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| State of the economy |
3/3/2016 |
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“We’ve had a soft start for the year, but the underlining demand is still there and its starting to show up again. Production simply has to follow suit in order to materialize those new orders into product.”
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| EU approved Dell/EMC merger |
3/2/2016 |
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European Commission said on Monday it had cleared Dell Inc's planned $67 billion acquisition of data storage company EMC Corp EMC.N.
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| Ford is developing anti-pothole system |
3/2/2016 |
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The system works through onboard computers that analyze signals from 12 high-resolution sensors and adjust the dampers to their stiffest setting when a pothole is detected.
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| Chinese eying on Lattice Semi |
3/1/2016 |
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Lattice Semiconductor is working with investment bank Morgan Stanley (MS.N) to review interest from potential buyers, including a Chinese party, the people said on Friday.
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| Simple initiative to encourage science study |
3/1/2016 |
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More than 50 national labs in 20 states are opening their doors this week to approximately 5,000 elementary, middle and high school students to help spark interest by exposing them to the scientists, engineers and lab employees who carry out important work and research at facilities in their communities.
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| Smartwatch taken over Swiss watches |
3/1/2016 |
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Global smartwatch shipments surpassed Swiss watch shipments for the first time. Worldwide smartwatch shipments amounted to 8.1 million, just beating the Swiss watch industry’s total of 7.9 million.
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| Renesas provides SOC for automobile 3D instrument clusters |
2/29/2016 |
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In the future, the company believes, display size and resolution are expected to continue increasing, even in low to mid range models. But it notes that, for these systems to become more mainstream, the ability to create displays that make full use of 3D graphics will be required.
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| IBM unwraps super secured server |
2/29/2016 |
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“The z13s is another example of IBM’s ongoing investment in security,” Barlow said. “It represents innovative security technology at every level – from system and processor design to software.
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| Apple filed defiance motion |
2/29/2016 |
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Cook said "this moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake."
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| Apple joins the rank on 16nm with TSMC |
2/26/2016 |
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Apple is another key customer of TSMC's 16nm technology for 2016, the sources indicated. Orders from Apple, and TSMC's other main mobile SoC clients based in China and Taiwan, will fill the foundry's 16nm process capacity in 2016.
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| Samsung steps into 256GB UFS production |
2/26/2016 |
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The new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) boasts speed that is nine times faster than high-performance micro SD cards, or two times compared to budget solid state drives for laptops.
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| HP Inc. reports revenue drop on PC sales |
2/25/2016 |
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HP Inc, which houses former Hewlett-Packard’s legacy hardware business, reported a near 12% drop in quarterly revenue, as it struggles with weak demand for PCs and printers.
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| China is recruiting Korean engineers |
2/25/2016 |
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These days, 200 to 300 semiconductor engineers retire from Samsung Electronics a year. Most of the retirees are highly-skilled persons and high-rank managers, and their transfer to Chinese companies could result in problems with regard to the business of the Korean semiconductor manufacturers.
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| Where is memory technology going? |
2/25/2016 |
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DRAM suppliers have experienced a number of boom and bust cycles in a competitive landscape. But now, the industry faces a cloudy, if not an uncertain, future.
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| WD changed offer price for SanDisk |
2/25/2016 |
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Western Digital Corp, said on Tuesday that China's Unisplendour Corp Ltd had scrapped its planned $3.78 billion investment in the company, a move that in turn alters the terms of Western's deal for rival SanDisk Corp.
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| 5D media can store 360 terabytes of data |
2/24/2016 |
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The method, called five-dimensional data storage, encodes information in tiny nanostructures in glass with a standard-sized disc able to store around 360 terabytes of data. The glass discs have an estimated 13.8 billion year lifespan.
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