Intersil launches rad-hard SOI 32-channel driver

Intersil has launched a radiation hardened 32-channel driver which integrates the decoder, level shifter and driver array. The ISL72813SEH driver leverages Intersil’s SOI process, which provides single-event latch-up (SEL) robustness in heavy ion environments. The driver’s integrated decoder interfaces directly to the general purpose I/Os of FPGAs and CPUs in the satellite’s flight computer, dramatically reducing ...

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Digitimes Research: Japan aims at 20% of cars to be self-driving in 2030

Japan-based automobile makers have been developing self-diving cars and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) aims at 20% of cars to be self-driving models in 2030, according to Digitimes Research.

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Foxconn invests in SoftBank subsidiary, sets up joint venture with Sharp

Foxconn Electronics has had its subsidiary Foxconn (Far East) Limited acquire 96,268 new shares of SoftBank Group's subsidiary SoftBank Group Capital APAC at US$600.602 million for a 54.5% stake, while another subsidiary Fabrigene Limited acquired 208.702 million shares of Sharp Healthcare and Medical Company KY, a joint venture to be established by Sharp and Foxconn Electronics, at US$25 million for a 51.2% stake, according to Foxconn Electronics.

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China market: Xiaomi unveils Surge S1 mobile chip

Xiaomi Technology has unveiled its first in-house developed smartphone solution, dubbed Surge S1, making it the second smartphone vendor to roll out its own mobile chips after Huawei.

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204 million large-size LCD panels shipped in 4Q16, says IDC

There were 204 million large-size TFT-LCD panels shipped globally in fourth-quarter 2016, decreasing 3.7% on quarter and 6.1% on year, according to IDC.

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Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship nearly 20 million LCD monitors in 4Q16

Taiwan-based makers shipped 19.825 million LCD monitors in fourth-quarter 2016, slipping 5% on quarter and 6.9% on year, and taking up 65.9% of the global total, according to Digitimes Research.

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Lite-On Technology expects monthly dual-lens CCM shipments to rise to 4-5 million units in 2Q17

Lite-On Technology expects 3-5 China-based smartphone vendors to adopt dual-lens CCMs (compact camera modules) in first-quarter 2017, boosting its monthly shipments of such products to 4-5 million units in the second quarter, according to the company.

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Giantplus 4Q16 revenues hit 9-quarter high

Small- to medium-size LCD panel and module maker Giantplus Technology's consolidated revenues reached NT$3.045 billion (US$97.4 million) in fourth-quarter 2016, the highest quarterly level since fourth-quarter 2014, the company has disclosed at a recent investors conference.

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AMOLED penetration of smartphones estimated at 27.6% in 2017

The proportion of smartphones with AMOLED panels is estimated at 27.6% in 2017 and may rise to 50% in 2020, according to industry sources.

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Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics starts operation of 8.6G LCD line in China

Chongqing HKC Optoelectronics Technology has announced it has formally kicked off first-phase production at an 8.6G a-Si TFT-LCD factory in Chongqing City, western China. It is the first operational 8.6G line in China, the company said.

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Digitimes Research: Lenovo largest AIO vendor worldwide in 2016

Lenovo was the largest all-in-one PC vendor worldwide in 2016, followed by Hewlett-Packard (HP) at number two. The two players' shipments gap was widened in 2016 compared to 2015 mainly because of HP's unsatisfactory all-in-one PC sales. Lenovo's shipments include those from subsidiaries NEC and Medion.

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MediaTek rolls out 10nm mobile chips

MediaTek has announced the commercial availability of its Helio X30 system-on-chip (SoC) designed for high-end smartphones. Mass production for the SoC has kicked off, said the company, adding that commercial devices powered by the chips will be available in the second quarter of 2017.

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Taiwan market: HMD to start marketing Nokia 6 in early March

HMD Global will start marketing the new Nokia 6 in the Taiwan market on March 8 after the Finland-based firm officially unveiled the model along with the Nokia 5, 3 and the iconic Nokia 3310 at MWC 2017, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

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What’s New With UV-Cure Adhesives

Conferences and trade shows keep people informed about the latest products, processes and technological innovations in their respective industries. For many professionals who work with UV-cure adhesives, the biennial RadTech conference and annual winter meeting are the main events to attend to stay in the know on ultraviolet technology.

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Robots Increase Efficiency of Electronic Testing Application

Monitoring and meeting regulations is an ongoing challenge for every business, regardless of the products they make or the services they provide.

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Border-Adjustment Tax and Manufacturing

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to bolster U.S. manufacturing; slash the corporate tax rate; build a wall on our southern border to keep out illegal immigrants; and invest more than $1 trillion to upgrade the nation’s aging infrastructure.

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Government launches Digital Skills Partnership

A Digital Skills Partnership aims to link Government, business, charities and voluntary organisations to give people the right skills for the jobs in their area and are aware of all the digital training opportunities on offer and an attempt to make the UK  “the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business”. ...

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Lattice Shareholders Approve China Takeover

FPGA vendor moves one step closer to acquisition by China-backed equity firm; U.S. government approval still pending.

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Handsets at MWC: Same But Different

As smartphones start to mature, what can vendors possibly do to differentiate their phones from their rivals' devices? Here's what we've found at the Mobile World Congress this year.

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Evolution of Microcomputers: Personal Histories

It's easy to forget how fast things are moving and how (relatively) pathetic were the computer and networking systems of yesteryear

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FCC's Pai Debuts as 'Light Touch' Heavyweight

The new chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai, virtually claimed the copyright on the term "light-touch regulation" here at the Mobile World Congress, guaranteeing that he will strive to roll back "net neutrality" restrictions on Internet service providers.

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RRAM/PCM-Based Brain-Gates Emerge as New Components

The time is ripe for a new direction to take advantage of the unique features of PCMs/RRAMs as single component pulse integrators with the non-volatility and plasticity that make them attractive as possible synapses and neurons in learning machines.

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Optimal+ Joins IIoT Consortium

The company known for its manufacturing data-analysis software brings is expertise to a wider industry.

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Industrial IoT Gets Comms Guide

The Industrial Internet Consortium released a connectivity framework to help developers create products and deployments with complete communications software stacks.

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Why Conflict Mineral Rules Improve the Supply Chain

Conflict minerals regulations were designed to reduce the use of raw materials sold to fund war crimes. However, a long-term benefit may be the dramatic improvements in visibility into supply-chain issues.

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MWC: Rohde & Schwarz, MediaTek collaborate on 5G wireless comms

Rohde & Schwarz and MediaTek collaborate on testing 5G wireless communication technologies: mm-waves for 5G radio access and over-the-air testing concepts for massive MIMO antenna arrays.

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EUV Progress, Hurdles Cited

Extreme ultraviolet lithography made progress in the past year but hurdles are still ahead for EUV said Intel and Samsung experts.

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Driverless car on London streets

A driverless car was tested in London yesterday as Nissan put a modified Leaf on the streets of the East End. The car was said to have gone at speeds up to 50mph on local streets and main roads. The Leaf uses cameras, radar and lasers to figure out where it is in relation to ...

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MWC sees driverless car demo

Mobile World Congress brought a demo of driverless cars controlled by 5G signals staged by Telefonica, Ericsson and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology KTH. The companies showed how they could control driverless cars on a test track 70km away in Tarragona. Telefonica’s Javier Lorca said that, for the moment, using cellular signals to control driverless ...

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EEVblog #975 – Human vs Autorouter

Which produces the better PCB layout, a human or a computer?

By popular request, a walkthough to see what the Altium Situs Autorouter can do on the Nixie tube PCB layout. Does it beat Dave’s human layout?
How useful are autorouters?

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What to Expect from 5G Wireless in 2017

Test will play a significant role in how 5G moves towards deployment. National Instruments' director of SDR marketing James Kimery explains what to look for.

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IoT in Industry Still 'Infant,' But a Big One

IoT in industry poses great potential but could be stalled by interoperability issues and the "human factor," according to a panel at the Mobile World Congress.

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Ultrasound: Can Chirp Usurp UI?

