2017年12月31日 星期日

EEVblog #1048 – Ledger Nano S Crypto Hardware Wallet

A review and teardown of the Ledger Nano S crypto currency hardware wallet. Installation, setup, and transferring bitcoin cash, ethereum, and ripple.
And a comparison with the Trezor, which one is better?
Buy them HERE

Secure chip HERE

Verify your Ledger Nano S hardware HERE

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EEVblog #1047 – Solar Roadways FINALLY BUSTED! Colas Wattway

Dave finally puts an end to the idea of Solar Roadways.
We have the test results of the world’s biggest solar roadways project, the 1km long 336kW Colas Wattway project in Tourouvre France.
Stand in awe at how impractical and expensive it is!, and SPOILER, how it won’t usher in a new era of renewable solar technology.
TLDR; Impractical Folly

Test results HERE and HERE

Panel data HERE and HERE

NREL Solar Industry Report with costs
PVWatts Calculator

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2017年12月29日 星期五

Uber valuation falls 30%

Softbank, Dragoneer and other investors are to pay existing Uber shareholders $10 billion for a stake of around 20% in Uber. The deal values Uber at $48 billion compared to the last valuation at which Uber raised money which was $68 billion. It is thought that Softbank will take 15% of the investment with Dragoneer ...

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NARLabs exhibiting AI-based earthquake early warning system

The National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering under National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) is showcasing an AI (artificial intelligence)-based earthquake early warning system at the Future Tech 2017 exhibition taking place in Taipei during December 28-30.



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Branded motherboard shipments to slip 10% on year in 2018

Global branded motherboard shipments are expected to drop 10% on year in 2018 after the global PC market experienced a continued setback in 2017, particularly the PC DIY sector, which is expected to have its market size reduced an over 15% in the year, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

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Chipmakers to cash in on growing use of USB Type-C in 3C devices

With USB Type-C interface increasingly applied to smartphones, PCs and notebooks, the global Type-C chip market is very likely to double in 2018, and chip suppliers able to offer total chipset solutions to meet customer requirements for varied product designs will be in a position to cash in on the explosive market demand, according to industry sources.

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Coretronic showcasing new immersive touch control display system

BLU supplier Coretronic is showcasing its new immersive curved touch control display system at the Future Tech 2017 show in Taipei, hosted from December 28-30.

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Catcher to ramp up capacities at 2 subsidiaries in China

Metal-alloy chassis maker Catcher Technology has announced that its two subsidiaries in Suqian City, eastern China, will invest an additional NT$630 million (US$21.2 million) and NT$620 million, respectively, for capacity ramps in 2018.

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LGD approved to set up first overseas 8.5G OLED panel fab in China

LG Display (LGD) will move to set up an 8.5G OLED panel plant in Guangzhou, southern China, as South Korea government has lately issued a green light for the investment project, according to industry sources.

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Tsinghua Unigroup denies seeking cooperation with SK Hynix

Tsinghua Unigroup hasn't made any contact or talk with SK Hynix Semiconductor over technology licensing permits, as it is fully shifting to in-house development of chip design and fabrication technologies from seeking international cooperation, according to a statement from the China semiconductor group.

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Power Logic looks to increasing GPU cooling fan shipments in 2018

With Nvidia and AMD both expected to unveil their next-generation GPUs in 2018, Taiwan-based cooling fan maker Power Logic chairman Wen-Fang Hsu expects the company's shipments of cooling fans to expand significantly in the coming year as consumers are expected to purchase more cooling fans to upgrade their gaming devices.



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Dell launches new workstations in Taiwan

Dell has announced its new-generation Precision series workstations in Taiwan targeting specifically for professional business segments such as multimedia creation and industrial design, according to Terence Liao, general manager of Dell Taiwan.

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Global small and medium display revenues up 26% in 2017, says IHS Markit

Global revenues generated from small- and medium-size displays (nine-inch and smaller), including LCDs and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, are forecast to rise 26% on year, to reach US$61.5 billion in 2017, according to IHS Markit.

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Ability aims to ramp up imaging solution business

Digital camera ODM Ability Enterprise, in view of decreasing global demand for digital cameras, is shifting its focus on integrated imaging solutions, leveraging its optical, electrical and mechanical technologies, according to company chairman and president Roger Tseng.

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China software revenues rise in January-November 2017

China's software industry, which consists of 35,368 companies, generated total revenues of CNY4.902 trillion (US$723.43 billion) for the January-November period 2017, growing 14.5% on year, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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Excellence Optoelectronics to debut on emerging stock market

LED automotive lighting device and module maker Excellence Optoelectronics has obtained approval from the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) to list on the local Emerging Stock Board, according to company sources.



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Singapore enhancing AI, FinTech to power digital economy

With AI (artificial intelligence) as a core technology to drive the development of digital economy, the Singapore government is making all-out efforts to develop AI tech innovations to accelerate the digital transformation of the city state into a smart nation by 2025, while achieving smart mobility by 2030.

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2017年12月28日 星期四

Socionext Miilibeaut image processor powers ORBI Prime eyewear.

Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, has had its Milbeaut image signal processor, the SC2000, designed into  the ORBI Prime, the first 360-degree video recording eyewear. ORBI Prime is equipped with four cameras and superior image stitching technology, the innovative, sunglass-type wearable device is capable of shooting total 360-degree video with no blind spots. The Milbeaut SC2000 ...

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Collibra raises €40m

Collibra, a Brussels start-up specialising in ‘data governance’, has raised €40 million. Collibra says: ‘Transforming your business to be data-driven is a top priority. But to achieve this goal, you must enable everyone across the business to find the data they need, understand its meaning, context, and lineage, and trust that it’s right. It sounds ...

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Brogent-developed flying theater to be installed at Dreamworld in Australia

Ardent Leisure Group, the operator of Dreamworld - Australia's largest theme park located in Gold Coast, Queensland has adopted i-Ride, a flying theater designed by Brogent Technologies, with the theater to come into operation around the end of 2018, according to the Taiwan-based motion-based simulation system developer

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Acer to develop AI applications for FinTech, medical care, autonomous driving

With AI becoming a major focus of the IT industry, Acer is planning to develop AI applications including those for FinTech, autonomous driving and medical care, according to Maverick Shih, president for the company's BYOC Smart Product business unit.

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Globalfoundries gearing up to tap lucrative automotive chip market

Eyeing the explosive demand for automotive-use chips fueled by rapid development of electric vehicles, driverless cars and drones, Globalfoundries has created a brand-new automotive electronics technology platform, with its 12-inch wafer Fab1 in Dresden, Germany dedicated as a manufacturing base for automotive chipsets.



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Denso to invest JPY50 billion in JOLED, says report

Japan-based auto part maker Denso plans to invest JPY50 billion (US$442.5 million) in JOLED to finance the expansion project to be launched by the OLED panel maker, according to a Japan-based SankeiBiz report.

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Qualcomm names new president

Qualcomm has announced Cristiano R Amon - currently executive vice president of Qualcomm Technologies and president of QCT - has been promoted to president of Qualcomm, effective January 4, 2018.

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November OLED TV sales in Japan rise

Monthly sales of OLED TVs in the Japan market surpassed the 10,000-unit mark for the first time in November, according to data compiled by the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA).

