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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 |
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Cypress Achieves Aerospace-Grade QML Certification for its 65nm and 40nm SRAM Devices at UMC (2017.11.16)
Cypress Semiconductor and United Microelectronics Corporation today announced that Cypress’ 65nm and 40nm technology platforms are the industry’s first to achieve Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) certification for their advance product flows |
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Korean Quake on Nov. 15 Doesn't Influence Panel Industry Much, Says TrendForce (2017.11.16)
At 2:29 p.m. on November 15 of South Korea's local time (1:29 p.m. of Taiwan's local time), a 5.5-magnitude shock struck Korea's east coast. The epic center is located at 9 kilometers north to Pohang City, North Gyeongsang Province |
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Taiwan IC Revenue Totaled NT$642.8 billion, 12.3% Growth on-Quarter (2017.11.16)
According to the TSIA’s survey, Q3 2017 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole (including design, manufacturing, packaging and testing) totaled NT$642.8 billion(US$21.2B), 12.3% growth on-quarter and down 2.5% on-year.
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Faraday Unveils M1+ Library with Enhanced Routability on UMC 28HPC Process (2017.11.16)
HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology Corporation today introduced its M1+ standard cell library on UMC 28HPC process. Library routability is always a major concern for back-end layout engineers at advanced process technologies |
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Do More and Consume Less with New STM32L4+ MCUs Series (2017.11.16)
The smart electronic objects people interact with every day can be easier to use and run for longer on batteries when designed around the latest ultra-low-power microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics.
The new STM32L4+ devices -- a new generation of the STM32L4 series that stretches performance to 150DMIPS (233 ULPMark-CP) at 120MHz -- can act as the central controller in a full range of fitness bands |
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Seoul Semiconductor Introduces a Acrich Based Compact LED Driver with 5X the Power Density (2017.11.15)
Seoul Semiconductor has developed an ultra-compact LED driver series with a power density 5X higher than conventional LED drivers. Based on Seoul Semiconductor’s patented Acrich technology, the MicroDriver Series delivers more than 24W of output power with a power density of 20W/cubic inch cubic inch, compared to existing drivers at 3-5W/cubic inch |
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Holtek Announces Intelligent Fire Alarm MCU SIP Module Integrated with Semtech’s LoRa (2017.11.15)
Holtek has announced today that they are collaborating with Semtech Corporation to develop a new smart fire alarm module integrated with Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless RF technology (LoRa Technology) and leveraging LoRaWAN, the open protocol |
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0.7% YoY Growth beyond Expectation for 2017 Notebook Shipments, TrendForce Reports (2017.11.15)
Market research firm TrendForce reports that the global notebook shipments for this third quarter registered a remarkable quarterly increase of 6.8% and a year-on-year increase of 0.9%, reaching 42.69 million units. The overall performance of notebook shipments brought by peak season exceeded the previous expectations |
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Toshiba Releases 1.5A LDO Regulators in Industry's Smallest Package for Mobile Applications (2017.11.15)
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation has started shipping “TCR15AG,” a low-dropout (LDO) regulator series in the industry’s smallest WCSP6F package. The TCR15AG series is suitable for mobile and modular applications requiring small, thin devices |
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NEC Launches LoRaWAN Compliant Network Server (2017.11.15)
NEC Corporation today announced the global commercialization of a new network server that complies with LoRa (Long Range) WAN, a new wireless communication technology, and LPWA (Low Power Wide Area), which creates wide area networks with low power consumption |
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Chinese AI Pioneer YITU Announces Plan to Establish R&D Hub in Singapore to Accelerate AI Developmen (2017.11.15)
YITU Technology announced its plans to set up a Research & Development (R&D) Hub in Singapore, bolstering Singapore's AI applications in the area of security and finance. The discussion was held at a visit to YITU's Shanghai headquarters recently, represented by Singapore officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Singapore's Economic Development Board (EDB), where they witnessed its award-winning facial recognition technologies |
