2017年6月30日 星期五

Computer Virus Shuts Down Equipment at Chip Manufacturer

ESSEX JUNCTION, VT—Production was temporarily halted at GlobalFoundries’ microchip factory here after a computer virus was uploaded to some manufacturing tools.

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Tight Memory Supply Drives Micron's Record Sales

Favorable pricing environment for both NAND and DRAM helps pay down debt, strengthens foundation for 3D NAND and 1x DRAM push.

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Sharing the Art and Science of Lithography

I love my work in lithography and sharing my experiences with young people, hoping to inspire them when they realize the fun and art behind science.

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Productronica expands with addition of Semicon Europe and IT2Industry shows

Productronica is to expand this year with the addition of two co-located events as it focuses on robotics, miniaturisation, semiconductors and digitalisation. The Munich show, which focuses electronic manufacturing services and PCB manufacturing, will host Semicon Europe and IT2Industry for the first time this year. Alongside the new shows, Productronica will be split into five ...

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Stadium Stontronics upgrades UK power and cables facility

UK power supply and cable product manufacturer Stadium Stontronics has upgraded its Reading-based facility in an investment that, it says, demonstrates its commitment to being a “world-class” player in its market.

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Worldwide cloud IT infrastructure revenues grow 14.9% to US$8 billion in 1Q17, says IDC

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, vendor revenues from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew 14.9% on year in the first quarter of 2017, reaching US$8 billion.

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Tong Hsing starts shipments for 3D sensing products

Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, which provides assembly and packaging services for CMOS image sensors as well as other niche ICs, started shipments for 3D sensing products in small volume in June, and has seen orders for CMOS image sensors resume, according to market sources.



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Taiwan market: Microfusion pushing advertisement solutions using Microsoft Azure

Taiwan-based cloud solution provider Microfusion Technology has launched its Dofi solution, targeting Taiwan's digital advertisement market.

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Qualcomm announces accelerator program to push development of standalone VR HMDs

Qualcomm has announced a HMD accelerator program (HAP) to help VR device manufacturers quickly develop premium standalone VR HMDs.

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Taiwan to launch self-designed remote sensing satellite

Taiwan will launch FormoSat-5, a self-designed remote sensing satellite, on August 25, 2017, with the launch to be undertaken by US-based SpaceX on a commission basis using its Falcon 9 rocket at a launch pad in California, according to the National Space Organization (NSPO) of the government-sponsored National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs).

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China DRAM startup to enter 19nm chip production in February 2018

Hefei Rui-Li (transliterated from Chinese) Integrated Circuit will start making DRAM chips using 19nm process technology around the end of February 2018, according to industry sources.

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LED light bulb prices continue to fall

Although LED packaging prices have become stable due to tight supply of LED chips, LED light bulb vendors are under pressure to keep lowering retail prices, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan market: Apple first store opens on July 1

Apple Taipei 101 opens July 1 at 11am, bringing Apple’s products, services and in-store experiences to customers in Taiwan for the first time.

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Micron posts profit growth on record revenues in fiscal 3Q17

Micron Technology has announced revenues for its third quarter of fiscal 2017 climbed to a record US$5.57 billion, 20% higher compared to the second quarter and 92% higher compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2016.

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AMD launches Ryzen PRO desktop processors for professional-grade performance

Following the global launch of its new EPYC family of server processors, AMD has added another tier to its enterprise CPU portfolio with the introduction of AMD Ryzen PRO desktop processors. Designed to meet demands of today’s compute-intensive workplace, Ryzen PRO desktop processors will bring reliability, security, and performance to enterprise desktops worldwide.

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Optical filter maker Apogee looks to 20% revenue increase in 2017

Active/passive optical filter maker Apogee Optocom expects its revenues to expand 20% on year in 2017 as its order visibility has extended to the second half of the year.

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CHPT to break ground for new HQ

Taiwan-based Chunghwa Precision Test Technology (CHPT) will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new headquarters which is scheduled to open in 2019, according to the IC testing solution provider.

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Foxconn Interconnect to lists on HKEX

The Foxconn Group's connector making affiliate Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT) has started an initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) and is planning to raise HKD3 billion (US$384.3 million) via the move.



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Taiwan solar cell makers face tight supply of solar-grade polycrystalline wafers

Taiwan-based polycrystalline silicon solar cell makers are facing tight supply of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers, according to the makers.

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Talks to sell Toshiba Memory continue; announces new products

Toshiba has disclosed the company continues to negotiate the sale of its memory chip business, Toshiba Memory, with Innovation Network of Japan, Bain Capital Private Equity and Development Bank of Japan, as the parties aim to reach a mutually satisfactory definitive agreement.

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Lextar Electronics to focus on profitability in 2017

Lextar Electronics will focus its 2017 operations on profitability instead of revenue growth, by maintaining improvements in product mix, according to company chairman David Su.

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MWC Shanghai 2017: QCT displaying new devices for telecom applications

Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), a server subsidiary of Quanta Computer, has participated at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2017 for the first time showcasing four new products that were developed with partners including VMware, Red Hat and Intel, for the telecom market.

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Gigastorage ruled to pay Phillips for infringing DVD patents

Taiwan’s Intellectual Property Court on June 29 has ruled on Phillips’ patent infringement charge against Taiwan’s Gigastorage with Gigastorage needing to pay NT$1.04 billion (US$34.74 million) to Phillips for infringement plus interest generated between June 25, 2015 and the day that the fine is paid off.

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Digitimes Research: Taiwan IC design industry output value to rise 3% in 2017

The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry will grow only 3.3% on year to NT$637.3 billion (US$20.9 billion) in 2017, as a result of weaker growth coming from MediaTek, according to Digitimes Research.

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Taiwan solar cell makers plan to set up joint venture PV module factory

Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers plan to set up a joint venture PV module factories via strategic alliances to target domestic demand, according to industry sources.



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MWC Shanghai 2017: HP, Alibaba showcasing education 2-in-1 device

China-based Alibaba and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have announced the HP YunOS Book 10 G1 2-in-1 device featuring YunOS operating system developed by Alibaba at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Shanghai 2017. The device will mainly be pushed into the education sector.

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2017年6月29日 星期四

Raspberry Pi wins RAE MacRobert Prize

Raspberry Pi has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s highest honour – the MacRobert Prize. Previous winners have been the Severn Bridge, the Kinect sensor and the CT scanner. Pi has sold 14 million devices in its six years existence overtaking the Sir Clive Sinclair’s Spectrum and Lord Sugar’s CPC 464 to become the best-selling ...

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EU puts Qualcomm-NXP deal on ice

The EU investigation into the $38 billion Qualcomm-NXP bid has been paused pending delivery of information from the two companies, The EU says that the date for delivering a verdict – which was to have been Oct 17 – will now be put back with the ‘clock re-started’ from the date the information is provided. ...

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Dialog puts another $15m into Energous

Dialog is to put another $15 million into Energous, the wireless charging specialist, on top of the $10 million it invested last November. Energous’ WattUp chips deliver over-the-air power and charging of electronic devices at a distance. Dialog and Energous developed the DA4100 wireless power transmitter which has now been integrated along with Dispalog’s SmartBond ...

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Bridgetek adds WiFi to its CleO smart display

Building on its CleO smart display and its accessories, Bridgetek has now added wireless connectivity to the mix. Transmitting and receiving in the 2.4 GHz frequency band, the CleO35-WiFi module is compliant with the commonly used IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi standards. With the objective of enabling the control and monitoring of smart devices within the domestic ...

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ReRAM Goes 3D

The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has reinvented its resistive-RAM process to achieve a ReRAM that is amenable to 3D stacking, giving the "universal" memory an edge over flash.

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What's Wrong With 3D NAND?

3D NAND comes with several technical issues and misunderstandings.

