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New HT45F3430 Battery Power Control Flash MCU (2015.12.31)
Holtek announced the release of its new Flash MCU, the HT45F3430. Compared with the HT45F3420, the device has an extended Flash Program Memory, Data Memory, EEPROM, I/O ports and LED/LCD drivers. These abundant resources make this new device more suitable for use in battery powered products which require LCD/LED displays |
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Qualcomm and Tianyu Sign 3G/4G Chinese Patent License Agreement (2015.12.31)
Qualcomm Incorporated and Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. (Tianyu), yesterday announced that they have entered into a new 3G and 4G Chinese patent license agreement.
Under the terms of the agreement, Qualcomm has granted Tianyu a royalty-bearing patent license to manufacture and sell 3G WCDMA and CDMA2000 (including EV-DO), and 4G LTE (including “3-mode” GSM, TD-SCDMA and LTE-TDD) subscriber units for use in China |
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SuperMLC, an Alternative to SLC-based Solutions (2015.12.31)
Transcend Information, Inc., announced its newly developed SuperMLC technology featuring a cost effective solution yet with nearly equivalent performance to SLC NAND flash.
By adjusting firmware coding and preselecting high quality flash chips |
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Acer Expands its Smartphone and Wearable Businesses to the Bahamas (2015.12.30)
Acer America is broadening its smartphone and wearable businesses by bringing the Liquid Jade Z and 4.5-inch Liquid Z410 smartphones and Liquid Leap+ fitness tracker to the Bahamas. The smartphones and fitness tracker are available through Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) Ltd |
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HTC Sells Taoyuan Factory to Inventec (2015.12.30)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — HTC said on Tuesday it is to sell a plot of land and a building TY5 in Taoyuan to Inventec for NT$6.06 billion (US$183.46 million) as part of its efforts to lower operational costs and boost efficiency. The company said the production facilities and its employees would be transferred to HTC’s three other properties in Taoyuan to centralize its production facilities |
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MediaTek Expects 4G Chips Shipments to Account for 60% (2015.12.29)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The 4G LTE handset chip will still be the most important growth driver of MediaTek in 2016, C.J. Hsieh, the company’s President forecast 4G long-term evolution (LTE) chips to account for 60 to 70 percent of the overall handset chip shipments in 2016, up from an estimated 40 percent this year |
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Mitsui Chemicals Participates in Subsidiary of Taiwan's Sentronic International Corp (2015.12.29)
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. announced it is financially participating in MSCT Corporation, a subsidiary of the electronic component trading company Sentronic International Corporation (“Sentronic”), to promote business development of the Group’s metal resin integral molding technology, POLYMETAC |
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Advantech IoT Devices Certified by Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (2015.12.29)
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Advantech announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring that customers can get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services |
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Rambus Renews Patent License Agreement With Toshiba (2015.12.29)
Rambus Inc. today announced that it has renewed its patent license agreement with Toshiba Corporation. Under the terms of the new three-year agreement, Toshiba will be licensing a broad range of technologies from Rambus to cover products that include SoC’s with DRAM memory controllers and/or serial link interfaces, as well as Flash Memory and system products |
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Smart Bio-Processor for Health-oriented Wearables Market (2015.12.29)
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., today announced that it is addressing the growing trend of quantified health with an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health-oriented wearables market, the Bio-Processor.
The Samsung Bio-Processor, now in mass production, is specifically designed to allow accelerated development of innovative wearable products for consumers who are increasingly monitoring their health and fitness on a daily basis |
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Taiwan’s First Locally Made Water Full-recycling System Launches at AUO’s Lungtan Site (2015.12.29)
HSINCHU, Taiwan － AU Optronics Corp. ("AUO"") today announced that its process water full-recycling system, the first of its kind developed in Taiwan, launched at the Company’s Lungtan site. AUO has made a technological breakthrough in process water recycling |
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Altera to Become a New Business Unit of Intel (2015.12.28)
Intel Corporation ("Intel") today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Altera Corporation ("Altera"), a provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology. The acquisition complements Intel's leading-edge product portfolio and enables new classes of products in the high-growth data center and Internet of Things (IoT) market segments |
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Panasonic Develops A Soft, Flexible, Stretchable Resin Film (2015.12.28)
Panasonic Corporation announced today that the company has developed a soft, flexible, and stretchable polymer resin film using its proprietary stretchable resin technology. The Company will also provide a transparent electrode material and conductive paste along with this insulating film |
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MediaTek: In-house Chips Not for All Smartphone Vendors (2015.12.28)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — MediaTek held the year-end press conference at the Amba Taipei Ximending on Monday, the company’s President C.J. Hsieh announced Joe Chen and Jeffrey Ju as new Co-CEO in an attempt to develop the succession plan |
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Korean Yello Mobile Partners with SBI Holdings to Expand into Japan and Southeast Asia (2015.12.28)
Yello Mobile, Korea’s fastest growing mobile Internet company, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SBI Holdings, Japan’s largest Internet financial group, and Yello Financial Group, Korea’s leading accelerator for financial technology companies |
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Two New Intel C232 Chipset Powered Motherboards (2015.12.28)
ASRock will release two Intel C232 chipset based motherboards after Christmas to match the CPU with the best value, Intel’s E3-1230 v5. The first one will be ASRock Fatal1ty E3V5 Performance Gaming/OC for gamers, and the second one a workstation motherboard ASRock E3V5 WS |
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Foxconn Group Announces Introduction of Pepper Robot to Taiwan (2015.12.28)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Asia Pacific Telecom, a Taiwanese Telecom carrier owend by Hon Hai Group, formally announced that it will introduce the Pepper robot into Taiwan to be marketed and sold. However, the date that it will formally go on sale has yet to be determined, and it is currently only being exhibited in Asia Pacific Telecom retail displays |
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Intel’s 3D XPoint to Shake High-End SSD Market in 3Q16, TrendForce Says (2015.12.28)
DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, expects that the launch of 3D XPoint products next year will make Intel a strong threat to memory leader Samsung, especially in the high-end SSD market.
DRAMeXchange noted that Intel plans to ship its next-generation SSD memory products in the third quarter of 2016 |
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Intel Core i3 Processor Touch-Panel Computer (2015.12.25)
Advantech’s new 12” TPC-1282T touch-panel computer is the first of its type to feature with the new Intel 5th Generation Core i3 Processor; the much heralded iDoor Technology and CODESYS support.
The TPC-1282T is the first in the TPC range to use Intel’s 5th Generation Core i3 processor, which provides an additional 15% increase in speed compared the 4th generation processors and faster also refreshes graphic images 30% faster |
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TCI Announces Its Exhibition Plans for 2016, to Debut at Display Week (2015.12.25)
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Twinwill Communtech Inc. (“TCI”), Taiwan's leading touch solutions provider, announced their exhibition plans for 2016. In addition to participating in the Las Vegas Digital Signage Expo (“DSE”) and Electronica in Munich, Germany, the company will also for the first time take part in Display Week 2016, which is being hosted by The Society for Information Display (“SID”) in the United States |
