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Trend Micro Team Up With ASUS in IoT Security (2016.12.29)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Trend Micro Incorporated recently partnered with ASUS to protect home users against malicious IoT threats with Trend Micro Smart Home Network solution embedded in ASUS wireless home routers.
“The home network is getting more complicated and dangerous than ever with more IoT devices showing up,” said Dr |
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Sharp Commits to Semiconductor and OLED Technologies (2016.12.28)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hon Hai Group Vice President and Sharp President Tai Jeng-wu yesterday sent his fifth open letter to Sharp employees. The letter stated that Sharp is undergoing significant changes and moving in a more active and practical direction |
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Samsung to Launch Personalized Smart TV Services at CES 2017 (2016.12.28)
Samsung Electronics today announced it will introduce three new Smart TV services at CES 2017, to be held January 5 through January 9, 2017 in Las Vegas. The new services – including ‘Sports’, ‘Music’ and ‘TV Plus’ – will offer personalized content to consumers based on their TV preferences through Samsung’s Smart Hub platform |
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Triac-Dimmable LED Controller/Driver Design Platform from Diodes Drives LED Lamps up to 25W (2016.12.28)
Diodes Incorporated introduced the AL1692. This LED controller/driver is a platform-based design solution for triac-dimmable LED lamps. The internal MOSFET versions provide a low-cost solution with compact PCB size and directly drive lamps rated from 3W to 13W |
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HOLTEK New HT45F5N/HT45FH5N Power Bank ASSP Flash MCUs (2016.12.28)
Holtek announced the release of its new Power Bank ASSP Flash MCUs, the HT45F5N and HT45FH5N. As well as preserving all the advantages of their previous generation products, such as hardware over-current, over-voltage and under voltage protection functions, these new devices also include a ±1% reference voltage source, a function which will result in a reduced number of peripheral components and reduced PCB areas |
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Axiomtek’s Newest 1U Rack-mount Network Appliance with Great Expansion Capabilities – NA720 (2016.12.27)
Axiomtek announced the NA720, a 1U rack-mount network appliance built on the server-class Intel Xeon D-1527 processor (codename: Broadwell-DE) and Pentium processor D1508. The NA720 comes with two 10GbE SFP+ ports, eight Gigabit Ethernet ports and two expandable LAN modules supporting 1GbE/10GbE/Fiber/Copper/Bypass with a maximum of 26 LAN ports |
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Global Mobile Payment Market Forecast to Reach US$780 Billion in 2017, Says TrendForce (2016.12.27)
Mobile payment services have expanded significantly during 2016 as smartphone makers intensify their efforts to build their own payment ecosystems. At the same time, innovations and diversification in mobile payment methods have generated new demand and opportunities worldwide |
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Microsoft and Taiwan PC Firms Establish First Pop Up Store (2016.12.27)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Microsoft has teamed up with Taiwanese PC entrepreneurs, Acer, Asus, and MSI to establish the first Pop Up Store in Taipei and provide user experience for Office 365 services for mobile computing.
Microsoft stated that thin and light notebooks manufactured by a wide variety of companies and Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 will be on display in the mobile innovation space |
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OVEN’s New 5R9-355 Temperature Controller (2016.12.26)
Oven Industries introduced the 5R9-355 Temperature Controller (Peltier Effect). This product, from an operational standpoint, is the same as the 5R9-350 model released earlier this year.