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13 Views of Sensors Expo 2017

Sensors Expo showed the broadening range of motion, environmental, biological and other sensors flooding the emerging Internet of Things.

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'Europe First' Emerges as Theme of Tech Reboot

The joint collaboration agreement announced by Europe's two large research institutes this week has amplified an upbeat "pro-Europe" sentiment. "For Europe, it's no longer about CMOS," said CEA-Leti CEO.

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ARM SoCs Take Soft Roads to Neural Nets

NXP, Qualcomm, and ARM have all released math libraries to run neural network inference jobs on their existing CPU, GPU, and DSP cores.

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Electronics patent of the month: Smart rope senses location of rescuers

Featuring a 'smart rope' that senses its position in space and can allow remote monitoring, for example by a rescue team.

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Airbus in venture to launch satellites for global internet

Global internet access using a constellation of satellites orbiting the earth could be the answer to the world’s data traffic needs. Behind the plan is a joint venture between Airbus of Europe and US comms firm OneWeb. The first mini-satellites will be manufactured on the Airbus assembly line in Toulouse and first satellites are set ...

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UK chip sales jump 30% in May, says ECSN

Sales of electronic components in the UK grew by an impressive 24% in May compared with the same month a year ago, according to figures released by the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN). The star performer was semiconductor sales which were up 30% for the month. In comparison the global electronic components market is growing ...

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Rohde & Schwarz gives analyser 2GHz bandwidth for 5G work

Rohde & Schwarz is expanding the internal analysis bandwidth of its FSW high-end signal and spectrum analyser up to 2GHz. This is relevant to developers of 5G radio access technologies which need a very large bandwidth to analyse wideband signals. Adding this wideband option to the signal analysers, with frequency ranges up to 43.5 GHz ...

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Imagination in talks with potential buyers

Imagination Technologies is in talks with potential buyers over a sale of the whole business as the fallout from its loss of Apple as a customer continues.

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2.4GHz antenna is fine for metal assemblies

Antenova can now supply a 2.4GHz antenna which is designed to operate without de-tuning on metal surfaces or where the product housing is mainly metal. The antennas in the firm’s Reflector range are formed of two layers, one electrically isolated from the other, so as to provide RF shielding to the second layer. This means ...

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Imec looks to China to expand customer base

Imec is looking for customers in China. The head of Imec China, Huiwen Ding, points out that Imec has almost completed development of its 7nm process technology and is engaged in developing 5nm, 3nm and 2nm processes. China is in need of advanced processes for the huge memory fabs it is building in the country. ...

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MWC Shanghai 2017: HTC aims to cut a major chunk of China VR market

HTC is highlighting its Viveport platform as well as setting up a VR arcade zone to demonstrate its HTC Vive and VR platforms for gaming, entertainment, medical/health care, education and retailing applications as it aims to make a headway in China's emerging VR market.

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Stan Shih optimistic about Taiwan AI development

There is no need for Taiwan to worry about lagging behind in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), as AI development remains at a nascent stage worldwide and its major applications have yet to come, Stain Shih, founder of the Acer Group, has said.

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Commentary: Where is Foxconn heading?

The failure of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to make it to the priority bidder list for acquiring Toshiba's semiconductor unit and its chairman Terry Gou's subsequent furious remarks made during a shareholders meeting have caught much media attention. But little attention has been paid to how Hon Hao plans to accomplish its revenue and earnings goals for 2017.

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Laster Tech expects to ship 13.87 million LED automotive lighting modules in 2017

LED automotive lighting module maker Laster Tech has revealed it has developed more than 100 models through cooperation with clients so far in 2017 and began shipments in June, and based on clients' target sales volumes, it expects to ship 13.87 million units in total in 2017, hiking 102% on year.

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Ennoconn gains control of Germany-based S&T

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Ennoconn has completed its EUR150 million investment in Germany-based S&T AG and has acquired three director positions on the company’s board. Since Ennoconn already has a full control of S&T, Ennoconn will start including S&T’s revenues in its financial reports.

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MWC Shanghai 2017: Lenovo, Meitu, Vivo show off new models, new technologies

China-based smartphone vendors, including Lenovo, Meitu and Vivo are showcasing their latest models at MWC Shanghai 2017 aiming to ramp up their presence in the global market.

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MediaTek unveils NB-IoT SoC, partnership with China Mobile

MediaTek has unveiled its first narrow band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) system-on-chip (SoC), the MT2625, and announced a collaboration with China Mobile to build what the companies claim is the world's smallest NB-IoT module (16X18mm) around the chipset.

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Powerchip eyeing orders from Illumina

Powerchip Technology is looking to become the second foundry partner of Illumina following Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), according to industry sources.

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MWC Shanghai 2017: E Ink showcases e-paper smart applications

Taiwan-based EPD (electrophoretic display) solution supplier E Ink Holdings (EIH) is showcasing an array of e-paper products and applications at the on-going MWC Shanghai 2017.



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FocalTech seeing orders ramp up

Touchscreen and LCD driver solution provider FocalTech Systems has seen its customers step up their pace of orders, according to market sources.

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Taiwan market: Microsoft releases new Surface Pro

Microsoft has released its latest fifth-generation Surface Pro 2-in-1 device in Taiwan and the software giant’s ultra-thin touch-control Surface Laptop is also scheduled to arrive in July, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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Digitimes Research: Japan government boosts development of high-precision 3D maps

The Japan government, in line with the goal of realizing autonomous driving in Japan before the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, is promoting development and production of high-precision 3D digital navigation maps through directing establishment of Dynamic Map Planning (DMP), a company specifically for the purpose, in June 2016, according to Digitimes Research.

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MWC Shanghai 2017 opens, highlighting 5G technology

The 4-day MWC Shanghai 2017 kicked off on June 28, with top-tier telecom players including China Mobile, China Unicom, Huawei, ZTE and Ericsson highlighting their latest 5G technologies and related applications.



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China and India to account for half of all new mobile subscribers added by 2020, finds GSMA study

China and India, the two most populous countries in the world, will account for almost half of all new mobile subscribers expected to be added worldwide by the end of the decade, according to a new GSMA study.

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Qualcomm fingerprint sensor enables virtual home button

Qualcomm has developed an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor which can operate under the glass of a mobile device avoiding the need for a mechanical home button. It also detects heartbeat and blood flow. The sensor can scan through OLED display stacks of up to 1200 µm, along with enrolling and matching, and can scan through up to ...

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Tosiba develops quad level cell NAND

Toshiba  has developed four level cell NAND flash prototype ICs which it calls QLC. ‘Multi-bit cell flash memories store data by managing the number of electrons in each individual memory cell,’ says Toshiba, ‘achieving QLC technology posed a series of technical challenges, as increasing the number of bit-per-cell by one within same electron count requires ...

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2017年6月28日 星期三

Embedded MRAM Can Take the Heat

A Globaldoundries technical paper outlines how it addressed a fundamental hurdle for eMRAM, making it feasible for broader uses including automotive MCUs and SoCs.

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Lite-On Technology starts construction of operational center in southern Taiwan

EMS provider Lite-On Technology on June 28 held a groundbreaking ceremony for an operational center in Nantze Export Processing Zone in Kaohsiung City, southern Taiwan, with plans to complete a factory building in the first phase in first-half 2019, according to the company.



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TSEC scraps JV plan for new PV module plant

Solar cell maker TSEC has decided to cancel a plan to establish a joint venture to manage a new PV module factory in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, and instead will set up a PV module business unit within the company.

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UltraChip, INT Tech form joint venture to develop AMOLED driver ICs

Taiwan's knowledge-based startup INT Tech and LCD driver IC maker UltraChip have set up a joint venture, Ultra Display, which will focus on development of driver ICs for AMOLED panels.

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ReneSolar to be delisted from NYSE

China-based integrated PV and LED lighting maker ReneSolar will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) upon completion of its planned privatization, according to China-based media reports.

