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| NASA try to repair flash drive on Opportunity rover |
1/5/2015 |
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Technicians eventually localized issue to one of the banks of on-board flash memory that provide Opportunity with 2GB of storage. So NASA started to plan for a software patch that would deactivate that bank and allow the rover to function with the remaining six.
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| Taiwan government okay'd UMC plant in Mainland |
1/5/2015 |
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UMC, a leading contract chipmaker, said in October that it would build a foundry in the Chinese city of Xiamen in a three-way joint venture with the local government and Fujian Electronics & Information Group.
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| Bill to get more tax incenitives on EV cars |
1/5/2015 |
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"Since EVAP estimates that it would take about ten years to fully develop the local EV industry, it is asking that a nine-year exemption be given for VAT and excise tax,"
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| LG's 34" monitor goes curved screen |
1/2/2015 |
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The new monitor will enable fluid motion during fast gameplay scenes in games. It has an aspect ratio of 21:9, which is wider than the typical 16:9 monitors. It caters to gamers, digital imaging artists, and business professionals.
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| DRAM forecast elevated for 2015 |
1/2/2015 |
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Experts cited robust demand for DRAM chips due to an increasing global production of smartphones as one of the main reasons for the brighter outlook
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| AMD canceled bonus to new CEO |
12/31/2014 |
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AMD said in a filing today that it’s canceling about 1.76 million restricted stock awards to Su that were made in August and October. The company said it was responding to a shareholder suit that argued AMD had exceeded calendar-year limits on the number of equity grants it can make to executives when it promoted her.
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| Galaxy Note 4 LTE-A to be the fastest |
12/31/2014 |
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¡°We continue to set new challenges for the industry and push boundaries to take mobile technology to the next level and deliver the best possible customer experience,¡±
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| U.S. is ready to power the world economy again |
12/31/2014 |
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Six years after its financial system nearly sank and nearly that long since the recession ended, the United States is expected to grow in 2015 at its fastest pace in a decade. Its expansion from July through September — a 5 percent annual rate — was the swiftest for any quarter since 2003.
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| TSMC to be main A9 supplier to Apple |
12/30/2014 |
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the chances of TSMC remaining the main supplier are higher because of its better yields. Samsung also produces advanced 20-nanometer (nm) chips, but its yield is not satisfactory,
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| Hyundai Motor to secure supply of Korean made automobile chips |
12/30/2014 |
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"Future smart cars are not the business of only traditional car makers any more. That's why we have tried to secure our own advanced technology for non-memory chips rather than relying on foreign companies," a Hyundai Motor Group spokesman said.
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| KMPG survey show cautious optimism on 2015 |
12/29/2014 |
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"The semiconductor industry faces a myriad of challenges, including accurately forecasting demand, investing in the right new market opportunities, managing the higher development costs of more integrated solutions and navigating increased competition in China,"
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| SSD long term endurance test yield surprises |
12/29/2014 |
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It seems that today¡¯s SSDs will easily outlive their PC hosts by hundreds, even thousands of years, at this point, the winner seems irrelevant. If you¡¯ve been around to remember how fragile some of the early HDDs were, and how often they failed.
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| China to announce Qualcomm settlement soon |
12/29/2014 |
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An imminent decision in the case is expected to force the company to pay fines potentially exceeding $1 billion and require concessions that would hurt its highly profitable business of charging licensing fees on phone chipsets that use its patents.
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| New Ferro-RAM counter saves power |
12/29/2014 |
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The MB85RDP16LX replaces these separate read/write operations with a single command from the MCU and uses only the binary counter, resulting in energy savings of up to 94 per cent, noted Fujitsu.
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| LTE category 9 trial achieved download speeds of 410Mbps |
12/24/2014 |
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According to Huawei, the category 9 technology will improve download speeds for EE dramatically, allowing the operator to aggregate 20MHz of 1800MHz spectrum with another 20MHz of 2.66GHz, and a third carrier of 15MHz of 2.6GHz.
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| Samsung to use 20nm process for 8Gb LPDDR4 |
12/24/2014 |
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The 8-gigabit, low power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is capable of data processing twice as fast as the predecessor, the LPDDR3, and is 40 percent more energy-efficient.
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| Memory users are looking for performance and prices |
12/23/2014 |
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Customers want to hedge their bets with entire subsystems that will use the lowest-cost DRAM, whatever that may be, so they are looking for subsystems that can easily accommodate DDR3 in the immediate future, but will also be able to support DDR4 when it becomes cost-effective
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