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TSMC to Establish 10nm Pilot Line in June (2015.05.25)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － According to a report by Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, TSMC expects in June of this year to establish a 10nm pilot line in 12 Hsinchu factories (Fab 12) in order to maintain the company’s technological advantage in advanced manufacturing processes |
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India Software Market Grew 8% in 2014, Microsoft Ranks Top (2015.05.23)
According to Gartner, India software revenue totaled $4 billion in 2014, an 8.3 percent increase from 2013 revenue of $3.7 billion. In addition, India has the highest growth rate among the BRIC countries, and Microsoft, Oracle And IBM are the top 3 vendors |
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Wireless Charging Market to Reach Around US$2.0 Billion in 2015 (2015.05.22)
According to MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), wireless charging products reached US$15.8 billion in 2014—only a negligible part of the US$250 billion of smartphone sales.
"Nevertheless, with Apple and Samsung releasing new products supporting wireless charging, the worldwide wireless charging market is expected to surge in 2015," says Sagitta Pan, senior industry analyst with MIC |
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Can 2-in-1 PC Light up PCs Market? (2015.05.22)
Even though Apple’s CEO Tim Cook once commented that “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things probably not going to be pleasing to the user.” Referring to the fact that Apple separated notebook and Tablet into two product lines, Cook gave a negative reviews on those 2-in-1 PC |
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BIOSTAR to Showcase Intel 100 Series Chipset Motherboards at Computex 2015 (2015.05.22)
Computex, Asia’s largest high-tech event, will run from June 2nd to the 6th this year in Taipei, Taiwan and BIOSTAR will be showcasing upcoming Intel 100 series chipset motherboards, gaming oriented motherboards and VGA cards as well as mini PCs designed for Karaoke and IPC Embedded solutions at the Nangang Exhibition Hall 4F at Booth L1017A |
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Step-down DC/DC Converters with HiSAT-COT (2015.05.22)
TOREX SEMICONDUCTOR has developed two new series of step-down, synchronous DC/DC converters with Torex's unique HiSAT-COT fast transient response control in an ultra-small package (1.2mm×1.4mm×h0.3mm).
The XC9259 series and XC9262 series are step-down synchronous DC/DC converters with a low ON resistance |
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8 Megatrends of 3D Printing: ITRI (2015.05.22)
TAINAN, Taiwan — Ever since the birth of 3D printing, it has been viewed as the third industrial revolution. Horng Ji-bin, Center Director at the Additive Manufacturing and Laser Application Center of ITRI Southern Region Campus pointed out that digital manufacturing, mass customization, short product lifecycle, cyber-physical system are hardware megatrends of 3D printing |
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Notebook Shipments Declined by 17.5% in Q1 with Lenovo Ranking Top (2015.05.22)
TrendForce’s latest research reveals the notebook shipments for the first quarter of 2015 posted a significant quarterly decline of 17.5%, with 38.43 million units shipped. One usual factor to the drop in shipments was seasonality |
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Taiwanese Analysts Revised Down the Shipments Forecast of Apple Watch (2015.05.21)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Kuo Ming-Ji, an analyst of Taiwan KGI, said yesterday that consumers’ enthusiasm for apple watch seems to start cooling, forcasted the orders of Apple Watch will reduce 20% to 30% in the third quarter of this year, the shipments is about five million to six million units, 2015 shipments may be lower than fifteen million units |
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Chromebook Sales Will Reach 7.3 Million Units in 2015 (2015.05.21)
According to Gartner, worldwide Chromebook sales to end users is on pace to reach 7.3 million units in 2015, a 27 percent increase from 2014. Education is the primary market for Chromebooks and represented 72 percent of the global Chromebook market in 2014 |
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ITRI Debuts 3D Metal Printer to Boost the Jewelry Printing (2015.05.21)
TAINAN, Taiwan — The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) debuted the first made-in-Taiwan 3D metal printer on May 21 at ITRI Southern Region Campus in a bid to boost the jewelry printing in Taiwan. Horng Ji-bin, Center Director at the Additive Manufacturing and Laser Application Center of ITRI Southern Region Campus, stated that jewelry printing can save up to 50 percent of the production time |
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Imec and Tokyo Electron Demonstrate Electrical Advantages of Direct Cu Etch Scheme (2015.05.21)
At the IEEE IITC conference, imec and Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) presented a direct Cu etch scheme for patterning Cu interconnects. The new scheme has great potential to overcome resistivity and reliability issues that occur while scaling conventional Cu damascene interconnects for advanced nodes |
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Lose power, not data. New ultra-low-power FRAM MCU (2015.05.21)
Overcoming a design hurdle that has burdened engineers for decades, Texas Instruments (TI) announced a revolutionary Compute Through Power Loss (CTPL) technology to enable context save and restore across its MSP430 FRAM microcontroller (MCU) family, including the new MSP430FR6972 MCU |
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Super Red, Red, Amber, and Yellow Ultra-Bright LEDs in Compact SMD Packages (2015.05.21)
The Optoelectronics group of Vishay Intertechnology has introduced a new series of super red, red, amber, and yellow ultra-bright LEDs in compact untinted surface-mount packages with dome lenses. Utilizing the latest ultra-bright AllnGaP on Si chip technology, the Vishay Semiconductors VLD |
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MediaTek Climbs Into Top 10, UMC Enters Top 20 of Semiconductor Suppliers (2015.05.21)
IC Insights today announced a updata of the top 25 1Q15 semiconductor suppliers report. The top-20 ranking includes three pure-play foundries (TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and UMC) and four fabless companies. It is interesting to note that the top four semiconductor suppliers all have different business models |
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Qisda Expands Its Industrial PC Capabilities By Buying DFI (2015.05.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Qisda, a Taiwanese ODM/OEM services provider, yesterday announced that the company has bought 8.7% shares of DFI, a Taiwanese high-performance computing technology supplier, a total of NT$450 million by NT$45 per share, to increase its technological capabilities in the field of industrial PCs |
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Taiwanese Startups to Debut at COMPUTEX 2015 (2015.05.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - To promote the international awareness of Taiwan’s startups, the National Development Council(NDC) and Epoch Foundation will introduce “Meet The Future” innovation and startups theme pavilion at Computex TWTC Hall 3 during June 2 to June 6, 2015 |
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CES Asia Announces Suning’s Sun Weimin as Keynote Speaker (2015.05.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — CES AsiaTM on May 20 announced that Sun Weimin, Vice Chairman of Suning Commerce Group Co., will round out the list of keynote addresses at the inaugural CES Asia. Suning’s keynote will focus on the transformation of traditional retail enterprises toward Internet retail |
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Smallest IGBT gate-driver for 90 kW-500 kW inverters (2015.05.20)
Power Integrations launched its 2SC0115T2A0-12 dual-channel gate-driver core for 90 kW to 500 kW inverters and converters. Leveraging SCALE-2+ integrated circuit and isolated transformer technology for DC/DC power and switching signal transmission, the new driver core improves system reliability and performance by eliminating the need for an opto-coupler |
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Smartphone Display Panel Shifting to High-Res, High-Performance Technologies (2015.05.20)
According to IHS, ongoing improvements in smartphone display performance is leading to increasing demand for high-resolution panels with lower power consumption requirements, which are not supported by the most common legacy technologies (non-crystalline thin-film silicon or a-Si for short) |
