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Imec Introduces Broad Spectrum Hyperspectral Imaging Solutions (2016.02.15)
At this week’s SPIE Photonics West, imec will present a new set of hyperspectral sensor and camera solutions with extended spectral range, going from the visible light (VIS) up to near infrared (NIR). The new line-scan VNIR (visible to near-infrared) sensor and snapshot mosaic VNIR camera outperform current solutions in spectral range and compactness |
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Hon Hai Adjusts Operations in Full-Blown Effort to Develop IoT Enterprises (2016.02.15)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － According to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, Hon Hai will this year undergo internal organizational restructuring. After the restructuring, the group will be reduced from 12 to 11 units, and what was originally the Server Business Unit will be integrated into the Telecom and China Netcom Business Unit |
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Advantech, IBM Japan Cooperate on IoT-based Smart Manufacturing Solutions (2016.02.15)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Advantech and IBM Japan today jointly announced that the two sides will collaborate on smart manufacturing solutions which will be based on the IoT technology.
This collaboration will integrate with Advantech’s “WISE-PaaS ”, IBM’s “SoftLayer” cloud infrastructure services, and IBM “Bluemix”, allows users to have more complete IoT application development environment on this platform |
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China Smartphone Market Sees Its Highest Shipment in 2015Q4 (2016.02.15)
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), 117.3 million smartphones were shipped to China in 2015Q4. This is an 8% Year-Over-Year (YoY) growth vs the same period last year, partly driven by China’s annual singles day online shopping festival in November and Huawei’s strong shipments in the quarter |
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Fujitsu Develops World's First Encryption Technology Able to Match Multi-Source Data Encrypted (2016.02.15)
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. today announced development of the world's first encryption technology that can match IDs or attribute values in information sources, such as classified or private data from multiple organizations, that are encrypted with different keys, without decrypting the information |
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Mitsubishi Electric Develops 1Tb/s Multi-subcarrier Optical Transceiver Technology (2016.02.15)
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has developed a multi-subcarrier optical transceiver technology that significantly increases the data rate of terrestrial fiber optic communication.
This new technology used a single receiver to achieve a data rate of one Terabit per second (1Tb/s) |
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Taiwan’s IC Foundry Hold Its Ground Despite Earthquake Risk (2016.02.11)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － The earthquake occurred on February 6 in Tainan, Taiwan, leading to more than fifty people were killed and hundreds injured, while undermining the part of the fab plant of TSMC. Which resulting in TSMC's Fab 6 and Fab 14 had to shut down to recover for more than three days, once triggered disruption risk of global semiconductor manufacturing chain |
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Microsoft, Acer Expand Partnership to Bring Mobile Productivity Services (2016.02.11)
Microsoft and Acer announced on Wednesday the expansion of their global partnership to bring Microsoft mobile productivity services to more consumers.
From the second half of 2016, Acer will begin pre-installing Microsoft services and apps on its portfolio of Android smartphones and tablets |
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Worldwide Silicon Wafer Area shipments Increases 3% in 2015, Decreases by 6% (2016.02.10)
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased 3 percent in 2015 when compared to 2014 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its year-end analysis of the silicon wafer industry. However, worldwide silicon revenues decreased by 6 percent in 2015 compared to 2014 |
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GSMA Announces Security Guidelines to Support Growth of IoTs (2016.02.10)
The GSMA announced the availability of new guidelines designed to promote the secure development and deployment of services in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market. The document, ‘The GSMA IoT Security Guidelines’, has been developed in consultation with the mobile industry and offers IoT service providers and the wider IoT ecosystem practical advice on tackling common cybersecurity threats |
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ASE update on the Feb 6, 2016 Taiwan Earthquake (2016.02.06)
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) today announced that the earthquake measuring 6.4 on the richter scale which hit southern Taiwan around 0400 hours on February 6th, had not impacted the company’s operations in Kaohsiung and Chung Li |
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Taiwanese Fabless IC industry's Shipment Value Grew 8.4% in the Q3 2015 (2016.02.06)
According to a lastest report from Research and Markets, Taiwanese fabless IC industry's shipment value grew 8.4% sequentially in the third quarter of 2015.
Research and Markets reported that the industry's shipment value is anticipated to have declined slightly in the fourth quarter of 2015, reaching US$4 |
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Advantech’s PWS-870 Rugged Tablet Wins 2016 IF Design Award (2016.02.06)
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Advantech announce that its PWS-870 fully rugged tablet with application-oriented peripherals was honored with an award at this year’s prestigious iF Design Awards hosted in Hamburg, Germany, from January 19 - 21, 2016 |
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Severe Earthquake Hits Taiwan and Damages TSMC’s Fab 6, Fab 14 (2016.02.06)
TAIPEI, Taiwan – A severe earthquake of 6.4 magnitude hit southern Taiwan at 3:57 am on February 6, killing at least seven people and hundreds injured. The earthquake also damaged some of the facilities of TSMC's manufacturing sites which located in Tainan Science Park |
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Foxconn Announces the Acquisition of Sharp, Nearly (2016.02.05)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － After four years of negotiations, Foxconn announced today that two sides had verbally agreed to form the acquisition of Sharp, will sign a formal purchase agreement at February 29 this year.
Foxconn chairman Terry Guo today visited with Sharp and had a long meeting for nearly six hours |
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LED Taiwan 2016 to Kick Off in Taipei (2016.02.05)
LED Taiwan, organized by SEMI and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), will be held at TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei on April 13-16. As the LED market is stabilizing and the growth becomes modest, vendors in the industry continue to invest in technology R&D as part of their efforts to stand out amid a pricing war of end products |
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Acer Named Newegg’s Partner of the Year; Earns Award for Best Overall Growth (2016.02.05)
Acer was named Newegg’s Partner of the Year for outstanding performance at Newegg’s 12th annual Eggie Awards gala. Newegg also gave Acer a second award at the gala for Best Overall Growth.
Acer’s outstanding performance and growth is primarily attributed to its innovative line of gaming products, including Predator notebooks, V Nitro notebooks, and X34 and Z35 gaming displays |
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Industry's First Hybrid Memory Cube Compliance Test Software (2016.02.05)
Keysight Technologies introduced the industry's first compliance test software application for hybrid memory cube (HMC) device and system testing. The Keysight N8839A HMC test application helps memory design engineers accelerate turn-on and debug of HMC systems by automating the execution of transmitter physical-layer tests on Keysight Infiniium V-Series and Z-Series oscilloscopes |
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Xiaomi Smartphones Transition Away from Hunger Marketing (2016.02.05)
Due in large part to the saturated Chinese market and intense competitions in the mid-range and value line segment, Xiaomi's smartphone sales slowed down to a 21% growth in the first half of 2015, according to MIC (Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute) |
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Global IC Market to Closely Track the Performance of Worldwide GDP Growth (2016.02.05)
IC Insights expects annual global IC market growth rates to closely track the performance of worldwide GDP growth. In the recently released The McClean Report 2016, IC Insights forecasts 2.7% global GDP growth for 2016, only marginally ahead of what is considered to be the recession threshold of 2 |
