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2.375V to 5.5V Input, 10A µModule Regulator with 91%-95% Efficiency at up to 85°C Ambient (2015.12.17)
Linear Technology Corporation announces the LTM4648, a 2.375VIN to 5.5VIN, 10A step-down µModule (micromodule) regulator in a 9mm x 15mm x 4.92mm BGA package with high operating efficiency and low temperature rise.
With an integrated 5V boost converter to drive the gates of its N-channel MOSFETs from low VIN supplies |
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Fanless Quad-Core Nano-ITX Motherboard – NANO842 (2015.12.17)
Axiomtek has released NANO842, a new fanless, low-power nano-ITX motherboard designed to support the Intel Celeron processors quad-core J1900 and dual-core N2807 (code name: Bay Trail).
A DDR3L SO-DIMM socket located on the bottom of the board can support up to 8GB of DDR3L memory |
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TV Panel Shipments Decreases Slightly of 0.8% in November, TrendForce Reports (2015.12.17)
The latest large-size LCD panel shipment report by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, says a total of 22.74 million LCD TV panels were shipped in November, representing just a 0.8% decrease compared with prior month and a 2.2% increase year on year |
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Designing In-House CPU Becomes Main Strategies of Smartphone Vendors (2015.12.17)
According to TrendForce smartphone analyst Avril Wu, more and more smartphone vendors are investing in the development and production of their own application processors (AP). Designing processor chips in house has become one of the main strategies that vendors adopt to maintain their market shares and margins during this period |
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Acer, ASUS, Delta and ITRI to Speak on ICT Innovation at CES 2016 (2015.12.17)
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) will make its debut at CES 2016 in Las Vegas hand with Taiwanese brands Acer, ASUS, Delta and ITRI, Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech applied research institutions, will speak on the region’s innovation at a January 7 press conference at LVCC, South Hall Connector, S227 A |
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TSMC and UMC see Jump in Chip Sales in 2016 (2015.12.17)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chip sales of world’s two major contract chip makers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Co. (UMC) are expected to increase thanks to the expansion of new capacity, and the new market trend — more smartphone brands’ decision to begin developing their own in-house mobile application processor chips |
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Acer Announces Successful Year-end Deals (2015.12.17)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Acer announced that its Black Friday deals in Pan America and Singles Day promotions in China saw 25% unit growth year-on-year.
In the United States, Acer’s total U.S. Black Friday unit sales during the week of November 23 increased by more than 25% year-on-year (YoY) |
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Robots to Reside in more than 1 in 10 American Households by 2020 (2015.12.16)
New data from Juniper Research has forecast that over 1 in 10 American households will own a consumer robot by the end of the decade, up from under 1 in 25 this year. At this early stage in the market, shipments are expected to be dominated by so-called ‘task’ oriented robots assigned to take over household chores, such as lawn mowing or vacuum cleaning |
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SoftBank, Bharti, Foxconn to Develop a 350MW Solar Plant in India (2015.12.16)
SB Energy, a three way joint venture between SoftBank Group Corp. (“SoftBank”), Bharti Enterprises Limited (“Bharti”) and Foxconn Technology Group (“Foxconn”), won the NTPC bid to develop a 350MW solar plant under the Phase-II, Batch-II, Tranche-I of National Solar Mission at a 25-year tariff of Rs |
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Advantech Launches TUV Certified IEC-61850-3 Industrial PC (2015.12.16)
Advantech announced its IEC-61850 which is the specific standard for smart substations and defines the Ethernet protocol to be used for data communication and defines how devices in the substation communicate with each other. IEC-61850-3 devices need to meet electromagnetic Interference (EMI), temperature, and shock/vibration resistance requirements |
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300mV Start-Up, 1.6µA IQ Synchronous Buck-Boost DC/DC Converter (2015.12.16)
Linear Technology announces the LTC3106, a highly integrated, 1.6µA quiescent current 300mV start-up buck-boost DC/DC converter with PowerPath management, optimized for multisource, low power systems. The LTC3106 is ideal for powering low power wireless sensors from rechargeable or primary batteries supplemented by energy harvesting |
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New Gecko MCUs Combine Hardware Cryptography (2015.12.16)
Silicon Labs has introduced two new EFM32 Gecko microcontroller (MCU) families that provide advancements in security and energy management technologies. The new Jade Gecko and Pearl Gecko MCUs combine a hardware cryptography engine, flexible low-energy modes, an on-chip dc-dc converter and scalable memory options backed by Silicon Labs’ developer-friendly Simplicity Studio tools |
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Taiwan Lacks of the Service-Oriented Platform for VR, AR (2015.12.16)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — As smartphone sales in the world’s biggest smartphone market — China have fallen for the first time as the market reaches saturation, high hopes pinned on VR, AR technologies and devices would be a crucial growth driver in the future |
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Apple’s Taiwan Lab Expected to Recruit Hundreds for Display Technology Research (2015.12.16)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Hsinchu Science Park Bureau (HSPB) stated that Apple’s Taiwan display laboratory, under the moniker of its local Taiwanese branch company gained approval to enter the district on November 11, 2014, and on April 14, 2015 the company registration was completed |
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Free NEXCOM IoT Studio Bolsters IoT Innovations with Coding-free Deployment (2015.12.16)
To expedite IoT innovations, NEXCOM is offering free download of NEXCOM IoT Studio—a web-based configuration tool—for programming-free system deployment.
With click-through and drag-and-drop operations, NEXCOM IoT Studio simplifies the development cycle of IoT applications, enables immediate testing of innovative ideas, and turns proof-of-concept inventions into wide-scale deployment |
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Semiconductor Equipment Sales Forecast $38 Billion in 2016 (2015.12.16)
SEMI projects that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will decrease 0.6 percent to $37.3 billion in 2015, according to the SEMI Year-end Forecast, released today at the annual SEMICON Japan exposition |
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By 2018, 50% of Consumers in Mature Markets to Use Smartphones or Wearables for Mobile Payments (2015.12.16)
According to Gartner, Inc., with half of consumers in mature markets expected to be using smartphones or wearables for mobile payments by 2018. This is just one of many innovations impacting customer preferences in the personal technologies market |
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ASE Offers to Purchase Rest of SPIL Shares (2015.12.15)
Taiwan — Mergers and acquisitions take place again. Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) on Monday proposed acquiring the remaining 75 percent of rival Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL) for US$4 billion in cash, as a countermeasure to SPIL’s planned sale of stock to China’s Tsinghua Unigroup |
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Mouser First to Stock the New S5 Series IGBTs, Part of the Infineon TRENCHSTOP 5 Family (2015.12.15)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Mouser Electronics, Inc. is the first global distributor to stock the TRENCHSTOP 5 S5 insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) from Infineon. This new series in the ultra-thin wafer TRENCHSTOP 5 family boasts an industry-leading low typical saturation voltage of 1 |
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HSPB Confirms Apple Has Set Up a Display Lab in Taiwan (2015.12.15)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Hsinchu Science Park Bureau(HSPB), the competent authorities of the Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park, confirmed that Apple has set up a display research lab in Taoyuan Longtan, Taiwan, this year, and they are processing the development of new display technologies |
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