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| Wednesday, October 31, 2018 |
| Macronix said tight supply to remain with high end NOR chips |
9/25/2018 |
| Supply of high-end NOR flash memory chips is to remain tight for the remainder of the year due to growing demand from the medical, automotive and industrial segments. PC DRAM chip prices would likely fall 2 percent quarterly in the final quarter of this year, ending nine quarters of price hikes, while prices of NAND flash memory chips might face a steeper quarter-on-quarter decline of 10 percent.
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| Comcast bids $40 billion for UK's Sky TV Services |
9/25/2018 |
| The deal — which will now be taken to Sky shareholders for their consideration — would enable Philadelphia-based Comcast to access millions of homes in Europe through Sky. With 31,000 employees, Sky sells satellite-TV and high-speed internet services to 23 million subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. |
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| AP Memory wants to sell memory IP for profit |
9/25/2018 |
| AP Memory will start licensing part of its memory products, while putting increased focus on its design services for AI and other high-margin devices, said the company.
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| Semiconductor manufacturers are weighing relocation of packaging from China |
9/25/2018 |
| Mitsubishi Electric (6503.T), Toshiba Machine Co. (6104.T) and Komatsu (6301.T) of Japan began plotting production moves since July, when the first tariffs hit, and the shifts are now under way. Others, such as Taiwanese computer-maker Compal Electronics (2324.TW) and South Korea’s LG Electronics (066570.KS), are making contingency plans in case the trade war continues or deepens.
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| Toshiba Memory and Western Digital JV R&D center opens in Japan |
9/24/2018 |
| Mass production of 96-layer 3D flash memory at Fab 6 kicked off earlier in September 2018. Toshiba Memory and Western Digital have installed cutting-edge manufacturing equipment for key production processes including deposition and etching at the new fab. |
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