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4Q17 Mobile DRAM Sales Growth May Outperform Q3’s 4.3%, TrendForce Says (2017.11.23) Thanks to the gradual recovery of smartphone market and the advent of busy season, mobile DRAM demands picked up on Q3, boosting prices. Average price hike for mobile DRAM was less than 5% in Q3, mainly for narrowing regional price differences and slightly raising quotes for high-density models, as a result of the sequential revenue growth of 4 |
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Advantech Wins 1st Growth Rate of Best Taiwan Global Brand Value Two Years in a Row (2017.11.23) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Advantech Co., Ltd. wins 6th place in the 2017 Best Taiwan Global Brands with a brand value of USD$484 million, and Advantech 's growth rate of brand value uped to 11%, which is the biggest growth rate among of Taiwan global brands this year |
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Advanced Wireless-Charging Chip from STMicroelectronics Enables Faster Charging of Smartphones and T (2017.11.22) STMicroelectronics is powering up wireless charging for mobile devices by introducing one of the world’s first chips to support the latest industry standard for faster charging.
Nowadays, people are using their smartphones and tablets so intensively that many need to top up battery power several times a day |
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GUC Announces Nanjing Office Opening (2017.11.22) HSINCHU, Taiwan - Global Unichip Corporation (GUC), has expanded its global influence with the opening of its newest office in Nanjing, China. The office will provide a broad range of ASIC services to the fast-growing China market |
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North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts October 2017 Billings (2017.11.22) North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.02 billion in billings worldwide in October 2017 (three-month average basis), according to the October Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI |
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Seoul Semiconductor Receive Low Risk Eye Safety Certification for its Natural Light LED SunLike (2017.11.22) Seoul Semiconductor announced that SunLike, which implements light which comes closest to sunlight, received an RG-1 Eye Safety certification based on the safety of its light source and was recognized for the highest level of safety amongst 25W COB type LED |
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Seven of the Top 20 International Taiwanese Brands are in the Tech Industry (2017.11.22) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Brand value surveying organization Interbrand announced a list of the “2017 Best Global Taiwan Brands” consisting of 20 Taiwanese international brands. The technology industry could be considered to be an outstanding performer with the following seven key players: Acer, Asus, HTC, Advantech, MediaTek, DELTA, and Transcend |
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PDi Announces Samples Available for Small Size Color E-paper Displays Integrate Controller (2017.11.21) Pervasive Displays (PDi) announces samples available for four new, small size, high resolution, three color, TFT active matrix Electronic Paper Display (EPD) modules with internal timing controllers (iTC).
The new additions to the range are the 1 |
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Chinese Government Continues “Big Fund” to Support Memory and IC Design in China (2017.11.21) According to TrendForce, the Chinese government will continue supporting heavily in this industry at levels of central government and local authorities. In addition to assisting weak yet significant nodes in the industry chain |
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Microchip’s New CryptoAuthentication Device and Security Design Partner Program (2017.11.21) Microchip Technology has created the ATECC608A CryptoAuthentication device, a secure element that allows developers to add hardware-based security to their designs. Microchip has also established a Security Design Partner Program for connecting developers with third-party partners that can enhance and expedite secure designs |
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Samsung to Top Intel as the #1 Semiconductor Supplier in 2017, Says IC Insights (2017.11.21) For the first time since 1993, the semiconductor industry is expected to witness a new number 1 supplier. Samsung first charged into the top spot in 2Q17 and displaced Intel, which had held the number 1 ranking since 1993, according to IC Insights |
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Toyota Unveils Third Generation Humanoid Robot T-HR3 (2017.11.21) Toyota Motor Corporation today revealed T-HR3, the company's third generation humanoid robot. Toyota's latest robotics platform, designed and developed by Toyota's Partner Robot Division, will explore new technologies for safely managing physical interactions between robots and their surroundings, as well as a new remote maneuvering system that mirrors user movements to the robot |
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China and North America TV Shipments Fall Sharply in Q3 2017, IHS Markit Says (2017.11.21) According to the latest findings from TV Sets Intelligence Service by IHS Markit, global TV shipments declined 5 percent year-over-year to 54.8 million units in Q3 2017, while revenues increased by 1 percent and average selling prices were up 6 percent due to growth in average size and 4K mix improvement |
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Andes Announces Advanced SoC Development Environments for V5 AndesCore N25 and NX25 Processors (2017.11.21) Andes Technology Corporation, the Asia-based supplier of compact, low-power, high-performance 32/64-bit embedded CPU cores and a founding member of RISC-V Foundation, today announces the partnership with the world-class tools vendors including Imperas, Lauterbach, Mentor, a Siemens Business, and UltraSoC (in alphabetical order) to bring their system-on-chip (SoC) development environments to Andes V5 processors and the RISC-V community |
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Global NAND Flash Revenue from Branded Manufacturers Increased by 14.3% in 3Q17, TrendForce Reports (2017.11.20) DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, reports a growing demand for NAND Flash under the influence of traditional peak season and increasing demand for smartphones and SSD from servers and data centers. The gap between supply and demand is larger compared with the previous quarter |
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ITRI Receives Eight 2017 R&D 100 Awards (2017.11.20) HSINCHU, Taiwan – The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan’s largest high-tech applied research institutions, received eight 2017 R&D 100 Awards and one inaugural R&D 100 Special Recognition Award on November 17 in Orlando, Florida |
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Quanta May Do AR Glasses Manufacturing for Apple (2017.11.20) TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Taiwan's Economic Daily News, in late 2018 or 2019 Apple will launch a new type of wearable augmented reality (AR) device which will integrate AR functionality with Internet and navigation functions, and the Taiwanese company Quanta Computer lnc |
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STMicroelectronics’ STM32H7 Series MCU Leverages the New Platform Security Architecture from Arm to (2017.11.19) STMicroelectronics welcomes Platform Security Architecture (PSA) from Arm, announced today, as a major enabler for ubiquitous, best-in-class cyber security. ST’s STM32H7 high-performing MCUs are designed with the same security concepts as the PSA framework and combine these principles with STM32-family enhanced security features and services |
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TSMC: The Second Act (2017.11.16) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) Founder Morris Chang has finally decided to formally give up his burden and hand over the keys to his successors Mark Liu and C.C. Wei.
As founder of the company, Morris Chang successfully created a semiconductor OEM business model |
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Global Unichip Successfully Tapes Out 16nm TCAM Compiler (2017.11.16) Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) successfully taped its newest high speed TCAM compiler, specifically designed for high speed networking applications, that targets TSMC's 16FFC process technology. The company also said that it will conduct a similar tape out to TSMC's 7-nanometer process in March, 2018 |