Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5% in 2017, Gartner Says
The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2017, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM...
Samsung Starts Mass Production of Industry’s First 4-bit Consumer SSD
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 4-bit (QLC, quad-level cell) 4-terabyte (TB) SATA solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers. Based on 1-terabit (Tb)* V-NAND with outstanding performance equivalent to the company’s 3-bit design, Samsung’s QLC SSD is expected to bring a new level of efficiency to consumer SSDs...
Toshiba Memory Develops Ethernet-Attached Native NVMe-oF SSD Prototype
Toshiba Memory Corporation today announced that it has developed an native NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) SSD for direct Ethernet access to data for highly scalable storage architectures, conforming to the NVMe-oF Specification Version 1...
China Smartphone Units Drop by 6% YoY while Average Selling Prices Grow by 15% in 2Q18
According to preliminary data of the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the Chinese smartphone market shipped 105 million units during the second quarter of 2018, resulting in a 5.9% year-over-year (YoY) decline. However, the pace of decline has narrowed compared to 1Q18 as channel activity normalized and new products were marketed...
TSMC Hit by Virus: Q3 Revenue Falls 2%
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company(TSMC) had been hit by a computer virus “WannaCry” which caused computer systems and fab tools to cease functioning in three factory zones. Due to the influence of the machinery stopping, third quarter revenues will shrink by 2%...
TrendForce Expects Prices of Lithium-ion Batteries to Increase by 5~15% in 3Q18
Cobalt prices have reached another record high in 1Q18, according to the data from EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce. As the result, the prices of lithium-ion battery cells are estimated to increase by 5~15% QoQ in 3Q18, but would have a chance to remain flat in the fourth quarter...
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