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MediaTek Announced New High Order Chip Product Name – helio (2015.03.02)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － MediaTek on Sunday at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) announced the new generation of high order cellphone chips named “helio.” Furthermore, the first product that uses “helio” is expected to be the high order 64-bit 4G cellphone chip “MT6795 |
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First Acer Windows 8.1 Phone Launched at MWC 2015 (2015.03.01)
BARCELONA, Spain – Acer today unveils the Liquid M220 smartphone, first ever Liquid smartphone to run on the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system.
Featuring Windows Phone 8.1, the Liquid M220 is easy to use and customize and fully supports Microsoft applications and services such as OneDrive, Skype, Office and Cortana |
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Hon Hai Is Moving Toward Industry 4.0 (2015.02.27)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Hon Hai on Thursday, the fifth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, held a traditional Chinese resume business operations ceremony in Tucheng headquarters, Taiwan. chairman Terry Gou personally presided, stressed that Hon Hai will accelerate the development of automation, to replace 70% of manpowers with robotics in three years |
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Quantum Dot Technology to Grow Rapidly in Display Market (2015.02.27)
IHS reported that Quantum dot technology will grow rapidly in 2015, to bring more benefits to LCD display, including a wider color gamut and higher display quality.
IHS pointed, white light emitting diode (LED)-based liquid crystal display (LCD) cannot match organic light emitting diode (OLED) in terms of wide color gamut |
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rBOX510-6COM, World-Class Robust Din-rail Fanless Embedded System (2015.02.26)
Axiomtek has launched the rBOX510-6COM, its new din-rail fanless embedded PC utilizing the Intel Atom dual-core processor E3827 with 1.75GHz and onboard 4GB DDR3L system memory.
The superior rBOX510-6COM features full rugged industrial designs: dual isolated Gigabit LANs |
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Atmel Launches Xplained Extension Board with Bosch BNO055 Sensor For IoT and Wearable (2015.02.26)
Atmel Corporation launched a new extension board for the company’s popular Xplained platform at Embedded World Nuremberg. Featuring a Bosch Sensortec BNO055 intelligent 9-axis absolute orientation sensor, the new extension board connects directly to Atmel’s Xplained board making it ideal for prototyping projects for the Internet of Things (IoT) |
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Microchip’s New Motion Module Makes Motion Monitoring Easy (2015.02.26)
Microchip Technology announced from the Embedded World conference in Germany the MM7150 Motion Module—which combines Microchip’s SSC7150 motion co-processor combined with 9-axis sensors, including accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope in a small, easy to use form factor |
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New Platform’s Mobile GPU Clustering Enables Big Data Analytics at Local Base Stations (2015.02.26)
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT) announced that it has developed with NVIDIA and Orange Silicon Valley a supercomputing platform that can analyze 4G to 5G base station bandwidth data in real time, enabling network operators to monetize the voluminous data flowing through their communications systems |
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Holtek Semiconductor to Penetrate the UAV Market in China (2015.02.26)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Holtek Semiconductor, a professional IC design house having its major business activities focused in the area of microcontroller and peripheral component design and marketing. The company suggested that its 8-bit MCU has been applied to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) quadcopters in China, which also can be seen in fan motor products |
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Chunghwa Telecom Speeds Up Research of 5G Technology (2015.02.26)
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Taiwan telecommunications company Chunghwa Telecom stated that it has already begun to research and develop fifth generation mobile telecommunications (5G) technology. In the future, it will collaborate with overseas telecommunications companies and equipment operators and expects to be able to quickly launch 5G mobile services in Taiwan |
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Imec and Panasonic Present breakthrough in CMOS-based Transceivers (2015.02.26)
At the 2015 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), imec and Panasonic presented a transceiver chip for phase-modulated continuous-wave radar at 79GHz. This achievement demonstrates the potential of downscaled CMOS for cheap millimeter-wave (mm-wave) radar systems that can be used for accurate presence and motion detection |
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Lattice Realeases USB Type-C Implementation in Consumer and Industrial Devices (2015.02.26)
Lattice Semiconductor announced three new, freely-downloadable reference designs that enable designers working in consumer, industrial and other sectors to quickly implement the cable detect and power delivery functions required to unlock the new capabilities of Type-C including 100W power, 20Gbps bandwidth, reversibility and flexibility |
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Xilinx, BEEcube Announce Scalable Prototyping Platform for 5G MIMO Systems (2015.02.26)
Xilinx and BEEcube today announced a highly scalable prototyping platform for 5G massive MIMO antenna systems. The new MegaBEE prototyping platform supports up to 256x256 antennas and provides all the elements necessary to put a massive MIMO system on the air within LTE bands and without external hardware |
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TimeProvider 5000 System Supports Phase Synchronization of LTE Advanced and Small Cell (2015.02.26)
Microsemi Corporation announced its TimeProvider 5000 Software Release 2.2, adding ITU-T G.8275.1 phase synchronization profile support with a software upgrade and license key. The new software release now supports Synchronous Ethernet and the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) phase profile |
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New SimpleLink Ultra-Low Power Wireless Platform (2015.02.26)
Texas Instruments (TI) announced the new SimpleLink ultra-low power wireless microcontroller (MCU) platform that helps customers go battery-less with energy harvesting or enjoy always-on, coin cell-powered operation for multiple years |
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Automotive Grade ARM Cortex-M0+-based MCUs With Capacitive Touch Hardware Support (2015.02.25)
Atmel Corporation announced the company has launched its next-generation family of automotive-qualified ARM Cortex-M0+-based MCUs with an integrated peripheral touch controller (PTC) for capacitive touch applications. The new SAM DA1 is the first series in this Atmel |SMART MCU automotive-qualified product family, operating at a maximum frequency of 48MHz and reaching a 2 |
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Renesas Develops 28nm Embedded Flash Memory for Faster Automotive MCUs (2015.02.25)
Renesas Electronics today announced that it has developed a new flash memory technology that achieves even faster read and rewrite speeds. The new technology is designed for on-chip flash memory microcontrollers (MCUs) using a 28-nanometer (nm) embedded Flash (eFlash) process technology |
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Greater Flexibility in TV Panel Price Dealings as Chinese New Year’s Production Cut (2015.02.25)
The newest panel price report from WitsView, a division of TrendForce, indicates that Chinese New Year had some effects on panel module production and reduced pressures on the supply side in February. However, the extent of positive support on panel prices driven by the holiday period has been quite limited |
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Expert Forecasts DDR4 Kicks off DDR3 in 2015 (2015.02.25)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Wu Jin-rong, General Manager of Explore Microelectronics, forecast that DDR4 is gradually replacing DDR3 to become the mainstream standard of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). He even stated that the shipment of DDR4 will surpass DDR3 by the third quarter of 2016 |
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New MCUs Feature Flexible Interconnections of Advanced Analog and Digital Integration (2015.02.25)
Microchip Technology announced from the Embedded World conference in Germany a new family of 8-bit PIC® Microcontrollers (MCUs) with the PIC16(L)F1769 family. This family is the first PIC MCU to offer up to two independent closed loop channels |