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China Electric Mfg expects global LED lighting penetration to exceed 40% in 2017

Taiwan-based China Electric Mfg., which makes and sells own-brand TOA lighting products, expects the proportion of all lighting products for LED lighting models to exceed 40% in 2017.

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Robots to enhance, not replace humans in most jobs, says ARM survey

Only a minority of people believe artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to rampaging, job-taking robot chaos, according to an ARM-commissioned independent global survey of nearly 4,000 consumers.

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Qualcomm expanding mobile chip offering for mid-range smartphones

Qualcomm has introduced its Snapdragon 450-series mobile chips, a new entry to the Snapdragon 400 mobile platform tier designed for mid-range smartphones and tablets. The Snapdragon 450 is the first series in its tier to use 14nm FinFET process.

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CMOS image sensor sales to reach another record high in 2017, says IC Insights

CMOS image sensor sales are on pace to reach a seventh straight record high in 2017, and nothing ahead should stop this semiconductor product category from breaking more annual records through 2021, according to IC Insights.



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Imec looking to deepen partnerships with China-based chipmakers

China has the possibility to become a world-class semiconductor industry if local players make good use of resources domestically and internationally, according to Huiwen Ding, head of Imec China.

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Qualcomm announces advanced fingerprint scanning and authentication technology

Qualcomm has announced its next-generation ultrasonic fingerprint solutions which bring new and enhanced features to the previous generation Qualcomm Snapdragon Sense ID fingerprint technology. The suite of features consists of sensors for Display, Glass and Metal, detection of directional gestures, and underwater fingerprint match and device wake-up.

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Powerchip opens JV fab in China

Powerchip Technology has completed the construction of its 12-inch fab in Hefei, China and started to run the fab, according to the Taiwan-based foundry chipmaker. The fab will be ready for commercial production in the second quarter of 2018.

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EVs Strain Clean-energy Supply, But Could Help Balance Grid

Electric vehicles are complicating power companies' transition to renewable energy sources. But EVs could help balance the grid by recharging off-peak and providing electricity when not in use.

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Toshiba Fires Back at Western Digital, Seeks $1.1B in Damages

Feud between partners deepens as Toshiba says it won't meet deadline for selling chip business.

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T-Mobile Drops Support for iPhone 4S

Drops speeds to 2G as of today, down from 4G, but doesn't lower prices.

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French and German researchers collaborate on future chip technologies

Leti, the French semiconductor research institute, has teamed with Berlin-based Fraunhofer’s microelectronics group, to extend next generation CMOS technologies for Internet of Things, augmented reality, automotive, health and aeronautics. The will support the development of FDSOI – fully depleted silicon on insulator – advanced semiconductor process technology in Europe. “The ability to, one, develop key ...

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'E-Brain' to Pilot Air Force Jets

The U.S. Air Force is building an electronic brain using IBM's TrueNorth neuromorphic AI supercomputer chips, which emulate the human brain right down to its ultralow-power clock speed.

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Baidu Upgrades Neural Net Benchmark

Baidu upgraded DeepBench, its open-source benchmark for neural net training to include inference and support for lower-precision math.

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How to keep your cool with high-rel thermal management

Efficient thermal management is the key to successful, ‘bullet-proof’ high-reliability design, writes Tom Gregory of 6SigmaET.

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Interview: Sondrel IC design group keeps an eye on opportunity

After buying Imagination’s IMGworks, Sondrel CEO Graham Curren talks about the group’s great leap forward.

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Intelligent vending machine serves fast growing market

The vending machine is a relatively unrecognised, but fast growing market opportunity for the electronics industry.

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Microchip offers automotive Grade 0 qualified CAN transceiver

Microchip has introduced a range of CAN transceivers which includes an automotive Grade 0 qualified device. Designated the ATA65XX family, the devices support the recently established CAN FD (Flexible Data-rate) protocol for up to 5Mbit/s communication speed and the new CAN PN (Partial Networking) standard for improved energy efficiency for vehicles. The devices are compliant ...

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Lattice offers FPGA reference design for machine learning

Lattice Semiconductor has created FPGA reference designs that support LoRa communications, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) security, signal aggregation and machine learning. The reference design is based on the firm’s iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs which are designed for low power and small form-factor. Target applications for the reference designs include: Machine Learning / On-device Artificial Intelligence – ...

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HTC gains powerful VR development support from Apple, Google

HTC is gaining powerful support to accelerate the development of its VR (virtual reality) business, as it has newly collaborated with two tech giants Apple and Google to develop VR devices and applications, respectively.

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EMEA server spending declines 12.7% on year in 1Q17, says IDC

IDC's EMEA Server Tracker shows that in the first quarter of 2017 the EMEA server market reported an on-year decline in vendor revenues of 12.7% to EUR2.7 billion (US$3.07 billion) and an on-year decrease of 1.4% in units shipped to just over 530,000. Looking at the EMEA market in euros, reported revenues in the first quarter of 2017 declined 9.6% on year.

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AMD launches new graphics card for machine learning

AMD has announced the first product based on its Vega graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture: Radeon Vega Frontier Edition. Through its high bandwidth cache controller, the cornerstone of the advanced GPU memory architecture – HBM2 – Radeon Vega Frontier Edition expands the capacity of traditional GPU memory to 256TB.



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Taiwan market: Xiaomi to open stores, says paper

China-based Xiaomi Technology, in addition to its online shopping website, is planning to establish a total of five physical stores in Taiwan in the second half, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report citing Xiaomi Taiwan president Henman Lee as saying.

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Strong RF chip demand to buoy supplier 2017 revenues

Strong radio-frequency (RF) component demand will buoy sales at suppliers including Richwave Technology, Rafael Microelectronics and AMIC Communication (AMICCOM) in 2017, which are expected to increase 10-20% on year, according to industry sources.

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Gigabyte expected to see on-year growth in 2Q17 revenues, says paper

Gigabyte Technology's revenues are expected to reach NT$12-13 billion (US$400.8-434.2 million) in the second quarter, slightly lower than those in the first quarter, but higher than the same quarter a year ago thanks to improvements in currency exchanges and strong demand for graphics cards from the cryptocurrency market, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report citing market watchers.

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Taiwan market: Chief Telecom debuts on emerging stock market

IP telecom service provider Chief Telecom, a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom, made its debut on Taiwan's Emerging Stock Board with an initial price of NT$85 (US$2.795) on June 28.

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ASE expects to outgrow global logic IC industry in 2017, says COO

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), the world’s largest outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) company, will see its 2017 sales growth outperform the global logic IC industry's, according to company COO Tien Wu.

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China-based BOEVT becoming a major force in global ODM TV market

China-based TV ODM BOE Vision-Electronic Technology (BOEVT) has become a strong contender in the global ODM TV market, which is likely to affect the long-term developments of Taiwan-based ODMs, including Foxconn Electronics, TPV Technology, Wistron and Amtran Technology, according to industry sources.

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China January-May software revenues estimated at CNY2.031 trillion, says MIIT

China's software industry generated total revenues of CNY2.031 trillion (US$294.72 billion) in January-May 2017, growing 13.4% on year, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).



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Intel intros 64-layer, 3D NAND SSD

Intel has announced the delivery of what the company claims is the world’s first commercially available 64-layer, TLC 3D NAND SSD.

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Ibase 1H17 operations subject to impact of currency appreciation, component price hikes

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Ibase Technology has seen a negative impact due to appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar, key component shortages and hikes in prices (mainly for flash, SSDs and memory), on its operations in the first half of 2017, according to company chairman and CEO Lin Chiu-hsu. However, Lin expects the company's revenues to return to growth starting June, and performance in the second half to be better than in the first. Annual revenues in 2017 are still expected to stay flat on year.