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Yageo to not take new chip resistor orders

Passive component supplier Yageo has decided to not accept new orders for thick film chip resistors from channel operators effective immediately due to tight capacity, according to company sources.



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2017年12月27日 星期三

Singapore pursuing smart nation, gaining influence on regional integration

As a financial center and startup hub in Southeast Asia, Singapore has announced a spate of ambitious development projects in 2017, seeking to utilize AI (artificial intelligence), FinTech, autonomous driving and other digital technologies to drive industrial transformation and generate economic growth momentum for the next 5-15 years.

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Zinwell expects sales to rebound starting 2Q18

Zinwell, a maker of digital set-top boxes (STBs), LNB (low-noise block) converters and VSATs (very small aperture terminals), expects its sales to rebound in the second quarter of 2018 when its new plant kicks off commercial operations, according to company chairman Huang Chi-jui.



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MediaTek aims to hike market share, profitability in 2018

MediaTek will focus on further improving its market share, gross margin and overall earnings in 2018 through continued investments in new technologies, including AI, 5G, NB-IoT, 802.11ax and automotive electronics, according to company co-CEO Rick Tsai.

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Aveni extends copper interconnects to 5nm and below for BEOL integration

Aveni, a developer and manufacturer of wet deposition technologies and chemistries for 2D interconnects and 3D through silicon via packaging, has announced it has obtained results that support the continued use of copper in the back end of line (BEOL) for advanced interconnects, at and beyond the 5nm technology node.

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Denso and BlackBerry to showcase integrated automobile HMI platform at CES 2018

Denso and BlackBerry have announced the companies have jointly developed what they call the world's first integrated HMI (human machine interface) platform. Intel also collaborated in the development of this product.

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China AI core industries to generate market value of CNY70 billion in 2017, says CCID

AI (artificial intelligence) core industries in China will create market value totaling CNY70 billion (US$10.6 billion) in 2017, according to China-based CCID Consulting.

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Taiwan LED makers shifting focus to IR, sensing devices

Taiwan-based LED packaging service providers, to cope with increasing price competition in the blue-light LED segment, are shifting production focus to infrared (IR) and sensing devices, according to industry sources.

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Neo Cathay Power obtains NT$3.5 billion loan

Neo Cathay Power (NCP), a company in the PV power generation business, has signed with eight Taiwan banks for a 5-year syndicated loan of NT$3.5 billion (US$117 million), according to solar cell maker Neo Solar Power (NSP), which formed NCP with Cathay Life Insurance on a joint venture basis.



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Foxconn unveils commercial HPC in Taiwan

Foxconn Electronics has unveiled what it claims as Taiwan's first commercial HPC (high performance computing) system capable of delivering up to 4.13Gflops/sec per watt, in cooperation with Asia Pacific Telecom (APT), according to Lu Fang-ming, group vice president of Foxconn and chairman of APT.

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Alibaba Cloud upgrades AI platform

Alibaba Cloud, China-based e-commerce operator Alibaba Group's cloud computing subsidiary, has upgraded ET, its in-house-developed AI (artificial intelligence) with single intelligent capability unveiled in 2016, to ET Brain with multiple intelligent capabilities for multi-industry application, according company chief scientist for machine learning Min Wanli.

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HTC to limit number of new smartphones for 2018

HTC is expected to focus its R&D and marketing efforts on a limited number of smartphones for release in 2018 as it is struggling to bring a comeback to it smartphone business in the coming year, according to industry sources.

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MOSFET chip maker Excelliance MOS to debut on Taiwan OTC market

MOSFET and power management (PWM) IC designer Excelliance MOS will debut on Taiwan's OTC securities market in January 2018 at an initial unit price of NT$50 (US$1.672). The company is upbeat about its revenue and profit performances for 2018, particularly due to strong market demand for MOSFET chips from the consumer electronics, IoT and automotive electronics sectors, according to company sources.



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HBM2 memory solutions gaining popularity

The popularity of HBM2 (second-generation high bandwidth memory) solutions has been increasing recently due to the adoption of such products by Nvidia's Tesla P100 accelerator and Quadro GP 100 graphics card as well as AMD's Radeon Vage chip, Digitimes Research has found.

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Accelerating 5G developments to push up optical component demand

With the 3GPP having announced the first implementable 5G NR specifications recently, telecom operators and networking device makers are expected to accelerate the developments of 5G-enabled devices, pushing up demand for optical communication components, according to sources from Taiwan-based IC solution and optical component suppliers.

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Taiwan to promote autonomous driving in public transportation

The executive center of Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan, a plan drawn up by the Taiwan government, has announced its new round of projects will include autonomous driving in public transport.

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Acer to pursue maximum group synergies, says Stan Shih

Taiwan's Acer Group is carrying out a new Dragons Project, under which its chairman will pursue the group's maximum operating synergies by consolidating its subsidiaries to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter (OTC) market into a grand Acer Team, according to Acer's founder Stan Shih.

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Epistar stake in China JV to drop

LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar will see its stake in Kaistar Lighting (Xiamen), its joint-venture in southeastern China, decrease as a result of new investment from others, according to industry sources.



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Taiwan university opens AI research center

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in southern Taiwan has unveiled the AI Service and Data (AIS&D) Center to support the school, industries and government organizations in artificial intelligence research, big data analysis and solve problems.

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Data is like crude oil in new tech era, says Applied Materials VP Erix Yu

After progressing from the PC and network generation in 2000-2010 to the mobile device and social networking generation during 2010-2020, the ever-advancing tech development will enter a new generation of AI (artificial intelligence) and big data from 2020 on, with economic benefits generated by AI and data applications to grow exponentially, according to Erix Yu, group vice president of Applied Materials and president of Applied Materials Taiwan.

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IC-design houses to see revenues drift downward in 1Q18

Taiwan-based IC-design houses are expected to see their revenues decline 15-20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2018 due to rising component inventory levels at channels as well as high handset inventories at smartphone vendors, according to sources from upstream supply chains.



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Korea-based Silicon Works ramping up revenues, says Digitimes Research

Korea-based LCD driver IC vendor Silicon Works will see its revenues for all of 2017 surpass the KRW468.7 billion (US$435.89 million) it recorded a year earlier, buoyed by increasing shipments to LG Display (LGD) as well as to new clients including BOE Technology and China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT), Digitimes Research estimates.

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Handset all-screen panel shipments to reach 230 million units in 2017

Global shipments of handset-use all-screen 18:9 panels are expected to reach 230 million units in 2017 with Samsung Display accounting for a 60% share of the segment, according to a recent report released by market research firm Sigmaintell.

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China ponders price-fixing moves against NAND producers

China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department, is looking into mobile NAND price fixing according to the China Daily newspaper. NAND prices increased by over 32% in 2017, says Trendforce, though there are currently signs of a slowdown in price rises and the possibility of over-supply in the New Year. There are only ...

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2017年12月26日 星期二

Taiwan moving to set up IoT information security standards

Deeply sensing the increasing importance of information security associated with the IoT (Internet of Things) applications, Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has set 2018 as the starting year for establishing and implementing information security industry standards and verification systems for IoT devices and services to help domestic makers boost the safety and competitiveness of their products.



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Kinpo to add 2 factories in Philippines

Consumer electronics maker Kinpo Electronics, viewing that production capacities for smart home appliances at two factories in the Philippines will be fully utilized in first-half 2018, will set up two more factories there in third-quarter 2018, with one for injection molding and the other for assembly, according to company president Simon Shen.

