Foundry and memory will take half 2017 capex.

Over half of  the expected $80.9 billion 2017 capex spending will be for foundries (28%) and upgrades for NAND flash memory (24%), says IC Insights.   With a projected 53% increase in 2017, and DRAM prices surging since Q3 2016, the DRAM/SRAM segment is expected to display the largest percentage growth in capital expenditures of the ...

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ITRI unveils smart trial production base

Government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has inaugurated a smart manufacturing trial base in Taichung Precision Machinery Innovation Technology Park in central Taiwan, in a bid to promote Industry 4.0 and demonstrate smart manufacturing in Taiwan.

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Pegatron makes new investment in China

Pegatron Technology has announced that its three investment subsidiaries will invest a total of US$78.95 million in a newly established subsidiary that is wholly owned by Casetek Holding.

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Global OEM TV shipments to reach over 20 million units in 3Q17

Global TV shipments by OEM makers are expected to reach 20.5 million units in the third quarter, buoyed by the traditional peak-season demand and declining TV panel prices, according to China-based marketing research firm Sigmaintell.

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IFA 2017: Samsung highlights connectivity

Samsung is showcasing its latest consumer products and technology IFA 2017 in Berlin, highlighting its focus on connectivity of its products.

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Most of 2017 capital spending will go to foundry and flash memory, says IC Insights

Following a substantial increase in semiconductor capital expenditures during the first half of 2017, IC Insights raised its annual semiconductor capex forecast to a record high of US$80.9 billion for all of the year, a 20% increase from US$67.3 billion in 2016.

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Orders for NOR flash, car electronics chips to buoy Ardentec revenues in 2H17

Ardentec has landed a ramp-up of orders for NOR flash memory while seeing stable demand for car electronics chips from Renesas Electronics and Texas Instruments (TI), according to industry sources. Thanks to robust demand from the two fields, the IC testing house is expected to enjoy stable sales growth in the second half of 2017.

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Everlight offers infrared LED devices for iris recognition

LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has launched NIR-C19M series infrared (IR) LED devices for iris recognition, particularly for security surveillance (access control) and hand-held terminal devices.

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Micron sells Lexar to Longsys

Micron Technology has agreed to sell its retail brand, Lexar, to Shenzhen Longsys Electronics, according to the China-based storage device maker. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Acer pushing multi-brand business model, says chairman

Acer has been pushing for business transformation and is looking to expand into emerging markets including those for gaming PC, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), hoping to become a company with a multi-brand business model like P&G, according to Acer chairman Jason Chen.

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Acer to supply VR equipment for Dubai theme park

Acer has recently formed a partnership with a virtual reality (VR) theme park in Dubai, the UAE with the construction to be completed by the end of 2017 or in early 2018, according to company chairman Jason Chen.

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Professors develop new PV module material

Two professors from a southern Taiwan university have developed indium-plated aluminum solder strips which can be directly attached to PV modules without using silver paste as adhesive.

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Antenova debuts Robusta

Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, is about to launch Robusta – an antenna for metal surfaces operating in the 1559-1609 MHz bands, and designed for tracking metal objects. Antenova’s antennas for metal surfaces employ a patented two layer technique with one layer electrically isolated from the other, so as to provide RF shielding to the ...

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Samsung to build Xi’an Fab 2

Samsung has agreed a budget of $2.3 billion for the first stage of a second fab at Xi’an, in China. The fab, for NAND, is expected to cost $7 billion over the next three years. Samsung’s first fab at Xi’an was built in 2014. Xian Fab 2 will be coming on-line as the Chinese ramp ...

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Waiting Game Could Strengthen Toshiba's Hand

Would a delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange really be the end of the world?

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DARPA's ICECool Chills 3-D Stacks

Working under DARPA's ICECool program, IBM and Georgia Tech replaced water cooling with a liquid dielectric that can run between the chips in a 3-D stack without shorting them out.

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Ex-Baidu Scientist Blazes AI Shortcut

Ren Wu, formerly a distinguished scientist at Baidu, has pulled a new AI chip company out of his sleeve, called NovuMind. In an exclusive interview with EE Times, Wu discussed the startup's developments and what he hopes to accomplish.

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Webinar: Reduce Test Time by implementing Embedded JTAG Solutions

Make a note for your diary - Wednesday 6 September, 10:00am - for a new Electronics Weekly webinar: Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access

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The Birthplace of Silicon Valley: HP Garage

Take a private tour in pictures of where technology giant began, in a tiny garage in Palo Alto, CA.

