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| GasBuddy's outlook on gasoline prices |
1/8/2015 |
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A GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst. “I fully expect we’ll soon become complacent with those $2.99 prices once these sub-$2 prices stick around a bit longer.”
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| Microsoft/Nokia introduced $29 feature phone |
1/7/2015 |
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While it’s targeted at consumers in emerging markets, the Nokia 215 is also an interesting phone for folks who might be looking for a secondary device to travel with… or who just want something that can make calls and go more than two days without needing a recharge.
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| New WiFi chip to build 10-gigabit platform |
1/7/2015 |
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WiFi chipmakers, Celeno Communications and Quantenna Communications Inc. , both have big announcements at this year's CES show. Celeno is debuting its Quicksilver 802.ac Wave 2 4x4 product line, while Quantenna plans to demonstrate the 10-gigabit WiFi platform using the chip.
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| Qualcomm keynotes on connection strategy |
1/7/2015 |
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During its CES press conference today, Qualcomm, a semiconductor company, announced partnerships with Walgreens and Novartis to use its 2net wireless health platform.
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| Manufacturing stays strong into the new year |
1/6/2015 |
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The manufacturing sector expanded in December for the 19th consecutive month, and the overall economy grew for the 67th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business.
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| NASA try to repair flash drive on Opportunity rover |
1/5/2015 |
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Technicians eventually localized issue to one of the banks of on-board flash memory that provide Opportunity with 2GB of storage. So NASA started to plan for a software patch that would deactivate that bank and allow the rover to function with the remaining six.
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| Taiwan government okay'd UMC plant in Mainland |
1/5/2015 |
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UMC, a leading contract chipmaker, said in October that it would build a foundry in the Chinese city of Xiamen in a three-way joint venture with the local government and Fujian Electronics & Information Group.
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| Bill to get more tax incenitives on EV cars |
1/5/2015 |
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"Since EVAP estimates that it would take about ten years to fully develop the local EV industry, it is asking that a nine-year exemption be given for VAT and excise tax,"
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| LG's 34" monitor goes curved screen |
1/2/2015 |
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The new monitor will enable fluid motion during fast gameplay scenes in games. It has an aspect ratio of 21:9, which is wider than the typical 16:9 monitors. It caters to gamers, digital imaging artists, and business professionals.
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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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