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Lite-On Tech to showcase automotive electronics at CES 2018

EMS provider Lite-On Technology will showcase in-house-developed automotive electronic devices, including T-Box telematics, V2X (vehicle to everything) modules, HUDs (head-up displays), camera modules, radar sensors, LiDAR sensors, Qi wireless charging modules and smart LED headlights at the CES 2018 in Las Vegas during January 9-12, according to the company.

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Wistron supplies components to China EV vendor

Wistron has recently entered the supply chain of China-based electric vehicle (EV) vendor NextEV and will deliver 80,000-100,000 electric control components and modules to the client in the first year, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

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Taiwan makers reportedly hit by Kunshan pollution control in China

The city government of Kunshan, China has reportedly ordered factories, domestic and foreign-invested companies alike, operating along Wusong River to suspend their operations for three weeks as it tightens control over water pollution, according to a media reports from Taiwan.

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MediaTek may land modem chip orders from Apple in 2018

Taiwan IC designer MediaTek has a chance of winning orders for baseband modem chipsets from Apple, which is seeking additional modem chip capacity support after transferring half of its orders to Intel from Qualcomm with which the company is involved in a patent lawsuit, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan ODMs looking to transform into industrial brands, says Wistron chairman

Wistron chairman Simon Lin, commenting on Taiwan ODMs' future development, has pointed out that most makers have been keen on transforming themselves into industrial brands similar to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Lin expects Wistron to see around 10% of its overall revenues from industrial brand business by 2020.

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China smartphone market to become more concentrated in 2018

The smartphone market in China will become more concentrated in 2018 with a number of major brands including Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology dominating the local market, according to industry sources.



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Hyperscale data center count approaches 400, says Synergy Research

The number of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers is rapidly approaching the 400 mark, according to Synergy Research. The year-end 2017 total will be over 390, after fourth-quarter 2017 data center openings in China, India and Malaysia.

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LEDs reduce half a billion tons of CO2 emissions in 2017, says IHS Markit

The use of LEDs to illuminate buildings and outdoor spaces reduced the total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of lighting by an estimated 570 million tons in 2017, which is roughly equivalent to shutting down 162 coal-fired power plants, according to IHS Markit. LED lighting uses an average of 40% less power than fluorescents, and 80% less than incandescents, to produce the same amount of light.

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Beijing sets road test rules for autonomous driving

Beijing has drawn up road test regulations for self-driving vehicles, becoming the first city in China to introduce such rules.

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China has 1.41 billion mobile communication users in November

China had 1.41 billion subscribers to mobile communication services as of November 2017, increasing 0.48% sequentially and 6.86% on year, and 139.12 million (9.87%) of them were 3G users, 973.32 million (69.02%) 4G users and 1.252 billion (88.81%) mobile Internet-access users, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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India launches safeguards investigation into PV product imports

India has decided to launch a safeguards investigation into crystalline silicon solar cells and PV modules imported from 2014 to September 2017, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).



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Southeast Asia tech purchases to see two-digit growth in 2018

Bolstered by the rapid development of e-commerce in Southeast Asia, aggregate tech procurements to be conducted in 2018 by the six regional countries - Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam - are expected to surge 18.6% from an estimate of US$70 billion for 2017, with the purchases mostly on hardware devices, according to US-based Forrester Research.

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2017年12月25日 星期一

Pegatron expanding capacity in China

Pegatron has announced its subsidiary in China has spent NT$1.14 billion (US$37.8 million) acquiring a factory in Chongqing, China.

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Taiwan to start 5-year AI innovation R&D center program

Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has announced the implementation of a 5-year AI (artificial intelligence) innovation R&D center program with an annual NT$1 billion (US$33.3 million) budget beginning January 1, 2018.

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Gigabyte, TPK team up for AI and IoT

Gigabyte Technology has reportedly partnered with touch panel maker TPK Holding to establish a joint venture for obtaining orders from the artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) markets, according to industry sources.

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Regional integration, digital economy to drive growth of Southeast Asia, says Digitimes Research

After experiencing years of growth plateau, the Southeast Asian region is arriving at a critical turning point, as there are three major favorable development opportunities looming ahead, though accompanied by some challenges, according to Digitimes Research.



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StarVR forays into Japan VR market

StarVR, a joint venture between Acer and Sweden-based Starbreeze, will foray into Japan's VR market by bringing StarVR experiences into the gaming centers of Sega Entertainment.

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Gemtek to acquire SiP module maker Ampak

Networking device supplier Gemtek Technology plans to fully acquire SiP module maker Ampak Technology to enhance its presence in the IoT and cloud-enabled communication market.

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UltraChip eyes impressive revenue rise on strong ESL driver IC shipments in 2018

With market demand for electronic shelf labels (ESL) to be significantly boosted by unmanned stores, Taiwan-based driver IC supplier Ultrachip expects its revenues to experience a double-digit growth in 2018 due to robust shipments of driver ICs for ESL, according to company chairman Hsu Yu-tung.



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Smartphone sales rebound in Taiwan in November

Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market expanded 11.88% on month and 3.17% on year to a nine-month high of 650,000 units in November, according to data compiled by local retail channels.

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China after-market demand for LED lighting to take off in 2018

Along with continued growth in China's car market in 2014-2017, replacement demand for automotive LED lighting in the after-market is expected to take off in 2018, according to industry sources.

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China PV module makers strive to break barriers to shingled array technology

China-based PV module makers are making R&D efforts trying to break barriers of patents concerning shingled array modules owned by Europe- and US-based firms, according to industry sources.

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Brogent to receive help to promote motion-based simulation

The Export Processing Zone (EPZ) Administration will help Brogent Technologies, a developer of 3D dynamic simulation technology, boost development of motion-based simulation systems.

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VCSEL suppliers set for brisk sales in 2018

Taiwan-based VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) device providers, including Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC), Epistar, Advanced Wirelss Semiconductor (AWSC) and Global Communication Semiconductors, are bracing for strong sales in 2018 as more and more smartphone vendors are incorporating 3D sensors into their new models for the coming year, according to industry sources.



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Taiwan EPZ exports reach NT$660 billion in January-November

Manufacturers in Taiwan's four export processing zones (EPZ) recorded export value totaling about NT$660 billion (US$21.8 billion) during January-November 2017, increasing 15.67% on year, and the total export value for the whole year is estimated at NT$720 billion, according to the Export Processing Zone Administration.

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Taiwan November manufacturing production index up

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 114.32 for November 2017, increasing 0.65% sequentially and 1.16% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

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Taiwan November unemployment rate down

Taiwan had 439,000 jobless citizens in November 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.71% which dropped 0.04pp sequentially and 0.16pp on year, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

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First-tier China solar mono-Si wafer makers under pricing pressure

First-tier China-based solar mono-Si wafer makers have been under pressure from clients seeking lower prices but they are striving to maintain their quotes, according to industry sources.

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2017年12月22日 星期五

First transistor created 70 years ago: the device that changed the world

Since its inventors were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work in 1956 commentators have observed the milestones in the development of the humble transistor. And while transistors may be regarded as humble now, because so many of the tiny semiconductors are used as switches or amplifiers in every electronic device, the impact of the ...

