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Softbank takes £380m write-down on satellite investment

Softbank has taken a £380 million hit on its 47% stake in UK satellite company OneWeb. OneWeb plans to launch a 600 satellite constellation to deliver internet services. It has so far launched six. From December onwards it plans to launch 30 satellites a month. Softbank invested $1 billion in OneWeb in 2016 and, in ...

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Chinese companies exiting China

Not only are US companies making moves to exit China-based manufacturing operations but Chinese companies are following suit, reports the Nikkei. 33 companies since June  have given notice to the Beijing and Shanghai stock exchanges that they are looking for foreign production locations, says the Nikkei. Companies are reacting both to the the trade war ...

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Fujitsu maths models predict flooding

Fujitsu has developed a technology that draws on mathematical models built with data on rainfall and water levels to create flooding predictions for rivers. The solution leverages Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai, which uses Fujitsu’s AI technologies, and uses a model that incorporates insights from hydrology to produce an AI that achieves predictions with greater ...

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Applied takes China hit

Applied Materials’ China sales were 32% down y-o-y in Q2 – with China contributing only 31% to overall sales compared to 39% in Q2 2018. The China-US trade war has stopped Applied supplying chip manufacturing equipment to several Chinese customers including the Fujian Jin Hua DRAM plant. Applied’s sales fell 14% to $3.56 billion in calendar ...

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A CutiePi for Christmas

CutiePi, an open source Raspberry Pi-based tablet, is being built by the CutiePi team with a completion date by the end of the year. The CutiePi team call it  “a complete Raspberry Pi in a tablet form factor, minus the trouble of connecting monitor or power supply.” CutiePi has an 8-inch display in a 209 ...

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Micron in volume production of 16Gbit LPDDR4 DRAM

Micron says it has begun volume shipments of its 16Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM made on what it calls 1nz nm process (a.k.a. its 3rd Gen 10 nm-class). Micron LPDDR4X is also shipping in volume in a UFS-based multichip package (uMCP4). Currently eight die can be stacked in a package. The LPDDR4 has clock ...

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Mellanox stalking Intel in Ethernet adapter market

Mellanox was within five percentage market share points of market leader Intel in the Q1 Ethernet adapter market, says IHS Markit. Demand from cloud service providers (CSPs) is boosting Mellanox’s market share which climbed 3 percentage points in Q1 to reach 20% which compares to a 25% market share for Intel. CSPs have been the key ...

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