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| Toshiba to use Phison SSD controller |
10/9/2014 |
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Toshiba's first SSD controller chip orders to Phison total about one million units, with all ICs to be shipped in the fourth quarter of 2014, said the sources.
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| Strong Asia Pacific chip sales |
10/9/2014 |
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On a year-to-date basis, semiconductor sales increased by 10.1 per cent versus the same period in 2013. On a worldwide basis, semiconductor sales in August 2014 were $28.435 billion, up 1.3 per cent versus the previous month and up 9.4 per cent versus the same month in 2013.
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| TDK show fast SST-MRAM |
10/9/2014 |
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Spin-transfer torque MRAM has the advantage of being as fast at reading and writing data as short-term storage technologies like SRAM and DRAM, but as a non-volatile type of memory it can hold on to its contents for many years like flash memory.
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| IBM resumes talk for Globalfoundries to take over fab |
10/8/2014 |
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Bloomberg News reported in June that Globalfoundries was primarily interested in acquiring IBM’s engineers and intellectual property rather than manufacturing facilities, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Globalfoundries would have acted as a supplier for IBM’s microprocessors, the people said at the time.
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| Google and Apple would not share data encryption with government |
10/8/2014 |
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Justice Department is looking into the matter and they’re trying to figure out how the new systems, and encryption put forward by Google and Apple work and how the companies could possibly alter their encryption to make it accessible when its court ordered.
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| Manufacturing Barometer improved |
10/8/2014 |
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“The projected revenue growth rate among industrial manufacturing companies rose during the third quarter, indicating increased levels of confidence in company fundamentals and competitive positioning,”
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| Samsung to invest $14.5B on one single plant |
10/7/2014 |
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"Right now the only part of the company that is bringing in steady profits is the semiconductor division, so it looks like the company will keep investing in the business," said IM Investment analyst Lee Min-hee.
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| Virtium announced VLP DD4 modules |
10/7/2014 |
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Virtium claims to be one of the first to offer DDR4 memory modules, and the company's latest modules give embedded-industrial OEMs increased performance, lower power and higher bandwidth advantages.
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| Toshiba announced smallest embedded eMMC process |
10/7/2014 |
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By using the 15nm process technology, the product's package size is about 26 per cent smaller than comparable Toshiba products and offers faster read/write performance due to improvements in basic chip performance and controller optimisation.
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| HP announced more layoff as it splits into two companies |
10/7/2014 |
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As part of its cost management, HP increased by 5,000 the number of people it plans to lay off, bringing the total to as much as 57,000. In May the company added 16,000 layoffs to the plan the restructuring plan announced in 2012 to lay off 36,000 workers.
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| Is IP cooperation the way ahead? |
10/6/2014 |
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While IP vendors focus on one area of core competency for efficiency and compliance, FPGA designers bear the weight of blending the various IP cores. Algotronix and Adaptive Micro-Ware earlier revealed that they would work together to deliver unique secure video IP cores for FPGAs.
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| TSMC committed to run 10FinFET ARM processor |
10/6/2014 |
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Given the successful adoption of our previous collaborative efforts, it makes sense that we continue this fruitful partnership with ARM in future 64-bit cores and 10FinFET.
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| U.S. trade deficit drops |
10/6/2014 |
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The decline in the deficit in 2013 reflected in part a boom in U.S. energy production that has reduced America's dependence on foreign oil while boosting U.S. petroleum exports to a record high.
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| e-Tolet deployed throughout India |
10/3/2014 |
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eToilet incorporates full cycle approach in sustainable sanitation by integrating convergence of electronics, mechanical, web-mobile technologies to control the toilet's mechanisms, including entry, usage, cleaning, exit and remote monitoring.
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| Singapore electronic sector manage to expand again |
10/3/2014 |
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Singapore's electronics sector rose to 51.9 in September, a 1.2-point increase from last month's score. Growth in new orders coming from both domestic and overseas markets contributed to the increase.
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| Advanced scanning microscope to detect counterfeit IC |
10/3/2014 |
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Advanced Scanning Optical Microscope that can scan integrated circuits by using an extremely narrow infrared laser beam, to probe microelectronic circuits at nanometer levels, revealing information about chip construction as well as the function of circuits at the transistor level.
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| Robotic revolution in US manufacturing |
10/3/2014 |
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“The past several years have recorded a sharp resurgence in orders of industrial robots and this wider adoption comes at a time when manufacturers – both big and small – are trying to squeeze greater productivity from their workforce and respond quickly to customer preferences and expectations,”
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| Altera Max 10 has DDR3 interface |
10/2/2014 |
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Members of the MAX 10 family boast non-volatile, instant-on capabilities; dual-configuration support; embedded processor support; integrated analog functionality; embedded RAM and DSP blocks; and a DDR3 external memory interface.
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| Validation starts on 16nm big LITTLE Core |
10/2/2014 |
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Silicon results on 16FF show the "big" Cortex A57 processor achieving 2.3GHz for sustained mobile peak performance, as well as the "LITTLE" Cortex A53 processor consuming only 75mW for most common workloads.
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| New connection app help Hong Kong potesters to stay in touch |
10/2/2014 |
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The app allows phones to connect to one another directly using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi as an alternative to the Internet. If you're using FireChat, its "nearby" chat room lets you exchange messages with other users within 30 metres without sending data via your cellular provider.
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| DRAM business continue to grow |
10/1/2014 |
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The bit growth rate of mobile DRAM will significantly surpass that of standard DRAM in 2015, making mobile DRAM the mainstream memory chips in the market.
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