
NVIDIA, Baidu Announce Partnership to Accelerate AI
NVIDIA and Baidu today announced a broad partnership to bring artificial intelligence technology to cloud computing, self-driving vehicles and AI home assistants. Speaking in the keynote at Baidu's AI developer conference in Beijing, Baidu president and COO Qi Lu described his company's plans to work with NVIDIA to: ˙Bring next-generation NVIDIA Volta GPUs to Baidu Cloud, providing the deep learning platform to cloud customers...

Worldwide Device Shipments to Decline 0.3% in 2017
Worldwide shipments of PCs, tablets and smartphones are expected to exceed 2.3 billion units in 2017, a decline of 0.3 percent from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is forecast to return to growth in 2018 with a 1.6 percent increase in shipments...

TrendForce Forecasts 5.5% Reduction in Global DRAM Production Capacity in July
Inotera, which is also known as Micron Technology Taiwan, suspended the operation of Fab-2, one of its two fabrication plants in Taiwan’s Taoyuan City, on July 1. The malfunctioning of the nitrogen gas dispensing system led to the contamination of wafers and equipment in the facility...

TomTom, Baidu Join Forces to Develop UHD Maps for Autonomous Driving
TomTom (TOM2) and Baidu (BIDU) announced today that they have joined forces to develop high definition (HD) maps for autonomous driving. Their collaboration on the development of a global HD map service combines TomTom and Baidu’s expertise in HD map-making and artificial intelligence (AI)...

Floadia Completes Fundraising from 9 VCs in Japan and Taiwan for Embedded Flash Memory IP Business
Floadia Corporation announced today that it successfully closed "Series B" fundraising of 1.6 billion Japanese yen (US$14.5 million) to use the funds to continue the commercial supply of its embedded flash memory IP to major foundries...

MediaTek Unveils its First NB-IoT SoC; Collaborates with China Mobile
MediaTek unveiled its first narrow band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) System-on-Chip (SoC), the MT2625, and announced a collaboration with China Mobile to build the world’s smallest NB-IoT module (16mm X 18mm) around the chipset...