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Siemens Beefs Up Vehicle Simulation Software

Siemens agreed to buy Tass International, a Dutch simulation software company. The deal adds automated driving solutions to Siemens' portfolio. Siemens will combine Tass' simulation software with Mentor's EDA solutions to "frontload the verification and validation of autonomous vehicles."

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EEVacademy #5 – Digital Logic Datasheets Explained

Dave takes you on a complete walk-through of a typical (7400) digital logic datasheet and explains all the specifications and information.

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IEEE Drives Definitions for Quantum Computing

The technical professional organization's project will establish a general nomenclature for quantum computing to standardize communication with related hardware and software projects

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Webinar: Reduce Test Time by implementing Embedded JTAG Solutions

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Turing letters found

148 letters and documents belonging to Alan Turing have been found at Manchester University. They are dated between 1949 and 1954 – the year he died. Here is an amusing correspondence with the editor of the magazine CHESS:   In view of the rather caustic comment from the editor asking Turing “what you really claim for ...

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S3 reveals new strategy for semiconductor design business

Semiconductor design house S3 Semiconductors has announced a new strategy to focus on supplying chips for industrial and communications OEMs as well as designing them.

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Huber+Suhner expands MXP digital test connector range with 50Ghz version

Connectors specialist Huber+Suhner has expanded its MXP series of multicoax connectors with a version that can handle up to 50Ghz.

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New image sensors from Sony

Sony is sampling two new image sensors which are the first to employ Sony’s 3rd gen CMOS Global Shutter Mode. They are designated IMX420 and 428. The IMX420 has a scalable bit depth of 8, 10, and 12 bits, and can be programmed for multiple regions of interest (ROI). The IMX428 sensor, optimized for ITS ...

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China market: Visionox completes construction of 6G AMOLED fab

China-based flat panel maker Visionox Display has completed the construction of its 6G AMOLED plant in Hebei, China, with installation of needed production equipment set to begin in early 2018, according to the company.

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Appier obtains investment of US$33 million in series C round, says paper

Taiwan-based AI (artificial intelligence)-based application developer Appier has raised venture capital funds of US$33 million in series C round from Japan-based SoftBank and LINE, South Korea-based Naver (LINE's parent company), Singapore-based Singapore Economic Development Board Investments (EDBI) and Hong Kong-based AMTD Group, according to the Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News.

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Ibase Gaming to debut on Taiwan OTC market in September

Taiwan-based gambling machine and motherboard supplier Ibase Gaming Technology, a subsidiary of industrial PC firm Ibase, will debut on Taiwan's over the counter (OTC) stock market at the end of September.

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BOE swings back to profitability in 1H17

China-based flat panel maker BOE Technology has reported net profits of CNY4.3 billion (US$653.4 million) for the first half of 2017, reversing from a net loss of CNY516 million recorded a year earlier.

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Nanya continues to dispose of Micron shares

Nanya Technology has sold more of its holdings in Micron Technology with an aim to increase the company's working capital and repay loans, according to the Taiwan-based DRAM chipmaker.

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BenQ to offer smart car management system, Papago unveils electronic rear-view mirror

EMS provider Qisda's marketing subsidiary BenQ will cooperate with electric vehicle maker RAC Electric Vehicles to launch a smart management system for fleets vehicles in the first quarter of 2018, while GPS navigation device maker Papago has unveiled Ray electronic rear-view mirror.

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Taiwan market: HTC updates entry-level smartphone model

HTC has launched an update version of its HTC One A9s in the Taiwan market aiming to further expand its market share. The product is available at NT$4,990 (US$165) unlocked.

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Taiwan IC firms enjoys robust RFIC demand

RF chip demand has been growing and is expected to peak in the third quarter, which will buoy sales at Taiwan-based Richwave Technology, Rafael Microelectronics and AMIC Communication (AMICCOM) during the quarter, according to industry sources.

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China makers to hike September contract prices for solar mono-Si wafers

China-based solar mono-Si wafer makers will raise supply contract prices in September by 2-3% from the current level, according to industry sources.

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EEVblog #1018 – ZeroPlus Logic Analysers

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Google’s ARCore SDK enables AR app development

Google has come up with a tool, called ARCore, to allow developers to make AR apps for Android smartphones. The first phones to use the tool will be the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Google’s Pixel phone. Apple says it will make an AR tool-set called ARKit available to developers in a fortnight when it launches ...

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Google Calls for Network Drain-O

A Google engineer described new techniques for managing network traffic in data centers, and Mellanox claims it ships it in one Ethernet adapter.

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Why Memory Prices Are Heating Up

The issue of increasing memory prices is more complicated than many people think.

