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LED Packaging Companies Work on Niche Markets, Says TrendForce (2019.01.22) Mainstream high- and mid-power LED package products in the Chinese market witnessed price declines in December, according to the latest report from LEDinside, a division of TrendForce.
“LED manufacturers have continued to clear their inventories in December due to the weak demand at the year end, which lowered the prices in the general lighting market”, says LEDinside analyst Terri Wang |
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HOLTEK New BC2302A/B Sub-1GHz Superheterodyne OOK RF Receiver ICs (2019.01.22) Holtek announced the release of its new Sub-1GHz Superheterodyne OOK high performance RF receiver ICs, the BC2302A and BC2302B. The BC2302A, which operates in the 300MHz~450MHz bands, and the BC2302B, which operates in the Sub-1GHz bands of 300MHz~935MHz, both operate within the ISM license-free frequency bands |
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Samsung Introduces New Ultra-Slim 20Mp ISOCELL Image Sensor for Full-Screen Display Smartphones (2019.01.22) Samsung Electronics introduced its smallest high-resolution image sensor, the ISOCELL Slim 3T2. While being the industry’s most compact image sensor at 1/3.4 inches (approximately 5.1-millimeters diagonally), the 0.8μm-pixel ISOCELL Slim 3T2 delivers 20-megapixel (Mp) resolution for both front and back cameras in today’s sleekest mid-range smartphones |
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Toshiba Expands Ethernet Bridge IC Lineup for Automotive and Industrial Applications (2019.01.22) Toshiba has expanded its lineup of automotive Ethernet bridge ICs with the new “TC9562 series”: TC9562AXBG, which offers more interfaces than Toshiba’s current bridge ICs, the TC9560 series; TC9562BXBG which supports Ethernet TSN and Ethernet AVB; and TC9562XBG, which offers simpler IC configuration than current products |
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MIX-H310A1: Powering Your Vision for Industry 4.0 (2019.01.22) AAEON has announced its launch of MIX-H310A1, a next-generation industrial motherboard in mini-ITX form factor powered by 8th Generation Intel Core processor family (formerly Coffee Lake) for applications requiring high-performance computing and graphic-intensive systems |
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MediaTek to Win the 5G Competition by Alliance and Independent R&D (2019.01.19) TAIPEI, Taiwan - The 3GPP standard conference will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, next week. To foster the local 5G supply chain in Taiwan, MediaTek, a key organizer of the conference, strove for keeping the event to be held in Taiwan with the aim of developing universal standards |
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HUBER+SUHNER to Launch Innovative LISA Double Access Fiber Management System at Cisco Live 2019 (2019.01.19) Since the reliability of a data center is business critical for the operator, downtime is not acceptable. Due to the fragility of fiber cabling, deploying a comprehensive yet simplistic structured fiber management system is crucial to the successful operation of a data center |
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Polyplastics' New "DURANEX 532AR" PBT Resin for Automotive Market (2019.01.19) The Polyplastics Group has announced the introduction of a new polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) resin which delivers excellent alkali stress crack resistance for a range of automotive applications. The new grade, DURANEX(R) 532AR, also exhibits outstanding hydrolysis/heat shock resistance and electrical performance for components in the chassis and engine compartment |
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TSMC Keeps Attacking Advanced Process Despite The Headwind (2019.01.18) TAIPEI, Taiwan - The growth of the semiconductor industry is to be very conservative in 2019. TSMC said in its four-quarter investor conference that the global semiconductor market growth would be only increased 1% while foundry will remain flat, and TSMC will higher than the average |
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Built for NFV, the FWS-7830 Is Virtually Unbeatable (2019.01.18) AAEON releases the FWS-7830, a cutting-edge system that expands the role of network security appliances. In addition to handling traditional network platform functions such as firewall protection, unified threat management (UTM), and intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS, IPS), the FWS-7830 is also perfectly equipped to manage network function virtualization |
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Keysight Strengthens Support for Automotive Customers with New Facility in Nagoya, Japan (2019.01.18) Keysight Technologies has opened a new automotive customer center in Nagoya, Japan. This is another in a series of automotive customer centers established by Keysight, including facilities in Michigan, United States, Boeblingen, Germany, and Shanghai, China |
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Value of Semiconductor Mergers and Acquisitions Falls Considerably (2019.01.18) IC Insights noted that the historic flood of merger and acquisition agreements that swept through the semiconductor industry in 2015 and 2016 slowed significantly in 2017 and then eased back further in 2018, but the total value of M&A deals reached in the last year was still nearly more than twice the annual average during the first half of this decade |
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DA-1100 Fanless Embedded Computer with Intel Pentium® N4200 / Celeron N3350 processor (2019.01.18) Cincoze, a professional manufacturer of embedded computing platforms, introduced its palm-sized fanless embedded computer DA-1100 series. Cincoze’ new DA-1100 series is based on the Intel Pentium N4200 / Celeron N3350 processor with integrated Gen9 Intel HD Graphics 500 series |
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TV Panel Price Decline May Stop in 2Q19, Says TrendForce (2019.01.17) LCD panel makers have continued to bring new production capacities to the market, and the increasing pressure from oversupply has resulted in a sharp decline in panel prices, according to the latest report by WitsView, a division of TrendForce |
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Keysight, UNISOC Sign Agreement to Build 5G Industrial Ecology (2019.01.17) Keysight Technologies announced that the company signed an agreement, along with 17 other industry partners, that aims to strengthen industrial ecological cooperation and drive world economic growth by accelerating 5G research and commercialization |
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Lenovo Invests in ePaper Provider CLEARink (2019.01.17) Lenovo CLEARink Displays, the leader in next generation ePaper, announced today that Lenovo has invested in CLEARink. The two companies have commenced joint development activities to develop the next generation of tablet devices |
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Techman Robot Showcase its Industrial Solutions at RoboDEX (2019.01.16) TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese industrial robot solution provider Techman Robot announced today that it will participate in the Japanese robot exhibition RoboDEX on January 16th to pursuit the Japanese collaborative robot market. The company also regards expanding Japanese market as one of the key strategies in 2019 |
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DK's Subsidiary TDK-Lambda Uses Transphorm GaN to Advance PFH Series AC-DC Power Supply (2019.01.16) Transphorm confirmed that leading power supply manufacturer TDK-Lambda, a group company of TDK, has released its first GaN-based AC-DC power supply. The full function 504 W rated PFH500F-28 is the company’s latest generation AC-DC baseplate cooled power supply module |
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ViewSonic Launches its New Elite Sub-Brand of Monitors (2019.01.16) TAIPEI, Taiwan — ViewSonic announces a new sub-brand of professional gaming monitors. ViewSonic Elite gaming products are specifically engineered with a sleek and minimalist aesthetic, while boasting practical gamer-centric designs |
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Line Pay, Apple Pay, and JKoPay the Top 3 Mobile Payment Apps of 2018 in Taiwan: MIC (2019.01.15) MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), a Taipei-based government-backed IT research institute, conducted a survey on mobile payment apps in the third quarter of 2018 and the results suggest that Taiwan's top five most popular mobile payment apps in 2018 were Line Pay (22 |