Chirp Microsystems is rolling out a single-chip ultrasonic time-of-flight sensor. "Touchless" - based on ultrasonic sensing - can "add another modality" to UI for wearable, AR/VR, smartphones and even automotive, believes the startup CEO.

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MWC: Qualcomm, Telstra, Ericsson trial 5G NR deployment

Qualcomm, Telstra and Ericsson announce plans for interoperability testing and an over-the-air field trial based on the expected 5G NR (New Radio) specifications.

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Mobile World Congress 2017: Get the full Electronics Weekly guide

The best of Mobile World Congress, highlighting latest trends in mobile technology and services.

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More on: 10 core MediaTek processor with PowerVR graphics

MediaTek’s 10 core Helio X30 phone processor includes graphics processing from UK-based Imagination Technologies. Its 800MHz PowerVR Series7XT Plus GPU (GT7400 Plus) produces a 2.4x performance boost and 60% power saving compared with MediaTek’s previous generation phone (X20) chipset, which is made on a TSMC 10nm process. It includes full hardware support for tessellation and ASTC ...

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22nm FD-SOI Dream Chip

Dream Chip Technologies, the German IC design house, has produced first silicon of a 22nm FD-SOI ADAS SoC for automotive computer vision. It is the first chip to be made on GloFo’s 22nm FD-SOI process. The chip was created in cooperation with ARM, Arteris, Cadence, GloFo, and INVECAS as part of the EC’s ENIAC THINGS2DO ...

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Rambus moves into mobile payments.

Rambus has announced a mobile payments platform to enhance payment security, reduce operational costs and increase revenue for retailers. The Rambus Unified Payment Platform enables consumers to pay with credit, points and coupons in a single transaction, and transform how they shop and pay. “Our Unified Payment Platform is based on a bank-proven foundation from our ...

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Softbank reported to be investing billions in work-space sharing start-up.

ARM’s owner Softbank is reported by CNBC to be spending up to $4 billion on a US workspace-sharing start-up called WeWork. The deal is said to be that Softbank will invest an initial $2 billion and may subsequently invest another $2 billion. WeWork is backed by Chinese investor groups Hony Capital, backed b Legend Holdings, and ...

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MediaTek and Analogix bring 4k ultra-HD to mobiles

Analogix has produced reference designs paring MediaTek’s Helio  X30 10-core processor with Analogix’s ANX7625 SlimPort transmitter to provide DisplayPort over USB-C at 4K Ultra-HD resolution for smart devices. The ANX7625 is an ultra-low power, single-chip bridge from the MIPI and USB 3.1 interfaces of the application processor to DisplayPort over USB-C, simultaneously performing the necessary ...

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Hipperos enhances RTOS

HIPPEROS, the Belgian RTOS developer, has added hardware acceleration, fast multicore IPC and mixed criticality scheduling, to its  multicore RTOS for high performance embedded systems version 17.02. HIPPEROS RTOS is a family of ITAR-free, highly configurable, modular and parallel real-time operating systems (RTOS) designed specifically for multicore platforms for the next generation of reliable, low ...

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Nokia rides again

Nokia’s re-entry into the handset business sees the launch of a phone with a battery which lasts a month and has 22 hours of talk time with a 1200mAh battery. It was designed nearly 20 years ago and is the re-launch of the most popular mobile phone of the year 2000 – the 3310 – ...

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Renesas completes Intersil acquisition

Renesas announces the completion of  its acquisition of Intersil. “I am excited to welcome the Intersil employees into the Renesas Group and look forward to building a robust organization that will bring the capabilities of both companies to bear to proactively address changing market dynamics and customer needs,” says Renesas CEO Bunsei Kure,  “with the ...

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Q'comm, Samsung, MTK Offer Hints on iPhone 8

The 10nm process technology - common to all three chips announced by Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek - and faster speeds enabled by the advanced LTE modem are two likely elements to be leveraged in iPhone 8.

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3-D Interactive Projection Redefines MEM

Bosch's combo micro-scanner/laser-projector is said to be capable of transforming any surface into a virtual user interface.

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Handsets Going Wide, says LG

LG Electronics debuted its G6 smartphone at Mobile World Congress claiming it is the first to a generation of premium handsets to support an 18:9 aspect ratio.

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Government to put £17m into robotics and AI.

The government is to give £17 million to universities to support research into robotics and AI.. “Innovation is at the heart of our Industrial Strategy,” says business secretary Greg Clark, “by investing in dynamic fields such as robotics and AI, we will help put the UK at the forefront of global innovation.” HMG says that ...

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EEVblog #974 – PCB Layout Walkthrough

Part 4 of the Nixie tube display project.
In this tutorial Dave walks you through a complete PCB design from begin to end, with a ton of hints and tips throughout that can be applied to any PCB layout package.

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How to lay out a PCB VIDEO

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Focusing on Core Competency

A startup can shave 12 months or more off the development cycle by outsourcing non-essential elements of product design.

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High Resolution 1Msps SAR Analog to Digital Converter Isolated Solution

Isolating high-resolution high-speed SAR ADCs with a SPI interface in data acquisition systems can be challenging.

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Open Source: Not Pragmatic After All?

Does the fate of open-source consumer office apps have something to teach us about the long-term reliability of open source?

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UMC Begins Mass Production of 14nm

Foundry begins shipping 14nm wafers to lead customers ahead of original schedule.

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The (Electronic) Pencil is Mightier than the Keyboard

The combination of the Apple Pencil with an iPad Pro-based note-taking app like MyScript Nemo can provide a major boost to one's productivity.

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IEEE Director to Step Down

E. James Prendergast will retire next year after nearly nine years at the helm of the prestigious technical organization.

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5G Might Be Buzz Saw for Carriers

In the IoT era, mobile carriers' customers are no longer just people. They'd have to deal with machines, vehicles, sensors, hot spots, 'things' - in an orchestrated ecosystem.

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Waymo sues Uber

Google’s spun off driverless car unit Waymo is suing Uber’s driverless truck subsidiary Otto for stealing its technology. “Recently, we uncovered evidence that Otto and Uber have taken and are using key parts of Waymo’s self-driving technology,” says Waymo, “today, we’re taking legal action against Otto and its parent company Uber for misappropriating Waymo trade ...

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Qualcomm makes splash with VR announcements

Qualcomm has made several announcements in the virtual reality (VR) space including introducing a new virtual reality development kit (VRDK) for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile platform and the launch of a head mounted display (HMD) reference design.

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Flanders ups Imec grant

Imec has had its funding from the Flanders government increased from €79 million a year to $108 million a year for the next five years. Flanders innovation minister Philippe Muyters said that the extra funding would cover Imec’s task of getting Flemish companies to automate and use big data in the Industry 4.0 transformation. “This ...

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Advantech sets up WISE-PaaS Marketplace as IoT application store

Industrial computing device maker and solution provider Advantech has established WISE-PaaS Marketplace, an open platform for providing on-demand IoT software solutions, according to the company.

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Qualcomm share of China AP market to hit 30% for first time since 2012

Although the first quarter is the slow season in the China application processor (AP) market, Qualcomm is expected to continue outperforming its competitors and further increase its market share, with Digitimes Research data indicating Qualcomm's share will hit 30%.

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FCCL maker Taiflex sees earnings hit 4-year low in 2016

FCCL and PV back board maker Taiflex Scientific saw its net profits decline 20.6% on year to NT$580 million (US$18.86 million) in 2016, the lowest level in four years.

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Taiwan starts LWA 4G+Wi-Fi commercial operation

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), networking/communication device maker SerComm, IC design house MediaTek and smartphone vendor HTC have jointly announced the beginning of commercial operation of LTE-WLAN Aggregation (LWA) 4G+Wi-Fi services, with CHT becoming the first such operator around the world.

