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NEC to Establish FIWARE Lab Node in India (2017.12.13) NEC Corporation and NEC Technologies India Private Limited (NECTI) announced that they will establish a FIWARE Lab node in India. The objective is to encourage application developers and solution provider organizations, government bodies and academia to experiment and innovate FIWARE-based solutions for smart cities |
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By 2020, Artificial Intelligence to Create More Jobs Than It Eliminates, Gartner Says (2017.12.13) 2020 will be a pivotal year in AI-related employment dynamics, according to Gartner, Inc., as artificial intelligence (AI) will become a positive job motivator.
The number of jobs affected by AI will vary by industry; through 2019, healthcare, the public sector and education will see continuously growing job demand while manufacturing will be hit the hardest |
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Infrared Laser Projector Market for Mobile 3D Sensing to Reach US$1.953B in 2020, Says TrendForce (2017.12.12) According to LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, many smartphone companies have been developing 3D sensing embedded devices since Apple launched iPhone X featuring 3D sensor. LEDinside anticipates that the value of global infrared laser projector market for mobile 3D sensing is estimated to reach US$246 million in 2017, and is forecast to grow to around US$1 |
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Worldwide Sales of New Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment to Increase 35.6% in 2017 (2017.12.12) SEMI today released its Year-end Forecast at the annual SEMICON Japan exposition. SEMI projects that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 35.6 percent to US$55.9 billion in 2017, marking the first time that the semiconductor equipment market has exceeded the previous market high of US$47 |
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iST Signs MoU with DfR and DEKRA iST on Reliability Design and Verification (2017.12.12) iST together with its joint venture, DEKRA iST made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of reliability verification and testing.
Announced recently iST has entered Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DEKRA iST and America’s leading reliability designer DfR Solutions (DfR) |
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Toshiba Memory Unveils UFS Ver. 2.1 Embedded NAND Flash Memory Products for Automotive (2017.12.12) Toshiba Memory Corporation announced that it has begun shipping samples of embedded NAND flash memory products for automotive applications that are compliant with JEDEC UFS version 2.1. The new products meet AEC-Q100 Grade2 requirements and support a wide temperature range of -40°C to +105°C, offering the enhanced reliability capabilities that are required by increasingly complex automotive applications |
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NEC Develops Deep Learning Technology to Improve Recognition Accuracy (2017.12.12) NEC Corporation today announced it has developed automatic optimization technology for deep learning in order to facilitate improvements in recognition accuracy.
In recent years, there have been tremendous advances in deep learning, which is now contributing to image recognition, speech recognition, and a wide range of other fields |
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Hsinchu County, Jianshih Township Launches Smart Transportation Platform (2017.12.12) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hsinchu County, Jianshih Township on December 8 launched Taiwan's first Demand-Responsive Transportation System (DRTS) information media platform.
Hsinchu County, Jianshih Township Hall, K-BEST Technology, and Institute for Information Industry (III) collaborated to establish the DRTS operations platform |
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Fujitsu Develops WAN Acceleration Technology Utilizing FPGA Accelerators (2017.12.11) Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of WAN acceleration technology that can deliver transfer speeds up to 40Gbps for migration of large volumes of data between clouds, using servers equipped with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) |
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Marvell Announces Industry's Most Complete 802.11ax Wireless Portfolio (2017.12.11) Marvell introduced the industry's most complete 802.11ax wireless product portfolio. The Marvell 802.11ax product family is architected to deliver breakthrough performance, improved network efficiency, low latency and enterprise-grade reliability |
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Worldwide Server Revenue Grew 16% in Q317, Gartner Says (2017.12.11) In the third quarter of 2017, worldwide server revenue increased 16 percent year over year, while shipments grew 5.1 percent from the second quarter of 2016, according to Gartner, Inc.
"The third quarter of 2017 produced continued growth on a global level with varying regional results," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner |
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Molex Introduces the USB Smart Modules (2017.12.11) Molex has merged automotive-grade durability with mass availability on its line of USB Smart Charge Modules. Manufactured specifically for customers’ automotive and commercial vehicles that require a smart-charge USB module, Molex products feature state-of-the-art design to give users maximum performance |
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THine Announces Establishment of Interface Technology for Image Sensor Cameras, VBOC (2017.12.11) THine Electronics announces establishment of THine’s original interface technology for image sensor cameras, VBOC (Video By One Cable/Connector for Camera). VBOC is interface technology that provides more than tenfold transmission effective band as compared with existing interface technologies for transmitting images from image sensor camera to frame grabber |
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TrendForce Forecasts Oversupply and Price Drop in 1Q18 NAND Flash Market (2017.12.11) DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, expects lower demand for NAND Flash in 1Q18 due to the traditional off-peak season. The demand from notebooks, tablets, and smartphones (mainly Chinese branded smartphones) is estimated to drop by more than 15% compared with 4Q17, and that from server will remain generally the same |
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Toshiba Launches World's First 14TB HDD with Conventional Magnetic Recording (2017.12.08) Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation announced the launch of the MG07ACA Series, the world’s first enterprise 14TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. Using a 9-disk, helium-sealed design, the new MG07ACA Series provides the power-efficient capacity and storage density needed by cloud-scale and enterprise storage solution providers to achieve their TCO objectives |
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Mitsui Chemicals Completes the Expansion of Electrolyte Solution Production Capacity in China (2017.12.08) Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. has announced the commencement of commercial operation of facilities for the production of electrolyte solution for lithium-ion batteries run by Formosa Mitsui Advanced Chemicals Co., Ltd., a joint venture of Mitsui Chemicals and Formosa Plastics Corporation (Formosa Plastics), in November 2017 |
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CerebrEX Starting Shipment of the Industry's First eDP System Driver (2017.12.08) CerebrEX announced that the company has begun shipping samples of the industry’s first eDP system driver, a.k.a. TED (TCON-embedded driver).
The product CRX2000 is the first in the company’s eDP system driver series Panel System Integrated Controllers (PSICs) |
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Clientron Thin Client R800 Won 2018 Taiwan Excellence Award (2017.12.08) Clientron announced that the R800 thin client has won a “Taiwan Excellence 2018” award for its innovation and best quality design, which makes it stand out from numerous products as the best choice for virtual desktop solutions |
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CyberLink Announces Professional-level VR Video Stabilization Plug-in for Adobe (2017.12.07) TAIPEI, Taiwan - CyberLink today announced the release of a new plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects – CyberLink VR Stabilizer. Powered by the intelligent video stabilization technology used in CyberLink’s PowerDirector 16, this plug-in provides a high quality editing tool for professionals while retaining the intuitive nature common in consumer-grade software |
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TrendForce Says Global ASP of LED Light Bulbs Remains Stable in November (2017.12.07) LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, reports that the global average sales prices (ASP) of LED light bulbs was generally stable in November. The global ASP of 40-watt equivalent products was US$6.2, a slight increase of 0.5%. The global ASP of 60-watt equivalent products also increased slightly by 0 |