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Winbond intros 1.2V, 1.5V NOR flash memories for IoT

Winbond Electronics has announced an expansion of its flash product portfolio with the introduction of its lowest-voltage SpiFlash memories to date. At 1.2 and 1.5V, and in 8-pin packages, these newest members of the SpiFlash family provide designers with serial flash memories for audio, wearable, IoT and other demanding applications that call for low power in small packages.

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LG Display 8.5G line halted after plant tragedy

An 8.5G line of LG Display near Paju has been halted after an accident that resulted in the death of one worker. The fatal accident occurred while the worker was performing maintenance and repair activities, according to media reports in Korea.

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Taiwan hopes to cooperate with EU in green economy

The Taiwan government hopes to cooperate with the European Union (EU) in a green economy, in particular: plastic materials recycling, garbage reuse, reclamation of precious metals from scraped electronic devices and components, and use of biomass and management of construction waste, according to minister Lee Ying-yuan for the Environmental Protection Administration.

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Xcerra, Spirox reinstate agreement on sales and support operations in China and Taiwan

Xcerra and Spirox have reinstated the distribution agreement assigning Spirox the exclusive rights for field sales, application engineering and customer service support operations in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China, according to the companies.

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Silicon Valley combines to fight terrorism

With the Petya ransomware attack sweeping the world it is not before time that Silicon Valkey is combining to fight cyber-terrorism. Silicon Valley’s response is to take on terrorism with The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism formed by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft. The companies have been criticised by the US, UK and French governments ...

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2017年6月27日 星期二

Toshiba sues Western Digital

Toshiba has sued Western Digital in the Tokyo District court asking for $1 billion in damages and trying to stop WD from interfering in the sale of its chip business. Toshiba also accuses WD of improperly obtaining Toshiba’s private information. Previously WD put the dispute over Toshiba’s auction process to arbitration and sued Toshiba in ...

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Fujitsu Labs increase server density

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a virtual machine  control technology that improves server rack mounting density for each datacenter rack. Currently, in datacenters, the number of servers mounted to a rack is limited by the total rated electrical power of the servers, which must be less than the power supply of the rack. However, often times, ...

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China smartphone vendors ramping orders at IC firms

China-based smartphone vendors including Oppo and Vivo have stepped up their pace of chip orders, while Huawei, Xiaomi Technology and Gionee are expected to increase their chip orders substantially by the middle of the third quarter, according to industry sources.

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Global solar glass market to grow to over US$18 billion by 2022, says MarketsandMarkets

The solar photovoltaic (PV) glass market is projected to grow from US$4.38 billion in 2017 to US$18.48 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 33.4% from 2017 to 2022, according to MarketsandMarkets.

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Taiwan lags behind in AI development

Compared to US' leadership in AI (artificial intelligence) technology development, Taiwan lags far behind, according to Ho Mei-yueh, a former economicc minister and currently a presidential policy advisor.



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Taiwan cannot ignore trade benefits from markets beyond China, says premier

Taiwan cannot develop economic and trade ties only with China by taking advantage of shared cultural and language backgrounds, but should, instead, break through cultural and language barriers to explore trade and investment benefits from other markets, particularly the ASEAN countries, Taiwan's premier Lin Chuan has said.

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Panel and component suppliers gearing up for robust demand for 18:9 displays

LCD panel makers and panel-related component suppliers are gearing up for robust demand for 18:9 LCD panels from the smartphone sector in the second half of 2017, according to industry sources

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Tongfu Microelectronics to set up advanced IC backend plant in Xiamen, says report

China-based Tongfu Microelectronics has struck a deal with the Xiamen Haicang District government to set up a manufacturing base for advanced packaging and testing services locally with investment totaling CNY7 billion (US$), according to a Chinese-language tech.sina.com report.

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Trend Micro sets up venture capital fund

Trend Micro has set up venture capital fund of US$100 million for investment in innovation start-up businesses engaged in R&D of new technologies, especially those related to IoT, according to the company.

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EEVblog #1003 – Mailbag

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1980 Retro Language Translator Teardown
Arduino interfacing book
ReflowR Hot plate PCB reflow machine
50ohm Dummy Load for babies from First Advanced Industrial Labs
Black Box for stealing Pay TV, teardown.
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Bee Maths Ruler
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Voltage tester pen teardown
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Fatal Tesla Crash: That's Not All, Folks

The NTSB's report contains a few surprises, including how and where Tesla's captured data is stored, routed and saved inside a vehicle.

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SPONSORED: Quad 3A, Ultrathin uModule Regulator Fits on the Backside of PCB



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Samsung overtakes Intel to be No.1

Samsung has overtaken Intel to become the world No.1 semiconductor company. Samsung’s estimated chip revenue for Q2 is $15.1 billion and Intel’s $14.4 billion, according to Nomura. For the full year, forecasts put Samsung’s chip sales at $63.6 billion and Intel’s at $60.5 billion. Intel needed to beat Samsung this year to match TI’s record ...

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Nvidia Deals Tilt Robo-Car Race

Claiming that robo-car development by automakers has already moved from R&D phase to production, Nvidia this week unveiled three new partnership deals - all aimed at leveraging its AI car-computing platform. What does this mean to the autonomous car landscape?

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Samsung overtakes Intel to become No.1

Samsung has overtaken Intel to become the world No,1 semiconductor company. Samsung’s estimated chip revenue for Q2 is $15.1 billion and Intel’s $14.4 billion, according to Nomura. For the full year, forecasts put Samsung’s chip sales at $63.6 billion and Intel’s at $60.5 billion. Intel needed to beat Samsung this year to match TI’s record ...

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Euchips makes DALI dimmable LED driver waterproof

A constant current LED dimmable driver from Euchips of China is DALI-standard and designed to be waterproof. The EUP50D-1H400C-0WP has an output power of 50W and the output current is 1400mA. The LED driver complies with DALI standard IEC62386, connects with DALI master controller and supports TouchDIM for smooth dimming. The waterproof level is IP65. ...

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EU fines Google $2.7bn

The EU has imposed a $2.7 billion fine on Google for abuse of a dominant market position – the highest fine the EU has ever imposed. If it doesn’t end its anti-competitive practices within 90 days Google faces further fines of up to 5% of its $90 billion annual revenues. The EU found that Google ...

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Anglia outlines ambition to double sales to £100m in next five years

Distributor Anglia has revealed plans to almost double its turnover to £100m in the next five years after it posted another year of growth.

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CPT 6G TFT-LCD subsidiary in China to kick off production in July

Fujian Hua Chia Cai, a 6G TFT-LCD subsidiary of Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) in Putain, will begin rolling out glass substrates in July paving the way for mass production later on, according to CPT president Lin Sheng-chang.

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IST strikes deal with JFE-TEC to jointly provide automotive-use materials testing services in China

Integrated Service Technology (IST), a Taiwan-based provider of electronics product verification and analysis services, has signed an MoU with Japan's JFE Techno Research (JFE-TEC), specializing in the advanced analysis area and evaluation technology, to jointly provide materials testing services for automotive electronics in China, according to the companies.



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Intel extends lifecycle support for IoT platforms to strengthen supply chains

Intel has decided to sharply extend lifecycle support for its whole series of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions platforms from seven years to 15 years, in a bid to regain the confidence of its partners in the IoT supply chains and step up the development of IoT-related processor platforms and chipsets, according to a recent announcement issued by the world’s largest chipmaker.

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China Big Fund commits investment of CNY85 billion

China's National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund (known as the Big Fund) has committed to invest CNY85 billion (US$12.4 billion) into the local IC industry, mainly the manufacturing sector, according to Ding Wenwu, president of the fund.

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Neo Solar Power completes 200MWp high-efficiency PV module factory

Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power on June 26 held an inauguration ceremony for a high-efficiency PV module factory with annual production capacity of 200MWp in Hsinchu Science Park, northern Taiwan, according to the company.

