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| MediaTek to invade Qalcomm LTE Market in China |
7/13/2015 |
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MediaTek’s LTE market share is likely to double to 40-45% in the second half of this year from 20% in the fourth quarter of last year. Its LTE shipments will fall in a range of 160 million to 165 million units this year, exceeding MediaTek’s own expectations for 150 million unit shipments in 2015.
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| Silicon Motion SSD controller supports Micron TLC Nand |
7/13/2015 |
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Micron's new high capacity 16nm TLC NAND said enables the same capacity as MLC NAND with a 28% savings in the die area, the company said, and is aimed at applications where performance and reliability are important, but cost per GB is critical.
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| SK Hynix engaged in UFS2 development |
7/13/2015 |
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The SK Group's semiconductor affiliate said the solution represents a groundbreaking leap in performance by enabling "high-speed gear 3" interface with dual data lanes.
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| Breakthrough in wireless charging |
7/10/2015 |
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"Our transmitter system is safe for humans and compatible with other electronic devices. We have solved three major issues of short charging distance, the dependence on charging directions, and plane coil structures of both Tx and Rx, which have blocked the commercialisation of WPT."
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| IBM made 7nm transistor |
7/10/2015 |
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IBM's move forward is a significant leap ahead of today's 22-nanometer chips, allowing for the potential production of more advance chips in the future, impacting everything from mobile devices to cloud computing.
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| Proposed overtime rule will change work landscape |
7/10/2015 |
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In California, even if you read the email ... now you're working. One expert suggested companies across the country could take similar steps or elect to shut down email servers altogether after hours.
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| SK Hynix announced high bandwith memory (HBM) |
7/9/2015 |
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The technology involves stacking four DRAM dies and a logic die, one on top of the other, with die to die connections being made using through silicon vias (TSVs) and microbumps.
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| Toyota's female executive to release without drug charges |
7/9/2015 |
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Toyota officials said they believed Hamp did not intentionally violate any Japanese laws, but Hamp subsequently resigned due to what the company called "the concerns and inconvenience that recent events have caused our stakeholders."
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| Factory automation fuels growth in Industrial Robots |
7/9/2015 |
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According to the report, it is believed that much of the future demand for industrial robotics in the region will “come from small and medium enterprises that will take to robotic applications on a massive scale.”
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| AMD affected by slow PC sales |
7/8/2015 |
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AMD's shares fell as much as 15 percent to $2.10 in extended trading, after the company also cut its adjusted gross margin forecast for the quarter ended June 27.
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| U.S. trade deicit widened |
7/8/2015 |
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The deficit increased 2.9 percent to $41.9 billion in May, up from an April imbalance of $40.7 billion, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
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| TrendForce Predicts downtrend on Server DRAM Prices |
7/7/2015 |
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Prices of the DDR4 products have been falling due to their robust shipments. Therefore, the end market has shifted to a wait-and-see posture by delaying order placements in order to reduce stock-up costs.
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| Samsung's EVO 850 goes faster with 3D Nand |
7/7/2015 |
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The new 850 EVO and PRO, operated by its in-house NAND chip controller, feature second-generation or 32-layer V-NAND technology and also adopted 2 gigabyte (GB) LPDDR3.
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| Intel president to move on |
7/7/2015 |
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Intel announced James' upcoming departure July 2 as part of a larger shakeup that will see other executives either being promoted, retiring or leaving the company. James will remain with Intel until January to help with the transition.
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| Google's new chromebook to use Tegra X1 processor |
7/6/2015 |
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The chip is far more powerful than the K1 used in Acer's Chromebook 13 that debuted last year mainly because it uses newer Cortex A-57 and A-53 processing cores along with 256 GPU cores.
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| Apple to use Qualcomm LTE with super download speed |
7/6/2015 |
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Qualcomm says its latest modem technology has download rates of 300 megabits per second ¡ª double the rate the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were able to achieve with Qualcomm¡¯s MDM9625 LTE modem.
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| Manufacturing sector hiring increased |
7/6/2015 |
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The average PMI for January through June (52.6 percent) corresponds to a 3 percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) on an annualized basis. In addition, if the PMI for June (53.5 percent) is annualized, it corresponds to a 3.3 percent increase in real GDP annually.
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