 |
UL Establishes PCB Performance Testing services Lab in Taiwan (2015.10.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － UL today offically opened its printed circuit board performance testing services laboratory in Taipei. With the UL746 and UL796 safety certification, UL is going to provide a more complete product specification testing and inspection services for the local printed circuit board firms |
 |
OMNI-2155, New Line of Expandable Panel PCs (2015.10.20)
AAEON launches the brand new “OMNI” line of expandable panel PCs, OMNI-2155. The OMNI-2155 shortens the lead time involved by adopting a modular design, making the customization process as easy as building Lego toy bricks |
|
China and AMD Form Chips Assembly & Testing Joint Venture (2015.10.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Chinese Nantong Fujitsu Microelectronics Co., Ltd. announced the acquisition of two Advanced Micro Devices（AMD）foundries located in Suzhou and Penang, Malaysia, paying for $370 million. They will finish the transaction in the first half of 2016 and create a joint venture of semiconductor assembly and test |
|
Major Foundries Ready to Battle for a Share of China’s Fast-Growing IC Market (2015.10.20)
According to global market research firm TrendForce, Chinese IC design houses have benefitted from generous government subsidies in recent years. Moreover, Chinese OEM vendors are extending their overall share of the downstream system market worldwide |
|
Mentor Graphics Veloce VirtuaLAB Adds Next-Generation Protocols (2015.10.20)
CALIFORNIA, USA — Mentor Graphics Corp., on Octorber 19 announced the Veloce VirtuaLAB Ethernet environment with support for 25G, 50G and 100G Ethernet. This support enables highly efficient, emulation-based verification for the massive Ethernet-based designs being created today |
|
New Si32x8x Single and Dual ProSLIC Family (2015.10.20)
Silicon Labs introduced a new family of subscriber line interface circuits (SLICs) offering the lowest power consumption, smallest footprint, and highest levels of integration and programmability for the voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateway market |
|
200mm Wafer Fab Capacity Forecast to 5.4 Million wspm in 2018 (2015.10.20)
According to a lastest report, from SEMI, worldwide 200mm semiconductor wafer fab capacity is forecast at 5.2 million wafer starts per month (wspm) in 2015 and expanding to 5.4 million wspm in 2018.
Based on the rapidly increasing number of internet-enabled mobile devices and the emergence of the IoT (Internet of Things), demand for sensors, MEMS, analog, power and related semiconductor devices is growing |
|
TSMC: Fabless Inventory May Back to Seasonal Level in This Year (2015.10.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) at an investor update announced that although global semiconductor inventory reserves in the third quarter remained higher than normal for about 10 days and the market is still digesting the inventory, it is possible that they will return to normal levels at the end of the year |
|
Groundbreaking for Powerchip 12-inch Fab In China Tomorrow (2015.10.19)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Powerchip Technology Corporation and Hefei City government of Anhui Provence have sealed a joint venture to Jinghe IC 12-inch Fab, which is going to start building tomorrow and likely kick off massive production in 2017 |
|
Taiwan D-School Opens to Educate Innovative Talents (2015.10.19)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － D-School, a new educational institution of National Taiwan University, last week was officially opened. The new institution will set up innovations related courses to educate Taiwan students to have the professional abilities of cooperation and implement |
|
To set up a 12-inch Wafer Foundry in China? TSMC: Never Comment on Speculation (2015.10.19)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It is widely circulated that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is going to set up a wholly-owned 12-inch wafter foundry in Nanjing, China in an attempt to actively pursue 16nm FinFET chip production |
|
Analogix Expand The SlimPort Adopters Program to Include USB Type-C (2015.10.19)
CALIFORNIA, USA — Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Granite River Labs (GRL) on October 17 announced the expansion of the SlimPort Adopters Program (SAP) to include the USB Type-C connector. Available to any USB Type-C device manufacturer |
|
ITU Approves Standards for Advanced Audio Broadcasting Technology (2015.10.19)
ITU membership unanimously approved open standards, Recommendation ITU-R BS.2088-0, aimed at delivering advanced sound for broadcasting services that will create a listening experience that is closer to real life.
The new global standards will facilitate the production and exchange of advanced audio files by allowing a single file to carry a complete audio programme containing audio samples as well as metadata for any combination of object |
|
Mentor Graphics: VirtualLAB Moves Emulation from lab to Data Center (2015.10.19)
CALIFORNIA, USA — Consumer of today’s networking services are exhausting bandwidths, driven by high-performance computing and more content-focused applications. Therefore, Ethernet and related networking standards are addressing these needs |
|
ASRock Sponsors Philippine TNC Pro Gaming Team (2015.10.19)
TAIPEI, Taiwan —ASRock announced a new sponsorship with Philippine professional gaming team TNC Pro Team today.
TNC Pro Team was formed in January 2015 through the initiative of TheNet.Com (TNC), by organizing a DOTA2 tournament that will determine the next gaming team to be handled by the company |
|
TinyPower Low Dropout Regulator Series, the HT73xx-1/-2/-3 with 30mA Output (2015.10.19)
Holtek announced its new ultra low quiescent current TinyPower low dropout regulator series, the HT73xx-1/-2/-3. In comparison with the 30mA output current of the HT71xx series and 100mA output current of the HT75xx series, the maximum output current of these new devices is 250mA and the maximum input voltage is 30V |
|
Industrial IoT Gateway for cloud application (2015.10.19)
The smallest Industrial computer from Advantech has been designed to act as a gateway for industrial applications. As small as a micro PLC, the UNO-1252G is only 10cm high and the DIN-rail mountable UNO-1252G comes with the new low power consuming Intel Quark processor which will only use 10 watts whilst being powerful enough to perform data transmission and sensing function in IoT gateway applications |
|
Intel, Arduino Unveils First Maker Development Board based on the Intel Curie (2015.10.17)
Intel along with the founders of Arduino, unveiled Arduino 101 (U.S.) and Genuino 101 (outside the U.S.) the first maker development board based on the tiny, low power Intel Curie module.
Arduino 101 is affordable and easy-to-use for both foundational learning exercises and prototyping smart, connected devices making it ideal for entry-level makers and education environments |
|
India Chipset Market Dominated by MediaTek and Qualcomm (2015.10.16)
India chipset market is projected to grow at a CAGR of over 26% during 2015-2020, and majorly dominated by global players such as MediaTek and Qualcomm, according to Research and Markets.
Northern and Southern parts of India are the leading regional markets for chipsets in India, due to presence of various IT hubs and Special Economic Zones in these regions |
|
Shipments of Touch Panel for Notebook PC Down 7% QoQ in 2Q 2015 (2015.10.16)
Shipments of touch panels for notebook PCs totaled about 4.6 million in the second quarter of 2015 in terms of unit, down 7% from about 4.9 million in the previous quarter, accprding to IHS.
Total shipments in notebook PC-use touch panel category for the first half reached about 9 |
In order to integrate the electronic bits of information and exchange of common standards, unified the global national differences Distinct text symbols, dominate the global character encoding standard ASCII and Unicode skelter embarked ........