Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2014) 7 - 9 March 2014 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The aim of the APCLC 2014 is to bring together academics from around the world, and from the Asia Pacific area in particular, in order to report on the varied developments in the use of corpora in linguistics, language learning and translation studies. Some countries have a number of well-developed projects related to the theoretical and applied aspects of corpus analysis; other countries are just starting to develop corpus resources. Through this conference, we will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and expertise and lay the foundations for future developments in the application of corpus resources in Asia and the Pacific. Themes We invite papers in all aspects of Corpus Linguistics, from teachers, research students, researchers, training consultants and practitioners from the industry. Conference themes include, but are not limited to: • corpora and language learning • translation corpora • corpora and the web • corpora and discourse analysis • learner corpora • usage-based linguistics • theoretical issues in corpus analysis Invited plenary speakers Dr. Michael Barlow, Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Prof. Douglas Biber, Regents’ Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English, Northern Arizona University, USA Dr. Lynne Flowerdew, Senior Instructor, Center for Language Education, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Prof. Ka Yin Benjamin T’sou, Chair Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies; Director, Research Centre on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Important Dates . Deadline for Call for Papers . Notice of Acceptance . Early Bird Registration . Cancellation 13 September 2013 (Fri) 15 October 2013 (Tue) on or before 18 November 2013 (Mon) on or before 17 January 2014 (Fri) (no refund of registration fee after this date) Organiser Research Centre for Professional Communication in English (RCPCE), Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR Conference website http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/events/apclc2014 Contact person Prof. Winnie Cheng Professor of English Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities Director, Research Centre for Professional Communication in English Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong egwcheng@polyu.edu.hk Enquiries Miss Helen Wan Project Associate, Research Centre for Professional Communication in English apclc.engl@polyu.edu.hk
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=83622782 TSMC vs Intel process roadmap comparison based on TSMC Q4 call info and just listing the majority high-end volume process for each year. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Intel Core 22nm 14nm 14nm 10nm 10nm Intel Atom 32nm 22nm 14nm 10nm 10nm TSMC 28nm 28nm 20nm 20nm 16-20nm hybrid 2016 looks rough for the foundry users and once Intel's SoC products go to 22nm they get a process lead they never lose. http://seekingalpha.com/article/1117631-taiwan-semiconductor-s-ceo-discusses-q4-2012-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single 'Morris Chang Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I’ll make a few comments on last year’s achievements, on this year as a whole, and specifically on first quarter. And I will also comment on 28-nanometer technology and on 20-nanometer and the 16 FinFET, and then finally on CapEx, this year’s CapEx. Lora has already reported the financials of last year to you. Basically, last year was a year of achievements for us. Revenue grew 18% to reach $17.1 and EPS grew 24% to reach TWD 6.41 per share. 28-nanometer technology was a resounding success. The production in 2012 increased more than 30-fold, 30-fold over 2011. And we have enjoyed throughout the year, in spite of a lot of attempt to the competition, we enjoyed throughout the year close to 100% foundry market share in 28-nanometer technology. We have also, in the year 2012, further strengthened our RD. Our RD expenditure increased from TWD 33.8 billion in 2011 to TWD 40.4 billion in 2012. Our RD people increased from 3,400 at the end of 2011 to 3,900 at the end of 2012. Now, a few words on 2013 and the first quarter of 2013. For the full year 2013, we are forecasting a global GDP growth of 2.6%, which is a bit higher than last year’s global GDP growth for 2.4%, now we’re forecasting 2.6% for next year – I’m sorry, this year. We are forecasting a world FTE market growth of 3%, we are forecasting a fabless company growth of 9%. We are forecasting a foundry industry growth of 7%, and we are forecasting a TSMC revenue growth much higher than 7%. So those are our forecast for the full year 2013. For first quarter 2013, I have some comments on supply chain inventory to make. Three months ago, in the last investors conference in October, we expected the supply chain inventory to decline from seven days above seasonal in fourth quarter to one day below seasonal in the first quarter. That was our expectation 12 months ago that the supply chain inventory will decline from seven days above seasonal in fourth quarter to one day below seasonal in the first quarter, all together an eight days decline. Now, because many mobile product manufacturers have accelerated their new product launch this year, and so late in the year