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Demand for Top Chinese Brands Drove Worldwide Smartphone Sales in Q318, Gartner Says (2018.12.06) In the third quarter of 2018, Chinese brands Huawei and Xiaomi, helped drive global smartphone sales, according to Gartner, Inc. Overall, sales of smartphones to end users grew 1.4 percent in the third quarter of 2018 to reach 389 million units |
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MediaTek Debutes Its First Multi-mode 5G Baseband Chipset Helio M70 (2018.12.06) Today at the China Mobile Global Partner Conference in Guangzhou, MediaTek’s first 5G baseband chipset Helio M70 was unveiled to the domestic market following its initial launch mid-year. The Helio M70 is among the industry’s first wave of 5G multi-mode integrated baseband chipsets, cementing MediaTek’s status as a leader in the 5G era |
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Toyoda Gosei Develops Air Conditioner Register with LED Illumination (2018.12.06) Toyoda Gosei has developed an air conditioner register with LED illumination that uses wireless power transfer technology based on magnetic resonant coupling, the first such application in an automotive part.
The new vent register, used on the LEXUS UX, has LED illumination to improve the night visibility of the knob that adjusts the direction and strength of air flow |
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Renesas Electronics Announces Industry’s First USB-C Combo Buck-Boost Battery Charger (2018.12.06) Renesas Electronics Corporation introduced the industry’s first USB-C buck-boost battery charger to support both Narrow Voltage Direct Charging (NVDC) and Hybrid Power Buck-Boost (HPBB) charging for notebooks, ultrabooks, tablets, and power banks using the reversible USB Type-C connector cable |
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Clientron Debuts Valued Endpoint S-Cube Thin Client Running on Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (2018.12.06) Clientron unveiled its brand new economic thin client S-Cube Pi 3 B+, running on the latest Raspberry Pi 3 B+ platform, specifically designed for high performance and economic desktop virtualization solution for the education, SMB, finance, healthcare and enterprise markets |
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Toshiba Adds New 12TB/14TB Helium-Sealed Models to Both the N300 NAS and X300 HDD Line (2018.12.06) Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation is today adding 12TB and 14TB models to both its N300 NAS Hard Drive and X300 Performance Hard Drive series.
The new 12TB and 14TB models use a helium-sealed design, enabling the 3 |
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UWin Nanotech and Philippine Xin-Ye Sign Eco-friendly Gold Mining Technology Agreement (2018.12.06) TUCHENG, Taiwan - Uwin Nanotech, at its Taipei Tucheng headquarters, held a signing ceremony for the eco-friendly gold mining technology authorizing agreement with the Philippines Xin-Ye Industry. Under the agreement, Uwin nanotech will authorize its patented eco-friendly gold stripping solution GP-860 to Xinye to raise a revolutionary green gold mining process in the Philippines |
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Mitsubishi, the University of Tokyo Reveal New Mechanism for Enhancing Reliability of SiC Power ICs (2018.12.04) Mitsubishi Electric and the University of Tokyo announced today what they believe to be an all-new mechanism for enhancing the reliability of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductor devices in power electronics systems. The new mechanism was realized as a result of confirming that sulfur beneath the interface of gate oxide and SiC captures some of the electrons conducting in the device’s current path |
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SK Innovation Announces New Battery Manufacturing Plant in Georgia, United States (2018.12.04) SK Innovation announced it will create more than 2,000 jobs and invest $1.67 billion to build a new electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant in Georgia.
SK Innovation, which is part of SK Group, is making the investment to better compete in the growing global EV battery market |
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Keysight, China Telecom Collaborate to Accelerate Commercial Deployment of 5G Technology (2018.12.03) Keysight Technologies announced that the company has extended its collaboration with China Telecom to accelerate commercial deployment of 5G technology.
The extended collaboration supports China Telecom’s 5G new radio (NR) device trials using Keysight’s 5G NR network emulation solutions, based on the company’s UXM 5G wireless test platform, for protocol and radio frequency (RF) performance validation |
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PIDA: LiDAR in ADAS Applications Will Experience Most Rapid Growth (2018.12.03) TAIPEI, Taiwan - The Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA) pointed about that following the emergence of smart vehicle topics, LiDAR has become the focus of the global automotive industry. With a compound growth rate of 24 |
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Global Smartphone Production Volume to Remain Flat in 4Q18 Due to Sluggish Demand, Says TrendForce (2018.12.03) According to TrendForce’s latest report on this year’s smartphone production, the total volume for 3Q18 grew by 8% from 2Q18 to around 380 million. The growth was attributed to a gradual recovery of demand in 2Q18 and the stock-up of inventories related to releases of new devices and holiday sales events |
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HOLTEK New BA45F5542/BA45F5542-2 Smoke Detector MCU with Power Line Transceiver (2018.12.03) Holtek announces two new networking type smoke detector Flash MCUs, the BA45F5542 and BA45F5542-2 devices. These new devices have an integrated fire protection dual-line bus which uses both voltage and current modulation for data reception and transmission |
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Fujitsu Develops Single-Panel Antenna to Simultaneously Support Multiple 5G Communications (2018.11.29) Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of the world's first equipment technology to enable simultaneous communications to four users with a single antenna panel in the 28-GHz band, in the world's most compact structure |
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Vishay Intertechnology F339X2 305VAC Automotive X2 EMI Suppression Film Capacitors (2018.11.29) Vishay Intertechnology introduced the new F339X2 305VAC series of Automotive Grade X2 electromagnetic interference (EMI) suppression film capacitors for standard across the line applications (50 Hz / 60 Hz). The F339X2 305VAC series is qualified to both AEC-Q200 (rev |
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AAEON honored Machine of the Year Award at EVEX 2018 (2018.11.29) TAIPEI, Taiwan–AAEON has been honored with the Machine of the Year award at EVEX 2018, a European Vending & Coffee Service Association event in Sevilla, Spain. The award recognizes AAEON’s capability in the technology of future vending services and the commitment in the A |
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TI Introduces a New Family of LED Drivers with 12-bit PWM, 29-kHz Dimming Frequency (2018.11.28) First 12-bit, 29-kHz RGB LED Driver Family Enables Vivid Color and Seamless Animation with Zero Audible Noise
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a new family of LED drivers with integrated, independent color mixing, brightness control and a power-saving mode |
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x86 Server CPUs Remain Market Mainstream, 7nm Platform May Help AMD to Increase Market Share (2018.11.28) DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, notes that x86 continues to be the mainstream architecture for server CPUs this year, with Intel and AMD being the market leaders. Particularly, Intel dominantly represents around 98% of the total server CPU shipments worldwide in 2018 |
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TSIA: AI Will Drive Continual Prosperous Development of Taiwan’s IC Industry (2018.11.28) HSINCHU, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) in Hsinchu held the 2018 Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Convention, which was hosted by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) CEO and Vice Chairman C |
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Seoul Semiconductor Expands Patent Infringement Litigation against Fry’s Electronics (2018.11.28) Seoul Semiconductor announced that it has expanded its patent infringement litigation against Fry’s Electronics, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
In its amended complaint, Seoul asserts that top brand televisions being sold in Fry’s stores infringe 19 patents covering backlight lenses |