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DRAM ASPs to rise 5% sequentially in 3Q17, says DRAMeXchange

The ASP of DRAM chips is forecast to rise 5% sequentially in the third quarter of 2017, as supply remains tight, according to DRAMeXchange.

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Yield rates, OLED supply may be key in new iPhone shipments

Industry sources have predicted shipments of upcoming iPhones could be interrupted, with yield rates at assembly plants and the supply of OLED panels likely to become issues.

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Taiwan may benefit from ASEAN economic take-off, says TIER

With the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as forecast by the World Bank, poised to score the fastest growth among emerging markets and become the main growth engine for the global economy in the near future, Taiwan is very likely to get on the ASEAN "economic train," as the government here has been actively pushing its New Southbound Policy to explore the ASEAN market and build diverse cooperation ties with member states, according to a study report recently released by Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER).



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Topco Scientific cooperates with AIDC, First International Computer to develop smart green energy systems

Semiconductor material and equipment sales agent Topco Scientific on June 26 signed an MoU with Aerospace Industrial Development (AIDC) and First International Computer for strategic cooperation to develop smart green energy systems combining PV, wind, bio-gas and turbine power generation, according to Topco Scientific.

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CoolBitX Technology cooperates with KT to promote mobile e-payment platform

Taiwan-based block chain FinTech developer CoolBitX Technology has cooperated with Korea Telecom (KT) to promote SLEKT, a mobile electronic payment platform jointly developed by CoolBitX and SmartDisplayer in the South Korea market, with KT issuing SLEKT-based CLiP Cards, a single card that can simultaneously carry multiple credit cards, transportation cards and other cards, according to CoolBitX.

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Taiwan Chelic expects growth in 2H17 business

Pneumatic automation component maker Taiwan Chelic expects significant growth in the second half of 2017 because its products are mainly used in equipment to process handset chassis, and many smartphone vendors will launch new models creating demand for new equipment, according to the company.

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Global VR investments in 1H17 exceed those in 2016, says HTC executive

Global investments in the VR industry in the first half of 2017 already exceeded the total amount injected in 2016, according to Alvin Wang Graylin, president of HTC Vive Greater China.

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2017年6月26日 星期一

Imec sets up €120 million VC fund

Imec has set up a $100-120 million VC fund called Imec.xpand to back early stage tech start-ups. So far it has raised €60 million and it it is targetting €120 million. Investors include investment agencies of the Flemish and Federal government, the universities KU Leuven and UGent, BNP Paribas Fortis, and the investment arms of ...

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Sanechips licenses CEVA IoT processor

ZTE’s chip unit, ZTE Microcircuits, which changed its nane to Sanechips, has licensed the CEVA-X1 IoT processor. Sanechips wants the Ceva IP  for its Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) product, the RoseFinch7100. Sanechips recently took part in the first large scale field test of NB-IoT using its pre-commercial RoseFinch chipset. The trial, organized by China Mobile, tested ...

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Buck regulators with constant frequency control scheme

The LTC3636 and LTC3636-1 are high efficiency, 4MHz synchronous dual output buck regulators that incorporate a unique constant frequency/controlled on-time, current mode control scheme with phase lockable switching frequency. Ther innovative design architecture reduces conducted and radiated emissions. The devices can deliver up to 6A of continuous output current from each channel or generate a ...

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Bosch Sensortec MEMS wearables sensors cut out the MCU

In August Bosch Sensortec will put out to distribution a family of MEMS acceleration sensors  specifically designed for motion and fitness tracking in wearables. They include an optimized step counter for wearables integrated directly in the sensor, with no additional external microcontroller required. Typical applications for the BMA456 and BMA423 include step counting in wearables such ...

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Arrow, NXP develop module for IoT AP

Arrow and NXP have developed to a system module (SCM) that simplifies the use of NXP’s i.MX 6 applications processor in IoT devices, wearables and smart-home technology. Building on NXP’s DDR-ready i.MX 6SoloX, i.MX 6Dual and i.MX 6Quad SCMs, Arrow’s modules come with pre-stacked LPDDR2 SDRAM, and are ready to use. This solution takes away ...

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Purple-emitting LEDs Get Closer to the Sun

Seoul Semi has paired its purple-emitting LEDs with Toshiba Materials-engineered RGB phosphors to more closely mimic natural daylight spectrum.

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NVMe Spec Gets Major Update

Latest specification address client, enterprise and cloud features including improved support for virtualization and bootstrapping for mobile devices

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Taiwan Union Technology adopts Nexcom IoT solution

Copper-clad laminate maker Taiwan Union Technology (TUT) has adopted an IoT (Internet of Things) solution developed by industrial PC maker Nexcom International for application to environmental safety monitoring and control, according to Nexcom.

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Supply of a-Si LCD to become tight in 2H17

Supply of a-Si TFT-LCD panels will fall short of demand in the second half of 2017 due to rising demand for 18:9 all-screen displays for smartphones, according to Lin Sheng-chang, president for Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT).

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Unitech suspends plant partially after fatal accident

Unitech Prinited Circuit Board has suspended part of the operations at its plant in Yilan, northeastern Taiwan, in the wake of a fatal accident there.

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Taiwan LCD driver IC suppliers 3Q17 revenues to increase over 15%

Taiwan-based LCD driver IC suppliers have become more optimistic about their revenue outlook for the third quarter of 2017, as short lead-time orders from mainly China-based handset customers are pulling in, according to industry sources. The strengthening in order visibility is expected to allow the driver IC firms to enjoy more than 15% revenue growth sequentially in the third quarter.



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MediaTek shifts half of its 16nm chip orders away from TSMC, says report

Half of MediaTek's 16nm chip orders placed with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will be shifted to Globalfoundries, according to a report from Taiwan's TechNews.

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Digitimes Research: Cellular LPWA networks get off to a slow start

While the industry standards for the two types of low-power wide area network (LPWAN) technologies, NB-IoT (Narrow Band-Internet of Things) and LTE-M (LTE-MTC), were released along the latest version of the LTE Release 13 in mid-2016, only a total of six NB-IoT/LTE-M networks from five countries have commenced operations as of the first quarter of 2017. In comparison, the deployments of LPWANs using unlicensed spectrum have doubled over the past year. This indicates that the acceptance of this cellular-based IoT standards by global telecom operators has been lower than expected, according to Digitimes Research.

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SMIC mass producing 28nm HKMG chips

Semiconductor Manufacturing International's (SMIC) 28nm HKMG process has entered its mass production stage, according to company CEO Haijun Zhao. SMIC will move forward making chips using a newer 14nm process in 2018, said Zhao.



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China economy, society to fully embrace 5G

China will apply 5G mobile technologies in the construction of key infrastructures needed to fully digitalize its economy and society, ushering in a new era for the nation's development of digital economy, according to a white paper issued by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

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Taiwan market: FET to enhance IoT deployment

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) will strengthen its deployment in the IoT segment to lay down the foundations for its next phase of sustained growth, leveraging the forthcoming 5G technology and related applications, according to company president Yvonne Li.

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DRAM Prices Expected to Climb

With DRAM chips being used in more applications, ASPs projected to grow even while smartphone and PC shipments remain tepid.

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Expert Panel Debunks AI Hype

Neural networks will see broad use, but they have real limits and are far from fulfilling the dream of artificial intelligence, said a panel of experts.

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Western Digital objects to Hynix presence in Toshiba bid consortium

Western Digital’s CEao has weitten to Toshiba objecting to the presence of Hynix in the winning for Toshiba’s menory business, reports the New York Times. “I must make it clear that Western Digital will not consent to a transaction with the proposed consortium,” says WD CEO Stephen Milligan in a letter sent to Toshiba’s board ...

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Electric vehicle revolution will drive power market – report

Plug-in electric vehicles are now being introduced globally and this is driving the demand for smart charging solutions. As a result smart charging has become a developer and investment opportunity, according to a recently published report by IoT market research firm ON World. The survey of 2,000 EV users in California found that over half ...

