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| DRAM forecast elevated for 2015 |
1/2/2015 |
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Experts cited robust demand for DRAM chips due to an increasing global production of smartphones as one of the main reasons for the brighter outlook
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| AMD canceled bonus to new CEO |
12/31/2014 |
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AMD said in a filing today that it’s canceling about 1.76 million restricted stock awards to Su that were made in August and October. The company said it was responding to a shareholder suit that argued AMD had exceeded calendar-year limits on the number of equity grants it can make to executives when it promoted her.
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| Galaxy Note 4 LTE-A to be the fastest |
12/31/2014 |
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¡°We continue to set new challenges for the industry and push boundaries to take mobile technology to the next level and deliver the best possible customer experience,¡±
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| U.S. is ready to power the world economy again |
12/31/2014 |
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Six years after its financial system nearly sank and nearly that long since the recession ended, the United States is expected to grow in 2015 at its fastest pace in a decade. Its expansion from July through September — a 5 percent annual rate — was the swiftest for any quarter since 2003.
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| TSMC to be main A9 supplier to Apple |
12/30/2014 |
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the chances of TSMC remaining the main supplier are higher because of its better yields. Samsung also produces advanced 20-nanometer (nm) chips, but its yield is not satisfactory,
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| Hyundai Motor to secure supply of Korean made automobile chips |
12/30/2014 |
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"Future smart cars are not the business of only traditional car makers any more. That's why we have tried to secure our own advanced technology for non-memory chips rather than relying on foreign companies," a Hyundai Motor Group spokesman said.
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| KMPG survey show cautious optimism on 2015 |
12/29/2014 |
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"The semiconductor industry faces a myriad of challenges, including accurately forecasting demand, investing in the right new market opportunities, managing the higher development costs of more integrated solutions and navigating increased competition in China,"
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| SSD long term endurance test yield surprises |
12/29/2014 |
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It seems that today¡¯s SSDs will easily outlive their PC hosts by hundreds, even thousands of years, at this point, the winner seems irrelevant. If you¡¯ve been around to remember how fragile some of the early HDDs were, and how often they failed.
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| China to announce Qualcomm settlement soon |
12/29/2014 |
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An imminent decision in the case is expected to force the company to pay fines potentially exceeding $1 billion and require concessions that would hurt its highly profitable business of charging licensing fees on phone chipsets that use its patents.
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| New Ferro-RAM counter saves power |
12/29/2014 |
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The MB85RDP16LX replaces these separate read/write operations with a single command from the MCU and uses only the binary counter, resulting in energy savings of up to 94 per cent, noted Fujitsu.
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| LTE category 9 trial achieved download speeds of 410Mbps |
12/24/2014 |
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According to Huawei, the category 9 technology will improve download speeds for EE dramatically, allowing the operator to aggregate 20MHz of 1800MHz spectrum with another 20MHz of 2.66GHz, and a third carrier of 15MHz of 2.6GHz.
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| Samsung to use 20nm process for 8Gb LPDDR4 |
12/24/2014 |
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The 8-gigabit, low power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is capable of data processing twice as fast as the predecessor, the LPDDR3, and is 40 percent more energy-efficient.
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| Memory users are looking for performance and prices |
12/23/2014 |
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Customers want to hedge their bets with entire subsystems that will use the lowest-cost DRAM, whatever that may be, so they are looking for subsystems that can easily accommodate DDR3 in the immediate future, but will also be able to support DDR4 when it becomes cost-effective
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| IoT is an MEMS world |
12/23/2014 |
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Global market shipments for industrial IoT equipment are expected to expand to 7.3 billion units in 2025, up from 1.8 billion in 2013. Such gear employs a range of MEMS device types including accelerometers, pressure sensors, timing components and microphones.
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| North Korea Internet went dark Monday |
12/23/2014 |
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The mystery behind North Korea’s 9 1/2 -hour outage highlights a paradox of modern cyberwarfare: As attacks become more prominent, the combatants — and their motives — are becoming harder to identify.
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| SK Hynix settles on NAND infringement with Toshiba |
12/22/2014 |
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Toshiba alleged in March that SK Hynix had obtained the technology through a former SanDisk employee who was working at the plant that Toshiba and the U.S. memory chip maker operate together in Yokkaichi.
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| NAND prices to drop 10-15% |
12/22/2014 |
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NAND flash contract prices will continue their downward trend until the first quarter of 2015, due to a slowdown in demand coming from system OEMs and channel distributors, DRAMeXchange indicated. Prices are expected to fall 10-15% for all of the quarter.
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| Would all-flash storage replace magnetic disk? |
12/22/2014 |
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They will want to apply Flash and magnetic storage in combination to achieve the maximum price/performance benefit possible. That means partnering with storage vendors that provide more than just an all-Flash array,
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| Apple to drive developers towards 64bit apps |
12/19/2014 |
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Now Apple had sent out reminders to developers asking them to ensure that their apps are 64-bit compatible, and recently Apple has issued another reminder to developers informing them of their deadline which is by the 1st of June.
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