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Senyun to rent plants at CTSP for lens manufacturing, says paper

Gigabyte Technology-invested optical component maker Senyun Precision Optical has been approved for an investment project for Central Taiwan Science Park and will rent plants there to manufacture products. The plants will begin operation on August 1 and contribute revenues of about NT$73 million (US$2.38 million) in the first year, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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Advantech introduces edge computing to IoT solutions

Industrial computing device maker Advantech has introduced the concept of edge computing to its IoT (Internet of Things) solutions by offering edge intelligent servers, in which built-in middleware undertakes preliminary computing to lighten the burden of transferring a huge amount of data for cloud computing-based computing.

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LTCC device maker ACX reports record high EPS for 2016

Advanced Ceramic X (ACX), a multi-layer ceramic device and LTCC (low-temperature co-fired ceramic) module maker, has reported net profits of NT$806 million (US$26.21 million) for 2016. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$11.69, the company's highest level.

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Acer provides smart health platform to Changhua Christian Hospital

Acer on February 23 announced cooperation with Changhua Christian Hospital in central Taiwan, which will adopt Acer's aBeing Wellness cloud-based health platform for remote tracking and care of chronic patients on a long-term basis, with both sides to further cooperate to develop artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data technologies to complete smart health care covering medical prevention, diagnosis, therapy and health tracking.

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Kaimei Electronic fails to acquire significant stake in Ta-I

Kaimei Electronic has failed to complete its bid for an up to 45% stake in rival capacitor company Ta-I Technology.

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Advantech nets NT$8.96 per share for 2016

Industrial computing device maker Advantech posted consolidated revenues of NT$10.805 billion (US$341 million), gross margin 40.26%, net operating profit NT$1.737 billion, net profit NT$1.430 billion and net EPS NT$2.24 for the fourth quarter of 2016, leading to consolidated revenues of NT$42.002 billion, gross margin 40.76%, net operating profit NT$6.632 billion, net profit NT$5.689 billion and net EPS of NT$8.96 for the whole year, the company said at a February 23 investors conference.

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Merry sees EPS hit record high in 2016

Headset maker Merry Electronics has reported an EPS of as high as NT$11 for 2016, compared to NT$3.48 for a year earlier.

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SSD and eMMC prices to rise 15% in 2Q17, says DRAMeXchange

Prices of SSD and eMMC devices will continue to rise in the second quarter of 2017 due to tight supply of NAND flash chips, according to DRAMeXchange.

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Winbond mulls opening 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore, says report

Winbond Electronics has been approached by the Singapore government to set up a manufacturing site locally, and the Taiwan-based maker of specialty DRAM and flash memory is considering the invite, according to a report from Taiwan's TechNews.

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Arcadyan sees EPS more than double in 2016

Networking/communication device maker Arcadyan Technology has reported net profits of NT$1.357 billion (US$44.127 million) for 2016, increasing 136.4% from a year earlier. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$7.19 for 2016, more than double from NT$3.06 of the previous year.

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Silitech suffers losses in 2016

Handset-use chassis and keypad maker Silitech Technology has reported a net loss of NT$109.2 million (US$3.544 million) or NT$0.61 per share for 2016.

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5nm for 2019, says TSMC

TSMC will start risk production on 5nm in H1 2019, its co-CEO Mark,Liu told the company’s annual supply chain management forum yesterday, reports Digitimes. Risk production on 7nm starts in Q1 2017 with volume production in 2018 10nm production shipments will expand rapidly in H2 2017, said Liu. EUV will start being used at 7nm ...

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Infineon DC-DC regulator aimed at Point of Load applications

Infineon is offering a DC-DC regulator aimed at high density Point of Load applications where efficiency, reliability and thermal behavior are important in NetCom, Telecom, Servers and Storage solutions. The voltage regulator employs a stability engine that makes it stable with ceramic capacitors without compensation for an easy design. The device, designated IR3883, can save up ...

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Alexa, Rivals Speak to OEMs

Amazon's Alexa is growing in both partnerships and rivals this year for embedding smart voice services in consumer products.

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MWC 2017 set for a new round of competition for smartphones

A number of Android phone brands are expected to showcase their new models for 2017 at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC), heralding a new round of competition in the global smartphone space, according to industry sources.

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Samsung steps up cooperation with China-based handset suppliers

Samsung Electronics has stepped up its contact with handset supply chain makers in China, aiming to strengthen its cooperation ties with ODMs and component suppliers to enable access to more competitive production capacity and component supplies, according to sources from Taiwan-based supply chain makers.

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Industrial robot makers expanding capacity

Worldwide robot makers have been expanding their capacity recently with Germany-based Kuka cooperating with the China-based Midea Group to expand its capacity in Europe and China. Meanwhile, Japan-based Yaskawa has also increased investment at its plants, and Taiwan-based Quanta Storage has partnered with Japan-based Panasonic and Hiwin Technologies to push into the market.

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Taiwan maintains largest share of global IC wafer fab capacity, says IC Insights

Taiwan led all regions/countries in wafer capacity with 21.3% share, a slight decrease from 21.7% in 2015 when the country first became the global wafer capacity leader, according to IC Insights.

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Taiwan January unemployment rate down, says DGBAS

Taiwan had 445,000 jobless citizens in January 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.78% which dropped 0.01pp on month and 0.09pp on year, according to statistics released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) on February 24.

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Taiwan January manufacturing production index down on month, up on year, says MOEA

Taiwan recorded a manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 106.13 for January 2017, decreasing 6.81% on month but increasing 3.80% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on February 23.

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iPad supply chain makers likely to report disappointing 1Q17 sales

First-quarter 2017 results of Taiwan-based makers in the iPad supply chain, notably touch panel makers TPK Holding and General Interface Solution (GIS), are hanging in the balance, depending on when Apple is going release its new iPad Pro lineup, according to industry sources.

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Transition to 18-inch wafers remains years away, says Applied

It is unlikely to see 450mm (18-inch) wafer fabrication technology become mature over the next three years, according to Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson. The chipmaking industry's transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers remains years away.

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TSMC on track to move 5nm to risk production in 1H19

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is on track to start risk production of 5nm chips in the first half of 2019, said company co-CEO Mark Liu at its annual supply chain management forum on February 23.

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WPG expects sales to recover starting 2Q17

IC distributor WPG expects revenues to hit the lowest levels for 2017 in the first quarter, and start to pick up in the second quarter.

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VIS expects to post up to 5% revenue decrease in 1Q17

Seasonality will drag down specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor's (VIS) revenues in the first quarter of 2017, which are forecast to decrease 1-5% sequentially.

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UMC enters mass production for 14nm chips

United Microelectronics (UMC) has announced the availability of mass production for ICs built using the foundry's most-advanced 14nm FinFET technology.

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Chip Equipment Billings Hold Steady

Billings for North American chip equipment manufacturers up over 50 percent year-to-year in January, according to SEMI.

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Smart Waggle Boosts IoT

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory claims a turn-key Internet of Things breakthrough in remote sensing, with its Waggle concept spreading among smart industry and government sensor arrays.

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Game-Changing RFSoCs from Xilinx

RFSoCs are applicable to a wide variety of applications, from 5G mobile networks to radar, telecommunications, and electronic warfare.

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UNH-IOL Adds 2.5G, 5G Ethernet Testing to its Lineup

Often seen as the final arbiter for data communications testing and compliance, the University of New Hampshire's Interoperability Lab can now help manufacturers bring NBase-T and IEEE 802.3bz products to market.

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Borophene: a heterjunction appeared out of nowhere

Scientists at the US Northwestern University have accidentally created a semiconductor junction with the newly-discovered material borophane, that might offer a route to determining if it is electronically useful. Borophene is a molecule made of boron atoms. Like graphene, borophene is a two-dimensional sheet-like molecule, but thought to be a better conductor of electrons than ...

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Exciting, Disruptive, Game-Changing RFSoCs from Xilinx

RFSoCs are applicable to a wide variety of applications, from 5G mobile networks to radar, telecommunications, and electronic warfare.

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TDK-Lambda mentors students in STEM competition, and they win

Engineers from TDK-Lambda UK supported a team of students from The Ilfracombe Academy in the international STEM competition, F1 in Schools. “TDK-Lambda is committed to supporting STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] education. We believe it is vital to address the looming skills gap and our engineers are engaged in a range of activities with ...