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JLR to take autonomous vehicles to UK streets by end of 2017

Jaguar Land Rover is to begin trials of self-driving cars on the streets of Coventry and Milton Keynes by the end of this year after reaching a key milestone in its autonomous vehicle research. A Range Rover Sport fitted with prototype technology that enables it to operate autonomously through a city, obeying traffic lights, T-junctions ...

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Digitimes Research: OLEDoS a display solution for HMD VR devices

For the three main technologies - OLED, OLEDoS (OLED on CMOS) and Micro LED - applied currently for the development of display products for use in head-mounted display (HMD) virtual reality devices, OLEDoS is superior than the other two technologies in terms of resolution accuracy and accountability for mass production as OLEDoS panels use silicon wafers as backplanes, which can reach a better degree of miniaturization, although its material costs still need to be improved, according to Digitimes Research.

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ICRD and ASML sign pact to establish training center in Shanghai

Shanghai Integrated Circuit Research and Development Center (ICRD), a public research consortium dedicated to the advancement of the semiconductor industry in China, and chip-making equipment manufacturer ASML Holding have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to set up a jointly-owned in Shanghai.

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Simplified embedded system development can facilitate software, hardware integration

An embedded system is a dedicated computer system integrating customized software and hardware designed for a specific function. Currently, most embedded systems are applied to industrial, medical, military and aerospace fields, entailing high customization requirements. In order for embedded system developers to focus more on terminal application needs, the development task could be simplified if based on a solid software and hardware integration architecture platform. This will allow users to utilize the platform flexibility and modular architecture to step up the development of applications.

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Kinpo Electronics to add 2 factories in the Philippines

Kinpo Electronics will add to its two factories in the Philippines by establishing two more due to increased OEM orders of home-use smart appliances from UK-based Dyson, with one to start production in the third quarter of 2017 and other in the second half of 2018, according to Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.



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China foundries striving for more dummy wafer supplies

China-based logic IC and memory foundries including Nexchip Semiconductor and Rui-Li (transliterated from Chinese) Integrated Circuit have offered 20% higher prices than what their bigger rivals offer in order to secure more supplies of "dummy" or test wafers particularly 12-inch ones, according to sources at upstream wafer suppliers.

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Episil planning to raise epi-wafer prices

Taiwan-based Episil, which makes silicon epitaxial wafers as well as providing foundry services at its 5- and 6-inch wafer fabs, plans to revise upward its epi-wafer prices to reflect tight supply, according to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA).

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Taiwan IC designers at critical juncture

Taiwan’s IC design industry has suffered lackluster business performance in recent years, significantly losing ground in the world market to their rapidly counterparts from China amid strong challenges from mergers and consolidations within the global semiconductor industry.



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Touch panel maker GIS raises over US$200 million via GDR sale

Touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) has completed selling 30 million new shares in the form of global depository receipts (GDRs) raising US$207 million to finance capital spending in 2017.

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Foxconn Group to make large investment in Kunshan

The Foxconn Group has signed with the government of Kunshan City, eastern China, for its member companies to set up factories in the city, with total investment estimated at CNY25 billion (US$3.7 billion), according to China-based media reports.

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Getac Technology holds rosy outlook for 2H17

Ruggedized computing device maker Getac Technology expects consolidated revenues for the second half of 2017 to grow over 20% from the first half, according to company chairman James Hwang.

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2017年6月25日 星期日

MPs’ remote email access disabled

The House of Commons says it is working with the National Cyber Security Centre, which was set up last year as part of GCHQ, and has shut down MPs’ remote access to the parliamentary email system. The system was hit by a hacking attack which resulted in MPs’ passwords being sold on-line. “We’ve seen reports ...

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Fujitsu AI retrieves similar disease cases from CT database

Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a technology to retrieve similar disease cases from a computed tomography (CT) database of previously taken images. The technology works by retrieving similar cases of abnormal shadows expanding in a three-dimensional manner. Technologies already exist to retrieve similar cases based on CT images for such diseases as early-stage lung cancer, in ...

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Electronics production growing

Production of electronics has been accelerating in the last several months, contributing to strong growth in the semiconductor market, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. China’s electronics production growth moved from below 10% for most of 2016 to 14.5% in April 2017. China’s April growth rate is the highest in over five years. US electronics production ...

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Moore's Law's End Reboots Industry

The semiconductor and computer industries is being transformed as Moore's Law slows and dies, said a panel of experts considering the future.

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The Drone Space

. Drone startups are transforming the way data is collected, property is inspected, and goods are delivered, says CB Insights, citing 70 drone start-ups with 32 in Q1 valued at $113 million. Terrestrial imagery, infrastructure inspection, and delivery have emerged as some of the primary use cases for drone technology, says CB Insights. The 70 ...

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Bring Back Travis

An email sent to Uber employees asks them to ask the board to bring back Travis Kalanick. Here it is:   Kalanick could bring himself back, if he felt like it, because he and a few friends control the voting rights on the shares through an unusual structure which gives their shareholdings ten votes for ...

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Toshiba and the Parable of Flash

Spinning off its flagship NAND flash memory business could help save struggling Toshiba. But 30 years ago the company nearly squandered its leadership role in the flash revolution.

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2017年6月24日 星期六

EEVblog #1002 – Trump’s Solar Freakin’ Wall DEBUNKED!

Will Trump’s Mexican border solar powered wall pay for itself?
Dave runs the numbers to find out what the solar payback is.
NOTE: These are BEST CASE (non-practical) figures that don’t include any system losses from a single long line array like this, or anything to do with the changing wall topology, or increased maintenance costs etc.
The cost to maintain this system could be an order of magnitude higher than a traditional solar array farm.
The point of the video is to check if the *ballpark* figure works out before getting more techniical, it doesn’t.

SPOILER:
At best figure with *no losses* is $1BN payback for a 10 year period. 1/20th the cost of the wall. In practice it will be much worse than this, likely double the payback period or more.
And if you want to argue it will pay back the solar install cost then why not install a normal utility scale solar array farm in the Texas desert? Much more efficient and practical.
Installing a long array on a wall like this is a technically dumb idea.

Forum HERE



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2017年6月23日 星期五

Intel Banks on Artificial Intelligence

Intel is investing in artificial-intelligence startups, acquiring others, and blending the mix with its own AI expertise to ensure a leadership position in machine learning, deep learning, and brainlike neural networks based on its AI hardware and software.

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SiLabs CEO Plots Slow, Steady IoT Strategy

"IoT is in a bit of a trough right now," Silicon Labs' CEO said, just as he was leaving the ballroom where he delivered a keynote entitled "Accelerating the IoT." Is he sensing a whiff of IoT backlash?

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NOR Prices Forecast to Rise 20% in Q3

New and rapidly growing applications are ratcheting up demand for NOR flash while some companies are scaling back production, according to DRAMeXchange.

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Optical phased array replaces camera lens

The California Institute of Technology has created a planar optical phased array that can form images without a lens. “With our system, you can selectively look in a desired direction and at a very small part of the picture in front of you at any given time, by controlling the timing with femtosecond – quadrillionth ...

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Liquid metal makes flexible heat harvester reliable

Using liquid metal connections, North Carolina State University engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester. The proof-of-concept is intended to provide energy for wearables. “We wanted to design a flexible thermoelectric harvester that does not compromise on the material quality of rigid devices yet provides similar or better efficiency,” said Professor Mehmet Ozturk. “Using ...

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‘Moth eye’ structure banishes reflections from display surface

Moth eyes have once again been the inspiration for an anti-reflection coating, this time at the University of Central Florida where anti-reflection of <0.23% luminous reflectance and <1% haze has been achieved with “indistinguishable image quality deterioration”, according to the researchers. The structure has been formed into the surface of a hard coating (>’3H’ in ...

