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| Micron's 256GB SSD debuts at $110 |
6/3/2014 |
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Micron Technology's Crucial brand is trying to set a new low-price watermark for solid-state drives. The new MX100 SSD delivers 256 gigabytes of storage for $109.99, Crucial said on Monday.
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| Sony Discontinues PSP After 10 Years |
6/3/2014 |
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Sony announced today that the portable gaming device, originally launched ten years ago, will be discontinued worldwide by the end of 2014. The Associated Press reports that PSP shipments ended in North America in January, are scheduled to end in Japan this month, and will come to a close later this year in Europe. Sony is now, of course, pushing the platform's successor, the PlayStation Vita.
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| Toshiba & Sandisk to Scrap 2D NAND Fab for 300mm 3D NAND |
6/2/2014 |
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Toshiba Corp. has announced it will demolish its No. 2 semiconductor fabrication facility (Fab 2) at Yokkaichi Operations, a NAND Flash memory plant in Mie prefecture, Japan, and replace it with a new fab on the same site, dedicated to 3D NAND.
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| Samsung Ramps Up 3D NAND Fab |
6/2/2014 |
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Samsung’s ramp-up follows its announcement in August that it had begun mass production of a 128 Gbit/s NAND flash memory that is integrated in multiple layers. Its 3D V-NAND products have already been produced in its Korea fabs.
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| Alcoa to build jet engine parts |
5/30/2014 |
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Company officials announced Thursday that they will build a $100 million plant in La Porte, Indiana, to make nickel-based engine parts for commercial airliners. Alcoa already makes the same components — in smaller sizes — for engines that go on business jets and planes flown by regional airlines.
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| Intel talks new IoT products |
5/30/2014 |
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Intel might have missed out on smartphones and tablets, but its chief executive is showing off evidence the chip maker is jumping on newer trends–like wearable computing and robotics.
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| DRAM prices to rise |
5/30/2014 |
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Current growth momentum is to continue into the next quarter, driven by strong seasonal demand and slim supply-chain inventory.
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| Image reconition processor enhances automobile sytems |
5/29/2014 |
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Offering fast, accurate image detection, the TMPV7502XBG is capable of performing multiple detections simultaneously, such as a lane departure warning, collision warning, pedestrian detection and traffic sign recognition, detailed Toshiba.
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| LED lighting demand continue to grow |
5/29/2014 |
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LED chip demand is expected to grow from 17 billion in 2012 to 61 billion in 2014. While consumer demand for LED lighting will continue to increase in the coming years, the demand for LED backlight chips for TVs and other display applications will start to decline after 2014.
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| Printable memory on paper media |
5/29/2014 |
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Based on materials and process manufacturing costs, the PhD student figures out that a paper-based RRAM would cost about 0.0003cent/bit, versus 3cent/bit for a fully printed RFID tag (1bit) fabricated on PET substrate, or versus a 96bit credit-card-sized ID paper tag at around 0.021cent/bit.
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| Class-action suit on high-tec employment policy |
5/28/2014 |
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Uncovered evidence shows former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and top executives from the other companies in the case had reached "no-poaching" pacts prohibiting each other from trying to lure away each other's top workers with offers of higher-paying jobs.
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| Durable goods poised to grow |
5/28/2014 |
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MAPI expects manufacturers to lead the acceleration in capital goods because capacity utilization is relative high in manufacturing and the supply chains for energy, housing, and transportation are rapidly reviving.”
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| Obama announced second SelectUSA summit |
5/27/2014 |
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U.S. will hold a second SelectUSA summit early next year, where more than 2,000 business executives, mayors and governors will meet to encourage even further investment in the U.S.
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| MEM sensor market continue to grow |
5/27/2014 |
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Within the MEMS category image sensors for biometric recognition are on rapid growth clip. Some 45 million units shipped in 2013 up 221 per cent from 2012 and the category will grow again to 145 million in 2014.
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| Microchip acquires ISSC |
5/27/2014 |
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By gaining ISSC's wireless expertise in providing Bluetooth solutions, Microchip believes it has leverage to be a major chip player in the IoT market.
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| Toshiba aimed at increasing sales |
5/23/2014 |
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Latest multi-year business plan aims to earn 450 billion yen in operating profit and 200 billion yen in net profit in the 2016/17 business year.
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| Guage of economy is rising |
5/23/2014 |
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"Despite a brutal winter which brought the economy to a halt, the overall trend in the leading economic index has remained positive," Stronger spending by consumers and higher business investment should bolster growth in coming months.
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| Sony calls for speedy response to market |
5/23/2014 |
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"We must acknowledge that out steps to take action had come much too slowly," he told reporters at the Japanese entertainment and electronics giant's Tokyo headquarters. "We are going to fully complete our structural reforms."
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