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Arm IPO gets more complicate |
9/13/2023 |
Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank aimed for the IPO after an attempt to sell Arm for $40 billion to Nvidia last year failed because U.S. and European regulators cited antitrust concerns. SoftBank aims to sell a 10% stake in Arm in the IPO, for as much as $70 billion, according to Reuters. That would make it one of the world’s largest IPOs this year while allowing SoftBank to keep a controlling stake in Arm.
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Huawei is put on watch for a possible come back |
9/12/2023 |
Huawei was put into the spotlight after it launched the Mate 60 Pro powered by a secretive SMIC-made SoC. However, it is too early to be optimistic about Huawei's breakthrough from US sanctions.
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China domestic EV markeet slows down |
9/11/2023 |
Battery electric vehicle (BEV) unit sales in China grew by 37% year-on-year (YoY) in the second quarter, lower than the global average of 50%, highlighting a slowdown in domestic growth as the frail Chinese economy impacted demand in the world’s biggest EV market,
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GTA Semiconducto of Shanghai, China raises $1.8bn |
9/8/2023 |
GTA Semiconductor of Shanghai, the Chinese auto IC manufacturer, has raised $1.8 billion to bring the amount it has raised in the last two years to $2.7 billion with most of it coming from the government.
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Intel and Tower Ink New Foundry Agreement |
9/7/2023 |
Under the agreement, Tower will utilize Intel’s advanced manufacturing facility in New Mexico. Tower will invest up to $300 million to acquire and own equipment and other fixed assets to be installed in the New Mexico facility, providing a new capacity corridor of over 600,000 photo layers per month for Tower’s future growth,
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2 Big Players in GaN Market Face Off in Patent Dispute |
9/7/2023 |
On May 24, EPC announced that the company filed complaints in federal court and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), asserting four patents of its foundational patent portfolio against Innoscience.
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Silicon Motion memory technologies are helping transform the retail space |
9/5/2023 |
most supermarkets have installed self-check-out stations to cut the number of required till operators. These initiatives have proven so successful that they are now looking to take this concept further and use technology to run the shop floor entirely, freeing up staff for more productive roles.
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Tape drives to stay |
9/5/2023 |
Nostalgia is driving the return of audio cassettes, but tape for data storage has never gone away: All the cool kids are using it, including the hyperscalers.
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