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Asia Pacific Microsystems Will Exhibit at Transducers 2017 in June (2017.06.07)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Asia Pacific Microsystems, Inc. (APM), "Paving the way toward MEMS production", will exhibit at Transducers 2017 at Kaohsiung Exhibition Center from June 18th to 22th. Transducers 2017 is co-sponsored by IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) |
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IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung Builds New Transistor for 5nm Technology (2017.06.06)
IBM, its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer (nm) chips.
The resulting increase in performance will help accelerate cognitive computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other data-intensive applications delivered in the cloud |
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Diodes Introduces World’s First Power Switch to Support USB Type-C (2017.06.06)
The DPS1133 single-channel power switch introduced by Diodes Incorporated is the world’s first high-voltage power switch designed to meet all the demanding protection and fast-role swap requirements of USB Type-C ports. As such |
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Lattice Semiconductor’s ECP5 FPGA Enables Energy-Efficient Embedded Vision Systems at the Edge (2017.06.06)
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced the implementation of its ECP5 FPGA into embedded vision applications for smart surveillance and automotive applications at the Edge. Reinforcing Lattice’s commitment to the industrial and automotive markets, the company’s ECP5 family of low power, small form factor FPGAs enables CPU acceleration for license plate detection and image enhancement in intelligent traffic cameras |
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Ampleon Launches First Devices Using Gen9HV 50 V Base Station optimised Process (2017.06.06)
Ampleon announced the launch of a series of LDMOS RF power transistors using its Gen9HV 50 V LDMOS process. These devices are the first to use Ampleon’s latest 50 V process, a node that has been optimized for use in cellular infrastructure applications up to 1 GHz and delivers greatly increased efficiency and gain |
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NEC Launches Center of Excellence for Analytics Platform & Solutions in India (2017.06.06)
NEC Corporation and NEC Technologies India Private Limited (NTI) today announced the launch of a "Center of Excellence for Analytics Platform & Solutions" (COE-APS) for promoting solutions and services of NEC's Big Data & Analytics Platform, "Data Platform for Hadoop (DPH)" |
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Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Billings Reached US$13.1 billion for Q1 (2017.06.06)
SEMI today reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$13.1 billion for the first quarter of 2017. The quarter ended very strong, with March billings reaching $5.6 billion, an all-time monthly record |
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COMPUTEX Shifts Attention to New Startups (2017.06.05)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The closing press conference for COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2017 was held on June 3. At the conference it was announced that this year 41,378 industry professionals from 16 countries around the world visited to take part in the exhibition, and this was an increase of 1% from last year |
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IBM Announces Partnership with Baheal Group to Bring Watson for Oncology to China (2017.06.05)
IBM today announced that Baheal Pharmaceutical Group is extending the reach of Watson for Oncology to clinicians across China through a new multi-year strategic alliance.
Baheal has a proven track record delivering value to hospitals across China working with more than 12 |
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New BC68F2420 Sub-1GHz RF Super-Regenerative OOK Receiver SoC MCU (2017.06.05)
Holtek announces the release of its low power, high sensitivity RF OOK receiver SoC Flash MCU, the BC68F2420. The device, which operates in the 315M and 433MHz ISM frequency bands, is suitable for wireless receiver products such as wireless ceiling fans, wireless doorbells as well as a wide range of other smart home wireless control applications |
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Voice-Based Assistant Robots Made Up Nearly 50% of Service Robot Sales in 2016 (2017.06.05)
Rapid progress in the development artificial intelligence (AI) has allowed humans to communicate with robots using natural languages. TrendForce’s breakdown of global sales of service robots for 2016 reveals that voice-based assistant robots accounted for the majority share of the total sales at nearly 50% |
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Axiomtek Wins COMPUTEX d&i awards 2017 (2017.06.05)
Axiomtek announced that Axiomtek was named a winner for “COMPUTEX d&i awards 2017”. Axiomtek’s award-winning products this time include the eBOX800-841-FL and the tBOX324-894-FL.
The two products that Axiomtek was conferred on with the COMPUTEX d&i awards 2017 are:
The eBOX800-841-FL: An IP67-rated fanless embedded system with Intel Atom processor E3845 |
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Sony Develops Back-Illuminated Time-of-Flight Image Sensor With the Industry's Smallest Pixel Pitch (2017.06.05)
Sony Corporation today announced it has developed a back-illuminated time-of-flight ("ToF") image sensor with a 10µm pixel pitch, the industry's smallest.
This accomplishment was made possibly combining the ToF image sensor technology of Softkinetic Systems S |
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Global PC System Shipment Volume Expected to Reach 433 Million Unites in 2017 (2017.06.05)
Shipment volume of global PC systems, including notebook PCs, desktop PCs, tablets, and servers, is forecast to reach around 433 million units in 2017, with the year-on-year growth dipping from 9% in 2016 to 4%, according to MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), a Taipei-based ICT research institute |
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3D NAND Flash Market Is About to Boom (2017.06.02)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - 3D NAND flash memory now is for everybody. At Computex 2017, there were more memory manufacturers and suppliers began offering 3D NAND flash memory products, including Toshiba, Western Digital (WD), Transcend, ADATA, Intel, Apacer and PLEXTOR all showcased their new products using 3D NAND flash memory |
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Toshiba Launches 4-channel H-bridge Motor Driver IC with Maximum Ratings of 40V and 3.5A (2017.06.02)
Toshiba Corporation's Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company today announced the launch of “TB67H452FTG,” a 4-channel H-bridge motor driver IC offering a high voltage of 40V and current of 3.5A. The new IC is suited for small consumer products |
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STMicroelectronics and ZTE Team to Promote LoRa Technology and Applications in China (2017.06.02)
STMicroelectronics and ZTE Corporation are working together with the China LoRa Application Alliance (CLAA) to promote the LPWAN (Low-Power Wide-Area Network) industry and applications in China, enabling the CLAA compatibility on STM32 microcontrollers |
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South Korea Launches UHD TV with MPEG-H Audio (2017.06.02)
The MPEG-H TV Audio System is the first next-generation audio codec worldwide to go on air 24/7 as South Korea launched its 4K UHD TV on May 31, 2017.
While immersive sound will pull viewers in the center of the action, interactive sound will enable them to personalize their audio experience according to their likings |
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Silicon Motion Announces World's First Merchant SD Controller Solutions Supporting SD 6.0 (2017.06.02)
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation introduced its new SD 6.0 controller solutions supporting SD Specification 6.0 and meeting the new A2 application performance rating with a minimum random read/write performance of 4,000/2,000 IOPS |
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AI and IoT Take Center Stage Today at COMPUTEX CPX Conference (2017.06.02)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - COMPUTEX 2017 and IoT and startup ecosystems, kicked-off the second day of its three-day CPX Conference, “From Mobility to Intelligence,” as artificial intelligence and IoT took center stage today.
Top executives from the world’s tech leaders shared insights into what their companies are doing to win the world of machine intelligence technology |
