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Global Small Cell Deployments and Installed Base to Grow to 2.838M Units in 2018, Says TrendForce (2018.03.14) In 2018 CES, South Korea Winter Olympics and MWC, 5G is undoubtedly a hot topic, companies including Qualcomm, Intel, Huawei, Samsung, Ericsson, ZTE and major mobile operators are all discussing 5G development blueprint. With the full Release 15 specification to be completed around the June 2018 by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the competition for 5G technology will begin in 2018, says TrendForce |
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Toyoda Gosei Establishes New Plant in Japan to Produce High Pressure Hydrogen Tanks for FCVs (2018.03.14) Toyoda Gosei has established a new plant in the city of Inabe, Mie Prefecture, Japan to produce high pressure hydrogen tanks, a crucial component of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Preparations for the start of production are currently underway |
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Seoul Semiconductor Launches the World’s Smallest LED Driver for Japan Lighting Market (2018.03.14) Seoul Semiconductor has developed the industry’s smallest 100V / 24W LED driver for Japan lighting market. The NanoDriver Series LED drivers employ Seoul’s patented Acrich technology to produce an ultra-miniature device to drive LED circuits from 8 – 24W with 100V input designs with low flicker requirements |
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Kneron's Facial Recognition Unlocks Devices in Only 0.2 Seconds without Connecting Internet (2018.03.14) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Artificial Intelligence solutions provider Kneron has launched a facial recognition solution which specializes in designs for unlocking smart phones. Even for entry-level smart phones, as long as there is a front lens with over a million pixels |
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Google Looks to Address Interoperability Challenges in Healthcare Data with New Cloud API (2018.03.13) Google has unveiled a new Cloud Healthcare Application Programming Interface (API) at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference & Exhibition 2018 in Las Vegas. The tool enables clients to absorb and manage multiple types of medical data on one platform |
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Fab Spending Poised For Remarkable Fourth Year of Growth (2018.03.13) (圖一) Figure 1
The latest update to the SEMI World Fab Forecast report, published on February 28, 2018, reveals fab equipment spending will increase at 5 percent in 2019 for a remarkable fourth consecutive year of growth as shown in figure 1 |
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u-blox Announces Smallest Industrial Bluetooth 5 Module (2018.03.13) u-blox has announced the new ANNA-B1 Bluetooth 5 module for industrial applications. Its ultra-compact module design and industrial operating temperature range make it ideal for wide-ranging applications in size-constrained designs requiring high speed Bluetooth connectivity |
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HOLTEK New BC2161 Sub-1GHz RF Transmitter with Encoder (2018.03.13) HOLTEK introduced its new wireless transmitter device, the BC2161, a device which includes an integrated programmable encoder. The transmitting frequency bands fall within the Sub-1GHz license-free ISM frequency range of 300~960MHz, which makes the device suitable for use in a variety of RF applications such as wireless fixed code or custom code remote controllers, smart home appliances and so on |
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Flexible Display with integrated QTC Force Sensing Enables New Applications (2018.03.13) Peratech announced that its active-matrix 3D force touch sensor is integrated with a flexible OLCD, demonstrating how two disruptive technologies can work together to enable new applications.
The solution can be used to create flexible displays that incorporate multi-point force-touch sensing of arbitrary size, from wearable devices to large displays |
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Growth of AMOLED Display Manufacturing Capacity Slowing in South Korea While Accelerating in China (2018.03.12) After two years of unprecedented capacity expansion, South Korean flat panel display (FPD) manufacturers will essentially halt new active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) panel factory construction for mobile applications in 2018 |
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Adoption Rate of SSD in Notebooks to 50%, Says TrendForce (2018.03.12) In 1Q18, the traditional off-season, SSD market has seen obviously less stock up orders from PC OEMs compared with 4Q17, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce. SSD suppliers have cut prices to enhance PC OEMs’ willingness to adopt their new 64/72-layer 3D-SSD products |
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Faraday Accelerates AI Revolution with Its FPGA-to-ASIC Conversion Service (2018.03.12) HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology today announced its FPGA-to-ASIC conversion service has successfully completed several AI related projects including drone vision, medical image analysis, smart appliances, and 3D sensing. It brings remarkable power saving, enhanced performance and lower system cost to meet the specific AI requirement |
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Hon Hai Expands India Manufacturing Service Operations (2018.03.12) TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Economic Daily News, the Hon Hai Group will expand their scale of development in India and in the western part of the country establish automotive, industrial networking, and smart home manufacturing services |
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iST Signs MoU with DEKRA on the Cooperation for Wi-Fi and IoT-related Services (2018.03.09) iST, the market leader in electronics product verification and analysis service, has a great step forward on the cooperation with DEKRA, the world leading expert organization in safety testing and inspection. iST announced today (9th March), the two parties will be focusing on Wi-Fi and IoT-related Services by signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop the world-class leading verification and certification capacity |
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Wistron Medical and NTU Hospital Collaborate on Medical Rehabilitation Robot (2018.03.09) TAIPEI, Taiwan - As a subsidiary of the Wistron Corporation, Wistron Medical Tech Holding Company, concluded the signing of a letter of intent for collaboration on a “smart powered lower limb exoskeleton robot,” which will be jointly developed with the aim of advancing medical rehabilitation technology |
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Penetration Rate of Full-screen Smartphone Will Surge to 45% in 2018 (2018.03.08) According to WitsView, a division of TrendForce, full-screen smartphones will become the trend in market this year. The pursuit of narrower bezels and notch designs has emerged, bringing about solutions of under-display fingerprint sensor and applications combining camera modules and facial recognition |
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Lam Research’s Market Share Reached 55% in Semiconductor Etch Sector in 2017 (2018.03.08) On the heels of strong growth in 3D NAND manufacturing, Lam Research’s market share rose to 55% in 2017, according to the Information Network, a New Tripoli, PA-based market research company.
3D NAND memory manufacturing utilizes a combination of deposition and etch processes to define complex 3D structures with extremely high aspect ratio features |
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Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 25.7% in the Fourth Quarter of 2017, Gartner Says (2018.03.08) The worldwide server market continued to grow through 2017 as worldwide server revenue increased 25.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017, while shipments grew 8.8 percent year over year, according to Gartner, Inc. In all of 2017, worldwide server shipments grew 3 |
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Intel and Microsoft Enable AI Inference at the Edge with Intel Movidius VPU on Windows ML (2018.03.08) Today during Windows Developer Day, Microsoft announced Windows ML, which enables developers to perform machine learning tasks in the Windows OS. Windows ML efficiently uses hardware for any given artificial intelligence (AI) workload and intelligently distributes work across multiple hardware types – now including Intel Vision Processing Units (VPU) |
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Huawei and ZTE Need to Respond with Substantive Measures to Succeed in Lucrative US Market (2018.03.07) The American market just got tougher for Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE, as the heads of six major US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, FBI and NSA, have recently warned consumers against buying phones from them for national security reasons |