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Gold Winner Award of APICTA Goes to III’s CIA Security System (2015.11.23)
TAIPEI, Taiwan －The Institute for Information Industry’s Cloud-Threat Intelligence Appliance (CIA) team participated in The Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA Awards) competition and in the final round for the Asia Pacific Region received the Gold Winner Award in the Security category |
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Workers of CPT Protest Company's Unpaid Leave and Change-of-Shift Policy (2015.11.23)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — 30 Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) employees protested outside the Ministry of Labor in Taipei on November 23 over the company’s plan to change shifts and start unpaid leave. However, CPT cited that the change-of-shift is the company’s internal and legal direct control of operations that only affect employees’ overtime pay |
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NAND Flash Prices Fall Rapidly in The Third Quarter, TrendForc Says (2015.11.20)
The latest report from DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, finds that NAND flash prices fell rapidly in the third quarter, resulting in a mere 2.4% quarterly increase in the global NAND Flash revenue.
Sean Yang, assistant vice president of DRAMeXchange, said demand was uncharacteristically weak in the third quarter and did not adhere to the seasonal pattern |
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Advantech Named Microsoft Global IoT Valued Partner, Distributor Extended in EMEA (2015.11.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Advantech announced that in October its recognition as a Microsoft Global IoT Valued Partner and Authorized Embedded Distributor has been extended to include EMEA.
Previously recognized for the APAC region, this expanded acknowledgment lays a strong foundation for Advantech’s position as a key embedded computing and IoT service provider in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa |
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Growth of 3D IC technology May Shed Light for Taiwan Semiconductor Industry (2015.11.20)
Worldwide semiconductor demand has continued to grow with manufacturing processes moving towards miniaturization. To consolidate their market share and enhance their supply capabilities through cost reduction, leading semiconductor companies have continued to invest in new generation manufacturing processes or expanded existing production lines while conducting vertical and horizontal integration in the supply chain |
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200 Companies Join the Third Party Applications Development of Pepper (2015.11.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — According to Nikkei, there are about 200 companies participate the third party applications development of Pepper. One of which is the human resource company Recruit Holdings from Japan. Needed technical parameters will be announced by SoftBank Group |
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Castec, Universal Robots Jointly Develop Mobile Industrial Robots (2015.11.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Castec, a Taiwanese professional industrial equipment manufacturer, launches a smart industrial robot which integrated with Universal Robots’ mechanical arm. It is equipped with computer-integrated manufacturing system (CIM), and automatically fed functions |
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N.A. Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts October 2015 B/B Ratio of 0.98 (2015.11.20)
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.33 billion in orders worldwide in October 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.98, according to the October EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI |
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Synchronous Ethernet Product Portfolio with New Ultralow Jitter Network Synchronizers (2015.11.20)
Microsemi Corporation announced three new devices in its portfolio of Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) products, which include two single-channel ultralow jitter network synchronizers, ZL30621 and ZL30622, as well as a dual-channel version, ZL30623 |
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Industrial Drive Control SoC Supports both Digital and Analog Position Sensors (2015.11.20)
Texas Instruments (TI) announced the industry's first on-chip solution supporting both analog and digital position sensors. The new TMS320F28379D and TMS320F28379S microcontrollers (MCUs) are an expansion to TI's C2000 Delfino MCU portfolio and, when combined with DesignDRIVE Position Manager technology, enable simple interfacing to position sensors |
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NVIDIA Releases the 1.0 Version of Two VR Software Development Kits (2015.11.20)
Delivering VR is a complex challenge, especially since immersive VR requires seven times the graphics processing power compared to traditional 3D apps and games.
Today, NVIDIA officially released the 1.0 version of two powerful VR software development kits (SDKs): NVIDIA GameWorks VR and NVIDIA DesignWorks VR |
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Chinese Internet TV brands Show Lower Sentiment Rankings than Traditional TV Brands (2015.11.20)
According to recent MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute) findings using big data analytics, the top-10 LCD TV brands on online stores Tmall and JD during 15 May 2015 and August 2015 were: TCL, Changhong, Hisense, Sharp, Samsung, LG, LeTV, Sony, Skyworth and Haier |
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Altera Discloses Heterogeneous SiP Devices that Integrate HBM2 DRAM with FPGAs (2015.11.19)
Altera Corporation today disclosed the industry’s first heterogeneous System-in-Package (SiP) devices that integrate stacked High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) from SK Hynix with high-performance Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Stratix 10 DRAM SiP represents a new class of devices that are specifically architected to meet the most demanding memory bandwidth requirements in high-performance systems |
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Silicon Labs’ New EFM8LB1 Laser Bee MCUs (2015.11.19)
Silicon Labs has introduced a new microcontroller (MCU) family that delivers the highest analog performance and peripheral integration in the 8-bit market.
The latest addition to Silicon Labs’ EFM8 MCU portfolio, the new EFM8LB1 Laser Bee MCUs combine a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) |
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Chaney Ho: Our MDT Helps Taxi Drivers to Compete with Uber (2015.11.19)
XINBEI, Taiwan — Advantech, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and HwaCom Systems Inc. announced their collaboration of the mobile data terminal (MDT) and signed the MOU on November 19. Chaney Ho, President of Advantech, pinned high hopes on the MDT, saying that it will help taxi drivers to compete with the emerging and sweeping Uber app |
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Macronix’s Quad SPI NOR Flash Power Xilinx FPGAs for the Aerospace and Defense Market (2015.11.19)
HSINCHU, Taiwan － Macronix International today announced a new high performance Quad SPI NOR flash for the Xilinx 7 Series and UltraScale FPGAs. These FPGA’s are geared towards the aerospace and defense, industrial, and public safety applications |
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China Based CSOT Overtook AUO to Become No. 5 in TV Panel Shipments (2015.11.19)
According to the latest large-size panel report by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, TV panel shipments totaled 22.93 million units in October, down 6.3% from September but up 6.4% from a year ago. And China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) was ranked No |
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Sony to Adjust Executives to Realign Consumer Electronics Sales (2015.11.19)
Sony today announced further measures to be executed under the leadership of Ichiro Takagi, in charge of Sony's Home Entertainment & Sound Business, and Consumer AV Sales Platform.
Effective April 1, 2016, Masaru Tamagawa, currently President of Sony Europe, will be appointed Global Sales & Marketing Officer, and assume responsibility for Sony's consumer electronics sales and marketing operations worldwide |
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The World’s First Google Play Game Amusement Park Opens in Taiwan (2015.11.19)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － The world's first Google Play amusement park yesterday formally opened in Taiwan, which is Google's first amusement park features with game Apps and entities rides.
The Google Play Amusement Park is divided into five subject areas, including "Parental park", "public square", "players palace", "explore paradise" and "Play Zone" |
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IBM Launches Shopping Trends Analysis App (2015.11.19)
IBM yesterday launched the IBM Watson Trend App, a new way for shoppers to understand the reasons behind the top trends of the holiday season and also predict the hottest products before they sell out.
The IBM Watson Trend app distills the sentiment of tens of millions of online conversations by scouring 10,000 sources across social media sites, blogs, forums, comments, ratings and reviews |
