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IC Insights Raises 2017 IC Market Forecast to +22% (2017.10.19) |
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IC Insights has raised its IC market growth rate forecast for 2017 to 22%, up six percentage points from the 16% increase shown in its Mid-Year Update. The IC unit volume shipment growth rate forecast has also been increased from 11% depicted in the Mid-Year Update to 14% currently... |
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TrendForce Reports Prices of Lithium-Ion Battery Cells Enters a Slow Climb (2017.10.19) |
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The latest lithium-ion battery market report from EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, finds that the price upswing for battery cells has started to moderate since this third quarter. Although the price of cobalt reached a new high for the recent years during the third quarter, prices of battery cells have been climbing more slowly after the large hikes in the second quarter... |
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Gaming Monitor Shipments Soar 350% Year-over-Year, IHS Markit Says (2017.10.19) |
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Global shipments of gaming monitors increased 350 percent to 1.1 million units in the first half of 2017 from the same period a year ago, according to IHS Markit.
Gaming is the hottest application for desktop monitors, invigorating a mature product category... |
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China Semiconductor Fab Equipment Spending Forecasted to Over Than $12 Billion (2017.10.18) |
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SEMI today announced its new China IC Industry Outlook Report. With an increasing presence in the global semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, the market opportunities in China are expanding dramatically.
China is the largest consumer of semiconductors in the world, but it currently relies mainly on semiconductor imports to drive its growth... |
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Intel and Mobileye Offer Formula to Prove Safety of Autonomous Vehicles (2017.10.18) |
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Mobileye and Intel today announced a formal, mathematical formula to ensure that a self-driving vehicle operates in a responsible manner and does not cause accidents.
Speaking today at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, professor Amnon Shashua, Mobileye CEO and Intel senior vice president, offered the autonomous driving industry a way to prove the safety of autonomous vehicles... |
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Samsung Completes Qualification of 8nm LPP Process (2017.10.18) |
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Samsung Electronics announced today that 8-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology, 8LPP (Low Power Plus), has been qualified and is ready for production.
The newest process node, 8LPP provides up to 10-percent lower power consumption with up to 10-percent area reduction from 10LPP through narrower metal pitch... |
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Merger of Gintech, NSP and Solartech Will Contribute to Taiwan’s Solar Industry, Says TrendForce (2017.10.17) |
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Three solar companies Gintech, Neo Solar Power (NSP) and Solartech signed an MOU on October 16 announcing their intention to merge as one single corporate entity by the third quarter of 2018. According to EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, the combined production capacity for photovoltaic (PV) cells of these three companies is projected to reach 5 gigawatts (GW)... |
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AUO Delivers All-Round Solar Power Plants Ranging from Rooftop, Ground Mount and Floating Types (2017.10.17) |
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HSINCHU, Taiwan – In response to the Taiwan government’s “2-Year Solar Power Promotion Plan", AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) has been continuously accelerating its pace in developing solar power systems in recent years. In addition to focusing on rooftop solar power plants, the Company has extended its reach to the ground mount and floating solar power markets to demonstrate its comprehensive capability for solar power plant development... |
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Mitsubishi Electric Unveils EMIRAI 4 Smart Mobility Concept Car (2017.10.16) |
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation today unveiled its EMIRAI 4 concept car featuring next-generation driving-assistance technology, which is expected to help reduce traffic accidents and contribute to increasingly safe, convenient and environmentally friendly transportation... |
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Smart Application Trends are Significant – Holtek Promotes 32-bit MCU Products (2017.10.16) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Internet of Things (IoT) and smart trends continue to drive the growth of microcontroller (MCU) chips with both the vastness of applications and performance simultaneously experiencing rapid growth. MCU chip provider Holtek Semiconductor today at a yearly presentation for new products launched several types of 32-bit MCU products with applications that include wireless charging... |
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ST Cooperates with Alibaba Cloud to Provide Cloud-to-node IoT Solution to the Market (2017.10.16) |
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STMicroelectronics announced its cooperation with Alibaba Cloud to provide a complete cloud-to-node IoT solution to the market. The cooperation will allow any designer to easily create IoT nodes and gateways using ST's key semiconductor building blocks for the IoT, run Alibaba's IoT operating system AliOS on the node, and seamlessly connect with the Alibaba Cloud for faster time-to-market of large-volume IoT applications... |
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300mm Wafer Fabs Expected to Increase Each Year by 2021, IC Insights Says (2017.10.13) |
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With the prospects of large 450mm wafers going nowhere, IC manufacturers are increasing efforts to maximize fabrication plants using 300mm and 200mm diameter silicon substrates. The number of 300mm wafer production-class fabs in operation worldwide is expected to increase each year between now and 2021 to reach 123 compared to 98 in 2016, according to the forecast in IC Insights... |
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Acer Wins Eight 2017 Good Design Awards (2017.10.13) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Acer announced today that eight of its products have been honored with a 2017 Good Design Award for outstanding product design. The award-winning Acer products include a 360-degree camera, 360-degree dash cam, indoor air quality monitor, all-in-one desktop PC, and four notebooks... |
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Spirent and China Mobile Partner to Run the 5G C-RAN Project (2017.10.12) |
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Spirent Communications announced today it has signed an agreement to partner with the China Mobile 5G Joint Innovation Center Project.
As part of the first phase of the 5G C-RAN project, Spirent and the China Mobile 5G C-RAN Working Group successfully completed automated performance testing... |
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