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CARDIS, a Project to Dectect Cardio Vascular Disease Using Mobile Devices (2015.02.03) Imec, Medtronic, Ghent University and their project partners today announced the launch of the CARDIS project. Together they will develop and validate an early-stage cardio vascular disease detection platform using integrated silicon photonics |
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China Government May Be to Approve The Sony PS4 Listing (2015.02.03) TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Taiwan's Economic Daily reported, in response to the Chinese government's request, Sony delayed its originally listed date of PS4, but industry sources said that the Chinese authorities have approved the sale of PS4 and ready to list in the market |
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Industry's Smallest, High-Efficiency 17-V DC/DC Power Solutions for Industrial Systems (2015.02.02) Texas Instruments (TI) today introduced four new SIMPLE SWITCHER nano power modules that redefine power supply design for space-constrained applications. The 17-V and 5-V modules feature high performance in the industry's smallest packages, and expand TI's SIMPLE SWITCHER module portfolio to address 100-mA to 2-A industrial designs, such as servers, factory automation, test and measurement, and network security cameras |
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Taiwanese IP Camera Industry Posts 33.5% Year-on-year Shipment Volume Growth in 2014 (2015.02.02) MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), a government-backed IT research institute in Taiwan, reported that shipment volume of the Taiwanese IP camera industry totaled around 4.83 million in 2014, up 33.5% compared to 2013 |
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Intel to Acquire Lantiq; Advancing the Connected Home (2015.02.02) Intel Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lantiq. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. The transaction is expected to close in approximately 90 days. Deal terms were not disclosed |
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Acer and ASUS Trying to Find a Business in Car Applications (2015.02.02) TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Taiwanese media UDN.com reports, Taiwanese brands Acer and ASUS are actively to enter the automotive cloud applications market.
Reported that Acer is developing cloud applications for automotive via its BYOC and Acer Open Platform (AOP), and works with BYOC partners, Chunghwa Telecom, EBM Technologies, APEX MEDICAL CORP |
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Kinpo Group to Collaborate with Intel in RealSense Technology (2015.02.02) TAIPEI, Taiwan — XYZprinting, a 3D printers developer, that is backed by world's leading electronic manufacturing conglomerate Kinpo Group, the company's Chairperson Simon Shen said that one of their goals in 2015 is to team up with Intel in RealSense technology |
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Stan Shih: Computer is About to Disappear (2015.02.02) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Stan Shih, Founder of Acer said that computer is disappearing gradually, while the computer technology keeps growing on February 2. In other words, there will be computers everywhere but the name will be changed into various kinds of new devices instead of being called computers |
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Macronix Still Maintains Strong Attitude about Patent Competition (2015.02.02) TAIPEI, Taiwan - The patent litigation with Spansion has been resolved and come to an end. However, Macronix stated that if it is faced with any kind of possible patent war, it will still maintain its strong stance and will not fear any opponents |
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IBM Announces Services Center in UK, Creating up to 300 New Tech Roles (2015.02.02) IBM today announced a new services center in the City of Leicester, UK that will create up to 300 new IT roles over the next three years for the next generation of workers, enabling IBM to extend its delivery of an industry leading range of technology services to UK based IBM clients |
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Taiwan Issues Smart Home Products Standard -TaiSEIA 101 (2015.01.30) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Smart Energy Industry Association (TaiSEIA) today officially released a new standard of smart home products - TaiSEIA 101, for 15 smart appliances, included air-conditioning, dehumidifiers and television, etc |
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Taiwan Attempting to Form New ICT Industry Standards (2015.01.30) TAIPEI, Taiwan — As the international communication standards differ from time to time, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) teamed up with MediaTek, Acer, Foxconn, ASUS, and CHT in a bid to establish a Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards (TAICS) |
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IBM Research and Mars, Incorporated to Drive Advances in Global Food Safety (2015.01.30) Scientists from IBM Research and Mars, Incorporated today established the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain, a collaborative food safety platform that will leverage advances in genomics to further our understanding of what makes food safe a collaborative food safety platform that will leverage advances in genomics to further our understanding of what makes food safe |
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Autonomous Robots & IV Assistants to Have Highest CAGR in AI Applications (2015.01.30) AI (Artificial Intelligence) plays a pivotal role in IoT (Internet of Things) as it can be applied to a myriad of smart connected products, such as lighting, cars, wearables, medical care, smartphones, and smart home sensing control devices |
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The Industry's First Monolithic EDLC Cell Balancing IC (2015.01.30) ROHM has recently announced the development of a cell balancing IC that contributes to increased miniaturization, greater stability, and longer life for EDLCs (Electric Double Layer Capacitors), which are driving the adoption of energy regeneration applications in industrial equipment, automotive start-stop systems, and voltage sag (instantaneous voltage drop) countermeasures |
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Macronix Announces Q4 2014 Results; Net Revenues Decreased 11% (2015.01.29) TAIPEI, Taiwan – Macronix International Co., Ltd. today announced the unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 2014. The fourth quarter net revenues of NT$5,960 million (US$192.2 million), an 11% decrease sequentially and increase of 2% year- over-year |
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Intel Shows Its Gaming Strength at Taipei Game Show (2015.01.29) TAIPEI, Taiwan - 2015 Taipei Game Show is being held in the Taipei International Convention Center form January 28th to Feburary 1th. Intel is the largest exhibitor this year, exhibited numerous gaming computers equipped its CPU product for visitors to experience, also held an international online game competition, attracting a large number of Taiwanese and international players |
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Silicon Motion Announces the SM2256 SATA 6Gb/s SSD Controller (2015.01.29) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Silicon Motion (SMI), a designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices provider, launched the world's first complete merchant ASIC/firmware SATA 6Gb/s SSD controller solution supporting 1x/1y/1z nm triple-level cell (TLC) NAND from all major NAND suppliers, SM2256 SATA 6Gb/s SSD Controller on January 29 |
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First Qseven and SMARC Computer-on-Modules Features Ultra Low-Power SoC CPU (2015.01.28) Following the rapidly growing demand for small form factor system designs, ICOP Technology announces its support of both SGET (Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies e.V.) Computer-on-Module standards, Qseven and SMARC |
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Six Seconds to +180 °C; DELO Presents Fast Metal Adhesive for Elevated Temperatures (2015.01.28) DELO has developed a new metal adhesive for electric motors to extend its product range by an adhesive combining a broad temperature range of use with fast and simple production processes.
The DELO-ML DB154 adhesive is mainly designed for bonding tasks in electric motors, including bonding of buried magnets, rotor packages, and shafts to hubs |