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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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| Apacer offers combo module with SSD and DRAM |
8/5/2014 |
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With respect to the two SSD options, M.2 NGFF modular SSD is the next-generation SSD interface standard that Intel develops for tablet PC, Ultrabook and Thin Client. Its full name is M.2 NGFF (Next Generation Form Factor).
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| AMD's lower cost game processor carries 4K video |
8/4/2014 |
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The chips have up to eight integrated graphics cores and are capable of rendering 4K video, which has a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels, four times that of traditional high-definition video.
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| UMC ramps up capacity for 28nm |
8/4/2014 |
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Despite competition for 28nm processes from China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), UMC is confident about its 28nm HKMG process, believing can win a bigger market share in the segment.
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| Wordwide Android phone market heats up |
8/4/2014 |
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Like the PC market, Android is on the verge of turning smartphone platforms into a one-horse race. Its low-cost services and user-friendly software remain wildly attractive to hardware makers, operators and consumers worldwide.
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