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Anyone for ionotronic memory?

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have discovered large uniform reversible changes in electrical resistance as oxygen ions migrate in an oxide material. The discovery could open a route to ionotronic memories. It transpires that potential difference drives oxygen ions away from one electrical contact, causing an abrupt change in oxide lattice structure and an ...

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‘Moth-eye’ film boosts display contrast

AndersDX has has increased all-round display readability with what it calls ‘moth-eye’ film. It has introduced the technology in a 7” capacitive-touch display module. “The moth-eye film surface treatment applied to this TFT display uses technology which mimics the micro-sized lenses in the eye of a moth,” said the firm. “It reduces internal reflections between the ...

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NXP to sample Layerscape in April for multi-access technologies

In April, NXP intends to sample a family of programmable, multi-standard SoCs for multi-access technologies including 5G. The Layerscape Access family targets wired and wireless enterprise and carrier networks, and home gateway markets.   The first product in the family, the LA1575, solves a multi-standard problem with simultaneous implementation of 802.11ax, 802.11ad, and millimeter wave ...

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BeagleBone Black gets wireless and display for industrial users

Farnell is aiming at industrial users with two ‘cape’ add-on boards for BeagleBone Black: one for wireless comms and another that adds a display. On top of this, is it also now stocking BeagleBone Black Wireless, which has followed Raspberry Pi 3 by adding native Wi-Fi support to a credit card-sized single-board computer. The Wireless ...

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Cloud spending to top $122bn in 2017

Worldwide spending on cloud services and infrastructure will reach $122.5 billion in 2017, an increase of 24.4% over 2016, says IDC. Over the 2015-2020 forecast period, overall cloud spending will experience a 21.5% CAGR – nearly seven times the rate of overall IT spending growth. By 2020, IDC forecasts cloud spending will reach $203.4 billion ...

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Taiwan leads in fab capacity

Taiwan led all regions in wafer capacity with 21.3% share, a slight decrease from 21.7% in 2015 when the country first became the global wafer capacity leader, says IC Insights. Taiwan was only slightly ahead of South Korea, which was in second place. IC Insights’ Global Wafer Capacity report shows that South Korea accounted for ...

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Ability Opto-Electronics sees earnings improve significantly in 2016

Camera module maker Ability Opto-Electronics Technology has reported net profits of NT$95.02 million (US$3.045 million) for 2016, which translated into an EPS of NT$1.02 for the year compared to a loss of NT$1.11 of a year earlier.

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Asustek likely to unveil new 2-in-1 model at MWC 2017

Asustek Computer is expected to unveil a new 2-in-1 notebook model, the ZenFlip UX370, at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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MediaTek gross margin unlikely to recover

MediaTek is unlikely to see its gross margin return to 40% in 2017 due to a combination of negative factors, such as a slowdown in smartphone market growth and limited potential profitability from the smartphone AP business. The planned merger with Airoha Technology will also have a negative impact on MediaTek's gross margin performance, according to industry sources.

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Intel, UC Berkeley, Honeywell, GE, Ericsson form 5G innovators group

Ericsson, Honeywell, GE, UC Berkeley and Intel are launching the 5G Innovators Initiative (5GI2), an open industry initiative designed to join major equipment manufacturers, leading technology companies, industry leaders and top universities to explore, test and innovate with 5G network and distributed edge technologies to accelerate the adoption of 5G wireless and infrastructure innovation in ...

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EU Privacy Rules Can Cloud Your IoT Future

Looming large for the MWC crowd are two unresolved issues: the security and privacy of connected devices. EU's privacy rules will affect not just big data companies like Google but also IoT companies, even when located outside Europe.

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CEVA DSP for multi-gig modems

CEVA has introduced a communication DSP to meet the performance requirements of multi-gigabit class modems. The CEVA-XC12 aims to efficiently implement 5G, gigabit LTE, MU-MIMO Wi-Fi and other multi-gigabit modems. Already licensed to a leading wireless OEM, the CEVA-XC12 delivers up to 8x performance improvement and consumes 50% less power than its predecessor, the CEVA-XC4500, for ...

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GPU shipments total 100 million in 4Q16, says John Peddie

Global demand for GPUs increased in the fourth quarter of 2016 on a sequential basis, continuing a rising trend despite continuing lower sales for PCs.

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HTC aims high while LG look low in India smartphone market

HTC has reiterated its stance that it wants to focus on the high-end of the India smartphone market while LG Electronics is reportedly making plans to increase its presence in the volume segments, according to reports coming out of India.

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Samsung launches 10nm Exynos 9-series processor

Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of its latest premium application processor (AP), the Exynos 9 Series 8895. This is Samsung's first processor chipset built using 10nm FinFET process technology with improved 3D transistor structure, which allows up to 27% higher performance while consuming 40% less power when compared to 14nm technology, the company claimed.

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Elan expects to post 6-9% decrease in 1Q17 revenues

IC design house Elan Microelectronics, which specializes in touchscreen controller chips, expects its first-quarter 2017 revenues to decrease 6-9% sequentially, due to a seasonal slowdown in demand for consumer electronics devices as well as fewer working days during the Lunar New Year period.

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Taiwan approves Dynami Vision acquisition of Macquarie APTT Management

Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the acquisition of a 100% stake in Singapore-based Macquarie APTT Management, a contract managing company of Singapore-based Asian Pay Television Trust (APTT), at US$4.5 million proposed by Singapore-registered Dynami Vision with 22 strings attached.

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AMD to release Ryzen in March with initial shipments to top 1 million

AMD will start selling its new Ryzen processors in early March with an initial shipment target expected to top one million units.

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Harvatek showcases transparent LED display at Smart City Summit & Expo 2017

LED packaging service provider Harvatek is exhibiting a transparent LED display at the Smart City Summit & Expo 2017 in Taipei during February 21-24, according to the company.

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North American semiconductor equipment industry posts US$1.86 billion in January billings

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$1.86 billion in billings worldwide in January 2017 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI.

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Globalfoundries announces availability of 45nm RF SOI to advance 5G mobile communications

Globalfoundries has announced the availability of its 45nm RF SOI (45RFSOI) technology offering, making it the first foundry to announce an advanced, 300mm RF silicon solution to support next generation millimeter-wave (mmWave) beam forming applications in future 5G base stations and smartphones.

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MediaTek-Richtek deal probed for possible insider trading

Taiwan authorities are investigating possible insider trading linked to MediaTek's 2015 acquisition of Richtek Technology.

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UMC to pay NT$0.50 cash dividend for 2016

United Microelectronics' (UMC) board of directors has decided to deal out dividends of NT$0.50 (US$0.02) in cash for 2016, when the company generated net profits of NT$8.32 billion or NT$0.68 per share.

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PTI to deal out cash dividend of NT$4 for 2016

Powertech Technology's (PTI) board of directors has adopted a proposal recommending the distribution of a NT$4 (US$0.13) cash dividend per share for 2016, when the company saw its net profits climb to a 6-year high of NT$4.84 billion.

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Diode maker Eris to hand out NT$3.46 in dividends for 2016

Taiwan-based automotive diode maker Eris Technology plans to deal out dividends of NT$3.46 per share for 2016 compared to NT$0.63 distributed a year earlier.

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Epistar to produce VCSELs

LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has landed orders for VCSELs (vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers) for use in proximity sensors for smartphones and will begin production in the third quarter of 2017, according to the company.

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Memory module maker Apacer to hand out cash dividend of NT$2.40 for 2016

Memory module maker Apacer Technology plans to deal out dividends of NT$2.40 in cash for 2016, the company's highest in 10 years.

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Toshiba to begin mass production of 64-layer, 512-gigabit 3D flash in 2H17

Toshiba has unveiled the latest addition to its line-up of BiCS flash 3D flash memory with a stacked cell structure, a 64-layer device that achieves a 512-gigabit (64-gigabytes) capacity with 3-bit-per-cell (triple-level cell, TLC) technology.

