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MediaTek Joins ONNX Along with Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon to Promote AI Technologies (2018.02.26)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - MediaTek announced that they have joined “Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) to promote Artificial Intelligence (AI) technological innovation and the development of terminal AI platforms.
ONNX was jointly created by Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft, all of which have shifted in the direction of creating interoperability standards for different frameworks of deep learning models |
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Samsung Electronics Breaks Ground on New EUV Line in Hwaseong (2018.02.26)
Samsung Electronics announced that it broke ground on a new EUV (extreme ultraviolet) line in Hwaseong, Korea, aiming to maintain its leadership in state-of-the-art semiconductor technology.
With this new EUV line, Samsung will be able to strengthen its leadership in the single nanometer process technology by responding to market demand from various applications |
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AAEON to Present Its AI Edge Technology at Embedded World 2018 (2018.02.23)
AAEON will be taking part at this year’s Embedded World trade fair in Nuremburg, Germany.
The fair, which is now in its 16th year, is widely regarded as being one of the world’s most important embedded systems events. As part of its involvement at Embedded World, AAEON will showcase a number of products including Box and Panel PCs, a range of motherboards, and the UP Squared industrial innovators’ board |
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Intel and Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA Announce 5G Strategic Collaboration (2018.02.23)
As a core subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup, Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA, and Intel Corporation officially announced a long-term strategic collaboration on 5G. The companies plan to develop a 5G smartphone platform for the China market that will feature an Intel 5G modem and will be targeted to coincide with 5G network deployments in 2019 |
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Fingerprint Cards Launches The Third-generation Fingerprint Sensor (2018.02.22)
Fingerprint Cards Launches FPC1291, the first commercial third-generation fingerprint sensor.
The new FPC1291 is a single-chip, single-die solution, removing the need for a companion chip while maintaining and even exceeding the performance benefits of the dual-chip solution |
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New High-Speed Optical Heart Rate Sensor (2018.02.22)
ROHM has recently announced the availability of an optical heart rate sensor for smart bands and watches capable of measuring blood pressure, stress and vascular age at a high-speed 1024Hz sampling rate. The BH1792GLC, which is ROHM's 2nd generation optical heart rate sensor, features its high accuracy and low power consumption |
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Toshiba Machine's New THE400 SCARA Robot Launches in Chinese Market (2018.02.22)
Toshiba Machine has launched sales of its new THE400 (arm length: 400 mm) for the Chinese market. The THE400 model is a THL series SCARA robot combining high cost performance with easy operation.
For more than 30 years, Toshiba Machine has provided industrial robots in a wide range of variations being used by numerous customers around the world |
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Posiflex Showcases New Line of Touch Screen Terminals and Self-Service Kiosks at EuroCIS 2018 (2018.02.22)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Posiflex Technology, Inc. unveils an entirely new line of dynamic touch screen terminals that embodies a new era for Posiflex and point-of-sale hardware – the RT Series. With an elegant housing and a strikingly thin profile, the RT Series brings a modern aesthetic to the counter and makes a retail business look even more attractive |
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Clientron to Present Its POS Innovation at EuroCIS 2018 (2018.02.22)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Clientron will display its latest POS solutions for the retail market at the world’s leading retail show, EuroCIS 2018, from February 27 to March 1, 2018 in Dusseldorf, Germany. At its Booth (Hall 10, Booth E73), Clientron will introduce its innovative POS terminals and various built-in POS peripherals available on the market today in order to meet the demands of omnicommerce experience |
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AAEON Launches Its eShop, a New Online Store (2018.02.22)
AAEON announced the launch of its online store, the AAEON eShop – https://eshop.aaeon.com/.
The website is targeted towards customers who want to buy and quickly take delivery of products for testing purposes. AAEON is therefore committed to shipping any eShop order for five units or fewer within three to five working days |
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Integrated Circuit Technology Advances Continue to Amaze (2018.02.22)
The success and proliferation of integrated circuits has largely hinged on the ability of IC manufacturers to continue offering more performance and functionality for the money. Driving down the cost of ICs (on a per-function or per-performance basis) is inescapably tied to a growing arsenal of technologies and wafer-fab manufacturing disciplines as mainstream CMOS processes reach their theoretical, practical, and economic limits |
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Simplify Industrial-Grade Linux Designs with SAMA5D2 MPU-Based SoM (2018.02.21)
Microchip Technology has unveiled a new System on Module (SOM) featuring the SAMA5D2 MPU. The ATSAMA5D27-SOM1, which contains the recently released ATSAMA5D27C-D1G-CU System in Package (SiP), greatly simplifies design by integrating the power management, non-volatile boot memory, Ethernet PHY and high-speed DDR2 memory onto a small, single-sided Printed Circuit Board (PCB) |
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Hon Hai to Develop Big Data, AI, and the IIoT in the Next Three Years (2018.02.21)
TAIPEI, Taipei - Foxconn Chairman Terry Guo recently stated at a Valentine's Day event that from this year to 2020, the Hon Hai Group will move in the direction of big data, artificial intelligence, and the industrial Internet as the foundations of their manufacturing industries |
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Renesas Electronics Introduces Low-Cost Target Boards to Support Growing RX 32-bit MCU Family (2018.02.21)
Renesas Electronics today announced three new Target Boards for the RX65N, RX130 and RX231 Microcontroller (MCU) Groups, each designed to help engineers jump start their home appliance, building and industrial automation designs |
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Seoul Semiconductor Successfully Invalidates Everlight’s Patent in the United Kingdom (2018.02.21)
On February 20, 2018, Seoul Semiconductor announced that Seoul has won the patent invalidity litigation action that was filed against Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. (Everlight) in the United Kingdom.
Everlight’s patent, EP (UK) 1169735, which was invalidated as a result of Seoul’s suit, relates to an LED package structure for thermal dissipation |
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Samsung Electronics Begins Mass Production of Industry’s Largest Capacity SSD – 30.72TB (2018.02.21)
Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun mass producing the industry’s largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) – the PM1643 – for use in next-generation enterprise storage systems. Leveraging Samsung's latest V-NAND technology with 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit (Gb) chips, the 30 |
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Acer ITS’ Smart Parking Meter Solution Takes Home the ‘Global ICT Excellence Award (2018.02.21)
Acer ITS Inc., a subsidiary of Acer, one of the world's leading ICT companies, has won the ‘Global ICT Excellence Award - Private Sector Excellence’ at the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2018 for its smart parking meter solution |
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Acer Wins 12 iF Design Awards 2018 (2018.02.14)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer today announces that it has been honored with 12 iF Design Awards 2018 in recognition for design excellence. Among them, Predator gaming device, software and packaging designs led the way for Acer with six awards including the Predator Orion 9000 desktop, Predator Triton 700 notebook, Predator X27 monitor, Predator X34P monitor, as well as PredatorSense software and Predator Gaming Gadget packaging design |
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Large TFT Display Market Continued to Grow in 2017, IHS Markit Says (2018.02.13)
Despite slower demand from end market and panel price erosion, the large thin-film transistor (TFT) display market expanded in 2017 in all three aspects -- unit shipments, area shipments and revenue. According to a new report from business information provider IHS Markit |
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Sony Develops a Back-Illuminated CMOS Image Sensor with Pixel-Parallel A/D Converter (2018.02.13)
Sony Corporation today announced that it has developed a 1.46 effective megapixel back-illuminated CMOS image sensor equipped with a Global Shutter function. The newly developed pixel-parallel analog-to-digital converters provide the function to instantly convert the analog signal from all pixels, simultaneously exposed, to a digital signal in parallel |