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NXP and Baidu team on driverless cars

NXP and Baidu have announced a cooperation in autonomous driving. Under the terms of the agreement, NXP will join Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform, Apollo, and provide semiconductor products including millimeter wave radar, V2X, security, smart connectivity and in-vehicle experience technologies. Apollo is Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform which provides a comprehensive, secure and reliable ...

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DJI to push drones for commercial applications

China-based drone player Da-Jiang Innovations Science and Technology (DJI), which currently has two-thirds of the worldwide consumer drone market, is planning to expand into the commercial sector to cover applications including agriculture, green energy, film and television, construction, media and emergency rescue.

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Acer enjoys growing notebook sales in North America during 2017 holiday season

Thanks to year-end holiday demand, Acer's notebook sales went up 78% on year in North America during the holiday period from November 19-26, according to company chairman Jason Chen citing figures from research firm.

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Global smaller-size LCD panel shipments to see negative CAGR of 6.9% during 2018-2022

Global shipments of small- and medium-sized LCD panels are estimated to suffer a negative CAGR growth of 6.9% during the next five years to reach 1.8 billion pieces in 2022, down from 2.4 billion estimated for 2018, according to Digitimes Research.

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Poindus Systems to debut on emerging stock market

Own-brand POS (point of sale/service) device maker Poindus Systems will debut on Taiwan's on the Emerging Stock Board (ESB) on December 25, according to the company.

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Taiwan wafer foundry revenues to surge 7.8% sequentially in 4Q17

Taiwan wafer foundry revenues for the fourth quarter of 2017 are estimated to surge 7.8% sequentially and 9.3% on year to US$10.54 billion, with the growth mainly seen in revenues from communication applications and associated with 10nm process, according to Digitimes Research.

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Global shipments of wearable devices to nearly double by 2021, IDC says

The global shipments of wearable devices are expected to grow from 113.2 million units in 2017 to 222.3 million in 2021 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.4%, according to IDC.

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Diode maker HYE to deepen employments in automotive electronics sector in 2018

With the solar power and automotive electronics sectors expected to sustain stable growth momentum for a while, discrete power component supplier HY Electronic (HYE) will step up exploring the automotive aftermarket while maintaining its stable share of the solar diode market in the first quarter of 2018, when the synergies of its acquisition of Taiwan GPP (TGI) is also expected to realize to further bolster the firm's business performance, according to industry sources.

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Shipments of iPhone X to reach 30-35 million units in 4Q17, say sources

Shipments of the iPhone X are estimated to reach between 30-35 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017 and stay flat or drop slightly in the first quarter of 2018, according to sources from the semiconductor packaging and testing service industry.

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China enforces rules on recycling of scrap batteries used in electric vehicles

China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has brought into force a set of technical rules on dismantling of scrap traction batteries used in electric vehicles for recycling, with the rules drawn up by its subordinate Standardization Adminstration, according to industry sources.



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US lowers preliminary anti-dumping rate on Taiwan-made solar cells

The US Department of Commerce (DOC) has decided to lower the preliminary anti-dumping rate imposed on Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers from an average of 4.0% to a unified 1.07% at its second review, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan makers urged to develop more niche MLCCs

Though lower-tier commodity MLCCs have become a seller's market due to lingering supply shortfall, Taiwan makers must step up the development of niche-type MLCCs if they want to tap into the supply chains of high-end smartphones and automotive electronics, according to industry sources.

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Tons Lightology ramping sales of own-brand LED lamps

LED lamp and lighting solution provider Tons Lightology expects the revenue proportion for own-brand lamps and lighting projects to rise from about 15% in 2017 to over 20% in 2018, according to company sources.

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Sanan to purchase more MOCVD equipment with government subsidies

China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics has obtained subsidies of CNY93.135 million (US$14.1 million) from the local government in Xiamen for the purchase of 30 sets of 4-inch MOCVD equipment, according to industry sources.

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2017年12月21日 星期四

First 5G NR spec completed

Today, the first 5G NR spec was completed. AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sony, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, and ZTE say that the completion of the ...

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5G NR spec completed

Today the 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary Meeting in Lisbon  completed the first implementable 5G NR specification. AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sony, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, ...

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Cree upgrades LED streetlights

Cree has upgraded its NanoOptic Precision Delivery Grid optical system to enhance the performance of Cree Streetlights across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) markets. The optics will be mounted on new orders of luminaires across the XSP, Urban, Square LED and RKT Series. The redesigned optics (Type 210, 275 and 2SH) deliver an ...

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Renesas brings out auto camera starter kit

Renesas has brought out  the R-Car V3M Starter Kit to simplify and speed up the development of New Car Assessment Program (NCAP, Note 1) front camera applications, surround view systems, and LiDARs. The new starter kit is based on the R-Car V3M image recognition system-on-chip (SoC), delivering a combination of low power consumption and high ...

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Comment: It’s time for a DC homecoming

There is a certain irony to the fact that as I sat down to write this opinion piece we had a power cut, writes Blane Judd. It was a Sunday morning so not as bad as it could have been, but still an inconvenience. While my article was protected because I was using the laptop, ...

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Top notebook vendors and ODMs see mild on-year shipment growths in November

The top-5 notebook brands' combined shipments, after experiencing two consecutive months of on-year declines in September and October, witnessed an on-year growth of 3% in November mainly thanks to increased volumes from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo and Asustek Computer.

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China government making efforts to boost AI development

China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) in July 2017 began implementing the Planning for Development of New-generation AI (artificial intelligence) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on December 13 announced the Three-year (2018-2020) Action Plan to Promote Development of New-generation AI Industry.

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BOE kicks off commercial production at 10.5G line

China-based BOE Technology has announced it has officially kicked off commercial operations at its first, as well as the world's first, 10.5G line with initial production to focus on large-sized 8K panels.

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COF packaging in growing demand

With COF (chip on film) package technology increasingly emerging as a mainstream packaging method for driver ICs for smartphone-use LCD and OLED panels, Taiwan players in the IC packaging sector, including COF substrate maker JMC Electronics, driver IC packaging and testing specialists Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Techonolgies, will benefit from the lucrative packaging segment, according to industry sources.

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Foxconn to list IIoT subsidiary in Shanghai

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has decided to list its subsidiary Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) for common A-shares trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

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SMIC chairman reelected as CSIA head

Zhou Zixue, chairman of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has been reelected as head of the China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA).

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2017年12月20日 星期三

China may buy into Japan Display

China is discussing a $1.8 billion investment in Japan Display, the cash-strapped, bailed-out, consortium of Japanese panel makers, reports Kyodo News. Three China companies are making the investment:BOE Technology Group Co,  Tianma Microelectronics and Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology. Japan Display, formedfrom the failing panel operations of Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba, has been loss-making for ...

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Hynix may license flash technology to Tsinghua

Amid reports that the China anti-trust regulator is looking askance at the presence of Hynix in the winning bid for Toshiba’s memory unit, comes a report from the Yonhap News Agency that Hynix is talking to Tsinghua Unigroup about licensing flash technology. Tsinghua is outfitting a massive memory fab at its Yangtze River Memory Storage ...

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2017 semi market grows 20%

The semiconductor market in 2017 will finish with annual growth of about 20%, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, making 2017 the highest annual change since 32% in 2010. Memory, specifically DRAM and NAND flash, is the major market driver. WSTS projects the memory market will grow 60% in 2017, while the semiconductor market excluding memory will ...