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Wi-Fi, LTE Spar over Location

Wi-Fi chip makers and an LTE software startup announced ways of delivering location services they claim are superior to Bluetooth and ultrawideband.

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The 2017 Embedded Markets Study Needs You

The portal just opened for this year's survey, so this is your chance to contribute your hard-earned knowledge regarding what's really going on in Embedded Space.

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Graphcore visualises artificial intelligence in action

This is what a machine learning algorithm looks like, according to Nigel Toon, CEO of Bristol start-up Graphcore. The false colour image has been created by the firm’s graph compiler software, which untangles neural networks as a prelude to executing them on Graphcore’s as-yet undisclosed hardware. “In software, we explode the full graph, with all ...

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T.J. Rodgers Sues Cypress, Slams Chairman

Company founder says Chairman failed to disclose role in China-backed equity firm attempting to acquire rival Lattice Semiconductor.

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Are Kids No Longer Learning Multiplication Tables in School?

Have you heard anything about schools in your corner of the globe no longer teaching students to memorize their twelve times tables?

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Hydronium-ion battery mooted for grid storage

Hydronium-ion batteries show promise for sustainable high-power energy storage, according to scientists at Oregon State University, which claims to have developed the world’s first battery to use only hydronium (H3O+) ions as the charge carrier. The hydronium ions are reversibly stored in an electrode made from the organic crystalline solid perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydridem (PTCDA). Dilute sulphuric acid is the electrolyte. ...

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AMD Fires Volley in x86 War

AMD will start selling March 2 its first Zen-based x86 processor, Ryzen 7, sporting significant price and performance advantages over CPUs from rival Intel.

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MWC: Modular 5G antenna stacks for high data rate

Taoglas has unveiled its series of modular 5G massive MIMO antenna arrays. The new antennas – including the 5-6GHz Adaptrix CMM200.A (pictured) – feature a patent-pending, modular interlocking system (not shown) to help operators scale capacity  – when more capacity or speed is needed at a location, another module is clipped to the side of ...

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Cellular IoT Chip Battle Escalates at MWC

The 3GPP completed the standardization of NB-IoT last June. ARM, Sequans Communications and Altair Semiconductors are all rushing to the cellular IoT market. IHS sees NB-IoT technology in 2017 as "an inflection point in the LPWAN market."

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Toshiba sampling 64-layer 512Gbit 3D NAND

Toshiba is sampling 64-layer 3-bit-per cell 512Gbit 3D NAND. Mass production is scheduled for H2. In April Toshiba plans to sample a  1Tbyte product which stacks 16 512Gbit die in a package. For the 512Gbit device, Toshiba deployed a 64-layer stacking process to realize a 65% larger capacity per unit chip size than the 48-layer 256Gbit ...

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ARM invests in Blu Witeless

Blu Wireless Technology, the Bristol WiGig specialist, has received a significant investment from ARM and other strategic and private investors. This will allow the companies’ mutual customers to deploy high performance mmWave and software defined networks (SDN) demanded for the cost-effective deployment of the forthcoming 5G standard. 10Gbps-class mmWave modems based on the Blu Wireless ...

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Intel reveals Atom processors with up to 16 cores

Intel has release some details of its forthcoming C3000 Atom processors. Designed for network and storage products, the family provides up to 16 compute cores for a claimed increase of up to 2.3x compute performance compared with the previous-generation C2750 Atom. In addition, up to 19Mpacket/s of Layer 3 forwarding is available. “Unique features for the intelligent network edge ...

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Qualcomm, ZTE and China Mobile to collaborate on 5G NR trials at 3.5 GHz

Qualcomm, ZTE, and China Mobile have announced plans to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on the 5G New Radio (NR) specifications being developed by 3GPP. The trials will operate in sub-6 GHz mid-band spectrum at 3.5 GHz and intend to drive the mobile ecosystem toward rapid validation and commercialization of 5G NR technologies at scale, enabling commercial network launches based on 3GPP Rel-15 standard compliant 5G NR infrastructure and devices.

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Qualcomm begins comeback fight against Korean FTC

Qualcomm has petitioned the Seoul Central District Court to not implement fines totaling SKW1.03 trillion (US$865 million) levied by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC).

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Worldwide public cloud services spending forecast to reach US$122.5 billion in 2017, says IDC

A new update to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Spending Guide shows that worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will reach US$122.5 billion in 2017, an increase of 24.4% over 2016. Over the 2015-2020 forecast period, overall public cloud spending will experience a 21.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) - nearly seven times the rate of overall IT spending growth. By 2020, IDC forecasts public cloud spending will reach US$203.4 billion worldwide.

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Intel pushing new 5G chip

Intel is planning to announce its latest innovations for the 5G market at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 and its next-generation high-end XMM 7560 LTE modem will be sent out for sampling and enter mass production later in the first half.

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Taiwan market: Smartphone shipments up slightly in January

Sales of smartphones in the Taiwan market reached 692,000 units in January 2017, up 3.75% on month but down 5% from a year earlier, according to data compiled local retain channels.

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LG Display may become supplier to Samsung

LG Display may begin supplying LCD TV panels to Samsung Electronics in the second half of 2017 amid ongoing tight supply in the large-size TV panel industry.

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PCB maker Tripod sees EPS hit 5-year high in 2016

PCB maker Tripod Technology has reported net profits of NT$3.573 billion (US$116.15 million) for 2016, increasing 26% from a year earlier. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$6.80 for 2016, the highest level in five years.

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3S Silicon Tech debuts on Taiwan emerging stock market

3S Silicon Tech started trading on Taiwan's emerging stock market on February 21 at an initial price of NT$20 (US$0.65) per share, according to the semiconductor equipment company targeting the backend sector.

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WPG adjusts distribution channnel for TI products

IC distributor WPG has announced its subsidiary Yosun Industrial will transfer all its Texas Instruments (TI) products to World Peace Industrial (WPI), another wholly-owned subsidiary of WPG. The tranfer is scheduled to complete on April 1, 2017.

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TSMC reportedly to join bid for stake in Toshiba memory business

Toshiba is looking to spin off its flash memory business with plans to sell more than half of the planned separate entity to one or more than one company, and reportedly will initiate a new process of the stake sale.

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Silicon Valley-based foundry Noel Technologies expands production by 25%

Noel Technologies, a specialty semiconductor foundry based in Silicon Valley, has expanded its wafer-fabrication facility by adding square footage and installing additional equipment that boost its production capacity by 25%, according to the company.

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Taiwan makers to ship 1.2 million VR HMD devices in 2017, says MIC

Taiwan's shipments of VR head-mounted display (HMD) devices, including ODM models, are expected to reach 1.2 million units in 2017, according to Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute (MIC).

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eevBLAB #30 – Popular Science FAIL! (WaterSeer Debunk)

A magazine like Popular Science should be held to a higher standard than today’s “Fake news” marketing re-hashing websites, which is why it’s very disappointing to see them print an article on the thoroughly busted Indiegogo WaterSeer without any kind of basic fact checking or questioning of it’s practicality.
P.S. The article author was contacted for comment but did not reply.

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Q1 server DRAM price up 40% q-o-q

The Q1 contract price for server DRAM modules is 40% up on Q4, reports DRAMeXchange. The price is expected to rise another 10% in Q2. The price of 16GB DDR4 RDIMM modules will hit $130, says DRAMeXchange. Demand was unexpectedly high in H2, says DRAMeXchange. With the number of major suppliers down to only three ...

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DRAM price up 40% q-o-q

The Q1 contract price for server DRAM modules is 40% up on Q4, reports DRAMeXchange. The price is expected to rise another 10% in Q2. The price of 16GB DDR4 RDIMM modules will hit $130, says DRAMeXchange. Demand was unexpectedly high in H2, says DRAMeXchange. With the number of major suppliers down to only three ...

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Marketech profit climbs to 12-year high

Fab toolmaker Marketech International has reported net profits for 2016 climbed to a 12-year high of NT$515 million (US$16.7 million). EPS for the year came to NT$3.12.

