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Transformers of Taiwan Wins the First Place in Robot Performance Contest (2015.07.13)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — “Transformers of Taiwan” is a team that come from Kaohsiung, which won the first place in 2015 First LEGO League (FLL) and First Tech Challenge (FTC) robot performance contest taken place in Sydney, Australia on July 12 |
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Foxconn Plans India Hubs by 2020 (2015.07.13)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., the world’s largest contract electronics maker, is planning to set up 10 to 12 production hubs in India by 2020, according to a report by Indian technology Web site NDTV Gadgets |
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Enrich Your Technical Knowledge with AAEON Technical Forum (2015.07.13)
TAIPEI, Taiwan —AAEON opens the AAEON Technical Forum, a forum dedicated for sharing experiences on AAEON products.
The forum is mainly divided into 5 main sections, which encompass all of the company’s hardware offerings, with each one having their own categories that users may access to look for the information they need |
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Mobile Commerce shows Growth Potential in Taiwan despite Continuing Concerns over Security (2015.07.13)
Online shopping sites have been contributing the lion's share of global e-commerce revenues, but with the growing prevalence of mobile devices, mobile commerce is anticipated to gain more ground.
"Over the years, due to the rise of mobile commerce, nearly 70% of online users spent more on mobile shopping than traditional online shopping |
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World’s First OLED Lighting Driver Controller (2015.07.13)
Solomon Systech launched the world’s first single chip OLED lighting driver controller SSD2355, which enables ultra-slim, energy-efficient and smooth dimming control of OLED lighting as well as LED backlight applications.
Organic lighting emitting diode (“OLED”) is believed to be the technology for next generation lighting |
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Windows 10 Replacement Boom May Not Be Mighty (2015.07.13)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － According to a Taiwan Economic Daily News media report, Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 10 will hit the market on July 29; however, Taiwanese PC OEM manufacturers Compal Electronics, Quanta, and Wistron have stated that the amount of third quarter shipments may not be as pronounced as previously anticipated and are concerned that the replacements boom may not be very obvious |
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GSMA: Smartphones to Account for Two-Thirds of Chinese Mobile Market (2015.07.13)
Smartphones are on track to account for two-thirds of mobile connections in China by the end of this year, according to a new study published today by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA. The new study finds that smartphone adoption in the country (as a percentage of connections) had reached 62 per cent by the end of Q1 2015, above the average level in Europe (55 per cent) |
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Renesas and Audi Partner for Accelerating Automotive Innovation (2015.07.13)
Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that Renesas and Audi have established a strategic relationship as part of the Audi Progressive SemiConductor Program (PSCP) to accelerate automotive innovation. This strategic relationship covers traditional automotive control areas such as powertrain |
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Terry Kuo Leads Executives to India with $20B Investment (2015.07.10)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － According to India-based media Hindustan Times reported, Terry Kuo, Chairman of Foxconn , accompanied by more than 40 people, is visiting India and calling on local government authorities and startup entrepreneurs to seek for cooperative and investment opportunities, is likely to invest about $20 billion |
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Gartner: PC Shipments Declined 9.5% in Q2 of 2015 (2015.07.10)
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.4 million units in the second quarter of 2015, a 9.5 percent decline from the second quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. This was the steepest PC shipment decline since the third quarter of 2013 |
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Acer Announces Full 2015 Windows-Powered Product Lineup Ready for Win 10 (2015.07.10)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Acer announces that its full 2015 Windows-powered product lineup and currently-shipping Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 portfolio will support the free Windows 10 upgrade when it becomes available on July 29, 2015 |
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Current-Sense Amplifier, Integrated a High-Precision, Low-Drift Shunt Resistor (2015.07.10)
Texas Instruments introduced the industry's first current-sense amplifier to integrate a high-precision, low-drift shunt resistor, which can deliver highly accurate measurements over a wide temperature range.
TI's INA250 integrates the shunt resistor with a bi-directional, zero-drift current-sense amplifier to support both low-side and high-side implementations |
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IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung Co-produce Industry’s First 7nm Test Chips (2015.07.10)
An alliance led by IBM Research announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) |
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IHS: Smartphones and Tablets Still Drive Demand for Cover Glass (2015.07.10)
According to IHS, smartphones continue to lead total area demand in the cover glass market; however, as the markets for smartphones and tablets mature, cover glass industry revenue growth is declining from 39% Y/Y in 2013 to 11% in 2015 |
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Asus Revises Down Its NB Shipments Forecast (2015.07.09)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Asus announced yesterday the downturn of its annual notebook(NB) growth rate, with revising its NB shipments forecast down to 20 million units, to be the first NB manufacture to adjust its shipments target this year |
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Microsoft's Responses to Challenges from New Upstarts in the IoT-era (2015.07.09)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - For years the PC market was dominated by Microsoft and Apple, and it was extremely difficult for rival operating systems to gain widespread acceptance. The main reason was that PCs have to be able to interact with all types of devices manufactured by a wide array of different companies |
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Bayer MaterialScience Announces Covestro’s Chinese Trade Name (2015.07.09)
Bayer announced that its MaterialScience business will be Covestro, and Bayer MaterialScience will become a separate company in September 2015. The Covestro’s Chinese trade name will be科思創, which represents a bold new direction and bright future for an innovation-driven polymers company |
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World's Smallest BGA Interposer Solution for Probing DDR4 x16 Designs (2015.07.09)
Keysight Technologies introduced a BGA (ball grid array) interposer solution for testing DDR4 x16 DRAM (dynamic random access memory) designs with a logic analyzer. Using the Keysight W4636A DDR4 x16 BGA interposer solution, engineers can quickly and accurately capture address and command signals, and a subset of data signals, for debugging designs and performing functional validation measurements for data rates up to 2,400 Mb/s |
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Fastest 120-V High-side/Low-side Gate Driver (2015.07.09)
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the industry's fastest 120-V automotive grade half-bridge gate driver with robust handling features. This driver provides a propagation delay at 15ns with short rise and fall times and the tightest delay matching of 1ns for 12-V to 48-V DC/DC power supplies |
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Adata Launches PV150 Power Bank with Leather-Like Exterior Design (2015.07.09)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Adata Technology, a high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash products manufacturer, launched its PV150 Power Bank on July 9. Featuring a leather-textured exterior with smooth streamlined design, a bright LED power level indicator shows how much power remains for more charging |
