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How does China respond to US chip threats? With a $30 billion factory

Jan 20, 2017

  • For China, actions speak louder than words, especially in the escalating chip battle with the U.S., which has been hurling out verbal threats in recent months. The Chinese chip infrastructure is getting a serious boost from Tsinghua Unigroup, which is investing US$30 billion in a new foundry to make chips. The state-owned Tsinghua Holdings is a majority shareholder in Tsinghua Unigroup. The factory in Nanjing will primarily make 3D NAND flash and DRAM chips to bulk up the country's semiconductor and storage markets. The first stage of investment will be $10 billion and produce 100,000 chips per month. The manufacturing facilities will stretch over 1,500 acres, or 2.34 square miles.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3159718/techology-business/how-does-china-respond-to-us-chip-threats-with-a-30-billion-factory.html

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China to have 58 mln kw nuclear power by 2020

2016-11-07

  • China will have 58 million kilowatts of installed nuclear power by 2020 as it expands its clean energy network and pursues green growth, the country's energy regulator announced Monday. The government will have around 30 million kw of nulcear energy facility going into operation and over 30 million kw of such facility under construction in the next five years, according to the 13th Five-Year Plan for power development released by the National Energy Administration and the National Development and Reform Commission.

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-11/07/content_27295931.htm

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Ancient Melanosomes, Beta-Keratin Found in Fossilized Feathers of Early Cretaceous Bird

Nov 25, 2016

  • An international team of paleontologists has found evidence of beta-keratin and melanosome preservation in a 130-million-year-old specimen of the Early Cretaceous bird Eoconfuciusornis. Eoconfuciusornis, a genus of crow-sized primitive birds from the Early Cretaceous Dabeigou and Huajiying Formations of China, dating from 135 to 125 million years ago, are the earliest birds to have a keratinous beak and no teeth, like modern birds. http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/2016/11/image_4398_1-Eoconfuciusornis.jpg

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/melanosomes-beta-keratin-feathers-bird-eoconfuciusornis-04398.html

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Baidu’s Artificial Intelligence Lab Unveils Synthetic Speech System

March 8, 2017

  • Now Baidu’s artificial intelligence lab has revealed its work on speech synthesis. One of the challenges in speech synthesis is to reduce the amount of fine-tuning that goes on behind the scenes. Baidu’s big breakthrough is to create a deep-learning machine that largely does away with this kind of meddling. The result is a text-to-speech system called Deep Voice that can learn to talk in just a few hours with little or no human interference.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603811/baidus-artificial-intelligence-lab-unveils-synthetic-speech-system/