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Etron Rolls out the eS870 Chip Storage Platform for 3D Printing (2014.12.19) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Etron Technology has been devoted into researching and designing 3D printing, which is the undoutedly one of the next big things of IT industry. The company rolled out the 360 degrees OK eS870 chip, ThingCapture platform as their secret weapon in boosting 3D printing |
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New Ultra-Low Power Precision Operational Amplifiers for IoT Applications (2014.12.19) ON Semiconductor has introduced a family of affordable, precision CMOS operational amplifiers (op amps) that deliver zero drift operation and industry leading quiescent current for front-end amplifier circuits and power management designs |
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Renesas Announces Development of SRAM Using 16 nm FinFET for Automotive (2014.12.19) Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the development of a new circuit technology for automotive information SoCs at 16 nanometer (nm) and beyond. Using this new circuit technology, Renesas tested the prototype of an SRAM, at the 16 nm node as the cache memory for CPU and real-time image processing blocks in an SoC, and successfully confirmed that this SRAM operates at the high speed of 641 ps under the low-voltage condition of 0 |
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Industry’s Highest Performance DDR4 Memory Data Rates in an FPGA (2014.12.19) Altera Corporation announced it is demonstrating in silicon DDR4 memory interfaces operating at an industry-leading 2,666 Mbps. Altera’s Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the industry’s only FPGAs available today that support DDR4 memory at these data rates, delivering a 43 percent improvement in memory performance over previous generation FPGAs and a 10 percent improvement in memory performance over competing 20 nm FPGAs |
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Western Digital Establishs R&D Center in Taiwan For Software Development (2014.12.19) TAIPEI, Taiwan- Western Digital Corp.(WD), announced the establishment of new R&D center in Taiwan, for developing software of consumer and small/ medium enterprise stortage product. The new R&D center is located in Tai Yuan Science Park, Zhubei, Hsinchu County, has been officially put into operation |
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MIPS P5600 CPU Sets New Record for Embedded Processing Performance (2014.12.19) According to the latest announcement from Imagination Technologies, that its MIPS P5600 has achieved a record-breaking score of 5.6 CoreMark/MHz, beating the previous top score held by the MIPS proAptiv core, delivers 20% more performance than its direct competitor while being significantly smaller in area |
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Trend Micro Announces Strategic OEM Agreement with HP (2014.12.18) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Trend Micro Inc., a global security software and solutions provider, has signed a strategic OEM agreement with HP to help enterprises combat advanced targeted threats and custom malware on December 16. The HP TippingPoint Advanced Threat Appliance (ATA) family of products leverages the power of Trend Micro Deep Discovery to provide customers with a single, integrated solution for detection and enforcement |
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Jonney Shih: ASUS Applies the Design Concept in Making Robots (2014.12.18) TAIPEI, Taiwan — ASUS Chairperson Jonney Shih commented that the company is going to apply the design concept in making robot products. On the other hand, he suggested three methods to penetrate the Internet of Things (IoT) market, namely, stickness, word of mouth, and free of charge |
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Industry's First 40/50/100GbE PAM-4 Physical Layer Device (2014.12.18) Broadcom Corporation announced the industry's first high speed 4-level Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM-4) Physical Layer transceivers (PHYs). The new PAM-4 PHYs enable transmission rates of 40/50 gigabits per second (Gbps) serially over multiple physical media, including direct attach cables (DAC) and optical fiber |
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Lowest Power “Always Listening” Voice Detection and Recognition Solutions for Mobile Devices (2014.12.18) Lattice Semiconductor announced the availability of human voice detection and command recognition IP for smartphones and other handhelds for the growing Internet of Things (IoT) category of devices. These IPs are implemented in the iCE40 family of mobile FPGAs |
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Power Metal Strip Resistor Saves Space With 7 W Rating and Resistance to 1 mΩ in 2818 Case Size (2014.12.18) Vishay Intertechnology announced a new surface-mount Power Metal Strip resistor designed to save space in automotive, industrial, computer, and consumer applications. The Vishay Dale WSHM2818 combines a high 7 W power rating with extremely low resistance values down to 1 mΩ in the compact 2818 case size |
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Industry’s First Extreme High Power LEDs to Radically Reduce System Cost (2014.12.18) Cree announces the commercial availability of XLamp Extreme High Power (XHP) LEDs, a new class of LEDs that enable a system cost reduction of up to 40 percent for lighting applications. The first LEDs powered by Cree’s revolutionary SC5 Technology Platform, XLamp XHP50 and XHP70 LEDs provide twice the lumen output and improved reliability compared to previous LEDs of the same size |
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ELAN Benefited from Chromebook Despites Disappointing Touch NB (2014.12.17) Due to the penetration rate of Touch Notebook was lower than expected, touch solution provider ELAN Microelectronics Corp. (ELAN) turns to foucs on the Chromebook market. The company expected that the shipments of Chromebook touchpad will jump to 6 |
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HDMI 2.0: Product and Tech Issues (2014.12.17) Over time, HDMI has become a dominant multimedia interface that can be found in home theater equipment, personal computers, automotive electronics, and many mobile devices. Previous iterations of HDMI conquered the consumer electronics market by squeezing HD video and Hi-Fi audio signals through a single cable |
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The Smart Robotic Arms Making ice Cream Extrusion More Easily (2014.12.17) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI) demonstrated a smart robotic arms on December 17, which consisted of visual sensors and inertial components that can operate the ice cream machine from both sides easily and precisely |
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First GPS-enabled Device for Satellite Outdoor Units (2014.12.17) Broadcom announced the industry's first GPS-enabled satellite outdoor unit (ODU) device. The solution combines Broadcom's BCM4551 satellite TV device with its BCM4771 GPS receiver, enabling operators to better track the location of subscriber equipment and pinpoint subscriber's service issues in the home |
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Industry's First Integrated 3D Printer SoC and Platform Solution (2014.12.16) Marvell announced the industry’s first fully integrated 3D printer system-on-chip (SoC) and software solution platform, further extending Marvell’s technology leadership position in printer technology and marking a new era in the printing market |
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Samsung's Smartphone Share Declines in 4Q 2014 as iPhone Grow Stronger (2014.12.16) TAIEPI,Taiwan- Shipment volume of the global mobile phone industry has reached approximately 529 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014, 373 million of which are smartphones. Smartphone shipments alone grew 12.7% compared to the third quarter of 2014, according to MIC |
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Five Taiwanese Firms Play Crucial Roles in Intel IoT Platform (2014.12.16) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Intel announced the Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Platform, boosting its role in developing IoT. The company also introduced integrated hardware and software products based on the new platform and new relationships with an expanded ecosystem where Taiwanese firms play crucial roles in moving IoT from infancy to mass deployment |
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Broadcom Announces New High-Performance Multi-Rate Gigabit PHYs (2014.12.16) Broadcom announced a new series of physical layer transceivers (PHYs) supporting 2.5G and 5G Ethernet speeds. The next-generation devices provide a 2.5X to 5X increase in data rate over Gigabit Ethernet with no disruption to existing cabling infrastructure |