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Engineering leaders call for action over lack of women in sector

Leaders of the UK’s top engineering businesses are calling for urgent action on tackling the sector’s shortage of women at an event to mark today’s International Women in Engineering day.

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JTAG Technologies module brings PXI into play for hi-rel test

JTAG Technologies has introduced a JTAG/boundary-scan test hardware interface for multiple interconnects in ATE systems using MAC Panel connection systems. The module provides an interface between the test firm’s PXI and PXIe DataBlasters to the MAC panel ‘Scout’ connection system. Designated JT 2147/eDAK, the module employs the firm’s QuadPod active interface. It provides four independent ...

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Taiwan market: Tainan and Chiayi City looking to try out autonomous driving

The governments of Tainan and Chiayi City, Southern Taiwan have both expressed interest to become trial areas for autonomous driving, according to an official from the Industrial Development Bureau of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).



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Taiwan market: HMD Global launches Nokia 5, Nokia 3

HMD Global has launched Nokia 5 and Nokia 3 in the Taiwan market in cooperation with Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), priced at NT$5,390 (US$177) and NT$3,990, respectively, unlocked.

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Giga Solar Materials subsidiary signs PV EPC contracts

PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has announced that Sunshine Solar Power Generation, its Philippines-based subsidiary engaged in investment in PV power generation projects, has signed contracts with local EPC contractors Meralco Industrial Engineering Services and Paris Manila Technology valued at US$ 7.10 million and US$4.373 million to set up PV power stations in the Philippines.

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Taiwan May manufacturing production index up, says MOEA

Taiwan recorded a manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 111.78 for May 2017, increasing 6.75% on month and 2.02% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on June 23.

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Small-size Micro LED applications may emerge in 1-2 years, says Epistar chairman

Application of Micro LED technology to small-size devices including smart wearables, VR and AR devices is likely to emerge in one to two years, while large-size devices may emerge three to five years later, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar.

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IntelliEPI expects to post sequential revenue growth through 3Q17

Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI), which supplies epitaxy-based compound semiconductor epi-wafers to the electronics and optoelectronics industries, expects to post sequential revenue growth through the third quarter of 2017.

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IC distributor Edom to post double-digit revenue growth in 2017

Taiwan-based Edom Technology, which distributes products such as Skyworks' power amplifiers, Silicon Labs' mixed-signal ICs and NXP's wireless RF chips, is expected to post double-digit revenue growth in 2017, according to company chairman and president Wayne Tseng.

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Foxconn chairman still expects 50% chance of getting Toshiba semiconductor business

Commenting on Toshiba's decision that it will put its negotiation priority for the sale of its semiconductor department on the alliance of Japan- and US-based enterprises, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) chairman Terry Gou has pointed out that the move is only temporary and the competition is still not yet over. Gou is confident and believes Foxconn still has at least a 50% chance of landing the deal.

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Sercomm draws rosy picture for 2H17

Networking device maker Sercomm expects its shipments to gain momentum in the second half of 2017 after some shipments were delayed due to shortages of some key components, according to company chairman Paul Wang.



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Qisda has high hopes for enterprise and industrial robots

Qisda is looking to push new robots for the industrial and enterprise industries and has already planned a fourth-generation medical service robot that will enter development soon, according to new company chairman Peter Chen.

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Chunghwa Telecom to offer 4-carrier aggregation services

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has said it will begin to offer four-carrier aggregation (4Ca) services to increase traffic speeds utilizing 1800MHz and 2600MHz frequency bands soon.

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Huawei, Oppo and Vivo likely to ship fewer-than-expected smartphones in 2017

China's top-3 smartphone vendors, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, have quietly lowered their smartphone shipments goals set for 2017 due to difficulties ramping up shipments significantly in non-China markets, according to sources from Taiwan-based IC design houses.



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Lite-On Technology wins procurement order for over 100,000 LED street lamps from Jordan

Lite-On Technology has won an open bid in Jordan to procure more than 100,000 LED street lamps, with shipments beginning in the second quarter of 2017 and to increase in the third and fourth, according to company CEO Warren Chen.

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Yageo to raise MLCC prices 15-30%

For the second time in 2017, Yageo and Walsin Technology will raise MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitor) prices to reflect tight supply, according to industry sources.

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Solartech Energy to expand PERC solar cell capacity

Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Solartech Energy will expand PERC cell production capacity through adding two production lines to total six beginning August 2017, with the additional capacity to come into operation in October, according to company chairman and CEO Liu Kong-hsin.

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Soft-World International to extend business scope for Pay2Go

Online game developer and operator Soft-World International will extend the scope of Pay2Go, its subsidiary third-party e-payment service provider, from online and mobile gaming services currently to online shopping, online or offline digital content purchases, tourism and daily services and goods, company chairman Wang Chin-pou revealed at a shareholders meeting on June 22.

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VIA announces Mobile360 Surround View sample kit

VIA Technologies has launched its Mobile360 Surround View sample kit for real-time commercial 360-degree video vehicle monitoring, recording, and tracking applications.

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ST to raise $1.5bn

ST is to raise $1.5 billion in a convertible bond issue. The company will also redeem its 2019 convertible bonds and buy back shares. The new bonds will mature in five and seven years. The five year bonds will not pay interest. The seven year bonds will pay interest of 0.5%. Settlement is expected to ...

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Wearables on a roll, says IDC

125.5 million wearable devices will be shipped this year, says IDC, marking a 20.4% increase from the 104.3 million units shipped in 2016. IDC expects the  wearables market will nearly double before reaching a total of 240.1 million units shipped in 2021 – a five-year CAGR of 18.2%. Watches: IDC  anticipates that watches will account ...

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2017年6月22日 星期四

EPYC enthuses AMD investors

AMD’s EPYC server chip is driving a rise in AMD shares. EPYC out-performs Intel’s server processors in performance and power and has managed to create an EPYC ecosystem containing server OEMs, ODMs and cloud infrastructure providers. EPYC, which is a scaled up version of its PC CPU Ryzen, beats Intel’s best server processor in memory ...

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Accelerator Grades Hardware Startups

Hax said it sees continued growth in the business of accelerating hardware startups through rapid prototyping and crowdfunding.

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Infineon extends PROFET power switch family

Based on its SMART7 thin wafer process , Infineon has introduced  two high-side power switch families PROFET+2 and High Current PROFET. The SPOC+2 multichannel SPI high-side power controllers will follow within a year. “In this decade, we have delivered one billion PROFET+ switches, the predecessor family to PROFET+2,” says Infineon vp Andreas Doll, “the SMART7 ...

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EEVblog #1001 – uBeam Ultrasonic Wireless Charging DEBUNKED

Dave debunks the uBeam ultrasonic wireless phone charging technology and explains why this will NEVER be a practical solution.
Also, Meredith Perry’s rant on engineers and other experts.
NOTE: This was split out from video #1000 for SEO reasons. There should be a debunking video of this searchable on Youtube.
Some extra material has been added from video #1000 at the 11:58 mark

Forum HERE

Paul Reynolds, former VP Engineering at uBeam has many posts debunking uBeam!

I challenge you to watch all 15min of this
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Compal evaluating partnership with LeEco

Commenting on its relationship with China-based LeEco, Compal Electronics president Ray Chen has said the company will complete an evaluation of LeEco at the end of June and will compose a new strategy to handle its uncollected debts, including a possibility of suing the China-based player.

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Qisda pushing to adopt more robotic arms at Taiwan plants

Qisda has been increasing the adoption of robotic arms at its plants in Taiwan and is looking to purchase 500-1,000 units in 2017, which will translate into 1,000-2,000 manpower, since labor shortages have already grown to become an issue for manufacturing in Taiwan, said Qisda chairman Peter Chen.