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Taiwan market: Xiaomi launches Mi Note 2, Redmi Note 4X

Xiaomi has launched its Mi Note 2 and Redmi Note 4X smartphones in the Taiwan market. The two models will be available starting March 1, with the Mi Note 2 priced at NT$16,999 (US$552), and the Redmi Note 4X at NT$4,999.

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Taiwan market: kbro to upgrade cable modem access to Internet to 500Mbps

Cable TV MSO (multi-system operator) kbro has set aside a capital expenditure budget of NT$2.8 billion (US$90.3 million) for 2017 mainly to upgrade its cable modem-based Internet-access services to a maximum download speed of 500Mbps at the end of the year, according to company president Wang Hong-shen.

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AUO undaunted by China competition, says chairman

TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) is not worried by China-based competitors' government-supported fast expansion of production capacity because the Taiwan-based firm's competitiveness is in different market segments, according to AUO chairman and CEO Paul Peng.

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Acer unveils smart roadside parking management system

Acer, Tainan City Government and Tainan University of Technology have jointly unveiled a smart roadside parking management system, according to Acer's e-business group president Ben Wan.

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New iPhone shipments to reach 100 million in 2017, says TrendForce

Apple's latest refresh of the iPhone series scheduled for later this year will include three new models, with one of them having significant hardware and design upgrades such as an AMOLED display and 3D facial recognition, market research firm TrendForce indicated.

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Server DRAM prices rise nearly 40% in 1Q17, says DRAMeXchange

Contract market prices of server DRAM modules have risen nearly 40% on average from the same point in the prior quarter, and will continue their growth in the second quarter, according to DRAMeXchange.

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Testing solution provider Chroma Ate posts 2016 EPS of NT$4.53

Chroma Ate, which provides integrated and customized solutions for test and measurement instruments, has reported net profits increased 39% on year to NT$1.7 billion (US$55.1 million) in 2016. EPS came to NT$4.53.

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Xiaomi likely to unveil in-house developed CPUs on February 28

Xiaomi Technology has sent out invitations for a product event to be held on February 28, during which the vendor is expected to unveil its in-house developed Pinecone CPUs and an entry-level to mid-range smartphone, according to industry sources.

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Former Globalfoundries CEO Manocha to Lead SEMI Trade Group

Ajit Manocha will replace as CEO of semiconductor equipment vendor trade group Denny McGuirk, who is retiring.

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Chinese Factory Replaces 90 Percent of Employees With Robots

DONGGUAN, CHINA—The Changying Precision Technology Co., which focuses on producing mobile phones and automated production lines, used to employ around 650 employees. Today, it has about 60 employees as a result of replacing nearly 90 percent of its human workforce with machines.

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Import Tax Could Greatly Increase Consumer Prices

WASHINGTON, DC——A Border Adjustment Tax sounds innocuous, but executives of major retailers warn that a 20 percent import tax would punish American consumers by raising the prices of electronics and other goods manufactured abroad.

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Electronic Design’s Products of the Week (2/19-2/25)

Here we've rounded up some of the latest products to optimize your applications, devices, and systems.

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What's This Screeching Sound & Why Does it Occur?

Upgrading a PC's memory resulted in screeching sounds whenever it tried to play audio. Has this ever happened to you?

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Q&A: BLDC Motor Control Class Questions

This three-part class will go over the basics of controlling brushless dc motors (BLDC). As microcontrollers become more powerful and come with enhanced software libraries, controlling BLDC motors can be easily done without becoming a motor expert. This class will provide a fundamental overview of different control techniques and introduce software tools that make the control easy.

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SPONSORED: Learn about SensorTile, tiny Bluetooth multi-sensor module for IoT, free webinar Feb 22 REGISTER NOW

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Secure Systems Summit 2017 – Designing in security

Connecting millions of electronic devices is creating significant security risks, and designing in security from day one is becoming ever-more crucial. Developers now recognise that the Internet of things (IoT) will only operate successfully if it becomes the Internet of trusted things. A key message at the Secure Systems Summit 2017 will be the importance ...

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Ultrahaptics teams up with HARMAN for automotive haptic-touch

Mid-air touch-free haptics company, Ultrahaptics, has announced a collaboration with HARMAN  to incorporate mid-air gesture haptic feedback technology into a range of infotainment and audio systems.  HARMAN  is involved in connected car technology, lifestyle audio innovations, design and analytics, cloud services and IoT. There are more than 30 million vehicles currently equipped with HARMAN’s connected car ...

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GloFo 45nm RF SOI PDK available

Globalfoundries has announced the availability of PDKs for its 45nm RF SOI (45RFSOI) to support next mmWave beam forming applications in future 5G base stations and smartphones. The technology is optimized for beam forming front-end modules (FEMs), with back-end-of-line (BEOL) features including thick copper and dielectrics that enable improved RF performance for LNAs, switches and ...

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Xilinx integrates analogue RF into MPSoCs

Xilinx has integrated RF-class analogue technology into its 16nm MPSoCs resulting in a family of RFSoCs which eliminate discrete data converters resulting, claims Xilinx, in a 50-75% power and footprint reduction for 5G massive-MIMO and millimeter wave wireless backhaul applications. Large scale 2D antenna array systems will be key to the increase in spectral efficiency ...

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Intel, Q'comm Show Cellular's Split

Intel debuts a gigabit LTE modem and Qualcomm shows RF modules at Mobile World Congress, an event expected to focus on the 5G future.

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G'foundries debuts 45nm RFSOI

Globalfoundries announced it has development kits for its 45nm RFSOI process, a node geared for uses such as 5G millimeter-wave chips.

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Toshiba now looking for $8.8bn+ from chip sale.

Toshiba is now looking to raise $8.8 billion plus from the sale of a stake in, or all of, its chip business, reports Reuters. Although Toshiba’s preference would be to retain 30% of the business, it is prepared to sell all of it because Toshiba’s priority is to raise the $6.3 billion needed to cover ...

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Altreonics ports VirtuosoNext DesignerRTOS to Sundance OpenVPX SBC.

Altreonic’s multicore VirtuosoNext Designer embedded RTOS has been ported to Sundance Technology’s VF360 3U OpenVPX single board computer (SBC). The Sundance board integrates a TI C6678 Keystone multicore DSP alongside an Altera Stratix V FPGA. VirtuosoNext Designer is Altreonic’s fifth generation embedded RTOS which is small enough to fit in on-chip caches. It also supports ...

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What's This Screeching Sound & Why Does it Occur?

Upgrading a PC's memory resulted in screeching sounds whenever it tried to play audio. Has this ever happened to you?

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EEVblog #973 – Hioki Multimeter Review & Clamp Meter Teardown

Dave looks at the Japanese Hioki DT4256 Multimeter and 3280 clamp meter

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Foxconn turns to China, initiates large-scale recruitment for company

Taiwan-based EMS provider Foxconn Electronics has kicked off recruitment of 12,000 university graduates and 6,000 graduates of senior high schools and junior vocational colleges in China, with the goal for the university graduates being to cultivate engineers for e-commerce, information technology, industrial IoT (Internet of Things), artificial intelligence, Big Data, robotics, automation, new materials, mechanical engineering and precision mold applications. The recruiting of the other graduates is meant to build up staff at the company's more than 30 factories around China, according to China-based media reports.

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Gamania Digital Entertainment aims at revenues of over NT$10 billion for 2017

Online game developer and operator Gamania Digital Entertainment aims to turn its operations from the red in 2016 to profitability in 2017 and has set its target consolidated revenues at over NT$10 billion (US$323 million) for 2017, according to company chairman and CEO Albert Liu.

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Taiwan IC production value to rise 5.8% in 2017, say TSIA and IEK

The production value of Taiwan's IC industry, consisting of designers, manufacturers, packaging and testing houses, will increase 5.8% in 2017 reaching NT$2,591.6 billion (US$84.1 billion), according to forecast made by the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) and Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) under the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute.

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Taiwan consumer IC firms revenues to pick up in March

Taiwan-based MCU and consumer IC design houses have recently seen customer orders pick up, and are expected to see their revenues start to rise in March, according to industry sources.

