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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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| Toshiba and WD to fund Japanese NAND production |
7/5/2016 |
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Toshiba and U.S. partner Western Digital will commit 1.5 trillion yen ($14.6 billion) over three years toward stepping up flash memory production at their jointly run Japanese plant.
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| NAND prices skyrocketed |
7/5/2016 |
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According to industrial sources on July 3, the average fixed price of a NAND flash memory (64 Gb) announced by DRAM Exchange on June 30 rose 10.89% to 2.24 dollars from the previous month.
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| Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is setting up a shop in India |
7/5/2016 |
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Xiaomi is reportedly talking with several state governments to set up new manufacturing plants in the country to keep pace with demand. It is collaborating again with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn for the new manufacturing plants.
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| NEC said to hire 1000 at India software center |
7/5/2016 |
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NTI and its Japan-based parent NEC today announced to jointly set up an Open Source Software centre in India to provide support for OSS used in various businesses in domestic market as well as to clients globally.
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| Analyst's outlook on Micron |
7/4/2016 |
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Full effect of Micron 20nm cost benefits may not be observed until all DRAM products, particularly mobile, have transitioned to 20nm – management commentary suggests this might take another quarter or two.
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| Rambus to buy Inphi memory buffer business |
7/4/2016 |
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Rambus, which re-entered the fabless semiconductor market last year after years of doing business strictly as a technology licensor, said the deal would strengthen its position in the memory buffer chip market.
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