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| Insight - IC market dropped 1% |
10/27/2015 |
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The rare occurrence of significant strengthening of the US dollar versus most of the major currencies this year is expected to deflate the 2015 worldwide IC market growth rate by at least three full percentage points, IC Insights said.
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| Sony to acquire sensor business from Toshiba |
10/27/2015 |
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The Sony-Toshiba talks are at an advanced stage and the decision is likely to be announced soon, people familiar with the matter said. The deal amount is expected to be several tens of billions of yen, or several hundred million dollars.
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| What is WD getting by acquiring SanDisk? |
10/26/2015 |
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Share of the SSD application in the total NAND Flash demand worldwide is projected to expand from 30% in 2015 to 35% in 2016, becoming the most rapidly growing and highly contested end market for this memory technology
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| Microsoft to trim additional 1,000 |
10/23/2015 |
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The cuts are in addition to earlier moves to shed about 7,800 jobs in connection with plans to scale back the former Nokia Corp. handset business.
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| Texas Instruments to gain on automobile electronics |
10/23/2015 |
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TI is benefiting not only from the growth in U.S. car sales, but also because cars are getting smarter. The company’s chips are in automobile navigation systems, and brake safety and lane changing systems.
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| Rail safety rules to delay |
10/23/2015 |
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Rail companies currently face a Dec. 31 deadline to implement positive train control, a GPS-based system that can track train movements and automatically slow or stop them from entering dangerous situations.
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| WD reached agreement to acquire SanDisk |
10/22/2015 |
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The transaction is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2016. It has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
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| Memrister made tri-level |
10/20/2015 |
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The component has three stable resistive states. As a result, it can not only store the 0 or 1 of a standard bit, but can also be used for information encoded by three states – the 0, 1 and 2 of a ‘trit’.
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| Powerchip to build new 12 inch fab in China |
10/20/2015 |
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Powerchip in mid-2015 announced the company had reached an agreement with Hefei Construction Investment and Holding to invest in a wafer foundry in Hefei in the Chinese province of Anhui. The foundry will be a 12-inch fab running 0.15-micron, 0.11-micron and 90nm manufacturing processes initially for LCD driver
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| AMD sold package plant in Asia |
10/20/2015 |
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The deal is consistent with AMD’s strategy to “focus the company on improving our long term financial performance by building great products and simplifying our business model."
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