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China market: White-box smartphone supply chain faces increasing pressure from brand vendors

As first-tier China-based smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and Gionee are gearing up efforts to expand sales overseas, their white-box handset competitors are facing the possibility of being phased out, according to industry sources.

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Chunghwa Telecom to launch LWA network

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will open a commercial LTE/Wi-Fi Aggregation (LWA) network on February 23, making it the world's first telecom operator to launch LWA, according to CHT. LWA technology standards were approved by 3GPP in June 2016.

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Sated China smartphone market to sit back and digest inventory in 1Q17

After seeing record shipments in the fourth quarter of 2016, the China smartphone will ease up and try to digest inventory in the first quarter of 2017. Smartphone shipments in the China market are expected to see a year-on-year dip in the quarter, marking the first on-year quarterly decline since the second quarter of 2015, according to data from Digitimes Research.

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Panasonic, Sharp capitalize on JCM to export PV modules, says report

Panasonic and Sharp have exported PV modules to Costa Rica and Thailand respectively through the Japan government's Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), according to Japan-based Nikkan.

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TPV to set up LCD TV factory in China, says paper

TPV Technology will invest US$25 million to set up a LCD TV factory and another US$25 million to set up a factory making components used in LCD TVs in Xianyang City, northern China, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News (EDN).

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TPK to quit touch panel production for Apple Watch, say sources

TPK Holding has been a suppleir of G/G (2 pieces of glass) touch panels for use in Apple Watch for two years, but since Apple adopted TOL (touch on lens) for second-generation Apple Watch in 2016, TPK has been unable to hike yield rates for TOL touch panels to a reasonable level and is therefore mulling stopping production for the Apple wearable devices, according to industry sources.

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China and Taiwan fabs gearing up for next-gen memory production

China- and Taiwan-based pure-play foundries are partnering with their fabless clients to fabricate next-generation memory types, such as 3D NAND, MRAM and ReRAM, while memory chipmakers are developing the next-generation technologies in-house.

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Silicon wafer prices to rise in 2017, says GlobalWafers

Semiconductor-grade silicon wafer prices on a per-square inch basis, which reached an 11-year low of US$0.67, are set to rise in 2017 thanks to the already low point last year and a ramp-up of demand coming mainly from China-based foundries, according to Doris Hsu, chairman and CEO for GlobalWafers.

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Smartphones to remain largest AP application through 2020, says Digitimes Research

Smartphones will remain the largest market for application processors (AP) through 2020, accounting for over 80% of all APs shipped annually during the period, according to Digitimes Research.

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Foxconn chairman pledges shares for loans

Foxconn Electronics chairman Terry Gou has pledged a total of 430 million Foxconn shares as collateral to borrow loans from three banks, according to data released by Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).

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Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of nearly US$367 million in January, says MOEA

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 198 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) with a total value of US$366.86 million in January 2017, respectively decreasing 30.04% and 27.11% on year, according to MOEA statistics released on February 20.

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Taiwan January export order value down on month, up on year, says MOEA

Taiwan received export orders worth US$35.97 billion in total in January 2017, decreasing 12.8% on month but increasing 5.2% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on February 20.

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Cree, Infineon Nix Wolfspeed Deal Over U.S. Government Worries

Firms call off $850 million deal after Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States raises concerns.

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Apple buys face recognition firm

In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s 2012 purchase of Israeli facial recognition company face.com, Apple is reported to have bought another Israeli facial recognition company called RealFace. The expectation with the Facebook purchase was that it would match it to its vast library of people photos to create a mobile phone killer app which would ...

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Three Cheers for Engineers... Hip Hip Hooray

Based largely on the labors of engineers, we are currently living in a Golden Age, so a little appreciation might be in order.

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Semcon enables smart wipers

Semcon, the Swedish product development company, has developed a software upgrade for cars which pre-activates windscreen when a heavy splash of water is about to hit the windscreen. 61% of US drivers feel uncomfortable when overtaking heavy vehicles in wet conditions, says Semcon. Half of these say it is because an encounter with or takeover ...

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Connector works at high pressure for oil and gas

Smiths Connectors has created a high pressure high temperature connector series for the oil and gas industry. Called Vortex, the single-way connectors are designed for logging-while-drilling (LWD), measurement-while-drilling (LWD) and wire-line applications. With a mating boot and Hypertac  hyperboloid contacts, they work at 200°C, 35,000PSI, 500gravity shock and 10gravity vibration while mated. “The series provides exceptional ...

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Taiwan IC production value rises 8.2% in 2016, say TSIA and IEK

Taiwan's IC industry, consisting of designers, manufacturers, packaging and testing houses, generated production value of NT$2,449.3 billion (US$79.5 billion) in 2016, increasing 8.2% on year, according to data compiled by the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) and Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) under the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute.

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FET ties up with IBM to promote SAP HANA business solutions

Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has signed a cooperation agreement with IBM to jointly promote SAP HANA cloud platform to the business sector. The cloud platform offers integrated business intelligence and delivers smart applications that leverage advanced analytic processing.

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Digitimes Research: Global electric vehicle market heating up

Mainly because Tesla has successfully boosted battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and several countries have adopted policies in favor of BEVs, global competition is increasingly intense, according to Digitimes Research.

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China market: Xiaomi to enhance its product portfolio to ramp up sales in 2017

Xiaomi Technology reportedly will enhance its competitiveness by adding more mid-tier and high-end models to its portfolio in 2017 as it faces increasing pressure from domestic rivals including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, according to industry sources.

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Walton net profits surge in 2016

Memory-IC backend specialist Walton Advanced Engineering has reported net profits for the fourth quarter of 2016 hiked almost 200% sequentially to NT$317 million (US$10.3 million), which also marked the highest quarterly total.

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LG Display constructing 10.5G TFT-LCD factory, says report

LG Display is constructing a 10.5G TFT-LCD factory with monthly production capacity of 60,000 glass substrates in Paju City, northwestern South Korea, with the first phase to kick off in February 2018, according to South Korea-based Maeil Business News Korea.

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China adds PV installation capacity of 34.54GWp in 2016, says CPIA

A total PV installation capacity of 34.54GWp in power-generating stations and distributed systems was completed around China in 2016, accounting for 47% of the global total, according to the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA).

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Aerosol science research center opens in Taiwan

The National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung City, southern Taiwan, has inaugurated the Aerosol Science Research Center, the first of its kind in Asia to study PM2.5 particulates, according to the center.

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Taiwan market: Samsung to launch QLED TVs

Samsung Electronics showcased QLED TVs (quantum dot TVs) at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show taking in Las Vegas during January 5-8 and will launch 55-, 65-, 75- and 88-inch models in the Taiwan market as soon as the second quarter of 2017, according to Samsung Electronics Taiwan.

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AUO to beef up marketing of LTPS TFT-LCD panels in 2017

AU Optronics (AUO) started production at a 6G LTPS TFT-LCD factory in Kunshan, eastern China, in November 2016 and will boost adoption in smartphones and notebooks as well as of In-Cell LTPS TFT-LCD panels in smartphones in 2017, according to company general manager for Mobile Solutions Business Group Sean Chen.

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Asustek adjusting tablet operations

Asustek Computer is adjusting its tablet operations by decreasing the number of models developed, focusing shipments on fewer overseas markets, and transferring a portion of its about 1,000 employees specifically working on tablets to its VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality), and smartphone business units, according to company CEO Jerry Shen.

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Room temperature transport of spin information achieved

  Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, the Walther-Meißner-Institute (WMI) and Kyoto University have demonstrated the transport of spin information at room temperature. In their experiment, they demonstrated the production, transport and detection of electronic spins in the boundary layer between the materials lanthanum-aluminate (LaAlO2) and strontium-titanate (SrTiO3). What makes this material system unique ...

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9 Startups with Self-Driven Future (Maybe)

How many autonomous driving startups are out there - waiting to be snatched up, or hoping to become the next Waymo (formerly the Google self-driving car project)?

