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| Carl Icahn unloads half of his Mentor shares |
2/23/2016 |
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In 2011, Icahn had sought to sell or break up Mentor, but despite winning a fight with the company and installing his own directors on Mentor's board he has been content to allow the business to continue operating and pocket the profits from its rising share price.
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| Applied forecast growth in semi equipment business |
2/22/2016 |
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Shares in the largest maker of machinery used to produce computer chips rose 7.1 percent to $18.38, the biggest single-day gain since May 2014, after forecasting revenue of $2.37 billion to $2.48 billion in the current three-month period.
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| Manufacturers have work to do in IoT adoptations |
2/22/2016 |
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Manufacturers have some catching up to do in order to fully capitalize on IoT’s potential. Shoring up security in the wake of newly connected systems and products and taking advantage of the newly permanent R&D credit are critical steps.”
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| A smartphone sells for only $4 |
2/19/2016 |
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Bookings for the Freedom 251 open on February 18 at 6am and close on 21 February at 8pm. The company says deliveries will be completed by 30th June 2016.
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| Revenue up at Nvidia |
2/19/2016 |
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Revenue from its core business that designs graphics cards for PCs such as GeForce rose 25.4 percent to $810 million.
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| Foundray activities to slow down |
2/19/2016 |
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Taiwan's first-tier IC design companies indicated that customers are holding relatively low inventory levels compared to those they had at the end of 2015. Nevertheless, customers are still reluctant to place orders during the current off season.
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| New bug can infect Connected Devices |
2/19/2016 |
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The BBC reports that the bug affects glibc — code that is widely used in connected devices, programming languages and web services. The defect could allow hackers to remotely gain access to devices, computers and routers.
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| Samsung formed U.S. sales company for server storage chips |
2/18/2016 |
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The Korean electronics giant set up Stellus Technologies which produces and sells storage systems for server semiconductors in the US in December last year. Dan Nolte, a senior vice president of the Samsung Strategic Innovation Center was appointed as CEO of the new company.
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| Fairchild turned down higher bid from China |
2/18/2016 |
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Now it would remain in American hands after rejecting a takeover offer worth about $2.5 billion led by Chinese state-backed buyers. Instead, Fairchild embraced a smaller bid from an American rival on Tuesday, citing concerns that federal regulators might reject the Chinese deal.
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| Apple fights court order to disclose |
2/18/2016 |
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Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook says his company will fight a federal magistrate's order to help the FBI hack into an encrypted iPhone. The company said that could potentially undermine encryption for millions of other users.
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| Korea researchers created transparent ReRAM |
2/17/2016 |
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Researchers fabricate flexible and transparent ReRAM (FT-ReRAM) which has an averaged 80% transmittance in the visible region (400-800nm). Severe bending of the device also does not affect the memory performance thanks to IZO electrodes and the thin insulator layer.
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| ATT is second to start 5G trial |
2/17/2016 |
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The company expects 5G networks to be 10 to 100 times faster than the current average 4G LTE connections. Officials plan to conduct trials that will allow deployment of commercial networks.
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| DRAM prices continue to slide |
2/16/2016 |
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DRAM suppliers were in the midst of migrating their process technology. SK Hynix had just begun manufacturing on the 21nm process and Micron ramped up its 20nm production. Thus, DRAM price decline was unavoidable.
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| TSMC January revenues down |
2/16/2016 |
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Reported consolidated revenues of NT$70.86 billion (US$2.15 billion) for January 2016, down 18.7% on year.
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| Micron turns up 3D Nand production |
2/16/2016 |
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Micron expects by the second half of the year that the majority of its total NAND flash output to be on 3D NAND as designers build devices such as laptops, tablets and servers that need its increased capacity, performance and power.
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| Obama to sign new counterfeit prohibition laws |
2/16/2016 |
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The bill, known as the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (H.R. 644/S.1269), mandates that U.S. Customs and Border Protection share information and samples of suspected counterfeit parts for rapid identification of counterfeits.
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| Apple to introduce iPhone 5se in March |
2/15/2016 |
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The new 4-inch iPhone 5se is designed to spur iPhone hardware upgrades for customer seeking faster devices without upgrading to the far larger iPhone 6s and 6s Plus screen sizes.
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