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| Global SSD market is heating up |
4/18/2016 |
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An SSD is lighter and more compact than a conventional hard disk drive. It also boasts shorter booting time and faster reading and writing speeds than an HDD.
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| Micron forms storage company in Austin |
4/18/2016 |
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Micron Storage Solutions Center (MSSC), a new facility in the city of Austin focused on software and collaboration, as well as several reference architecture designs and some new enterprise SSDs.
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| Where is memory architecture heading? |
4/18/2016 |
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All of this ties directly into compute architectures, where the next shift may be less about the process used to create the memory than where the memory is placed, how it is packaged, and whether a smaller form factor is useful.
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| Everspin to ship MRAM compatible to DDR4 DRAM |
4/15/2016 |
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“We continue to bring the fastest non volatile products to our customers, expanding our offering with a high density 1Gbit DDR4 pMTJ ST-MRAM. This will provide new and innovative approaches to the way non-volatile memory solutions can be architected,”
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| Foundry sales gained 4.4% in 2015 |
4/15/2016 |
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Foundry sales had grown consistently by double-digit percentages in the years leading up to last year, according to Gartner. In 2014, the foundry market grew by 16%.
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| Is IDT the next target for Chinese take over? |
4/14/2016 |
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On Tuesday (April 12), group of what appear to be mostly Chinese individuals filed documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) offering to buy Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) for $32 in cash.
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| Intel's Compute Stick now upgraded with Skylake processor |
4/14/2016 |
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Common features in the Compute Sticks include 64GB of storage, 4GB of low-power DDR3 memory, Intel HD Graphics 515 integrated graphics, an HDMI 1.4b port, 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.2, a USB 3.0 slot and a MicroSDXC card reader.
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| New strain of ransomware appear |
4/14/2016 |
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Unusual strain of virus-like hacker software exploits computer server vulnerabilities — without requiring human interaction — is a leading example of a new generation of "ransomware".
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| AMD to set manufacturing footprint in India |
4/13/2016 |
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AMD CEO and president Lisa Su met telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday and apprised the minister about the company’s plans to set up a chip manufacturing plant.
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| Renesas appoints new CEO from the automotive supplier sector |
4/13/2016 |
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Kure started his professional life a banker, but cut his teeth in the automotive industry by running Calsonic Kansai (Nissan owns 40.7 per cent of it) and turning it into a global automotive parts and components supplier serving customers beyond Nissan.
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| SIA endorse JEDEC counterfeit semiconductor standards |
4/13/2016 |
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Thanks in large part to this effective collaboration between industry and law enforcement, there has been a marked increase in the prosecution of semiconductor counterfeiters and a record number of seizures of counterfeit products in recent years.
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| Nanya quarterly improved |
4/13/2016 |
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¡°The average (DRAM)selling price decline is much milder than we thought in the first quarter. Overall the [industry] environment is not as bad as we expected,¡± Nanya spokesman Joseph Wu (…ÇÖ¾Ïé) said.
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| Winbond stacks Nand with Nor flash |
4/12/2016 |
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The mixing and stacking capabilities provide designers with added flexibility to meet needs for a variety of small machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT devices, said Mike Chen, Winbond’s director of technical marketing.
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| NXP to sell off standard chip business |
4/12/2016 |
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NXP’s standard products unit, which accounted for one-fifth of its sales last year, mass produces chips used in phones, television sets and cars.
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| Arastu provides 3200MTps LPDDR4 controller design |
4/11/2016 |
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The controller is designed as per the JEDEC standard JESD209-4A and works seamlessly with partner's DFI PHY or DFI 4.0 compatible PHY from other vendors. The IP is developed using verilog and supports speeds up to 3200MTps.
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| IBM Cloud to use Xilinx accelerator |
4/11/2016 |
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This is an open access cloud service, called SuperVessel, which can be used by application developers, system designers, and academic researchers to create, test and pilot their FPGA designs for big data analytic processors and even data gathering IoT node devices.
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| MediaTek forecast increase profit |
4/11/2016 |
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Gains generated from the sale of a unit specializing in car electronics chips and Goodix' IPO listing on the Shanghai stock market will boost MediaTek's profitability in the second quarter of 2016.
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| Motherboard maker forecast slow quarter |
4/8/2016 |
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The company expects the combined shipments of its motherboards and graphic cards to fall by between 5 and 10 percent this quarter from the first quarter.
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