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Better Looking by Wearing the Smart Underwear (2014.02.13)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — The pride of Taiwan! III cooperated with NTUST to produce a smart underwear “SS Shapewear” and won the German iF Product Design Award, received an iF seal of outstanding design quality. The concept of wearables has been put into practice in this underwear to help women to be more slimmer simply by wearing it |
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Taiwanese Smartphone Application IC Market Volume Up 7.2% Sequentially in 3Q 2013 (2014.02.13)
(圖一) Taiwanese Smartphone Communications IC Market Volume, 1Q 2011 - 3Q 2014(Source: MIC, February 2014)
According to Eddie Han, a research associate of Taiwan`s MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), an ICT industry research institute based in Taipei, Taiwanese smartphone application IC market volume topped about 221 |
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Industry's Smallest 12-V, 750-mA DC/DC Power Regulator (2014.02.13)
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the industry's smallest 12-V, 750-mA DC/DC power regulator. The SIMPLE SWITCHER regulator features high performance and tiny nano packaging to drive space-constrained and power dense applications in a variety of markets, including consumer, industrial and automotive |
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Taiwan government, TSMC and MediaTek to Joint a Startup (2014.02.13)
TAIPEI , Taiwan - Taiwan National Science Council(NSC) announced on Wednesday will hand with TSMC, MediaTek , Ruentex Group and ITRI to set up a startup company－ " Small Apple Orchard Company" , is expected to invest NT$10 billion within three years , to develop small-volume production of a wide range of different items |
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World’s First Stand-Alone NFC microSD Card Certified for Mobile Payments (2014.02.12)
ams AG, a leading provider of high performance analog ICs and sensors, today announced that US-based DeviceFidelity, Inc. is using unique ams RF technology in its latest CredenSE 2.10 Near Field Communication (NFC) microSD card to enable secure, certified NFC transmissions between any mobile phone and contactless payment terminals from Visa and MasterCard |
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Global Tablet PC Shipments to Reach 455 Million by 2017 (2014.02.12)
(圖一) Worldwide Mobile PC Shipment Forecast by Application (Source: NPD DisplaySearch)
According to the NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report, globaltablet PC shipments will rise to 315 million in 2014, comprising more than 65% of the market |
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Samsung Patent Applications Significant Growth in Taiwan (2014.02.12)
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs Intellectual Property Office on Tuesday announced 2013 patent application statistics, both the number of applications of nationals and foreigners were recession. For nationals, is the first recession since the 2009 at 3 |
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Solving Next-Generation Network Data-Transmission Requirements (2014.02.11)
Supporting next-generation 400 Gbps Ethernet applications, Molex’s zCD Interconnect System will transmit 400 Gbps data rates (25 Gbps per-serial-lane) with excellent signal integrity (SI), electromagnetic interference (EMI) protection and thermal cooling |
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Check Your House Quake Safe Now (2014.02.11)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Taiwanese is no stranger to earthquake, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) that it hit 22,000 times a year in average from the year 2001 to 2012. Though earthquakes are unpredictable, now just a few clicks away from finding out whether the buildings they live in can withstand the next big earthquake |
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Toyota Launches Fuel Cell Car Impel Supercapacitor Industry (2014.02.11)
The supercapacitor industry closed last year (2013) with a continued double-digit growth. According to Maxwell Technologies' executives, China has been the main source of growth. New announcements confirm what IDTechEx has stated in recent years: the supercapacitor and the battery industry are the same |
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U-blox Launches GNSS with 8th Generation In-house Chip (2014.02.10)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN —Swiss u blox, a global leader in cellular and positioning modules and integrated circuits, introduces its popular MAX, NEO and LEA GNSS modules in u blox’ next-generation, multi-constellation positioning platform u blox M8 |
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TSMC, Quanta, and AUO Announce Revenue for January (2014.02.10)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — TSMC, Quanta, and AU Optronics Announce its Revenue for January, respectively. TSMC today announced its net revenues for January 2014: On a consolidated basis, revenues for January 2014 were approximately NT$51 |
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Delta Supplies Passive Components for iPhone 6 (2014.02.10)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Delta Electronics said that its microwave passive components are at full speed of manufecturing, and under current equipment hoping to boost the production by 50 percent this year. Delta also has not only received passive components' orders from Apple Inc |
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Behind the Scenes Startup Mastermind: Chen Ren-bin Boldly Charges into Silicon Valley (2014.02.10)
On a late autumn afternoon in a well-known restaurant tucked away in a Tienmu alleyway, while the air at “Good Cho’s” is filled with a thick ambience that flirts with the international, all of the products on sale were created in Taiwan |
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Largan Plans to Expansion for High Phone Camera Demand (2014.02.10)
Taipei , Taiwan - Largan has confirmed an expansion plan on Sunday, will start looking for about 9.7 hectares of land to build a new plant in Taichung, Changhua and Nantou area in Taiwan, and add at least 3,000 employees , with a total expenditure of about $USD 1 billion , is the biggest case of a plant expansion of Largan |
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DesignCon Recognizes Altera for FPGA and SoC Innovations (2014.02.07)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Altera Co. announced on Wesdnesday that it received two DesignVision Awards at DesignCon 2014 for its innovations in FPGA and SoC technology. Altera’s next-generation, 14 nm Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs won for best semiconductor and IP, and the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Altera Edition toolkit won for best design verification tool |
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Macronix and GUC Announce Consolidated Net Sales for January 2014 (2014.02.07)
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Macronix International Co. today announced the unaudited consolidated net sales for January 2014 were NT$1.645 billion, a decrease of 1.7% from the previous month of NT$1.673 billion in 2013. While GUC announced its net sales for the same month were NT507 million, down 11 |
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TI Unveils Transmitter IC with Foreign Object Detection for Qi Wireless Charging Stations (2014.02.07)
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced its next-generation wireless power transfer circuit with foreign object detection that will allow designers to bring to market 3-coil, 5-V and 12-V A6 charging stations compliant with the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) 1 |
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HOLTEK Release 1.8V~5.5V Operating Voltage New Serial EEPROMs (2014.02.07)
Holtek is delighted to announce the addition of new EEPROM devices to its existing EEPROM memory range. Known as the HT24LC02、HT24LC02A、HT24LC04、HT24LC08、HT24LC16、HT24LC32、HT24LC64、HT2201 and HT93LC46, these new additions are supplied in two interface types, I2C and 3-Wire types and have an operating voltage range of 1 |
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Farewell to Digital Camera? (2014.02.07)
(圖一) Since the rising of smartphone and tablet have built-in camera, digital camera has fallen victim to which.
It's 2014, probably it's time to say farewell to digital camera now. According to many experts and statistics that have shown once-popular digital camera is turning into a has-been and becoming a flash in a pan soon |
Overall, the number of times the Bus specification standard is rising between mainframe computers and peripherals, data transfer speed, capacity and quality of the application process. Let's Introduction to several important bus application specifications.