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Samsung Display, LGD Keep Advancing AMOLED Technology (2015.09.25)
The reliability of AMOLED panels is directly related to device quality, and is largely dependent on the performance of the panel maker’s device. According to IHS’ latest report, Samsung Display Co. and LG Display Co., the two leading AMOLED panel makers, have made significant investments and efforts to enhance reliability |
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Flexible WPC Qi Compliant 7.5W Wireless Power Receiver (2015.09.25)
Richtek introduced RT1650, a flexible wireless power receiver solution, fully compliant with WPC1.1 Qi standard and can be used for power transfer up to 7.5W.
The most common method of wireless electrical energy transfer is magnetic induction, which is the basic principle used by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) standard |
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TrendForce: Asia and Americas to Push Global PV Demand Up to 58GW in 2016 (2015.09.25)
Major regional markets (i.e. China, the U.S. and Japan) and other emerging markets continue to drive the demand growth of this year’s photovoltaic (PV) market.
The latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, says that the five largest regional markets for the first half of 2015, as listed in order, are China, Japan, the U |
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Acer Projector Market Share Reaches Record High in Q2 2015 (2015.09.24)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － According to the latest data from PMA, for Q2 2015 Acer has reached a record high market share of 8% worldwide and 17.8% in EMEA, positioning Acer as the third largest projector brand worldwide and No.1 DLP brand in EMEA |
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Largan’s Cameras Order from Apple is said Replaced by Kantatsu (2015.09.24)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — There's a rumor abroad that the lens supplier Largan Precision Co. refused to reduce the price resulted in Apple Inc. has transfered 30 percent of the rear cameras order to Japanese firm Kantatsu. In response to the rumor, Largan refused to comment on one customer |
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Skype Co-Founder Geoffrey Prentice to Invest Taiwan Startups (2015.09.24)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Geoffrey Prenticr, co-founder of Skype, said that yesterday the Oriente Holding, his ventrure capital & Private Equity firm, will formally enter to Taiwan to invest potential startups in Taiwan.
Geoffrey Prentice was invited by Taiwan government for one-week visit to be the visiting startup entrepreneur |
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TSMC Forecasts Its Q4 Revenue Decline of 4.2% to 6.1% (2015.09.24)
TAIPEI ,Taiwan － TSMC yesterday for the first announced its fourth-quarter forecast before the investor conference. The company expects its fourth-quarter revenue will decline 4.2% to 6.1% over the third-quarter, but remains more than 10% growth prediction of its annual revenue |
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IoT Developer Kit to Speed Up System Development (2015.09.24)
To help system integrators and academic institutions quickly learn and develop IoT applications, before they’re implemented in the real world, Advantech has launched the WISE-4012E IoT Developer Kit.
With the Internet of Things (IoT) becoming the next big thing, more and more developers are involved in developing new projects with cloud connectivity |
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Splash Math, Sony Announce Strategic Partnership for "Global Math Challenge" (2015.09.24)
Splash Math, today announced a strategic partnership with Sony Global Education, Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation for the upcoming Global Math Challenge, that will be held on 27th of September, 2015.
Global Math Challenge (GMC) is a worldwide math competition held online and hosted by Sony Global Education, Inc |
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Intel Unveils Most Powerful Data Center SSD (2015.09.24)
Intel Unveils Most Powerful Data Center SSD
Intel today unveiled the Intel Solid State Drive DC P3608 Series, its highest performing SSD for the Data Center.
The Intel SSD DC P3608 Series delivers high-performance and low latency with NVMe and eight lanes of PCIe 3 |
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Type-C Test Fixtures with Highest Signal Integrity (2015.09.23)
Keysight Technologies introduced the industry's highest-signal-integrity Type-C test fixtures for high-speed differential bus probing. The Keysight N7015A high-speed test fixture provides best-in-class performance up to 30 GHz of bandwidth, enabling engineers to verify and debug USB 3 |
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Foxconn Sets up R&D Team For 5G Technology (2015.09.23)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Foxconn said yesterday that the company has teamed up 200 experts to research in 5G. The team started from 5G basic technology and then extend steadily to construct patent and products, such as Femtocell, RRH and C-RAN |
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Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for China in 2015-2016 (2015.09.23)
Gartner has identified the 10 most important technology trends for China in 2015 and 2016. Internet businesses are key investors across the top 10 trends, led by the Baidu, Alibaba Group and Tencent (BAT) companies, while government plays an important role in driving and improving China's IT environment |
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ARM Opens Asia’s First CPU Design Center in Hsinchu (2015.09.23)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － ARM yesterday held an opening ceremony to mark its expanding operations and Asia’s first CPU design center. This design center will focus on Cortex-M core next-generation embedded applications, including all types of IoT chips, smart medical treatment, Industry 4 |
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Guangdong Fenghua Advanced Technology to Purchase Viking Tech’s 40% of its Shares (2015.09.23)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The rising “Red Supply Chain” has posed another threat to Taiwan industry. Viking Tech Co., a supplier of resistors and inductors, announced on September 22 it had received a notice of tender offer from Guangdong Fenghua Advanced Technology Holding Co |
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UMC Mass Produces Industry's First 0.11um eFlash Process Touch IC (2015.09.23)
HSINCHU, Taiwan – United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) today announced that it has entered high volume production for touch IC applications manufactured on UMC's 0.11um eFlash process.
The specialized technology, first introduced by UMC in late 2012 as the foundry industry's first, true 12-volt aluminum back-end-of-line (BEoL) process, is developed for next generation touch controller IC and IoT applications |
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Chinese LED Package Companies Generate a Wave of Acquisitions (2015.09.23)
The scale of China’s LED package market is projected to expand 16% year on year to 61.4 billion RMB in 2015, according to the latest Chinese LED Industry Market Report by LEDinside, a division of TrendForce.
The growth of Chinese LED package market on the whole has slowed |
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Chip Scale Optics for LEDs (2015.09.22)
Plessey announced today that it has developed a patented technology for Chip Scale Optics (CSO) based on its GaN-on-Silicon MaGIC LEDs. Chip Scale Optics permits design of light emission angles down to ten degrees direct from the LED |
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Xyzprinting Tops Global 3D Printers Sales of 22% Market Shares (2015.09.22)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － According to Canalys, a technology market analyst firm, the worldwide sales volume of 3D printers reaches 88,000 units, an increase of 52% compared with the same period last year. Among them, Xyzprinting gained 22% of global market shares to make it to be the dominating company |
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ASE Successfully Acquires 36.83% Shares of SPIL (2015.09.22)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － A drama-like acquisition between ASE and SPIL is going to end. Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) announced today that it has acquired the total number of issued shares of 36.83% of SPIL, exceeding the predetermined maximum acquisition goal which is 25% of total |