The complimentary features included in this new 5R9-355 model consists of, a complete mechanical enclosure with mounting holes, user friendly keypad menu selections and a vivid LCD display |
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New HT6xF23x0 Advanced Flash MCUs for High Grade LED/LCD Applications (2016.12.26)
Holtek announced the release of two new Advanced Flash MCU series, the HT66F23x0 and HT67F23x0. The devices include a range of rich peripheral resources, as well as a flash program memory capacity of up to 1 Mega-bit. As the devices have achieved IEC/UL 60730 certification, they are supplied with a software library dedicated for IEC/UL 60730 verification to assist users in their product development and verification |
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RS Components Introduces Automotive Connectors from Amphenol for Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (2016.12.23)
RS Components (RS) has announced availability of two high-quality connectors from Amphenol that are designed to meet the rigorous demands of use in hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs). Key applications for the new MSD and mini-MSD connectors include high-energy storage systems for the battery Manual Service Disconnect (MSD) used for servicing plug-in HEV (PHEV) systems |
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Ultra-compact DIN-rail IIoT Gateway with i.MX6UL Processor (2016.12.23)
Axiomtek is unveiling the IFB122, an extremely compact RISC-based DIN-rail industrial IoT gateway powered by the low-power Freescale i.MX6UL-2 processor in the ARM Cortex-A7 micro architecture.
Designed to meet the challenges in critical environments, it supports extended operating temperature ranging from -40°C to 70°C, flexible wide voltage range 9V - 48V DC power input, and can withstand vibration up to 5G |
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2017 Taipei Game Show Announces Theme “In the Game, To the World” (2016.12.23)
Taipei Computer Association (TCA) recently announced that Taipei Game Show, which will be celebrating its fifteenth anniversary, will take place from January 19th to 24th, 2017, and unveiled the latest participating developers and publishers in “B2B Zone” and “B2C Area” |
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Imec Collaborates with Google to Offer Cloud Access to Flemish Startups (2016.12.22)
Imec today announced that imec will become the first Incubator in Belgium to join the Google Cloud Platform for Startups program. The Google Cloud Platform for Startups program comes with credits for eligible Flemish startups who are part of the imec |
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Chinese Panel Makers ship Over 1 Million AMOLED Smartphone Displays in Q3 2016 (2016.12.22)
Chinese panel manufacturers shipped more than one million AMOLED smartphone displays for the first time in the third quarter of 2016. While the Chinese makers only make up less than 2 percent of the AMOLED smartphone panel market in terms of shipments, hitting the one million units mark in a quarter shows significant improvements in their manufacturing technology, according to IHS Markit |
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LCD TV Panel Shipments Fell Just 0.9% Monthly in November (2016.12.22)
WitsView, a division of TrendForce, reports that global shipments of LCD panels for TVs totaled 22.79 million units in November, representing a slight decrease of 0.9% compared with October. Even though the stock-up demand related the North American holiday season and Singles’ Day in China receded during November |
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Public Tender Offer by TDK Subsidiary EPCOS to Acquire Tronics Successful (2016.12.22)
TDK Corporation and Tronics Microsystems SA jointly announced today that the all-cash public tender offer launched by TDK’s wholly-owned subsidiary EPCOS AG (EPCOS) was successfully closed on December 14, 2016.
EPCOS, a leading manufacturer of electronic components, modules and systems based in Munich, Germany, acquired 72 |
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Taiwan Forms IoT Technology and Industry Association (2016.12.22)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - More than twenty Taiwanese companies and ten related associations together with research units on December 20 established Taiwan IoT Technology and Industry Association (TW.IOTA) to assist in the development of standards and specifications for Internet of Things related applications |
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TDK to Acquire InvenSense (2016.12.21)
TDK Corporation and InvenSense, Inc. entered into a definitive agreement today wherein TDK agrees to acquire all of the outstanding InvenSense shares for cash at an acquisition price of USD 13.00 per InvenSense share, for a total acquisition price of USD 1 |
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Axiomtek’s Three Products Wins Taiwan Excellence 2017 (2016.12.21)
Axiomtek announced that Axiomtek was named a winner for “Taiwan Excellence 2017”. Axiomtek’s award-winning products this time include eBOX800-841-FL, GOT812L(H)-880 and GOT712-837.
The three products that Axiomtek was conferred on with the Taiwan Excellence 2017 are: eBOX800-841-FL: A rugged IP67-rated fanless embedded system with Intel Atom processor E3845; GOT812L(H)-880: A 12 |