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Uber is a taxi service rules ECJ.

Uber is a taxi service not an app, says the European Court of Justice which is the final court of appeal in Europe. Uber had argued it was a ‘mere intermediary’ in arranging taxi rides. “This ruling will not change things in most EU countries where we already operate under transportation law,” says Uber, “however, ...

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China to adjust electric car subsidization

China will adjust its subsidization scheme for electric vehicles to be launched in 2018, reducing or cancelling subsidies for entry-level models and increasing subsidies for high-end ones, according to China-based media reports.



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IoT platform operator PTC to set up reality lab

US-based IoT platform operator PTC has announced a plan to set up a Reality Lab to develop related AR, VR and MR applications in line with the Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing development trend, according to company sources.

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China market: China Mobile sets 2018 orders for optical components

China Mobile has announced the winning bidders for the optical communication components it plans to purchase in 2018, which will help boost shipments of Taiwan-based optical component makers starting the first half of 2018, according to industry sources.

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LG Display to focus on 65-, 77-inch OLED panels in 2018, says report

LG Display is expected to shift the focus of its OLED TV panel production to 65- and 77-inch models in 2018 compared to the previous focus of 55- and 65-inch models, according to a Korea-based etnews report.

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Taiwan IC designers stand to benefit from booming gaming market

With market demand for gaming consoles and notebooks to stay robust for a long while along with the growing popularity of e-sports fueled by increasing international competitions, Taiwan IC designers are upbeat about significant growth in revenues from offering ICs for peripheral gaming devices, according to industry sources.

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China market: Smartphone brands launch limited editions to promote brand image

China-based smartphone vendors, including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, have waged a new round of promotional campaigns by launching limited editions of their premier models in order to ramp up their brand image and market share, according to industry sources.

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AI R&D needs to understand industries, says Microsoft Research Asia executive

R&D of AI (artificial intelligence) technology should be based on understanding of what the industries really need, according to Eric Chang, deputy managing director for Microsoft Research Asia based in Beijing, northern China.



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Digitimes Research: Multi-rotor drone development faces bottleneck

Multi-rotor drones are now employed to do many jobs, such as pesticide spraying and field inspection, but it remains challenging to increase their duration on the air and loading capacities that could extend their uses.

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China to add PV power capacity of 52.2GWp in 2017

The total installation capacity for new distributed PV systems and power stations in China in 2017 is estimated at 52.2GWp, increasing 51% on year, according to China-based media reports.

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Taiwan market: Garmin launches Vvivoactive 3

Garmin has unveiled Vivoactive 3, its first GPS smartwatch equipped with Garmin Pay contactless e-payment functions, for immediate launch in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$8,900 (US$296), according to the company's senior marketing manager for Asia Scoppen Lin.

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Digitimes Research: Global LCD TV shipments to drop slightly in 2017

Global LCD TV shipments are expected to edge down 2.1% on year to 212 million units in 2017 before expanding by a CAGR of 1.2% during a forecast five-year period to reach 228 million units in 2022, according to an estimate of Digitimes Research.

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Competition in global TV market to remain keen in 2018

Competition in the global TV space will remain fierce in 2018 as vendors will unveil new OLED, QLED, 8K and other models to grab a greater share of the market, according to industry sources.



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Digitimes Research: ARM-based models may dominate lower-end PC market

As Microsoft and Qualcomm jointly announced in early December that the first Windows 10 notebooks with ARM-based Snapdragon 835 processors will be officially launched in early 2018, there will be more and more PCs with ARM processor architecture hitting the market. This is expected to let ARM-powered models dominate the midsize and low-end PC market, leaving the high-end professional and gaming segments to x86-based processors, according to Digitimes Research.

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Samsung starts 2nd gen 10nm DRAM production

Samsung says it has begun mass producing 2nd-generation 10nm nanometer 8Gb DDR4 DRAM. The 2nd-generation delivers a 30% ‘productivity gain’ over the company’s 1st-generation 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4, says Samsung. Performance and power have been improved about 10% and 15%. respectively. The new 8Gb DDR4 can operate at 3,600Mbps per pin, compared to 3,200 Mbps of the ...

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Take more risks, says Intel CEO

Intel CEO Brisn Krzanich has sent a memo to employees urging them to take more risks and harking back to the examples of its three great founders, Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. Here is the text: Intel employees, As 2017 comes to a close, I want to reflect on this year and the ...

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2017年12月19日 星期二

Mouser signs Keysight Technologies

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Keysight Technologies. The Keysight product line available from Mouser Electronics includes oscilloscopes, benchtop power supplies, waveform generators, and digital multimeters. Keysight has oscilloscopes from high performance to extreme value and bandwidths ranging from 50 MHz to 200 MHz. Keysight’s InfiniiVision 1000/2000 X-Series oscilloscopes are engineered to provide ...

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Toshiba sampling 2.4TB 10,500 rpm HDD

Toshiba is sampling  a new generation of 10,500rpm enterprise performance hard disk drives for mission-critical servers and storage. The  series has a 2,400GB capacity model. Built to deliver superior low-latency performance, the AL15SE Series supports 12Gbit/s[2] SAS dual-port interface to optimize the host transfer rate. All models utilize a space-efficient, power-saving 2.5 inch, 15mm form-factor. ...

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Winners of Farnell element14 ‘IoT on Wheels’ design challenge

element14.com has announced the winners of its ‘IoT on Wheels’ design challenge, sponsored by STMicroelectronics. Over the course of 11 weeks, the participants focused on design, research, prototyping, coding and testing their IoT-connected transportation solutions and posted frequent blog posts throughout the process on their element14 project pages. To help build their projects, each participant ...

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X-FAB launches NVM blocks

X-FAB has availability of two new Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP solutions – a low power embedded Flash (eFlash) IP block and a NVRAM compiler. Both are based on the company’s proprietary 180 nm XH018 mixed-signal CMOS technology and are targeted at applications requiring high reliability and field re-programmability while operating at low power and in ...

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BrightSparks 2018: Be one to watch

Having uncovered the industry’s brightest young talent last year, the search is on for the BrightSparks of 2018.

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Huxen opens demonstration center for smart office applications

Smart office solution provider Huxen, a subsidiary of the Aurora group, has opened a demonstration center to promote the digital transformation by local enterprises using smart office equipment and devices as well as cloud systems, according to company sources.

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MediaTek and ITRI unveil new transmission technology for 5G

MediaTek and the Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have jointly developed a LWA (LTE/Wi-Fi Link Aggregation) prototype system and other technologies to accelerate the development of commercial applications for 5G networks, according to a joint statement by the two parties.

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Smartening up Bluetooth earphones: Q&A with UnlimiterHear executives

With the growing popularity of smart speakers and voice assistance tools offered by first-tier Internet service providers, many have focused on the development of emerging home devices. But for UnlimiterHear, which develops audio solutions, it sees the potential of integrating voice assistance functionality into mobile devices such as Bluetooth earphones and speakers. UnlimiterHear expects the new smart Bluetooth earphones and speakers to be able to gradually replace traditional Bluetooth earphones and speakers.

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Casetek to raise fund for capacity expansion

Chassis maker Casetek Holdings, a subsidiary of Pegatron Technology, has announced a plan to issue 80 million new shares at NT$92 (US$3.05) per unit to raise NT$7.36 billion in total.



