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| Chinese government announce support for IC design industry |
8/27/2015 |
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Since most China-based IC-design houses are at their infant stages at present, it is an established policy of the China government to provide financial support to local IC companies to acquire related businesses globally for capacity ramps or technology upgrades.
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| SK Hynix dedicates new fab at Icheon |
8/27/2015 |
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M14 is a semiconductor factory for 300 mm wafers, and the first new factory built by SK Hynix in Icheon in 18 years. The site of the factory is 53,000 square meters, which equals the size of 7.5 football fields.
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| Tim Cook see continue market growth in China |
8/26/2015 |
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"Growth in iPhone activations has actually accelerated over the past few weeks, and we have had the best performance of the year for the App Store in China during the last 2 weeks."
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| Innovative memory module made out of MRAM |
8/26/2015 |
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This is the first time the M.2 form factor has been used to house MRAM. To date, the M.2 standard has been used for either SATA or PCI Express (PCIe) SSDs, having replaced the mSATA standard.
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| SK Hynix put heavy investment into image sensor company |
8/25/2015 |
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Hyperspectral sensors are expected to have applications in food processing, automotive and industrial vision and sorting, construction and medical applications, such as providing diabetic sufferers with bloodless glucose monitoring.
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| AMS to build new fab in NY State |
8/25/2015 |
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Analogue and sensor specialist ams says it will create more than 1000 jobs and invest more than $2billion over the next 20 years to support the construction of a fab in New York state.
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| Semi companies flock to TSMC 16nm FinFET process |
8/25/2015 |
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While securing a portion of Apple's A9 chip orders, TSMC with its 16nm FinFET node has also obtained orders from AMD, Avago, Broadcom, HiSilicon Technologies, LG Electronics, MediaTek, Nvidia and Xilinx.
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| It is legal for your Smart TV to listen in |
8/24/2015 |
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Conversations, including personal or sensitive information, could be captured and transmitted to a third party if users turned on wireless voice recognition.
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| Semi company to setup R&D in Morocco |
8/21/2015 |
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“After considering several European locations, Morocco delivered both on the quality of the engineering resources and the quality of the facilities and communications infrastructure,”
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| China semi companies are expanding R&D in Taiwan |
8/21/2015 |
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Engineers and high-ranking staff from major Taiwan-based IC design houses are all being targeted by China's IC design companies, which are looking to shorten their learning curve and improve their product competitiveness.
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| Survey show manufacturers profit from using cloud |
8/21/2015 |
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The 2015 Small Business Cloud Barometer, compiled by business software provider Exact and fellow Dutch company Pb7 Research, found that revenue growth increased by 25 percent and profits more than doubled compared to businesses that did not use the Cloud.
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| Smart meter chip market blooms |
8/20/2015 |
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Meters are evolving from those that merely register end-user usage, into machines that can be queried for on-demand data, upgraded remotely, shut off in case of emergency or non-payment and used for variable pricing.
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| 2013 Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire cause found |
8/20/2015 |
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In a report released Wednesday that crossed and trapped wires under the battery compartment created a short circuit on the Ethiopian Airlines-operated plane parked at London's Heathrow Airport on July 12, 2013.
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| Google mapping can help you plan solar installations |
8/20/2015 |
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Once supplied with a user's address, the site provides user-specific data on the amount of usable sunlight that hits the roof per year, which parts of the house receive the most sunlight, the amount of space available on the home for solar panels, and the amount of money that could be saved by switching to solar.
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| Microsoft is working on a comeback high-end mobile |
8/19/2015 |
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Microsoft will launch the device with Windows 10 Mobile, but there were some rumors that the company was also trying to make it possible for the phone to run Win32 apps. This way, the “productivity on the go” concept would be pushed to a completely new level.
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| Mobile DRAM market grew 7.7% |
8/19/2015 |
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The global mobile DRAM market came to US$3.85 billion in the April-June period, up 7.7 percent on-quarter.
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