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Latest Technology / China Fab Boom Fuels Equipment Spending Revival

« on: April 22, 2017, 02:01:19 AM »

With 26 fabs scheduled to come on line in China in the next four years, the SEMI trade group is projecting the first three-year run of consecutive semiconductor equipment spending growth since the mid-1990s.

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Latest Technology / Fab Tool Sales Keep Climbing

« on: April 22, 2017, 02:00:46 AM »

North American semiconductor equipment vendors posted an annual increase in monthly billings for the fifth straight month in February.

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Latest Technology / Intel Boots Drives with 3D XPoint

« on: April 22, 2017, 02:00:23 AM »

Intel announced its first solid-state drives using its 3D XPoint memory chips, getting a long-awaited foothold in a market between flash and DRAM.

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Latest Technology / Is ADAS Ready for a Little 'Disruption?'

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:59:56 AM »

Chronocam, a developer of revolutionary event-driven sensor, is emerging in a red hot ADAS/Autonomous vehicle market where big players – Intel/Mobile -- are now beginning to merge. Is the startup tilting the windmills?

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Latest Technology / Peregrine Semi Buys MIT Spinoff Arctic Sand

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:59:29 AM »

RF chip vendor says deal will expand its power module business in the telecommunications, data communications and industrial electrical markets.

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Latest Technology / Wireless Networks Vie for Air Time

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:58:10 AM »

Debates among wireless competitors at an IEEE event spanned cellular IoT, 5G, and Wi-Fi.

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Latest Technology / ST's SPAD Imager Likely Linked to iPhone 8

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:57:47 AM »

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 8 with a “3D camera” is the subject of intense speculation. Dots yet to be connected are the explicit relationships among the iPhone 8, single photon avalanche diodes and STMicroelectronics.

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Latest Technology / Samsung Edges TSMC in 10 nm

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:55:57 AM »

Samsung appears to be about a quarter ahead of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. with the ramp of 10-nm process technology, according to a veteran chip analyst.

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Latest Technology / sian Tech Investment in U.S. May Rise

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:55:36 AM »

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and other Asian tech firms may contribute to a rising tide of investment in the U.S. in response to some expected Trump administration initiatives.

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Latest Technology / OFC Debates Road to Photonic ICs

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:55:13 AM »

An OFC keynoter made the case for indium phosphide photonic ICs, but analysts said that silicon photonics has bigger backers for merging optics and electronics.

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Latest Technology / Google Calls for Optical Leaps

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:54:53 AM »

Google's data centers need much higher capacity, lower cost, and more programmable optical networks, an executive said in a keynote.

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Latest Technology / TowerJazz Rolls Out Silicon Photonics Process

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:54:04 AM »

Specialty foundry offering process to complement silicon-germanium BiCMOS process for optical transceivers.

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Latest Technology / Roadmap Says CMOS Ends ~2024

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:53:47 AM »

An expanded roadmap for semiconductors says traditional CMOS scaling will end in about 2024 but new chip stacks and systems architectures will continue advances.

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Latest Technology / Intel Creates New Unit to House AI Efforts

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:53:23 AM »

Artificial Intelligence Product Group will align resources from across the company to focus on AI.

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Latest Technology / Uber Yanks Robo-Cars after Arizona Crash

« on: April 22, 2017, 01:53:04 AM »

Uber Technologies grounded all of its driverless cars deployed in pilot programs in Tempe, Arizona, Pittsburgh and San Francisco, after a crash Friday in Arizona. Here’s what we know now, and here’s what we need to find out.