Prices for 12-inch blank silicon wafers are set to continue rising, driven by robust demand from foundries and memory chipmakers, according to industry sources. Wafer suppliers are mulling adjusting upward their contract quotes for ...
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Nintendo Switch vs Wii U: What has Nintendo learnt from the Wii U? Read on to find out the biggest differences between the two Japanese titans. The Nintendo Wii U will probably be remembered for two things. Firstly, for ushering in HD ...
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Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Improved economic conditions worldwide, particularly in the U.S., and a booming memory chip market are being credited for the global semiconductor industry’s robust sales growth in the first half of 2014. ...
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For first-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €43.9m, down 14% on €51.1m last quarter but up 9% on €40.2m a year ago. Of total revenue, 73% (€32.1m) came from ...
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The addressable market for chip-level optical interconnects could eventually run into billions of units, as revenues rise to almost $520m by 2019 then $1.02bn by 2021, according to the report 'Revenue Opportunities for Optical ...
Earlier this month, SK Hynix signed a five-year licensing agreement with Rambus. Two South Korean companies Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have signed a cross-licensing agreement to jointly share patents for semiconductors. The Wall ...
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Japan's Toshiba says its quarterly net profit has tumbled 62 per cent from a year earlier, with demand for its televisions, computers and other digital products stumbling. The technology and engineering conglomerate said it had earned ...
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NanoPoint™ enables fast, practical design qualification and highly sensitive process monitoring by leveraging critical patterns KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ: KLAC) announced NanoPoint™, a new family of patented technologies ...
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing a 128-gigabit (Gb), 3-bit multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND memory chip using sub-20 nanometer (nm)-class process technology. The flash chip will be used to create Samsung's ...
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Apple is said to have closed the door on Samsung as its chip designer, according to a series of reports. Reports last week stated that the new iPad 5 would see LG Display and Sharp provide the display, the ITO film will be provided by ...
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The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints come from Jun Dong-Soo, President of Samsung‘s memory chip division, who had no kind words for Windows 8 during a ...
Mailing your cellphone to a recycling company might make you a few pounds, but it can leave you at risk of identity theft. The deletion techniques recycling companies use are meant for hard discs, and so don't work on the solid-state flash ...
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Cambridge Consultants has developed a sticky radio tag that will detect bad handling of parcels by delivery firms. Called DropTag, the gadget combines a battery, a low-energy Bluetooth transmitter, an accelerometer and a memory chip. ...
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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
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