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LCD TV Shipments Down 0.6% in 2015 While China’s TCL and Hisense Saw Growth (2016.01.29)
According to the latest reporting by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, global shipments of LCD TV sets for 2015 totaled 215 million, down 0.6% from 2014 and representing a decline for the first time since 2013.
WitsView noted that rising prices of imports caused by currency depreciation was a major force that dragged down consumer spending in Europe and the emerging markets |
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HTC VIVE PRE to Unfold at Taipei Game Show 2016 (2016.01.28)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － HTC will unfold HTC Vive Pre at Taipei Game Show 2016 to afford the most mimic experience for customers.
New-generation HTC Vive Pre has redesigned every delicate links to support the coziest and ergonomic sensation as well as most stunning virtual reality experience |
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AUO to Launch Borderless 4K TV LCD Panel This Year (2016.01.28)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － AUO chairman Paul Peng today said at the investor conference that AUO’s competition strategy this year is to continue to maintain financial stability, and increase investment in the product differential.
He pointed out that AUO will launch borderless 4K large-size LCD panels this year, which will be the industry’s first, to meet the consumers’ demand in terms of modern and stylish design |
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E Ink Invests in Wuxi Wei Feng Technology to Expand the ePaper Market (2016.01.28)
HSINCHU, Taiwan － E Ink Holdings today announced an investment by its wholly owned subsidiary, Transcend Optronics Co. Ltd, in Wuxi Wei Feng Technology Co. Ltd “Wei Feng.” With this investment E Ink and Wei Feng will form a strategic partnership and join resources to expand the market and promote the use of ePaper in applications such as electronic price tags, electronic shelf labels and other applications |
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Industry's First PXI Reference Solution for Military, Public Safety (2016.01.28)
Keysight Technologies announced the industry's first PXI open radio test reference solution and a radio test audio library for military and public safety radios. The Keysight Reference Solution enables engineers to quickly evaluate and integrate core radio test measurement capabilities into validation, production or depot test systems |
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Tablet Shipments Fell Double Digits for the First Time in 2015, Says TrendForce (2016.01.28)
Decline in annual tablet shipments reached double digits for the first time on record in 2015, according to TrendForce. The global market research firm’s latest tablet shipment report shows a total of 168.5 million units of tablets were shipped last year, representing a 12 |
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Samsung, Apple Continue to Lead as Top Global Semiconductor Customers in 2015 (2016.01.28)
Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top semiconductor buyers in 2015, representing 17.7 percent of the market, according to Gartner, Inc. Samsung Electronics and Apple together consumed $59.0 billion of semiconductors in 2015, an increase of $0 |
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AUO Announces Financial Results for the 2015 of NT$360.35 Billion, a Decrease of 11.7% (2016.01.28)
AU Optronics Corp. ("AUO") today held its investor conference and announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2015.
Consolidated revenues in the fourth quarter of 2015 were NT$83 |
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The B/B Ratio of N.A. Semiconductor Equipment Industry Is Below One for Three Consecutive Months (2016.01.27)
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.34 billion in orders worldwide in December 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.99, according to the December EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI |
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Altera announced the results of the 5G Algorithm Innovation Competition (2016.01.27)
Altera announced the results of the 5G Algorithm Innovation Competition, three teams from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, named the gold medal award |
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Synopsys Introduces USB 3.1 Type-C IP with DisplayPort 1.3 and HDCP 2.2 (2016.01.27)
Synopsys today introduced the new DesignWare USB-C 3.1/DisplayPort 1.3 IP solution which integrates USB Type-C (USB-C), SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (USB 3.1 Gen 2) and DisplayPort 1.3 interfaces with High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 2 |
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Shipment Volume of the Taiwanese Server Industry Grow 4.3% in Q3 (2016.01.27)
According to Research and Markets, the shipment volume of the Taiwanese server industry grew modestly at 4.3% in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter.
Among all kinds of server products, server motherboards' share of shipment volume in the server industry continue to reach over 50% |
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Imec Extends Collaboration with Total on Next Generation Silicon Solar Cells (2016.01.27)
Nanoelectronics research centre imec and global energy company Total, announced today that they have extended their collaboration to significantly increase the energy output of PV panels.
Imec’s industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on next-generation crystalline silicon solar cells is a multi-partner R&D program concentrating on further increasing the conversion efficiency of silicon solar cells and modules |
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Sony Acquires Altair Semiconductor, Israeli LTE Modem Technology Supplier (2016.01.26)
Sony Corporation announced that it has reached an agreement with Altair Semiconductor ("Altair") and its major shareholders to acquire the company. The purchase price is 212 million U.S. dollars, and Sony expects to complete the acquisition in early February, 2016 |
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TSMC's China12-inch Fab Investment Expected to Be Approved Before the Chinese New Year (2016.01.26)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － TSMC's mainland China 12-inch fab investment plan will be reviewed by the Investment Review Committee of Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA) next week, it is expected to be approved just before the Chinese New Year |
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1 in 3 Home Wi-Fi Routers to Double as Public Hotspots by 2017 (2016.01.26)
A new study from Juniper Research predicts that at least 1 in 3 home routers will be used as public Wi-Fi hotspots by 2017, and that the total installed base of such dual-use routers will reach 366 million globally by the end of 2020 |
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Altera PowerSoC DC-DC Step-down Converter (2016.01.26)
Altera, now a part of Intel Corporation, has expanded its Enpirion power products portfolio with a 6A PowerSoC DC-DC step-down converter that is a full-featured, highly integrated, and fully tested PowerSoC with integrated inductor |
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China's Smartphone Market Enjoys 5.8% Growth in 3Q15 (2016.01.26)
Market volume of China's smartphone market reached 102.6 million units in the third quarter of 2015, up 5.8% sequentially after a consecutive decline in the prior two quarters, according to MIC (Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute) |
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New LYTSwitch-5 ICs Support Multiple LED Driver Topologies (2016.01.26)
Power Integrations announced its LYTSwitch-5 single-stage LED driver IC family. LYTSwitch-5 devices combine PFC and constant-current output, and support multiple common LED driver topologies.
Solid-state lighting applications have highly variable driver requirements, and power engineers are often challenged to develop optimized designs quickly in response to requests from lighting designers |
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New Devices with Downstream Speeds of 5+Gbps and Upstream Speeds of 2+Gbps (2016.01.26)
Broadcom Corporation announced that multiple customer products based on the BCM3390 cable modem silicon have achieved the industry's first DOCSIS 3.1 certification.
CableLabs, the industry consortium responsible for world-wide cable interoperability specifications |
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