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| Samsung reports earnings decline |
1/30/2015 |
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On the positive end, a boom in Samsung's high-margin chip sales helped offset the downturn in its mobile business. Its semi-conductor division's operating profit jumped almost 36% in the final quarter of 2014.
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| U.S. unemployment dips |
1/30/2015 |
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265,000 Americans filing initial claims last week — the lowest amount since April of 2000.
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| Freescale start to turn around |
1/30/2015 |
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Partly, as the results of the company's earnings statement, Freescale stock price took a dramatic leap from 26.35 (previous close) to 31.16 at the close Wednesday (Jan. 28).
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| Synopsys offers most cost efficient NVM IP |
1/30/2015 |
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The NVM IP promises to deliver more than 5X the density compared to lower bit-count NVM solutions and offers 40ns access time, providing fast read times and real-time computing.
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| Spansion and Macronix settled |
1/29/2015 |
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In the agreement, the companies have granted certain rights under the disputed patents to each other. The settlement allows both companies to direct their full attention and resources to continuing to innovate and to serve their customers' needs.
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| 51% profit boost at SK Hynix |
1/29/2015 |
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Revenue advanced 21 percent over the cited period to 17.1 trillion won, and its operating profit also jumped 51 percent to 5.1 trillion won over the cited period, all reaching record-high levels, the company said.
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| Businesses optimistic on hiring |
1/29/2015 |
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A majority of the 93 survey respondents, meanwhile, anticipated wage and salary increases in the first quarter of the year.
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| Microsoft profit fell |
1/28/2015 |
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Currency shifts against the strong U.S. dollar also crimped profit in the fiscal second quarter, ended Dec. 31. Microsoft gets almost three-quarters of its revenue from overseas, but a significant amount of that is still in U.S. dollars.
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| Samsung holds number 2 in semi revenue behind Intel |
1/28/2015 |
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Samsung Electronics, the world's No. 1 smartphone maker, saw its sales of chips reach US$37.25 billion in 2014, up 8 percent from a year earlier, the data compiled by market tracker IC Insights Inc.
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| Lattice to buy Silicon Image |
1/28/2015 |
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We are excited to move forward with Silicon Image and confident we will be able to drive higher revenue and earnings growth, through the benefits of better economies of scale and material cost synergies.
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| Flash arrays are catching on |
1/27/2015 |
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The market grew significantly faster than we expected. It was clear throughout last year that adoption was accelerating beyond initial forecasts. The worldwide HFA and AFA segments will reach $10.0 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively, in 2014.
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| A not so known IoT application |
1/27/2015 |
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Imagine a city with thousands of trash cans, all connected to a central point, providing live information on which ones need emptying, where more bins are needed, and even if the inside is getting hot and smelly.
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| Big question mark on previling wage laws |
1/27/2015 |
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Prevailing wage laws require laborers on public works projects to be paid at the average wage — including benefits and overtime — of workers within that particular area. The Davis-Bacon Act has mandated such standards on federal projects since 1931.
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| IBM to experience the largest corporate layoff in history |
1/26/2015 |
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IBM is expected to go through a massive reorg next month that will reportedly see 26% of its 430,000-strong work force let go, or 111,800 people. If that figure holds true, that would make it far and away the largest corporate layoff event in history
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| IBM advanced in self-assemble semiconductor |
1/26/2015 |
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It involves synthesizing molecules so that they automatically assemble into complex structures—which then serve as templates for etching nanoscale circuitry into silicon.
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| Amazon acquires semi company cloud technologies |
1/26/2015 |
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"Amazon now runs some of the biggest datacenters in the world, and they are constantly looking for faster and more efficient ways to enable their customers to use their services. This acquisition makes a lot of sense for them,"
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| Oil prices triggers steel industry layoff |
1/26/2015 |
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The dramatic decline in crude oil over the last half of 2014, however, has hurt demand throughout heavy industrial sectors, but has particularly hit U.S. Steel, which made many of its pipes and tubes in Ohio and Texas for the oil industry.
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| DRAM prices fell slightly |
1/23/2015 |
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“The price drop for PC DRAM in the first quarter is simply the effect of the off-season, and there is no noticeable increase from the supplier end”. It is expected that DRAM price will recover and stabilize in the second quarter.
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| SK Hynix commits $ 5.3B capex |
1/23/2015 |
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Global sales of DRAM are expected to climb 14 percent from last year to $52.8 billion this year. This is because demand for mobile DRAM for smartphones and tablet PCs is ever-growing, as well as new demand and replacement need for servers for business uses.
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| Hon Hai to spin off IC packaging division |
1/23/2015 |
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ShunShin Technology, which competes with global chip assembly and tesingt companies including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, is raising $50 million from an initial public offering in Taiwan and shares will debut on Monday.
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| Windows 10 features are out of this world |
1/23/2015 |
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"We're preparing for a world where there are more devices than people," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. "It's not mobility of any single device but the mobility of experience across devices,"
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