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MediaTek: Smartphone Upgrade Wave Spreads from China to Other Emerging Markets (2016.12.02)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese fabless chip manufacturer MediaTek Inc. stated that the smart phone upgrade wave will continue for the next few years and will spread from Mainland China to other emerging markets.
MediaTek on November 29 in Taiwan held a year-end press conference and explained operational performance in 2016 and next year's prospects to media outlets |
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ASUS Ranks as the No. 1 International Brand from Taiwan (2016.12.01)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — ASUS has been recognized as Taiwan’s No. 1 international brand, as an estimated brand value of US$1.748 billion, for the fourth consecutive year at the Best Taiwan Global Brands Awards 2016.
Hosted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Interbrand, these awards are a key indicator of how Taiwanese brands are performing on the global market |
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HOLTEK New HT66FB576 USB RGB LED Flash MCU (2016.12.01)
With a focus on the colour RGB LED product application area, Holtek announced the release of its new USB Flash MCU, the HT66FB576. With its USB interface, the device is not only used in general computer peripheral and consumer product applications, but with its integrated constant current source together with 48 PWM outputs, it has the ability to control up to 128 RGB LEDs in a matrix scan configuration |
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CIMC IT and TRAXENS Cooperate to Establish a Open Container Monitoring Market Standard (2016.12.01)
CIMC IT, the smart container technology branch of the world’s largest shipping container manufacturer, and TRAXENS, the smart container start-up backed by CMA CGM and MSC, have agreed to create a global open container monitoring market standard |
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NAND Flash Revenue Rose 19.6% Sequentially in Q3 as Demand Outpaced Supply, TrendForce Reports (2016.12.01)
Prices of NAND Flash rose in the third quarter as smartphone makers continued to generate robust demand for related products and the technological transition from 2D-NAND to 3-NAND manufacturing reduced the industry’s overall output |
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Delta Builds Full-Color LED Flight Information Display for U.S. Port Columbus International Airport (2016.12.01)
Delta is supporting the modernization of Port Columbus International Airport in the U.S. city of Columbus, Ohio, with its fine pitch 3mm Indoor LED displays. The two giant LED display boards in the Columbus International Airport concourse are built using Delta’s fine pitch LED screens measuring 13 |
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ROHM Reference Boards for High Voltage Fan Motor Drivers (2016.12.01)
ROHM has recently announced the availability of reference boards designed to evaluate its high voltage fan motor drivers that achieve greater efficiency and simplify inverter configuration in home appliances such as ceiling fans and ACs |
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Space-Saving 60 A VRPower Smart Power Stages Increase Accuracy While Simplifying Designs (2016.12.01)
Vishay Intertechnology introduced two new 60 A VRPower smart power stages with integrated current and temperature monitors for multi-phase DC/DC systems.
Combining power MOSFETs, an advanced driver IC, and a bootstrap FET in the thermally enhanced low-profile 5 mm by 5 mm by 0 |
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Broadcom Announces BCM88470 and BCM88270 in the StrataDNX Line of Switch SoC Devices (2016.12.01)
Broadcom Limited announced two new product families in the StrataDNX line of switch system-on-chip (SoC) devices. Building on the industry’s most pervasive silicon platform for service provider networking, the new products extend StrataDNX technology to new high volume markets and customers closer to the edge of the carrier network |
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Computer Technology, Control, and Measurement are Top-3 Smart Car Patent Deployment Fields (2016.11.30)
MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute) recent findings show that patent deployment is highly concentrated on Computer Technology, which accounts for 22.6%. Coupled with the other four fields of Control, Measurement, Telecommunication, and Digital Communication Control, the combined share reaches around 74 |
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TAICS Signs Cooperation Agreement with ETSI (2016.11.30)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Tthe Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards (TAICS) signed a cooperation agreement with ETSI at ETSI’s headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France, thus solidifying the basis for future collaborations |
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SSD Prices to Register Largest Sequential Increase for Q4 2016, TrendForce Reports (2016.11.30)
Client-grade SSDs of mainstream capacities for the PC-OEM market are expected to witness the largest sequential increase in average contract price in almost a year for the fourth quarter of 2016, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce |
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Semtech LoRa Picocell Gateway Platform Brings Smart IoT Applications to Homes and Small Businesses (2016.11.30)
Semtech Corporation announced the availability of its new LoRa multi-band picocell reference design for a variety of indoor applications. Leading consumer and enterprise equipment manufacturers are currently testing the LoRa picocell reference design |
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Toshiba Launches New Line-up of Low On-resistance MOSFETs (2016.11.30)
Toshiba Corporation’s Storage & Electronic Devices Solutions Company announced the addition of new products that utilize a newly developed high power dissipation, small-size “TSOP6F” package to its line-up of small low on-resistance MOSFETs for charging circuit load switches in mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets |
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IoT and Automotive to Drive IC Market Growth Through 2020 (2016.11.30)
Integrated circuit sales for connections to the Internet of Things are forecast to grow more than three times faster than total IC revenues during the last half of this decade, according to IC Insights’ new 2017 Integrated Circuit Market Drivers report |
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GliaCloud Wins the Championship of SSW Taipei 2016 (2016.11.29)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Seedstars World Taipei (SSW Taipei) was held in Taipei, Taiwan on Nov. 18, with 10 startups competing for the finals which will be held in Switzerland. And the winner of the contest was GliaCloud, a Taiwanese startup, it will head to Switzerland for the final |
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Annual Sales Revenue from Fabless IC Design to Drop 3.2% in 2016, TrendForce Reports (2016.11.29)
The latest estimate from market research firm TrendForce puts sales revenue worldwide from fabless IC design for 2016 at US$77.49 billion, a decline of 3.2% from 2015. However, TrendForce expects strong growth in several application markets in 2017, such as automotive electronics |
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NCKU C-Hub Demo Day Showcases Students’ Creative Portfolio (2016.11.29)
TAINAN, Taiwan - National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in southern part of Taiwan recently run a Demo Day to show students’ originality and creative designs, including 3D printing technology and ePaper display.
Shou-Chuan Ho, CEO of Yuen Foong Yu Group, attended the opening ceremony on November 23 and said, “As NCKU alumnus, I am proud to see that students at C-Hub are doing something new and innovative |
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Bluetooth Solution for Apple HomeKit Helps Developers Reduce Project Risk and Speed Time to Market (2016.11.29)
Silicon Labs has introduced a Bluetooth software solution that enables developers to efficiently create Apple HomeKit-enabled accessories. Silicon Labs’ Bluetooth solution with HomeKit support is pre-tested by Apple. This gives developers time-to-market benefits, eases engineering effort and helps end-product vendors minimize risks when getting their HomeKit-enabled accessories to market |
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LGD Remains the Top TV Panels Maker and Innolux Will Take the Second in 2017 (2016.11.29)
Restructuring of older display fabs, migration to larger-sized LCD TV panels and business strategy adjustments are some of the factors prompting LCD TV panel manufacturers to set a conservative shipment goal of 258.4 million units in 2017, a 1 |
