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William Liang: Mobile Payment Boosts the Users' Stickness to Handsets (2014.11.06) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Apple's ApplePay can be used in iPhone6 and iWatch, by the built-in NFC that functioned with the credit card termial along with the fingerprint identification to prevent from unauthorizing use of a credit card |
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Mxtran: It's Best to Combine Mobile Payment With SIM Card (2014.11.06) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Mobile payment has been viewed as one of the next big things in the technology field, which means paying bills directly by handset. Taiwanese firms participated in the CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS 2014 from November 4th to 6th at Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center in Paris, France, saying that nowadays people almost can't live without handsets so that mobile payment is a potential market |
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TI to Open 300mm Wafer Bumping Facility in Chengdu, China (2014.11.06) Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced it will expand its manufacturing capacity in Chengdu, China, with a 300mm wafer bumping facility. The addition of this manufacturing process in Chengdu further increases TI's 300mm analog capacity and its ability to support customer demand |
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2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Combo Modules to Industrial and IoT Applications (2014.11.06) Texas Instruments (TI) announced the WiLink 8 combo connectivity modules, which support Wi-Fi in the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. The new highly-integrated module family offers high throughput and extended industrial temperature range with robust Wi-Fi + Bluetooth coexistence |
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500mW Zener Diodes Save PCB Space With New Low-Profile MicroSMF eSMP Series Package (2014.11.06) Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced the first new series of Zener diodes with 500 mW of power dissipation in the new ultra-compact MicroSMF eSMP series package.
Combining extremely tight voltage tolerances with low leakage current and excellent stability, the PLZ Series is designed to withstand ESD pulses of 8000 V (human body model), save PCB space, and increase pick-and-place speed for assembly lines |
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Industrial MCU with Integrated Smart Analog to Enable Accurate and Precise Measurements (2014.11.06) Texas Instruments (TI) announced a new series of MSP430 industrial microcontrollers (MCUs) integrated with smart analog for high accuracy, precision and cost savings. The MSP430i204x MCUs meet the broad temperature range requirements from –40 to 105 degrees Celsius needed for industrial and smart grid applications |
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X99 Extreme11 Takes Computing to Another Level with SAS 12.0 Gb/s Ports (2014.11.05) Even though nearly all motherboards are composed by pretty much the same chips, same connectors and share similar features, still there’s a handful of phenomenally designed game changers that shine like a beacon across the endless sea of mediocrity |
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Processing, Sensing and COMM IC of IoT to Rapid Growth (2014.11.05) According to Gartner, the processing, sensing and communications semiconductor device portion of the Internet of Things (IoT) will be a rapidly growing segment of the total semiconductor market, growing 36.2 percent in 2015, compared with the overall semiconductor market growth of 5 |
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HIWIN Demonstrates the Smart Screw and Lubrication Detection at TMTS 2014 (2014.11.05) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan International Machine Tool Show (TMTS) 2014 kicked off on November 5th to 9th at Greater Taichung International, HIWIN Technologies has 100 booths and its slogan goes “welcome the smart automation era”, debuting the smart screw and lubrication detection technology |
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Goodway Showcases GTX-2000Y, a Multi-turret Turn-mill Machine at TMTS 2014 (2014.11.05) TAIPEI, Taiwan — This year TMTS 2014, one of the most professional machine tool shows, is its third session. A series of conferences programs that demonstrate polybasic natures of machine tool sectors becomes an important highlight of the show |
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Huawei: Next Year China Cellphone Market to Slow Down (2014.11.05) TAIPEI, Taiwan-According to Taiwan media reports, Chinese cellphone company, Huawei, has a conservative view of the cellphone market and believes that it will slow down next year. Huawei believes that the cellphone market in China is approaching saturation and next year the growth rate and sales will slow down |
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High-Res Chipsets Expand 3D Printing, 3D Machine Vision and Lithography (2014.11.05) Texas Instruments (TI) announced the availability of two new high-resolution DLP chipsets for 3D printing, 3D machine vision and lithography applications. The new chipsets, consisting of the DLP9000 and DLP6500 digital micromirror devices (DMDs) and each programmable by the DLPC900 controller, offer developers higher resolution imaging, extended wavelength support and faster pattern rates compared to previous devices |
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Fastest, Smallest SSL/TLS for Microcontroller-Driven Applications (2014.11.05) Real Time Logic has added the latest encryption and security updates to SharkSSL, its acclaimed high-speed, small footprint SSL-TLS product, to secure the interconnected IoT devices that are particular vulnerable to wide-scale attack |
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XYZprinting Invites Japanese 3D Printer to Lecture in Taiwan (2014.11.04) TAIPEI, Taiwan — XYZprinting, a subsidiary of New Kinpo Group, in a bid to promoting 3D printing, which will invite the Japanese 3D printing expert Saori Hiramoto to Taiwan and give a lecture at New Kinpo's Shenkeng headquarter on November 8th, she will be guiding the 1,000 company members to make the amazing 3D printing work |
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Tong Hsing Electronic: Hybrid Integrated Circuit Will be Main Growth Driver in 2015 (2014.11.04) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Tong Hsing Electronic used to rely on the ceramic substrate as the driving force, however, it's been lower in growth so that the highlight hybrid integrated circuit will be its main growth driver in 2015, according to the company |
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ITU, GSMA and Internet Society Unite in Fight Against Ebola (2014.11.03) At the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the GSMA and the Internet Society (ISOC), announced that they are joining forces in the fight against Ebola.
The three organizations will bring together the global telecommunications and Internet communities |
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Chilisin Aims at Manufacturing Miniature Inductors and Molding Choke (2014.11.03) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Smartphones require more miniature inductors and components. A 3G smartphone may only need 15-20 miniature high-frequency chip inductors but a 4G one may require 60-90 pcs. It is therefore imperative to find ways to fit more components in the limited space of a phone or provide more space for batteries by down sizing the component size |
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Korean Participant Wins the MSI Beat IT 2014 Global (2014.11.03) TAIPEI, Taiwan — MSI held the MSI Beat IT 2014 Global gaming contest for the consecutive 5 years, which ended on Monday. Korean participant Solar won the championship at StarCraft II, while Russian team players Virtus.Pro topped all the others at DOTA 2 |
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World’s Smallest Integrated 6-Axis Inertial Measurement Unit (2014.11.03) STMicroelectronics announced the industry’s smallest 6-axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) qualified for Automotive applications with low-noise and improved output resolution.
The tiny ASM330LXH IMU is ideal for in-dash car-navigation solutions that require accurate and reliable inertial sensors to optimize positioning and direction, even in the absence of a strong GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal |
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New Contactless Position Sensor Provides Reliable, Software-Compatible Replacement (2014.11.03) The new AS5601 contactless rotary position sensor from ams AG, gives designers an extremely reliable replacement for conventional rotary encoders, while providing a software-compatible incremental quadrature output.
In devices which use rotary knobs, the AS5601 and its paired magnet may replace a rotary encoder without any change to the host microcontroller or its application software |