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| Biochip cut cost on identiying desease |
8/13/2014 |
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The chip heats up a culture or sample, and can identify unique molecular structures like DNA sequences, to help identify possible strains of a disease, which can help determine medication, or whether a patient needs to be isolated.
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| Intel 14nm Broadwell ready to roll |
8/13/2014 |
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The process will enable a new class of x86-based 2-in-1 tablet/notebooks less than 9mm thick that will be on store shelves before the end of the year.
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| Flash prices can fall through $0.14/GB by 2018 |
8/12/2014 |
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The price for NAND flash chips is expected to reach US$0.49 per 1GB by the end of this year, compared to $0.71 last year, according to the data compiled by market tracker IHS iSuppli, with the price to fall through 2018 to $0.14.
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| ProMos idled 12" fab to be sold |
8/12/2014 |
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The 12-inch fab, located in Taichung Science Park (TSP), has been idle since March 2013 after ProMoS sold the bulk of production equipment of the fab to Globalfoundries. But the fab has completed the construction of its cleanroom and can resume operations if production equipment is reinstalled.
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| Factory automation order increased |
8/12/2014 |
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Order gains in June were driven by two factors – the end of the quarter and continued strength in key customer industries, especially automotive, aerospace, medical and energy.
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| SMIC and Jiansu Changjiang formed 12" supply chain |
8/12/2014 |
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Together with SMIC's 12in front-end advanced chip production line in development, this will be China's first-ever domestic 12in advanced IC manufacturing supply chain. This supply chain will shorten the overall manufacturing cycle time.
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| US labor productivity returns |
8/11/2014 |
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The Labor Department says that productivity increased 2.5 percent at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, after plummeting 4.5 percent in the first quarter.
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| Record chip sales in June |
8/11/2014 |
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Improved economic conditions worldwide, particularly in the U.S., and a booming memory chip market are being credited for the global semiconductor industry's strong sales growth in 1H14.
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| Steve Wozniak addressed Flash Memory Summit |
8/8/2014 |
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People talk about a lot of competition to it: phase change memory, magneto resistance and all this, and that they'll all be cheaper and faster and denser. But you have to get that density factor down. They're not there yet.
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| WTO condemns China on rare metal export control |
8/8/2014 |
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In March, the WTO dispute settlement panel found that China's restrictions breach WTO rules. Its ruling followed complaints by the United States, the European Union and Japan. The Geneva-based WTO's appellate panel on Thursday rejected Beijing's appeal
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| China bans Apple products from government purchase |
8/8/2014 |
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Apple is not the only U.S. technology company banned from purchases by the Chinese government, which stemmed from news that the United States allegedly hacked and spied on Chinese companies.
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| Smart controller allows Samsung to ship 3bit cell SSD |
8/7/2014 |
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Within a month, Samsung could start shipping solid-state drives using new 128Gbit V-NAND chips with 32 layers and three bits per cell. It promises to deliver twice the capacity at 40 per cent less power than SSDs with planar NAND.
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| China aware of need for semiconductor industry |
8/7/2014 |
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Chinese government is well aware of the barriers to its development. This includes the high cost of domestic financing, a long period before investors realise a return on investment, an unwillingness to invest, and a lack of talent to build the industry.
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| HGST show Off PCM SSD at Memory Summit |
8/6/2014 |
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PCM is one of several classes of high-density, non-volatile memories capable of faster data access than NAND Flash memory, with read access times shorter by more than two orders of magnitude.
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| Samsung lost No. 1 smartphone position in China |
8/6/2014 |
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The Korean electronics giant led the Chinese market in the first quarter with 18.3 percent, but Xiaomi caught up quickly. Just three years ago, Xiaomi accounted for less than one percent, but the tables were turned when it started rolling out high-performance gadgets at half the cost of Samsung.
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| New Altera software is ready for 14nm FPGA |
8/6/2014 |
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Design engineers can start their Stratix 10 designs and experience first-hand the 2X core performance gains they can achieve as a result of the Stratix 10 HyperFlex architecture and the Intel 14nm Tri-Gate process.
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| Fiat shareholders approved merger with Chrysler |
8/5/2014 |
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A caveat to the merger remains. Dissenting shareholders have a couple of weeks to opt out, cashing in their shares at 7.727 euros ($10.35), about 7 percent above current share price. Bondholders have a longer opt-out period of 60 days. If the total request exceeds 500 million euros, the merger would be off __ temporarily.
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| Google takes driverless car forward |
8/5/2014 |
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Google's tech investment has sped up and forced OEMs to invest more money in autonomous driving and is likely resulting in earlier deployment of self-driving cars.
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