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Foxconn announces US investment project

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced an investment project, the Flying Eagle, in the US. The project’s planning will be finalized in the third quarter, and Foxconn will bring its latest manufacturing technologies to new plants in the US, said Foxconn chairman Terry Gou.



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FPCB firm Flexium to see July revenues rise substantially

Flexible PCB manufacturer Flexium Interconnect is expected to see its July revenues rise substantially driven by robust demand for high-end smartphones, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan May unemployment rate down, says DGBAS

Taiwan had 431,000 jobless citizens in May 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.66%, down 0.01pp on month and 0.18pp on year, according to statistics released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) on June 22.

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Samsung mass producing Exynos-branded IoT solution

Samsung Electronics has announced the start of mass production of its first Exynos-branded IoT solution, the Exynos i T200.

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Faraday MFP ASIC shipments rise at CAGR of 38%

Faraday Technology has announced that its MFP (Multi-Function Printer) ASIC solutions have surpassed 50 design wins since its introduction 10 years ago, and the MFP ASIC shipment grew at a CAGR of 38%.

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Xiaomi sampling in-house developed Surge S2 chips, says report

Earlier in 2017, Xiaomi Technology unveiled its first in-house developed smartphone solution, dubbed Surge S1, which is built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) using 28nm process technology. In less than a year, Xiaomi reportedly is about to enter volume production of Surge S2 chips.

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Aspeed enjoys brisk BMC chip orders

Server management SoC solution provider Aspeed Technology has obtained a pull-in of baseboard management controller (BMC) chip orders for new servers based on AMD's EPYC processor platform, according to a recent Chinese-language Commercial Times report.



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Handsets Expected to be Largest Market for ICs

Cellular handsets are expected to surpass PCs as the largest application for integrated circuits for the first time in 2017.

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Taiwan to Invest $131 Million in Semiconductor Industry

Reports out of Asia indicate that the island nation's minister of science and technology made the announcement at the grand opening of a Phison Electronics chip fab recently.

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Arc angle sensor simplifies measurement inside machines

CambridgeIC has launched a range of arc position sensors, measuring the angle of a rotating ‘target’ relative to a fixed arc-shaped sensor built from a PCB. The UK fabless chip company specialises in angle sensing chips. CambridgeIC’s R48mm 100° Arc Sensor “The arc position sensors use the same technology behind our linear sensors, and are ...

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Bluetooth 5 chip for cost-sensitive applications

Nordic Semi has introduced a Bluetooth 5 chip for cost-sensitive applications. Called nRF52810, it is a sub-set of the nRF52 Series. “This new product offers essential performance benefits of Bluetooth 5 to the most cost-sensitive and high-volume applications by offering: two times the data bandwidth [2Mbit/s] of the Bluetooth low energy implementation of Bluetooth 4.2, and ...

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Imagination Puts Itself on the Block

Imagination Technologies said the whole company is up for sale after fielding interest from several parties.

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Imagination for sale

Imagination is up for sale. The company put its MiPS business up for sale recentky and has now decided to put the whole company on the block. The downtrun began with Apple saying it would stop being a customer in two years’ time. Apple accounts for half Imagination’s revenues and has recently been recruting Imagination GPU ...

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Speedy CO2 sensor takes little power

Gas Sensing Solutions of Cumbernauld is claiming a speed record for its SprintIR6S ‘non-dispersive infra-red (NDIR) CO2  sensor: up to 20 reading/s for a 0-10% step change in CO2 flowing at 0.1 litre/min, said the firm. www.gassensing.co.uk Inside, the sensor measures differential light absorption between light at 4.2 and 4.4μm. The device is 23.8mm in diameter and 24mm tall ...

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Multiband transceiver supports Bluetooth 5

Silicon Labs has introduced a multiband version of its Wireless Gecko system-on-chip device which now supports full Bluetooth 5. Designated EFR32xG13, the device family supports all Bluetooth 5 features which means twice the speed and eight times greater broadcasting capacity than Bluetooth 4. The chips feature a 2Mbit/s PHY and also integrate a new 125kbit/s ...

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Need to mix pneumatics with electrical connections?

Harting has developed a way to mix electrical and compressed air up to 10bar in the same connector, aiming it at production lines. The pneumatic module (‘Pneumatic Module Metal’) is rated to be plugged and unplugged at least 10,000 times. “It means that users can exploit the benefits of compressed air technology in frequently converted production ...

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NXP’s entry-level 32bit IoT processor

With the LPC84x family of 30MHz ARM Cortex M0+ processors, NXP is pitching for entry-level IoT design-ins. “Upon power-up, its ‘fast access initialisation memory’allows the clocks to be started in a low frequency mode, keeping start-up current consumption to a minimum. Additionally, its input and output ports can come up immediately and in its desired ...

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First-tier China makers offer 3-year supply contracts for mono-Si solar wafers

First-tier China-based makers of mono-Si solar wafers, anticipating continued strong demand and short supply, have offered 3-year supply contracts for Taiwan-based solar cell makers, with fixed prices mainly based on OEM quotes or possible pricing trends, according to industry sources.

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NOR flash prices to rise 20% in 3Q17, says DRAMeXchange

Increasing demand for AMOLED panels from brand-name smartphone vendors and the industry's rising output for TDDI (touch with display driver) solutions have propelled the NOR flash market growth recently, according to DRAMeXchange. The global production capacity of NOR flash has come to just 88,000 pieces of 12-inch wafers per month, said DRAMeXchange, adding that the memory supply will remain tight as related components require a high level of customization and there are difficulties in ramping up production.

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Global industrial semiconductor revenues rise 4% in 2016, says IHS

Worldwide industrial semiconductor revenues grew 3.8% on year to US$43.5 billion in 2016, according to IHS Markit.

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Worldwide wearables market to nearly double by 2021, says IDC

As the wearables market transforms, total shipment volumes are expected to maintain their forward momentum. According to data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, vendors will ship a total of 125.5 million wearable devices in 2017, marking a 20.4% increase from the 104.3 million units shipped in 2016. From there, the wearables market will nearly double before reaching a total of 240.1 million units shipped in 2021, resulting in a five-year CAGR of 18.2%.



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Silitech reports losses for May

Chassis maker Silitech Technology has reported a net loss of NT$14 million (US$459,648) or NT$0.08 per share on revenues of NT$158 million for May. The company also reported a loss of NT$64.4 million or NT$0.36 per share for the first quarter of 2017.

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Altek sues China-based CCM maker, smartphone sales agent for patent infringement

Imaging solution developer Altek has filed charges with the Beijing Intellectual Property Court against Shenzhen O-film Tech, a China-based smartphone-use CCM (compact camera module) maker, and Beijing Jingdong Century Information Technology, a sales agent in the China market, for infringement of its imaging module patent, according to Altek.

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Taiwan IC design houses seeing orders pick up

Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen customer orders pick up on seasonality with some expected to post sequential revenue growth of 10% or more in the third quarter, according to industry sources.

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Acer faring well in high-margin PC segments

Acer’s PC business has been focusing on high-margin segments, including gaming notebooks, ultra-thin models and 2-in-1s, with each segment faring well in the first five months of 2017, according to Acer CEO Jason Chen.



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IOC and Intel announce worldwide TOP partnership through 2024

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Intel have announced a long-term technology partnership at an official signing ceremony in New York with IOC President Thomas Bach and Intel CEO, Brian Krzanich.

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Jason Chen becomes Acer chairman

Acer has appointed its chief executive officer (CEO) Jason Chen as chairman as part of the company's latest management reshuffle which also saw it get a new chief financial officer (CFO).

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VMware NSX network virtualization solution sales booming

Sales of VMware's NSX network virtualization solutions have been growing robustly since 2016 and the fast expansion of the virtualization platform products has helped push sales of the company's other products, including its Cross Cloud Architecture, according to Bruce Davie, vice president and CTO for VMware Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).

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