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nies intend to cooperate in manufacturing MRAM products in a production joint venture. Hynix and Toshiba have also extended their patent cross licen- sing and product supply agreements.
Moreover, Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) and SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) celebra- ted the opening of Fab 5, the third 300mm wafer NAND fabrication facility at Toshiba‘s Yokkaichi Operations in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Toshiba began the construction of Fab 5 in July 2010, and the new facility, equipped with manufacturing equipment funded by Toshiba and SanDisk, started volume production in July 2011. Fab 5 currently uses 24nm process technology and its first wafer outs will be in August. In time, the fab will transition to more advanced process generations, starting with recently announced 19nm technology.
BM (NYSE: IBM) researchers unveiled a new generation of experimental computer chips desi-
gned to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. IBM’s first neurosynaptic computing chips recreate the phenomena between spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems, such as the brain, through advanced algorithms and silicon circuitry. Its first two prototype chips have already been fabricated and are currently undergoing testing.
To do this, IBM is combining principles from nanosci- ence, neuroscience and supercomputing as part of a multi-year cognitive computing initiative. The com- pany and its university collaborators also announced
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llumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) will collaborate with the University of Oxford to sequence the whole
genomes of 500 individuals afflicted with a range of life-threatening diseases that pose major chal- lenges in diagnosis, treatment, and care. Illumina
they have been awarded approximately $21 million in new funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electro- nics (SyNAPSE) project. The goal of SyNAPSE is to create a system that not only analyzes complex infor- mation from multiple sensory modalities at once, but also dynamically rewires itself as it interacts with its environment – all while rivaling the brain’s compact size and low power usage. The IBM team has already successfully completed Phases 0 and 1.
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