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| Additional Manufacturing Hubs are in Obama's budget |
2/5/2015 |
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Overall, the administration's proposal would allocate $350 million in the Agriculture, Commerce, Defense and Energy departments to fund the new hubs, with $1.9 billion in funding for the 29 hubs comprising the remainder of the network.
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| New SIA chief optimistic on semi industry |
2/4/2015 |
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The global semiconductor industry posted record sales of $335.8 billion in 2014, up 9.9 per cent from 2013, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, the SIA reported Monday. DRAM performed particularly well, increasing by 34.7 per cent over the prior year.
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| ChipMOS and Accretech to develope backend automations |
2/3/2015 |
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Under the agreement, ACCRETECH will be responsible for the equipment design and manufacturing. This is expected to include, but will not be limited to, probers for wafer testing and wafer dicing equipment. ChipMOS will provide engineering resources for development, testing and evaluation.
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| Low cost Raspberry Pi gets a boost |
2/3/2015 |
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Priced at $35.33, the successor to the four million unit selling Raspberry Pi promises to be six times faster than its predecessor and boasts 1GB of RAM to run bigger and more powerful projects.
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| Samsung bets on 3D NAND memory chips |
2/3/2015 |
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A 3D NAND chip has hundreds of electrons per cell, which greatly improves memory production efficiency, density, data storage capacity and performance over existing chips.
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| Intel buys Lantig for home connections |
2/3/2015 |
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These include its fibre to the distribution point, which effectively brings fibre broadband closer to the home and faster connections to IoT devices.
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| OnePlus One smartphone has its own OS |
2/2/2015 |
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Most importantly, the OxygenOS will reportedly be open and heavily customisable. Additionally, this OS version will reportedly be free of bloatware and features that are not required or hardly used.
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| Apple announced record-breaking quarter |
2/2/2015 |
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When Cook took over the top job at Apple on August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs' health was deteriorating. Some doubted that Cook could lead the company as well has Jobs had.
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| Samsung looks to Europe to supply some components |
2/2/2015 |
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An event was held recently under the auspices of the Silicon Saxony organisation to bring Samsung purchasing and central R&D executives face-to-face with European technology companies and discuss opportunities for supply deals and cooperation.
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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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