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TSMC to Share NT$35.3 Billion Profits to Employees (2015.02.11)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － TSMC's revenue in January recorded at historical high of NT$ 87.12 billion. In addition, TSMC announced yesterday that would share NT$ 35.3 billion profit to its employees, as the dividend, the average dividend is about NT$0 |
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Mobile DRAM Industry Valued Over US$3.6 Billion in 4Q14 (2015.02.11)
DRAMeXhchange reports that worldwide mobile DRAM revenue totaled US$3.607 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014, representing a 27.8% of DRAM industry value and a 4.2% quarterly increase.
DRAMeXchange's Assistant Vice President Avril Wu noted that mobile DRAM made up nearly 40% of all DRAM shipments, more than ever before |
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Viewing 3D Printing and Taiwanese 3D Printing Firms (2015.02.11)
As a new industry, 3D printing is rapidly attracting the whole world’s attention (truly, we should look upon it as an industry rather than a type of technology). Regardless of whether they are supporters or opponents of 3D printing, observers will all bring up a number of opinions about its development and make 3D printing into the most watched technology of 2015 |
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Pixart's New Technology Will be Introduced After the 2nd Quarter (2015.02.11)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Pixart is an advanced digital imaging IC design company, which specializes in CMOS image sensors and related image application IC design, research, production and sales. The company held a investor conference on February 10, forecasting there will be a new technology to be introduced after the second quarter |
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Taiwan Ocean University Puts IoT Into Formal Use (2015.02.11)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) opened an Internet of Things (IoT) integration laboratory, aiming at researching possibilities of smart life, and connecting Internet with objects and human beings to make our living environment more digital |
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IC Insights: DRAM bit volume Forecast to Increase 24% in 2015 (2015.02.11)
According to a report from IC Insights that DRAM bit volume grew by an average of 67% per year from 1995-2005. In the 10 years since then, however, bit volume growth has averaged 43% per year.
IC Insights pointed that worldwide economy mired in recession reduced bit volume growth to an all-time low of 21% in 2009—quite a contrast to the 1990s to 2000 when annual DRAM bit volume growth remained above 70% |
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STM and YOGITECH Release Safety Design Package (2015.02.11)
STMicroelectronics (STM) and YOGITECH, a leader in providing functional safety solutions, have completed development of a flexible software-design support package that streamlines certification of safety-critical systems featuring STM32 microcontrollers |
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Big Data is a Crucial Issues for Taiwan Startups (2015.02.10)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Big Data is important in the applications of Internet of Things (IoT) and gaming industry, but the fact is Taiwan startups haven't made the best use of Big Data, which is an Achilles heel for newly Taiwan startups |
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Two Key Elements to Form Open Data (2015.02.10)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — 2015 is the first year of various applications of Open Data, the government claimed that it is going to release data as soon as possible. However, Stephen Brobst, a American scholar reminded that releasing data is only the first step of developing Open Data, there must be two elements that follow it up |
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MediaTek Sees 4G Cell Phones As the Growing Momentum in 2015 (2015.02.10)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － MediaTek held investor conference yesterday and announced 2014 financial results. MediaTek said at the meeting that they were optimistic about the chips shipments of smart phones, 4G cell phones and tablets this year, which will be higher than last year |
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Inotera Approved New Supply Agreements with Micron (2015.02.10)
TAOYUan, Taiwan – Inotera Memories today announced the company's Board of Directors in its meeting dated February 10th, 2015 approved important agreements with Micron and its affiliates (“Micron”) to adjust the transfer pricing principle and other arrangements in the company’s supply agreement with Micron |
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Xiaomi and Huawei Verging on Samsung as Chinese Smartphone Brands Growing (2015.02.09)
According to TrendForce, the shipments of Chinese brand smartphones reached a new high in 2014 with a total shipment of 453 million units, which translated to an annual growth of 54.8% and accounted for nearly 40% of the worldwide shipments |
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Received CE Mark Certificate isn't Enough, iXensor Aims at FDA Approval (2015.02.09)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — iXensor Co., established in 2012 by three STB fellows (Standford-Taiwan Biomedical Fellowship program) , the company is dedicated to providing simple and practical solutions for mobile healthcare. The PixoTest, a blood glucose monitoring system is a flagship of the company and has just received CE Mark Certificate, and is applying for FDA approval |
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ASUSTOR Releases ADM 2.4 Beta Version (2015.02.09)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — ASUSTOR, a innovator and provider of network storage solutions, announced on February 9, the release of the ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM) 2.4 beta version. ADM is the exclusive operating system for ASUSTOR NAS. Following the release of ADM 2 |
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20% White-Collar Workforce In India to Access Enterprise Data on Personal Devices (2015.02.09)
According to Gartner, by 2017, 20 percent of the white-collar workforce in India will access enterprise data (beyond email and calendar) on personal devices. By 2020, at least two-thirds of large Indian enterprises will have established an Internet of Things (IoT) center of excellence to drive adoption of efficiency-centric technologies and applications |
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Taiwan to Release TD-LTE Spectrum for The First-Time (2015.02.09)
TAIPEI, Taiwan －The Ministry of Communications and the National Communications Commission (NCC) will implement the second phase of the fourth-generation mobile telecommunications (4G) and are expected this year to also release 2 |
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Snapshot Hyperspectral Image Sensors with Mosaic Filter (2015.02.07)
Imec announced a new set of snapshot hyperspectral CMOS image sensors featuring spectral filter structures in a mosaic layout, processed per-pixel on 4x4 and 5x5 ‘Bayer-like’ arrays.
Imec’s hyperspectral filter structures are processed at wafer-level on commercially available CMOS image sensor wafers, enabling extremely compact, low cost and mass-producible hyperspectral imaging solutions |
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TSMC's New Taichung 18-inch Fab Closing to Settle (2015.02.06)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － The expansion plan (fifth phase) of Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) was approved today in the fourth environmental assessment conference, which means the new 18-inch fab of TSMC is expected to settle in Taichung and begin in March of this year |
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Novatek: There Will be a Slow Growth in 2015 (2015.02.06)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Novatek Microelectronics, a display driver IC provider, on February 5 announced that consolidated net sales for January 2015 totaled NT$4,624,544 thousand. The company said that due to the slump in demand of smartphone, plus the inventory adjustments of system on chip (SoC), it might be a slow growth year |
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4 Highlights in COMPUTEX Taipei 2015 (2015.02.06)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — According to Taipei Computer Association, smart technology, mobile computing, cloud business, and the application of wearables will be four highlights in the COMPUTEX Taipei 2015.
Judging from the venue layout, the smart wearables zone, and 3D business application zone will be the new zones to experience |
Transmission technology into the digital era, users and manufacturers are increasingly focusing on the quality requirements of the digital display, digital display interface standard combination of hardware graphics card, and therefore more subject to the attention of the progress of its development.