooperation will follow a so-called Inotera Memories model, under which Micron will receive licensing fees and a portion of memory production capacity from Tsinghua/XMC.
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| Cypress took over IoT unit from Broadcom |
7/7/2016 |
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The $550 million deal, announced in April, closed on Tuesday. Cypress acquired Broadcom’s WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee wireless technology for the emerging IoT market.
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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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