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eevBLAB #29 – How To Search For An Enclosure

Dave shows you how to parametric search for a rather obscure handheld 3xAA or 3xAAA plastic enclosure.

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Samsung unveils a new line of smart appliances at Samsung SEAO Forum 2017

Samsung Electronics has unveiled a new line of consumer electronic products at the ongoing Samsung SEAO Forum 2017 in Singapore.

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GMT expects revenues to drop 3-9% in 1Q17

Taiwan-based fabless firm Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) expects to post a revenue decrease of 3-9% sequentially in the first quarter of 2017. Revenues for all of the year will outperform the 2016 levels, according to the analog and power management (PWM) IC firm.

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Taiwan market: Cable TV operator CNS to procure 400,000 STBs in 2017

Cable TV MSO (multi-system operator) China Network Systems (CNS) plans to set aside a capital expenditure budget of NT$2.6-2.8 billion (US$83.9-90.3 million) for 2017, aiming to further upgrade its digital services.

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TSMC spends NT$7.5 billion on equipment

Pure-play foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently disclosed six separate purchases of manufacturing equipment and facilities for a total of NT$7.525 billion (US$244.4 million).

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China market: Smartphone shipments hit record 131.6 units in 4Q16, says Canalys

Smartphone shipments in China reached 131.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, accounting for nearly a third of worldwide shipments, according to Canalys.

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Equipment maker Foxsemicon to post record EPS for 2016

Semiconductor equipment maker Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, is expected to see its EPS top NT$8.50 (US$0.28) in 2016 and achieve an annual historic high, market watchers were quoted as saying in a recent report by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA).

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Taipei City Government opens PV power-generating station on restored landfill site

The government of Taipei City, northern Taiwan, on February 17 held an inaugural ceremony for a PV power-generating station established on a 3-hectare (7.413 acres) green area restored from a landfill site, the first PV power-generating station of its kind in Taiwan, according to the Department of Environmental Protection.

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Eight-inch fabs operating at full capacity

Eight-inch wafer fabs in China and Taiwan are running at full capacity driven by brisk demand for smartphone-use ICs including fingerprint-recognition sensors, LCD driver ICs and power management chips, according to industry sources.

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HTC takes VR lead in China, says Canalys

Shipments of VR headsets totaled 300,000 units in China in 2016, making it the world's second-largest market with a 15% share, according to Canalys.

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UltraChip posts 2016 EPS of NT$2.28

Taiwan-based fabless IC firm UltraChip saw its net profits reach a 12-year high of NT$141 million (US$4.57 million) in 2016. EPS for the year came to NT$2.28.

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Xintec swings to loss for 2016

Taiwan-based Xintec, an affiliate of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) specializing in packaging services for CMOS image sensors as well as MEMS and fingerprint sensors, swung to net losses of NT$636 million (US$20.6 million) in 2016 from profits of NT$146 million a year ago. EPS for the year turned to negative NT$2.36.

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Leadtek Research steps into health care devices

Graphics cards vendor Leadtek Research has extended production to health care devices and won adoption of DxPatch, a wearable device to record electrocardiograms, phonocardiograms, heart rates and the autonomic nervous system, by Taiwan's Veterans General Hospital medical center, according to company chairman KS Lu.

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Digitimes Research: ADAS expected to become mainstream car-driving safety system

Of the various devices developed by ICT makers to increase car safety, ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) are expected to become the mainstream driver-safety system, with global production value for ADAS and devices/components estimated to increase to US$12.54 billion in 2020, according to Digitimes Research.

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Digitimes Research: NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank step into power supply

Following the liberalization of Japan's low-voltage electricity market beginning April 1, 2016, NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank, the three largest Japan-based mobile telecom carriers, have become retailers of electricity for households and small businesses in a bid to promote sales of value-added services using their ICT capabilities, according to Digitimes Research.

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Peer-to-peer IBM App Bypasses Carriers

Big Blue has a new mesh network technology for its Weather Channel subsidiary that allows its app to propagate weather and disaster information among all cell phone users even when Internet and cellular networks are down.

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What the English Say versus What the English Mean

Problems can ensue when someone from England is attempting to communicate with a non-native-English speaker, like an American, for example.

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Chemical Gas Sensors on the Rise

Advances in miniaturization and manufacturing technologies are opening new markets to players in the MEMS sensing industry with foundries expected to produce millions of gas sensors in the coming years.

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Frontier Silicon picks Coderus for multi-room audio streaming software

UK DAB radio chip firm Frontier Silicon has selected mobile media playback software from Suffolk-based Coderus’ to streaming user media to products using Frontier’s Undok multi-room audio system. As a part of this agreement, Coderus also provided the integration services of their ‘local media playback’ capability into Frontier Silicon’s existing Undok audio streaming app – ...

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MWC: Rohde & Schwarz drives 5G test in the 28GHz band

It seems likely that the first 5G network deployments will be in the 28GHz band in the US and South Korea. This jump in frequency, bandwidth and complexity for design of the radio access network  will require new test capabilities, says Rohde & Schwarz, which will show its 5G coverage measurement demonstrator at Mobile World ...

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Kaspersky warns on connected cars

The connected car makes it possible to remotely obtain the location coordinates of a vehicle as well as its route, to open doors, start the engine and control additional in-car devices, says Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky has come up with four recommendation for connected car users to protect themselves from cyber-interference: · Don’t root your Android ...

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MWC: Cobham to demo first software-defined 5G phone simulator

Cobham Wireless will demonstrate what it claims is industry’s first software-defined 5G user equipment (UE) simulator, based on Verizon’s open 5G standard and down-linking at up to 10Gbit/s, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – and it has an IoT simulator – see below. “Virtualising the solution provides operators with the flexibility to test technology and ...

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Infineon-Wolfspeed deal looks off

Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss says he does not expect the company’s $850 million bid for Cree’s SiC and GaN power semiconductor unit Wolfspeed to go ahead. There is “a very significant risk that we will not be able to complete the takeover as planned or possibly even at all”, said Ploss at Infineon’s results meeting ...

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China foundry ponders FD-SOI

China silicon foundry Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) is considering whether to adopt FD-SOI reports Digitimes. HLMC, owned by the Shanghai local government, has a CMOS development programme with Imec and makes ICs for MediaTek. It views FD-SOI as a low-cost alternative to finfet. Consumer applications, where China fabless design companies typically focus, are often more ...

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Thread Adds Stitch to Spec

Thread Group set its goal high in enabling not just conformance but also interoperability among Thread 1.1 products.

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Chairman for Cardiff Cluster Catapult

President of SPTS, Kevin Crofton, has been appointed chairman of the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult. “Crofton added: “I look forward to helping to guide the Catapult’s vital contribution to the compound semiconductor industry in the UK,” says Crofton, ““we expect the Catapult to bridge some of the primary research, development and test challenges that exist ...

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Display bookings to top US$2 billion in Fiscal 2017 for Applied Materials

Semiconductor equipment provider Applied Materials delivered another strong quarter for its display business, with its first quarter display revenues increasing 66% on year to US$422 million and its orders tripling to US$632 million. The company noted that since 2012 it has grown its display revenues by around 20% a year, and Applied believes it will book US$2 billion in orders for 2017.

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HannStar becomes largest small- to medium-size panel maker in Taiwan in 4Q16

HannStar Display enjoyed the spoils of its aggressive capacity expansion in the feature phone panel segment in the fourth quarter of 2016, helping Taiwan's small- to medium-panel shipments total 313 million panels, according to Digitimes Research.

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OLED smartphones and the TV pricing connection

One side effect of the expected craze for AMOLED panels in high-end smartphones this year is that LCD TV prices may not drop as quickly as they have in the past.

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Digitimes Research: China smartphone AP shipments to fall 16% in 1Q17

Shipments of smartphone-use application processors in China are expected to decline 15.9% sequentially to 145 million units in the first quarter of 2017, according to Digitimes Research. Shipments on an annual basis will grow about 7.6% from the 134.8 million units shipped in first-quarter 2016.

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