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| TSMC rebutted report on 10nm trouble |
12/27/2016 |
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Calming fears of a possible iPad shortage, TSMC said its 10nm production had been proceeding as planned, adding that the chip had now entered volume production and was set to bring in profits in the first quarter next year.
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| SK Hynix to advance to 72 layear 3D NAND |
12/26/2016 |
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The company announced on Thursday that it expects to complete designs for 72-layer 3-D NAND in the first half of 2017. It aims to begin production at its plant in Icheon in the second half of the year.
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| Memory that can be washed away |
12/26/2016 |
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This is a security memory device that removes information stored in a memory by realizing a resistive random access memory (RRAM) on water-soluble solid sodium glycerine (SSG) and performing dissolution for less than 10 seconds.
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| Smart watch powered by body heat |
12/26/2016 |
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According to the company, this is possible because of is very low power processor technology, which operates at sub-threshold voltages.
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| Companies are racing to introduce their AI chips |
12/26/2016 |
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Come 2017, experts say the Artificial Intelligence community will intensify its demand for higher performance and more power efficient “inference” engines for deep neural networks.
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| Injunction to bar Infineon from selling GaN-on-Si in the U.S. |
12/23/2016 |
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The preliminary injunction stemmed from a request made by MACOM Technology, which claimed that Infineon's GaN-on-Si RF products use intellectual property rights previously owned by Nitronex and now exclusively licensed to MACOM in certain fields.
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| DRAM demand to exceed supply in 2017 |
12/23/2016 |
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Korea government will not agree to China's intention of licensing DRAM production technologies from Samsung and SK Hynix. Micron Technology was quoted in a recent report saying the company finds less reason to partner with China's emerging DRAM firms by licensing its process technologies.
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| Memory production will grow with latest Capital spending |
12/23/2016 |
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The average prices of DRAM and NAND flash memory chips are expected to significantly improve in the fourth quarter, helped by stronger demand for notebook computers and a supply shortage in the NAND flash market.
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| Memory sales in 2017 projects to reach $85 billion |
12/22/2016 |
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Thanks to both rising prices and volume sales, the memory sector is expected to lead overall semiconductor sales growth. The average annual growth rate for the memory market is forecast to be 7.3% from 2016-2021, about 2.4 points higher than the total IC market during the period.
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| Russian scammers create fake audiance for Cyber ads |
12/22/2016 |
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They made it look like these were actual households that had internet service from legitimate providers like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon to help trick advertisers using automatic ad exchanges into accepting them as real people.
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| BlackBerry joins the autonomous driving technology race |
12/22/2016 |
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Company officials said its initial priorities would include a pilot program to test autonomous vehicles on Ontario roads and a prototype self-driving vehicle developed with PolySync, Renesas Electronics and the University of Waterloo.
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| Micron has finally caught up on 3D NAND production |
12/21/2016 |
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The company had achieved a bit crossover between 2D and 3D NAND flash memory output. In other words, the total capacity of 3D NAND memory produced by Micron has exceeded that of 2D counterparts.
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| Qualcomm to feature Snapdragon 835 VR at CES Show |
12/21/2016 |
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Improvements that Qualcomm has made in the Snapdragon 835 that enable the processor to support immersive audio, high VR frame rates, enhanced 3D graphics with real-time rendering and HD video content.
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| Toshiba profits up thanks to memory |
12/19/2016 |
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Toshiba just last month forecast that the division will generate an operating profit of 130 billion yen ($1.1 billion)for the financial year to end-March.
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