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Smart-Meter ICs for the Low-Energy Age, Ensuring Most Accurate Billing (2014.05.19)
As today’s home electronics and appliances offer ever-lower standby power, new smart-meter chips from STMicroelectronics enable utility companies to improve billing by measuring accurately down to extremely low power levels |
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Taiwan IC Revenue Total US$15.9B, 3.4% Decline On-Quarter (2014.05.19)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－ The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association(TSIA) survey showed that Q1 2014 Taiwan IC revenue as a whole totaled US$15.9B, 3.4% decline on-quarter and up 15.3% on-year, in which Memory was the largest growth compared to last year up 37 |
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ELAN Has Been Granted an Essential Patent of Touch Control Design for Narrow Bezel (2014.05.19)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－ ELAN Microelectronics has been granted an essential patent of touch control design for narrow bezel by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office and the State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. This will allow ELAN to expand its network layout for global patent applications related to touch, and enhance its competitiveness in the international market |
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Arduino and Atmel Unveil the Arduino Zero,Open-Source Hardware Platform (2014.05.18)
Arduino LLC, the leading open-source hardware platform in the maker and education community and Atmel Corporation, announced the latest development board, Arduino Zero.
Arduino Zero is a simple, elegant and powerful 32-bit extension of the platform established by Arduino UNO |
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High performance 1-Phase BLDC Motor Pre-driver with Speed Control and Minimum Speed Setting (2014.05.18)
The ZXBM1021 is a high performance and integrated feature rich and simple to use low noise single phase Brushless DC (BLDC) motor control pre-driver for fans, blowers, extractors and motor drive solutions.
For system flexibility the motor speed can be controlled by a DC voltage signal from either external control voltage or a PWM signal |
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High-performance DACs reduce board space and lower system costs, while increasing accuracy (2014.05.18)
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a new family of digital-to-analog converters (DACs) that enables engineers to increase the accuracy and performance of programmable logic controller (PLC) I/O modules, field sensors and transmitters, and building automation systems, while decreasing overall system size and cost |
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ADATA Launches the Premier SP610 2.5” Solid State Drive (2014.05.16)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash application products, today launches the Premier SP610 2.5” SATA III (6Gb/s) SSD. With a SMI controller, the Premier SP610 maintains high read/write speeds consistently for stable performance, and also features the advanced BCH ECC (Error Correction Code) technology |
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Mentor Graphics Analog FastSPICE Platform Certified by TSMC 16nm FinFET Manufacturing Processes (2014.05.16)
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Mentor Graphics Corp. announced earlier this week that the Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform and AFS Mega have
been certified for version 1.0 SPICE of the TSMC 16nm FinFET process technology through its SPICE Simulation Tool Certification Program |
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Xiaomi Announces Second Generation of Mi TV (2014.05.16)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－At a press conference on Thursday in Beijing, Xiaomi unveiled Mi TV2 using the 49-inch 4K display (resolution is 3840 x 2160) with 12.9kg weights , which is 30 percent less than its predecessor, 15.5mm thin, while the bezel is kept to a sensationally thin 6 |
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Iindustry’s Highest Performing 2 GSPS Data Converter (2014.05.15)
Analog Devices, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of the 12-bit, 2-GSPS, AD9625 A/D converter. It provides the best noise and dynamic range performance in its class for better receiver sensitivity along with the ability to discern smaller signals in the presence of noise, clutter, blockers and interferers |
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Monitor and Gather Smart Electricity Distribution Data Faster and More Accurately (2014.05.15)
Utilities and infrastructure providers can now simultaneously and accurately measure distributed power grid data with Petaluma, (MAXREFDES30#), a subsystem reference design from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
Utility organizations worldwide are deploying more robust applications that require highly accurate distributed grid status data to leverage distributed generation technologies such as solar and wind power |
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Analysys: Chinese Smartphone Well Position to Dominate the Worldwide Market (2014.05.15)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－ Analysys Mason predicts that Chinese smartphone manufacturers are well positioned to dominate the worldwide market. 1.3 billion smartphones will be sold in China in the next 5 years. Assuming an average selling price of USD50–100, the Chinese smartphone market will generate between USD65 billion and USD130 billion in that period |
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Qualcomm Demonstrates Live Publc LTE-TDD Broadcast with Sohu (2014.05.15)
SHENZHEN –Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in collaboration with Sohu.com, a leading Chinese online media, search, gaming, community and mobile service, has conducted the first announced live public demonstration of LTE-TDD Broadcast in China, featuring High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP (DASH) technologies |
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Vietnam Severe Riots Spread to Local Taiwanese Manufacturers (2014.05.15)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－ Anti-China protests in Vietnam turn into riot and cause the collateral damage of 30 Taiwanese manufactures including FENewC, Zhengxin, Unipresident, GMTC, TPPC etc. and all of which have postponed the operation of Vietnamese production line expect Formosa Plastic Group |
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New Firmware,Test Service,Chip Package and Reference Design Supporting SHDSL (2014.05.15)
Lantiq announced an SHDSL initiative, designed to bring the unique data-rate and reach performance of G.SHDSL and Ethernet First Mile (EFM) to new applications.
SHDSL is an established broadband technology, which is now being adopted in more and more industrial applications and new markets |
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Silicon Image Reference Design Partnership with MediaTek (2014.05.14)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Silicon Image , a provider of multimedia connectivity solutions and services, announced that its reference design partnership with MediaTek has resulted in five new design wins for MHL-enabled smartphone models from various China and international brands |
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New Portfolio of Rugged Reliable 600V Energy-Efficient Trench IGBTs (2014.05.14)
International Rectifier(IR) announced the expansion of its portfolio of energy-efficient 600V insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) in a variety of packages. The new rugged, reliable IRxx46xx Series of devices are optimized for a complete power range spectrum |
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Taiwan Strive for Wearable Device Market by Comprehensive Supply Chain (2014.05.14)
TAIPEI, Taiwan－Industrial Economics and Knowledge (IEK) predicts that the global wearable devices market and the volume of equipment are expected to reach 20.6 billion and 0.191 billion in 2018, separately. Accordingly, Taiwan electronics manufactures could build complete supply chain to occupy this market |
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COMPUTEX d&i award 2014 is On The Go (2014.05.13)
At the coming COMPUTEX TAIPEI, the iF DESIGN ASIA conducted COMPUTEX d&i awards will be its highlight, which the most innovative designs from Taiwan will be awarded. Before this big event, CTIMES interviewed Sean Lee, Managng Director of iF DESIGN ASIA to introduce d&i awards and give us a clear picture in advance |
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HiSilicon Expands Cadence Palladium XP Usage For Mobile and Digital Media SoC (2014.05.13)
HiSilicon further expanded usage of the Cadence Palladium XP Verification Computing Platform as its emulation solution for mobile and digital media System-on-Chip (SoC) and ASIC development.
HiSilicon provides ASICs and SoCs for communication network and digital media, including solutions for network surveillance, videophones, Digital Video Broadcast and IPTV |
