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4G Initiative Boosts Asus: MOEA (2016.01.15) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Asus is the biggest beneficiary of a government initiative aimed at boosting consumption by incentivizing mobile phone users to upgrade to 4G from 2G networks. According to Ministry of Economic Affairs data, purchases of Asus-brand smartphones have captured 43... |
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TrendForce: Huawei Led the Global Rise of Chinese Smartphone Brands in 2015 (2016.01.14) |
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Global smartphone shipments for 2015 grew 10.3% year on year to 1.293 billion units, among which 539 million units came from Chinese vendors, according to the latest reporting from the global market research firm TrendForce.
TrendForce reported that Chinese smartphone brands made big gains worldwide in 2015, with their market share reaching a new high of over 40% and their combined annual shipments growing above the global average... |
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TSMC Forecasts 2016 Boom, Smartphones Market to Revive (2016.01.14) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — The world’s leading foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), has forecast that it is going to enjoy a sales boom in 2016, a year that the company reckons will only show modest growth for the overall semiconductor market... |
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Self-Driving Cars to be a Highlight in 2016 (2016.01.14) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States and Institute for Information Industry (III) in Taiwan recently jointly demonstrated Taiwan’s first type of lightweight driverless smart car, the Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV), which will undergo test trials at the end of this year at earliest... |
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Acer’s Revo Build mini PC Nominated Gold Awards of Taiwan Excellence 2016 (2016.01.14) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer has received fourteen Taiwan Excellence 2016 awards for products across its portfolio, including notebooks, desktops, smartphones, monitors, and projectors.
The winning products were selected among 1,180 entries from 202 companies, and evaluated against criteria including R&D, design, quality, and marketing strategy, by a panel of 88 industry professionals... |
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eMemory Announces Tape-out of NeoFuse Silicon IP for Automotive Panel Driver IC (2016.01.14) |
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Hsinchu, TAIWAN – eMemory has announced the tape-out of NeoFuse silicon IP for automotive panel driver IC with high reliability and it is ready for mass production in an international foundry.
The reliability of NeoFuse silicon IP can meet the criteria of AEC-Q100 Grade 1 and the design of NeoFuse silicon IP completely changes the traditional dual-voltage operation by using core device only to access data under single low-voltage... |
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TrendForce: Sony’s PlayStation VR to Lead in VR Device Shipments in 2016 (2016.01.13) |
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TrendForce said that CES and Mobile World Congress (MWC) are two important events for VR device developers to showcase their products in 2016. And Sony’s PlayStation VR to lead in VR device shipments this year. Shipments of HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift will not pick up significantly until 2017... |
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Foxconn Works an Extra Shift for Xiaomi Mi5 (2016.01.13) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Xiaomi Redmi 3 smartphone was launched on Tuesday, the phone comes with a 5-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 720 pixels by 1280 pixels. However, the highly anticipated Xiaomi Mi5 is scheduled to hit the market after the Lunar New Year... |
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AUO Declines to Comment on the Speculation about Apple (2016.01.13) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) shares on Tuesday gained 5.65 percent to reach NT$9.53 amid speculation that Apple Inc. plans to help finance the construction of an LCD production line with the island’s No. 2 LCD-panel maker... |
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Advantech and Mitsui Bussan Electronics Conclude WISE-PaaS Alliance Agreement (2016.01.13) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – Advantech and Mitsui Bussan Electronics announced conclusion of their basic “WISE-PaaS Alliance” agreement, which is a program for IoT hardware and software solutions.
WISE-PaaS is a software platform that ensures IoT hardware such as sensor modules or gateways, as well as data generated from these hardware devices, can be utilized by cloud services... |
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Worldwide PC Shipments to Decline of 1% in 2016 (2016.01.13) |
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Worldwide PC shipments totaled 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 8.3 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. For the year, 2015 PC shipments totaled 288... |
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Consumers Interest In Self-enabling vehicles, Though They Don’t Necessarily To Own Them (2016.01.12) |
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Consumers showing particular interest in self-enabling vehicles -- though they don’t necessarily want to own one in the traditional sense, according to the results of IBM’s automotive consumer study.
“A New Relationship – People and Cars,” developed by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), reports that consumers show a high level of interest in self-enabling vehicles, or cars that can learn, heal, drive and socialize... |
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M2M Connections Accounted for By Roaming Growing Fast (2016.01.12) |
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According to Machina Research that there are now 350 million cellular based connections worldwide, and this will grow to 1.3 billion over the next five years.
However, the proportion of M2M connections accounted for by roaming is growing even faster... |
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Microchip Offers Low-cost, Renewable Monthly Subscription License of Its MPLAB XC PRO Compilers (2016.01.12) |
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Microchip Technology today announced a flexible, low-cost, renewable monthly subscription license for the PRO editions of its MPLAB XC line of C compilers.
The MPLAB XC8, XC16 and XC32 compilers offer reduced complexity, and provide the best execution speed and code size for all ~1,400 PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), and are available with three optimization levels—Free, Standard and PRO... |
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Advantech Builds the Smart Factory for Everest Textile (2016.01.12) |
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Industry 4.0 is a good business, Adantech builds smart factory for Everest Textile in Tainan, penetrating into the textile industry. Chaney Ho, President of Advantech Taiwan stated that high-tech industry can learn from the traditional industries, “In the sense of initiative to welcome another Spring of the industry, and face the challenges from the rise of a ‘Red Supply Chain’ in China... |
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