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Colorful expects rising revenues in 2017

Colorful Technology expects its revenues to rise on year in 2017 thanks to graphics card and motherboard demand from the gaming market and the cryptocurrency mining fad. As for 2018, while the two major businesses are expected to continue enjoying growths, the China-based vendor is confident that its new product lines including chassis, power supply, solid state drive (SSD), memory and all-in-one PCs, will achieve strong sales.

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Taiwan MLCC makers reluctant to expand production capacity despite supply shortfall

MLCC supply has fallen short of demand since June 2017, and the shortfall is expected to last into the second half of 2018. But Taiwan MLCC suppliers such as Yageo and Walsin Technology are conservative about expanding their supply capacities and will continue hiking prices to check demand, or carry out collaborative sales schemes with OEM and EMS customers to secure profits for both sides, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan backend firms eyeing OLED driver IC opportunities

With China's LCD panel industry emerging as a major supply source worldwide and demand for panels among China brand vendors of ICT products expanding significantly, Taiwan-based LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses ChipMOS Technologies and Chipbond Technology are both actively moving to enhance their ties with China-based players.

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Logic IC packager Greatek to see record revenues in 2017, rosy 2018

Logic IC packaging and testing service provider Greatek Electronics is expected to score record annual revenues in 2017 and sustain significant growth momentum in the first half of 2018, thanks to booming orders for leadframe-based QFN (quad flat no-lead) packaging services and obtaining the ISO 26262 certification helpful to winning high-end automotive semiconductor packaging orders, according to industry sources.



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Adata reports strong earnings for January-November

Memory module maker Adata Technology has reported pre-tax profits of NT$2.417 billion (US$80.56 million) for January-November 2017, up 78.4% on year. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$10.51 before taxes for the 11-month period.

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Digitimes Research: Taiwan handset shipments post gains in 3Q17

Shipments of handsets by Taiwan's brand vendors and ODMs reached 22.9 million units in the third quarter of 2017, up 11.2% sequentially and 85.3% on year, according to Digitimes Research.

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Taiwan market: Didi Chuxing recruiting taxi drivers

China-based Didi Chuxing has obtained official permission to provide ride-hailing services in Taiwan and is recruiting taxi drivers. Didi has maintained that its service is an smartphone app-based platform to match taxi drivers with passengers and not responsible for mediating between the drivers and passengers about any disputes.

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2017年12月18日 星期一

Seedstars World selects 12 winning start-ups in Ukraine

Seedstars World, the international start-up competition, held its Ukraine event in Kyiv last week when 12 start-ups won through to the next round of the competition. The 12 startups from Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv, will represent Ukraine at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 12th where they will compete with startups from 65+ ...

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Farnell sponsors Aston hackathon

Farnell has become the  Gold Hardware Sponsor of Astonhack, a 24-hour Hackathon organised by Aston Computer Science Society and held at Aston University in Birmingham as part of Major League Hacking’s 18th season. The organisers define a Hackathon as “where teams of up to four people work together to build something over 24 hours. Challengers ...

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LT8364 current mode step-up regulator has 2.8V – 60V input range

The  LT8364 current mode, 2MHz step-up DC/DC converter has an internal 4A, 60V switch. It operates from an input voltage range of 2.8V to 60V, and is suitable for applications with input sources ranging from a single-cell Li-Ion battery to multicell battery stacks, automotive inputs, telecom power supplies and industrial power rails. The device can be ...

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Mofcom could derail Toshiba sale

The latest twist in the Toshiba saga is that China could derail the deal. China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) is reported by Bloomberg to have raised concern about Hynix’s presence in the winning consortium. With only four significant NAND producers in the world, the prospect of Hynix taking control of Toshiba will affect markets. Hynix’s ...

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Globalfoundries charts 2-pronged approach for FD-SOI process

Globalfoundries (GF) will have its 12-inch wafer fabs in Dresden, Germany focus on using FD-SOI (fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator) process technology to fabricate automotive-use chips for the European market, while its fab in Chengdu, China will be dedicated to manufacturing ICs on the process for IoT (Internet of Things) and 5G applications in the China market, according to Thomas Morgenstern, vice president of GF.



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Taiwan market: LG, Oppo to launch new smartphones for year-end holidays

LG Electronics and Oppo both will launch new smartphone models in the Taiwan market on December 22, heating up competition for the year-end shopping season, according to sources from retail channels.

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Medical device, material makers cluster in Kaohsiung Science Park

Kaohsiung Science Park (KSP) under the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) has become a cluster of medical device and material makers in Taiwan, with 73 enterprises stationed there, according to the STSP administration.

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3D sensing to become mainstream for smartphones in 2018

3D sensing is expected to replace fingerprint sensing as mainstream for smartphones in 2018 with more smartphone vendors, including Huawei, Xiaomi Technology and Oppo, expected to incorporate 3D sensors into their new smartphones for the coming year, according to industry sources.

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LCD TV shipment downtrend to reverse in 2018, says WitsView

WitsView has reported that global shipments of branded LCD TV sets will total 210 million units in 2017, down 4.1% on year, but 2018 shipments will grow by 3.9% to 218 million.

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Taiwan LED firms develop niche products to avoid price war

Taiwan-based LED firms Epistar, Tyntek and Lextar Electronics Bright Led Electronics and Harvatek, to cope with pricing campaigns for commodity products from China-based competitors, have developed devices for market-niche applications, according to Chinese-language newspaper Commercial Times.

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Chipbond seeking to cement China market share, says chairman

Taiwan-based LCD driver IC packaging and testing service provider Chipbond Technology's latest strategic investment deployments in China are mainly designed to consolidate its market share there amid the increasingly fierce competition and changing market climate, company chairman Wu Fei-jian has said.



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Kilopass NVM OTP IP achieves 3-lot qualification on GF 14nm LPP technology

Kilopass Technology, a provider of semiconductor logic embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) intellectual property (IP), has announced that it has achieved a 3-lot qualification on Globalfoundries (GF) 14nm LPP (low power process) technology platform for its one-time programmable (OTP) NVM technology.

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SPIL, KYEC to benefit from Huawei-Dialog tie

Taiwan-based IC backend service firms Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) are expected to see their sales momentum continue into 2018 thanks to an enhanced tie between Huawei and Dialog Semiconductor, according to industry sources.

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Oracle acquires Aconex

Oracle has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Aconex, a cloud-based solution that manages team collaboration for construction projects, for about US$1.2 billion.

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North American semiconductor equipment industry billings up in November, says SEMI

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.05 billion in billings worldwide in November 2017 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI.

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Taiwan finalizes 2018 feed-in tariffs for renewable energy

Taiwan's Bureau of Energy has finalized feed-in tariffs for renewable energy to be generated in Taiwan in 2018, with slight adjustments to the tentative rates announced on October 11, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

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China automakers to adopt more LED headlights in 2H18

China-based automakers are expected to increase adoption of LED headlights for high-end car models to be launched in second-half 2018, with such devices' penetration to rise from 8-9% at present to 15%, according to industry sources.

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ASE, SPIL reschedule stock swap for October 2018

IC packaging and testing service providers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have decided to defer the long stop date for share exchange from December 31, 2017 to October 31, 2018 beause their plan to set up a joint holding company in May 2018 had just been approved by Anti-monopoly Bureau under China's the Ministry of Commerce November 24.



