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Catalyst Recycling: Green Competitiveness for the Petrochemical and Automobile Industries (2015.10.07) (圖一) Each year Taiwan produces over ten thousand tons of FCC waste catalysts on its own soil due to oil refining.
Reducing costs and increasing revenues are the iron laws of business. To companies in the petrochemical and automobile industries, recycling precious metals from waste catalysts is the best strategy for improving operations |
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Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 (2015.10.07) Gartner, Inc. today highlighted the top 10 technology trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2016.
Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on the organization |
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New Cadence Tensilica Vision P5 DSP Enables 4K Mobile Imaging with 13X Performance (2015.10.07) Cadence Design Systems announced the new Cadence Tensilica Vision P5 digital signal processor (DSP), its flagship high-performance vision/imaging DSP core. This imaging and vision DSP core offers up to 13X performance boost, with an average of 5X less energy usage on vision tasks compared to the previous generation IVP-EP imaging and video DSP |
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Xilinx System Generator Simplifies Wireless Design for on All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs & MPSoCs (2015.10.07) Xilinx announced the 2015.3 release of System Generator for DSP, the industry's leading high-level tool for designing high performance DSP systems using Xilinx All Programmable devices.
With System Generator, algorithm developers can create production-quality DSP implementations within the familiar MATLAB and Simulink Model-Based Design environment in a fraction of the time compared to traditional RTL |
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ZyXEL Releases its ONE Connect Home Network Connectivity Solution (2015.10.06) HSINCHU, Taiwan – ZyXEL is today revealing further details of its unique and powerful new ONE Connect solution for home networking transparency, ahead of the solution’s first public unveiling at Broadband World Forum, London, 20-22 October 2015 |
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MediaTek to Acquire the Power Management Chipmaker Richtek (2015.10.06) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Mergers and acquisitions are often driven by such strategic objectives as MediaTek is said to acquire Richtek
MediaTek Inc., the nation’s largest handset chip designer, on October 5 said it has secured 65 |
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The Smart High-Temp Protective Wear Shines at TIFE 2015 (2015.10.06) TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Textile International Forum and Exhibition (TIFE) 2015, organized by the Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI) and commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), is scheduled to commence from October 5 to 7, 2015, at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) International Conference Center |
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Sony to Establish Semiconductor Solutions Corporation to Reinforce Image Sensors Business (2015.10.06) Sony announced today that the company will establish Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, to further reinforce its image sensors business, and concentrate on sustained growth. The new company will aim to commence operations on April 1, 2016
Sony stated in its press release, sony will adopt a new operational structure for its Devices segment |
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New Reference Design for ZigBee Voice Control (2015.10.06) Silicon Labs released the industry’s most cost-effective solution for voice-enabled ZigBee remote controls. This reference design solution significantly reduces the need for costly external hardware by implementing a high-quality, software-based audio codec into a single-chip wireless SoC |
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Acer Wins Five Japanese Good Design Awards (2015.10.06) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer announces that five of its products have been honored at the 2015 edition of Japan’s Good Design Award, namely the Revo One RL85 mini PC, Aspire R 11 convertible notebook, Aspire Switch 10 E 2-in-1 notebook, Predator Z35 curved gaming monitor, and K138STi portable LED projector |
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THine Collaborates with Novatek in High-Definition Camera Solution (2015.10.06) THine Electronics today announced its collaboration with Novatek Microelectronics in high-definition camera solution for various applications including drive recorder markets by licensing its V-by-OneHS technology.
V-by-OneHS technology has been developed by THine to make internal display interfaces smarter and accepted as de facto standard for 4K televisions and many displays with high definition |
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Fair Friend Group to Acquire of German Machine Tool Supplier Wohlenberg (2015.10.06) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Zhu Zhi-Yang, president of the Fair Friend Group (FFG), announced yesterday in Milan that the company will acquire of the Wohlenberg, a German machine tools provider. This is the fourth acquisitions of FFG this year following the acquisition of Korea DMC, Switzerland PFIFFNER and Germany MAG |
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TrendForce: Chairman of Inotera Memories Could Give a Big Boost to China’s Semiconductor Sector (2015.10.06) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Avril Wu, a analysts of TrendForce, stated that If Charles Kao, chairman of Inotera Memories and president of Nanya Technology, did decide to work for Tsinghua Unigroup, China would take a big step forward in the development of its domestic DRAM industry |
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TSMC: Need a Long Time to Determine whether to Have 12-inch Fab in China (2015.10.05) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Founding Chairperson Morris Chang on attended a seminar arranged by the Commonwealth Publishing Group on October 4 said that on speculation that TSMC might build a 12-inch wafer plant in China, Chang responded that there are many factors that need to be considered |
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Morris Chang: Economy Will Recover Next Quarter (2015.10.05) TAIPEI, Taiwan - TSMC is more optimistic than others about the state of the global economy. Chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TSMC) Morris Chang yesterday stated that the weak state of the economy is not as serious a problem as the financial tsunami, and it is only temporary |
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Nanya Technology’s GM Jop-Hopping to Tsinghua Unigroup (2015.10.05) TAIPEI, Taiwan — A research firm ICwise announced on October 5 that Charles Kau, General Manager of Nanya Technology Co. and Chairperson of Inotera Memories, Inc. job-hopping to Tsinghua Unigroup in China. Nevertheless, Nanya Technology later confirmed that Charles Kau is about to resign, while Inotera Memories said that the company has no change in Chairperson |
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In-Vehicle Wireless Device Charging to Reach 50 Million Vehicles by 2020 (2015.10.05) A new study from Juniper Research predicted that 50 million vehicles offering built-in wireless device charging by 2020, compared with only 4 million this year.
Juniper Research consider that wireless charging is poised to change the way consumers interact with their cars |
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STM32L4 MCU Development Ecosystem (2015.10.05) STMicroelectronics has introduced a new microcontroller development ecosystem comprising prototype boards for all budgets and STM32Cube software support for the STM32L4 series now entering full production.
The STM32L4 prototype boards include the fully featured Evaluation Board (STM32L476G-EVAL) priced at $289 and the $19 |
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2016 COMPUTEX Added Two Theme Area for IoTs and Startups (2015.10.05) TAIPEI, Taiwan ─2016 COMPUTEX will launch two new theme areas: "SmarTEX" and "InnoVEX", which are themed to exhibit the IoT applications and startups demonstration, to provide new domestic and international companies to show their creations, and attracting international capital companies and fund-raising platforms |
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Shipments of Large-Size Monitors Expands This Year (2015.10.05) Demand has shifted towards products with larger sizes in this year’s LCD monitor market, according to the latest report by WitsView, a division of TrendForce.
The share of models sized 23 inches and above in the global monitor shipments has increased to upwards of 40% this quarter |