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Digital Show Highlights Innovative Solutions from Taiwan’s Hardware Manufacturers (2020.10.28)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Six winners of the Taiwan Excellence Award unveiled their groundbreaking advances for the hardware manufacturing industry at the Taiwan Excellence Hardware Showcase, a digital event held on Friday, October 23, in Taipei, Taiwan, to industry professionals around the globe |
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DRAM Price Erosion Expected Through the End of 2020, Says IC Insights (2020.10.28)
IC Insights’ October Update to The McClean Report showed the monthly average selling price (ASP) of DRAM started on a steep downward trend in the second half of 2018 that eventually bottomed out at $3.04 in December 2019. DRAM prices rebounded in the first half of 2020 as memory demand grew for personal and enterprise computing systems after the Covid-19 virus forced a rapid and dramatic shift to online-based education |
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AMD Set to Become Fourth Largest IC Design Company After Xilinx Acquisition, Says TrendForce (2020.10.28)
AMD announced that it had reached an agreement with leading FPGA manufacturer Xilinx to acquire the latter for US$35 billion. Should the acquisition proceed as planned, AMD will greatly increase its influence across industries such as 5G |
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Kingston, ADATA, Tigo Take Top Three of SSD Module Makers (2020.10.27)
The total worldwide shipments of branded SSDs bound for the channel (retail) market in 2019 reached 131 million units, showing an increase of almost 60% from 2018, according to TrendForce's latest investigations. This result also indicated a further and substantial growth in SSD adoption |
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Toshiba Announces Updated 4TB, 6TB and 8TB Enterprise Capacity HDD Models (2020.10.27)
Toshiba announces the Toshiba MG08-D Series HDDs, designed for a wide variety of business-critical applications, such as email and CRM (Customer Resource Management), data analysis for business intelligence, small-medium business servers, and data-retention and compliance archiving |
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HOLTEK New BA45F6720/6740/6746 CO/GAS Detector MCUs (2020.10.26)
Holtek wishes to announce the release of its new CO/GAS detector MCUs, the BA45F6720/6740/6746 series. The devices include a fully integrated CO/GAS detection AFE, a 2.2V/2.5V/3.0V LDO, temperature sensor and LCD/LED driver display |
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u-blox Announces High Performance NORA-B1 Bluetooth Module for Advanced Applications (2020.10.26)
u-blox announced the NORA-B1 Bluetooth module, the newest member of its short range radio portfolio. Based on Nordic Semiconductor’s latest nRF5340 Bluetooth low energy chipset – the first to host a powerful Arm Cortex M33 dual core MCU – NORA-B1 is designed to meet the needs of performance-oriented applications in areas such as industrial, medical, and smart building and smart city markets |
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Nuvoton NuMaker-IoT-M263A Developing Board Speeds Up IoT Device Design Cycle (2020.10.26)
HSINCHU, Taiwan - Nuvoton Technology expanded its IoT platform based on the NuMicro Family product portfolio. The NuMaker-IoT-M263A board is an IoT device development board. With the IoT software development kit provided by NuMicro series products, it supports a wide range of software development work to ensure low power consumption and high-security IoT device design |
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Renesas and Sequans to Collaborate on 5G/4G Cellular IoT (2020.10.23)
Renesas Electronics and Sequans Communications will partner to develop IoT modules based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform. The modules are designed to provide IoT companies with an integrated microcontroller (MCU) plus connectivity platform that streamlines and simplifies IoT system design for many applications, including smart city, smart home, and industrial IoT |
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eMemory Receives 2020 TSMC OIP Partner of the Year Award for Embedded Memory IP (2020.10.22)
HSINCHU, Taiwan – eMemory has been recognized by TSMC as a recipient of a 2020 OIP Partner of the Year award for Embedded Memory IP. The OIP Partner of the Year awards honor TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) ecosystem partners like eMemory, demonstrating excellence in next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) and 3DIC design enablement over the past year |
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Global and Taiwan Notebook Shipments Hitting Record Highs Again in 2020 (2020.10.22)
Shipment volume of the global notebook PC industry is projected to reach 170 million units and represent 6% year-on-year growth in 2020, hitting record highs in nearly five years, according to MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), a government think tank and a leading IT research institute in Taiwan |
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M31 Technology Receives 2020 TSMC OIP Partner of the Year Award (2020.10.22)
HSINCHU, Taiwan – M31 Technology has been recognized by TSMC as a recipient of 2020 OIP Partner of the Year award for Specialty Process IP. The OIP Partner of the Year awards honor TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) ecosystem partners like M31 Technology demonstrating excellence in next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) and 3DIC design enablement over the past year |
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Flusso Launches Complete Flow Sensing Solution for High-volume Markets (2020.10.22)
Flusso – a fabless semiconductor company spun-out of The University of Cambridge, UK in 2016 – has launched the world’s smallest flow sensor as part of a low-cost and complete digital flow sensing solution for use in high-volume consumer and industrial markets |
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PA760 Rugged Touch Computer Coupled with the Powerful Gun-Grip for Both Barcode & RFID Solutions (2020.10.22)
unitech flagship PA760 rugged touch computer is a high-end Android 10 (AER) device with a large 5.45” screen, great for displaying two applications at the same time. It delivers fast inventory control on warehouse shelves, pallets, or supply chain, manufacturing, and asset management applications |
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STMicroelectronics Releases KNX-RF Software for Power-Conscious Building Automation (2020.10.22)
STMicroelectronics has released KNX software for the S2-LP ultra-low-power radio transceiver to enable energy-saving standardized wireless connectivity for smart-building controls.
Ready to run on an STM32* microcontroller (MCU) or alternatively on a BlueNRG-2 Bluetooth® Low Energy System-on-Chip (SoC) that embeds an Arm® Cortex®-M0 core running at 32MHz and a comprehensive set of I/O peripherals |
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Phison Opens Colorado Enterprise SSD Engineering Lab with Industry Experts (2020.10.21)
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Phison Electronics'Systems Integration and Engineering group (SIE) in Broomfield, Colorado, US will provide thorough real-time technical support and product-related services for enterprise SSD customers and partners in the region |
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u-blox’s Cellular Modules with Own LPWA Chipset Pass US Certifications and Enter Production (2020.10.21)
u-blox has today announced that its SARA-R5 LTE-M and NB-IoT cellular series is now in production and LTE-M certified with several North American Tier 1 operators. The SARA-R5 series is the first product family based on the UBX-R5, u-blox’s own low power wide area (LPWA) chipset, to achieve North American operator certification |
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ASDM-L-CFS: Powerful, Flexible Smart Display Solution (2020.10.21)
AAEON announces the ASDM-L-CFS smart display module, the first board built to the Intel SDM Large (SDM-L) form factor to support socket type 8th and 9th Generation Intel Core processors. The ASDM-L-CFS provides uses with a powerful, flexible solution to powering a range of applications including Edge Computing |
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Global Smart Speaker Sales Up by 17% As Amazon’s Market Share Drops to 21.6% (2020.10.19)
According to the research data analyzed and published by ComprarAcciones.com, smart speaker sales in 2020 are estimated to grow by 17% to 170 million units. Comparatively, the growth rate in 2019 was a remarkable 70%, reaching a total of 146 |
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STMicroelectronics Acquires Power Amplifier and RF Front-End-Module Specialist SOMOS Semiconductor (2020.10.19)
STMicroelectronics today announced the acquisition and integration of the assets of SOMOS Semiconductor (“SOMOS”). SOMOS, based in Marly-le-Roy (France), is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2018, and specialized in silicon-based power amplifiers and in RF Front-End Modules (FEM) products |