they have now pulled ahead to earlier in the year. And therefore, they need IC supplies, IC inventories earlier. So, in – supply chain inventory now is forecast to decline only slightly from fourth quarter to first quarter. And so seven days above normal to one day below normal, we are now forecasting that the inventory will decline from six days above seasonal – well you know, in sort of seven days. Three months ago we thought the inventory was going to be seven days above seasonal. Now, we have better information and we think it’s six days above seasonal in the fourth quarter. So, the big change is that we are forecasting it to decline to only four days above seasonal in the first quarter, which is only a two-day equivalent, two-day decline, instead of the eight-day decline that we had forecast three months ago. Orders resulted in a higher first quarter than we thought three months ago. So now we expect the first quarter revenue to decline while in three months ago, we expected to decline. The first quarter revenue we expected to decline from the fourth quarter. We now expect the first quarter revenue to be essentially flat in U.S. dollars from the fourth quarter. Essentially flat from the fourth quarter in U.S. dollars. A few more words on 28-nanometer technology. After accomplishing a 30-fold increase in production, 28-nanometer capacity and output continued to ramp up aggressively this year. Production of 28-nanometer wafers in 2013 will triple that of 2012, adding the newcomers may ask we have customers. The old customers, I think, know us well enough not to ask that, if we have customers. High-k metal gate will surpass oxynitride . That’s in the 28-nanometer . We have, as you know, actually four types. Three of those are high-k metal gate, and the earliest type that we introduced was the oxynitride , and indeed last year, the majority of the production was the oxynitride . But the more advanced version high-k metal gate will surpass oxynitride in the third quarter this year. And in the fourth quarter, it will even surpass oxynitride even more. Gross margin percentage of 28-nanometer in 1Q ‘13, which is this quarter, will be slightly higher than corporate average, and is expected to remain so in 2013. This linear dragging the corporate average down more than pulling it up. Now, a few words on 20-nanometer and 16 FinFET. Both technologies are in progress in RD. Both represent state of the art, leading-edge technology not just in foundry but in the whole SC industry. And enough discussions have taken place with enough customers with large requirements to lead us to believe that in both its first and second year of production, in both the first and second year production of 20 SoC and that first year will be next year, 2014. The second year will be a year after that, 2015. In both those years of 20 SoC production, the volume of 20 SoC will be larger than 28-nanometer in its first and second year of production, which were last year and this year. That’s a long sentence, but let me repeat it. In slides it didn’t work. We think that our volume of 20 SoC next year, 2014, will be greater than the volume of 28-nanometer last year and we think the volume of 20 SoC in 2015 will be greater than the volume of 28-nanometer this year. Our CapEx plan is, therefore, in accordance that belief .... .... Andrew Lu - Barclays Thank you. Dr. Chang and Lora, thank you for taking my question. My first question is regarding earlier, Dr. Chang mentioned year 2014, the 20-nanometer volume will be higher than 12, and the 15 will be higher than 13. Is that including 16 – year 2015 as well? Morris Chang No, it does not. Andrew Lu - Barclays So only 20 high scheme located? Morris Chang Right. Andrew Lu - Barclays Okay. Thank you. Morris Chang If you go to 2016, then I would tell you something different, but let’s not go there for the time being. Yes. Andrew Lu - Barclays So, do you suggest that what we know – production year 2015?
IEEE计算智能学会在2011年12月9-11日召开的理事会上，决定2014年IEEE世界计算智能大会在北京召开！ Full name: 2014 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Acronym: IEEE WCCI 2014 Date: July 6-11, 2014 , Sunday to Friday Venue: Beijing International Convention Center (BICC) http://www.bicc.com.cn/ General Chair: Derong Liu, Beijing , China General Co-Chair: Jennie Si, Tempe, USA IJCNN Program Chair: Cesare Alippi, Milano, Italy FUZZ-IEEE Program Chair: Dimitar P. Filev, Dearborn, USA IEEE CEC Program Chair: Carlos Coello Coello, Mexico City, Mexico IJCNN Program Co-Chairs: Haibo He, Kingston, USA, and Nikola Kasabov, Auckland, Newzealand FUZZ-IEEE Program Co-Chairs: Plamen Angelov, Lancaster, UK, and Fuchun Sun, Beijing, China IEEE CEC Program Co-Chairs: Andries P. Engelbrecht, Pretoria, S. Africa, and Kay Chen Tan, Singapore WCCI 2014 Local Arrangements Chair: Zeng-Guang Hou, Beijing, China WCCI 2014 Finance Chairs: Bhaskar DasGupta, Chicago, USA, and Dongbin Zhao, Beijing, China 历史上，WCCI先是四年一届，后改成两年一届。 WCCI 2012, Brisbane, Australia, http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org WCCI 2010, Barcelona, Spain, http://www.wcci2010.org WCCI 2008, Hong Kong, http://www2.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~wcci2008/ WCCI 2006, Vancouver, Canada, http://www.compsys.ia.ac.cn/wcci2006/ WCCI 2002, Honolulu, USA, http://www.wcci2002.org/ WCCI 1998, Anchorage, USA WCCI 1994, Orlando, USA
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