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China to put EV quotas on car manufacturers,

China is to ramp up its EV ambitions by putting quotas on domestic vehicle producers which will oblige them to make a set percentage of their total vehicle production electric. A company producing 1.2 million EVs in China a year will be obliged to produce 20-30,000 EVs. The quotas are to take effect from 2019. ...

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2017年12月17日 星期日

Qualcomm could lose 30% of workforce

Bad news for Qualcomm is that, if Broadcom succeeds in buying it, 30% of its employees may lose their jobs. Apparently, over the last four years and five acquisitions by Broadcom, around 30% of the employees of the five companies bought – some 5000 people – have lost their jobs. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan (pictured) ...

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Thales to buy Gemalto

Thales is to buy Gemalto for €4.8 billion after topping a €4.3 billion offer made by Atos. “Combined with Gemalto’s unique leading digital security portfolio, Thales will be ideally positioned to offer an end-to-end solution, to secure the full critical digital decision chains, from data creation in sensors to real-time decision making,” said a joint ...

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Bitcoin transactions suffering long delays

It is currently taking four and a half hours to sell or buy a Bitcoin, reports Business Insider. Each sale or purchase has to be confirmed by six miners. Miners prioritise the highest priced transaction and they also charge a reported $26 per trade. When the crash comes, the time transactions take and the fees ...

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2017年12月15日 星期五

FET demonstrates new 5G base station with Ericsson

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has showcased its 28GHz 5G base station prototype system with Ericsson in Taiwan, the world's eighth such demonstration following similar events held in the US, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

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Foxconn subsidiary looking to list on Shanghai Stock Exchange

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced that its subsidiary Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) will be applying for listing on Shanghai Stock Exchange with the detail of the move to be released at an investors conference to be held on January 31, 2018.

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IC substrates distributor Niching upbeat about 2018 performance

Taiwan-based semiconductor packaging material and equipment distributor Niching Industrial is optimistic about its 2018 performance due to rising demand for memory IC substrates, substrates for cryptocurrency ASIC and QFN package lead frames, according to company general manager Chang Hung-chi.

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Chipbond to sell stake in China-based subsidiary

LCD driver IC packaging and testing service provider Chipbond Technology will sell a 53.69% stake of its Suzhou subsidiary, Chipmore Technology, to a group of investors, including an investment fund owned by the Hefei City government, Beijing Kinetic Energy Investment Fund and ESWIN, according to the company.



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China market: HTC enjoys strong pre-orders for Vive Focus

HTC has seen higher-than-expected pre-orders for its standalone VR head-mounted display (HMD), the Vive Focus, in China, with the device's high popularity to benefit HTC's December results, according to industry sources.

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MediaTek Sensio-powered smartphones, wearables to hit market in 1Q18

MediaTek has revealed that it has received orders for its newly released health monitoring solution, Sensio MT6381, from China-based first-tier smartphone vendors and other wearable device makers, with related devices powered by Sensio to hit the market prior to the second quarter of 2018.

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Optical communication specialist EZconn sees bright prospects in 2018

Taiwan-based optical communication products maker EZconn expects a significant revenue growth in 2018, as it will start mass shipments of 10G PON (passive optical networks) devices in the first quarter and ship its 100G PON modules for use in datacenters in the second half of the year, while continuing to maintain a double-digit sales growth for RF (radio frequency) coaxial connectors, according to company sources.

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Merck, GemTech teaming up to roll out smart windows in Taiwan

In an effort to develop new and future-oriented application fields for its liquid crystals beyond displays, Germany-based Merck will collaborate with GemTech Optoelectronics, a Taiwan-based maker of ITO conductive glass, to manufacture smart windows and privacy windows that can cut power consumption by 30% and provide privacy protection, according to Dick Hsieh, chairman of Merck Taiwan.

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Huawei, Oppo, Vivo cut smartphone orders by over 10%, say sources

China-based smartphone brand vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo (BBK) are taking about less 10% of smartphone shipments than their original orders from the supply chain makers for the fourth quarter of 2017, according to sources from related upstream suppliers.



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JD Logistics looks to smart logistics

Global logistics operations are expected to enter into a new era, in which the entire logistics process flows are likely to be carried out under unmanned and yet smart environment to deliver goods in a more efficient and accurate manner, while meeting customer demand, according to Wang Zhen-hui, CEO of JD Logistics, a JD.com company.

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Africa's smartphone market bounces back in 3Q17, says IDC

Africa's smartphone market bounced back from two consecutive declines to post a sequential growth of 4.4% to 21.7 million units in the third quarter of 2017, spurred by ongoing economic recoveries in some of the continent's major markets, according to IDC

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Digitimes Research: Japan Li-ion battery materials suppliers expanding capacities

In view of fast growing demand for automotive lithium (Li)-ion batteries arising from increasing global sales of electric vehicles, Japan-based makers of Li-ion battery materials are expanding their production capacities, according to Digitimes Research.



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MediaTek unveils new biosensor solutions for smartphones

MediaTek has unveiled its first 6-in-1 smartphone biosensor module, MediaTek Sensio MT6381, a powerful advanced health monitoring solution which makes it easy to track heart rates, blood pressure trends, peripheral oxygen saturation levels and more.

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China tech giants forming alliances to tap immense AIoT opportunities

With AI (artificial intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) applications combing fast to create immense AIoT business opportunities, China tech giants are gearing up to strengthen their deployments and secure a preemptive presence in the new niche market by forging strategic alliances or building common ecosystems, according to industry sources.

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November SEMI billings up 1.6%

SEMI’s November billings figure was 1.6% up on October at $2.05 billion. The November figure is 27.2% higher than the $1.6 billion of billings in November 2016. . “November billings for North American equipment manufacturers increased modestly for the first time in four months,” said Dan Tracy, Senior Director, Industry Research and Statistics, at SEMI. ...

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Hitachi to install proton beam therapy unit in Madrid

Hitachi is to provide Clinica Universidad de Navarra (CUN) with its proton beam therapy (PBT) system. The PBT System will be installed at CUN’s facility in Madrid, Spain and is equipped with state of the art technology including spot scanning capability for treating certain forms of cancer. The system includes a compact synchrotron accelerator, full ...

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2017年12月14日 星期四

Bridgetek expands PanL system

Bridgetek continues to expand on the scope of its pioneering PanL system level solutions, adding new hardware that will accelerate the implementation of ‘intelligent spaces’ within a broad spectrum of different sectors. These will include domestic, retail, hospitality, enterprise and utilities, right through to factory automation, agriculture and medicine. The whole premise of the PanL ...

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Machine vision firm runs AI deep learning on Nvidia platform

MVTec Software, a Munich-based machine vision specialist, says it it now possible to run deep learning functions on embedded boards with Nvidia Pascal architecture. The deep learning inference in the latest version of the firm’s Halcon machine vision software was successfully tested on Nvidia Jetson TX2 boards based on 64-bit Arm processors. The deep learning ...

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MIPI makes market push for I3C sensor interface

The MIPI mobile interface organisation is opening access to its sensor interface specification, called MIPI I3C. This is an important interface upgrade to the long-established I2C technology. MIPI I3C, initially released to the MIPI Alliance member community in January 2017, is the next generation interface for sensor networks currently using I2C and SPI. Companies, including those not ...

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Nexperia adds in-vehicle protection diodes

Nexperia, the  former Standard Products division of NXP, today announced a new generation of in-vehicle network (IVN) protection diodes that offer a higher surge current, greater ESD robustness and a significant improvement in ESD clamping performance. The new AEC-Q101 qualified PESDxIVN series of surface mount devices is optimized for the latest generation of CAN, LIN, ...

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Digi-Key recognised for connector sales by Harwin

Online distributor Digi-Key has achieved sales growth of 40% for Harwin product lines over the last 12 months, and as a result has received the connector firm’s global distributor award for 2017. Doug Steele, v-p of sales at Harwin, writes: “This year Digi-Key have really stood out as a powerful force in progressing Harwin’s market ...

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Farnell secures Croatian BBC micro:bit rollout

Farnell  has signed an agreement with the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) for the delivery of 45,000 BBC micro:bit in an official national rollout led by a privately financed nonprofit IRIM. As part of the national rollout, all students in Grade 6 will receive a BBC micro:bit to help them develop their skills in ...

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Soaring Server Market

Google, AWS, Microsoft and Facebook are by far the biggest owners of servers dwarfing their China counterparts Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, The top server suppliers remain HPE, Dell and Lenovo with market shares of 17%, 16% and 7% respectively, according to DRAMeXchange, which expects the server market to grow 5.53% next year. Server DRAM is ...

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Foxconn Technology to invest in HK-based IDG Energy

Metal-alloy chassis maker Foxconn Technology has announced that it will have five of its subsidiaries each invest HKD297 million (US$38.02 million) to subscribe to new shares issued by IDG Energy Investment Group - a Hong Kong-based holding company engaged in investment in exploration of crude oil and development and production of oil and natural gas.

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AI to create more jobs by 2020, says Gartner

According to Gartner, 2020 will be a pivotal year in AI-related employment dynamics as artificial intelligence (AI) will become a positive job motivator. AI will create 2.3 million jobs in 2020, while eliminating 1.8 million.

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NXP pushing partnerships with China developers

NXP Semiconductors has announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and business unit of Alibaba Group. The two companies are working together to enable development of secure smart devices for edge computing applications and have plans to further develop solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT).



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Quanta 4Q17 revenues to benefit from new iMac Pro, says paper

Apple began selling its new iMac Pro priced starting US$4,999 in several countries on December 14 and the orders are expected to greatly boost sales at its ODM, Quanta Computer, in the fourth quarter, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News report.

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BLU maker Coretronic reports increased November revenues

Backlight unit (BLU) maker Coretronic saw its consolidated revenues expand 7.4% on month to a two-year high of NT$5.145 billion (US$171.48 million) in November.

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Aruba expects bullish Taiwan market in 2018

Aruba Networks, a subsidiary of HPE, has seen its sales so far in Taiwan surpass its guidance set for 2017 and expects its business in the local market to remain bullish in 2018, according to Magic Hsu, sales director and general manager of Aruba Taiwan and ASEAN.

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Digitimes Research: Tesla to expand Supercharger stations in 2018

Tesla had sold 233,856 electric vehicles (EVs) and deployed 948 Supercharger stations with 6,426 charging piles in total around the world as of September 2017, and as the company is expected to sell 800,000 EVs cumulatively by the end of 2018, it has to expand Supercharger stations with 25,000 charging piles in total in 2018.

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IBM to set up PowerAI experiment center in Taiwan

IBM will set up an experiment center in Taiwan for more potential clients to try out its PowerAI solutions, which have been adopted by many corporate customers in the country, including China Steel, E-life Mall, and Tamkang University, according to IBM Taiwan.

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STMicroelectronics acquires Atollic

STMicroelectronics has announced its acquisition of software-development tools specialist Atollic. Atollic is the supplier of TrueStudio, an integrated development environment (IDE) for the embedded development community focusing on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers, like ST's STM32 family of 32-bit MCUs.



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Digitimes Research: Korea pushing 5G commercialization

The South Korea government has set an ambitious goal to grab a larger pie of the global 5G market as it calculates that its 5G hardware and software market is expected to grow at a CAGR of only 75.6% during the period from 2020-2026 against a much faster pace of 148% projected for the global 5G market for the forecast period, according to Digitimes Research.

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Electronic component maker Sinbon actively developing intelligent products

Electronic connector and cable assembly maker Sinbon Electronics, focusing on what it calls the "MAGIC" (medical health, automotive, green energy, industrial applications and communications) sectors in recent years, will move to upgrade its businesses toward the "iMAGIC+" direction by incorporating the "intelligence, internationalization and integration" elements into its products and services, according to company sources.

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Truly Opto shifts focus to automotive applications

China-based flat panel maker Truly Opto-Electronics has shifted the focus of its production away from handset panels to automotive displays due to emerging business opportunities arising from the sector, according to industry sources.



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Digitimes Research: All-screen smartphones help ease handset panel oversupply

The growing popularity of all-screen smartphones is playing a role in easing global oversupply of handset displays, as the production of 18:9 panels will consume 12.5-20% more production capacity than that for 16:9 ones, according to Digitimes Research.

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Consolidation seen among China solar poly-Si wafer makers

China-based solar-grade poly-Si wafer makers face a wave of cnsolidation as many of them have either gone bankrupt or seen financial difficulties.

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50% of PV supply chain makers to be forced out in 5 years, says LONGi president

Technological innovations hs been changing the PV industry, resulting in inevitable consolidation that will see 50% of its supply chain makers globally forced out of market in five years, according to Li Zhengquo, president for the largest China-based solar-grade mono-Si supplier LONGi Green Energy Technology (formerly Xi'an LONGi Silicon Materials).

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Taiwan science parks post January-October revenues of NT$1.998 trillion

Government-run Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) and Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) generated combined revenues of NT$1.998 trillion (US$66.11 billion) in January-October 2017, growing 4.70% on year, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

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Komatsu adopts Nvidia AI technology

Komatsu, one of the world's largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, has selected Nvidia as its partner to bring AI (artificial intelligence) to jobsites, making them safer and more efficient, according to the GPU vendor.

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2017年12月13日 星期三

Cruden simplifies hardware driving simulator design 

Dutch firm Cruden has developed a simulation tool for automotive R&D that combines hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) set-ups and driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulators. As an example, Cruden installed a driver simulator merged with a dSPACE HIL set-up at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where students can integrate hardware into the driving simulator. HIL set-ups, for ...

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Airbus helps PMR networks meet new EU security directive

A European directive on network and information security (NIS) comes into force next year. The aim of the NIS directive is to improve the member states’ cooperation and protection against attacks. The European Union’s directive on network and information security (NIS), was adopted in summer 2016, and national governments will have to implement the legislation ...

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Teledyne e2v expands business ties with China

Teledyne e2v has opened a new healthcare and security facility to support its growing business in China. The facility in Chaoyang District, Beijing will be customer facing for radiotherapy, security and other high-power RF applications. Ewan Livingstone, President RF Power: Commercial, officially opened the site on 4 December 2017, and Teledyne e2v is looking forward ...

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Panasonic offers single-side stable 16A LZ-N relay

Panasonic’s latest electromechanical switch is a single side stable 16A relay. The normally open contact as well as the change-over contact can switch loads up to 16A/250V at ambient temperatures of up to 105°C. The clearance and creepage distance between contact and coil is min. 10mm despite the relay’s very compact dimensions of 12.5 x 28.8 ...

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