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Western Digital Buys Flash Array Vendor Tegile

Drive vendor says deal for provider of IntelliFlash products will give it access to more than 1,700 new customers.

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IBM Boosts Brain Understanding

IBM creates a neurogenetic online dictionary learning model to prove its hypothesis that neurogenesis-based sparse dictionary learning is just as important as deep learning.

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Silicon Development Taking on Larger Role in Europe

August is a good time for business in Europe, as activity doesn't start ramping up until September and the trade show cycle picks up again in the fall.

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Evolution of Zoom Camera in Smartphones

From early days of the Samsung Galaxy K-zoom, through recent iPhone and Samsung Note8 dual cameras, to the future of folded zoom cameras: the technology evolution explained.

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Will We Know the Next Big Thing Before It Arrives?

Few can predict the next big thing that will transform lives. We've already had radio, television, phone, and now cellphones. What's next and will you see it coming?

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Samsung to Invest $7 Billion in China Fab

Samsung will invest $7 billion over a three-year period to ramp up a Chinese fab to expand production of NAND flash memory that's in strong demand for smartphones and other mobile devices.

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Sondrel plans to recruit 100 engineers in £10m investment plan

IC design consultancy Sondrel has announced plans to recruit 100 electronic engineers in its European operations in the next three years.

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Intel’s 1Tops neural processor for vision

Intel has introduced a neural computing engine for accelerating deep learning inferences at the edge. It is included on an SoC called Myriad X, aimed at drones, robotics, smart cameras and virtual reality. “The Myriad X architecture is capable of 1Tops maximum performance, based on peak floating-point computational throughput on deep neural network inferences,” said the ...

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AMD and Baidu team up to advance GPU computing in datacenters with Radeon Instinct MI series

AMD and China-based Baidu have announced a collaboration focused on optimizing software for AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs in Baidu datacenters.

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Commentary: Innovation is key to survival for Taiwan IC designers

Due to lackluster business performances recorded by most Taiwan IC design houses in the first half of 2017, the overall production value of Taiwan's IC design industry will see only limited growth for the year despite business turnaround seen in the traditional peak season in the second half of the year. The ranking of Taiwan's top-10 IC design houses has not experienced a major reshuffle so far this year, but their overwhelming revenue declines have seen little improvement, with MediaTek even likely to fall into the "regression club." Nevertheless, some Taiwan ASIC designers and suppliers of niche memory ICs and PC peripheral chips have managed to sustain significant growth momentum, amid the business climate that the mobile chip market is maturing with increasingly limited growth but AI applications and business opportunities are flourishing.

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Intel unveils neural compute engine in Movidius Myriad X VPU for AI

Intel has introduced its new Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit (VPU), advancing Intel's end-to-end portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to deliver more autonomous capabilities across a wide range of product categories including drones, robotics, smart cameras and virtual reality (VR).

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LGD to double OLED TV panel production capacity by 2019

LG Display will double its OLED TV panel production capacity to 120,000 substrates a month in 2019, when its new 8.5G production line in Guangzhou, China comes online, according to a Korea-based Seoul Forum report.

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MediaTek launches SoCs for mid-range smartphones

MediaTek has introduced new members of its Helio chipset family, the P23 and P30 system-on-chips (SoCs), designed to deliver performance and power efficiency, dual camera photography, dual SIM and dual 4G VoLTE capabilities for mid-range smartphones.

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Taiwan to install 3 million smart power meters by 2024, says paper

The Taiwan government will boost the use of smart power meters, aimming to install three million such devices by 2024, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

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E&R Engineering shipping laser-cutting machines to Intel in small volume, sources say

Taiwan-based E&R Engineering has started shipping laser-cutting machines in small volume to Intel, according to market sources. The fab toolmaker is also about to obtain verification from TSMC and Apple for laser-cutting systems with shipments set to kick off between the fourth quarter of 2017 and first-quarter 2018, said the sources.

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E-paper startup Linfiny to focus on e-notebook development

EPD (electrophoretic display) e-paper startup Linfiny, a joint venture between E Ink Holdings (EIH) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions, will officially kick off its operations in the latter half of 2017 focusing on development e-paper notebook products, according to Frank Ko, chairman of EIH.

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Samsung to expand NAND chip capacity in China

Samsung Electronics has disclosed plans to expand production capacity at its NAND flash memory wafer fab in Xian, northwest China for a total of US$7 billion over the next three years.

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HTC, Asustek smartphone businesses hit headwinds

Taiwan's top-two smartphone vendors HTC and Asustek Computer are facing mounting pressure on how to make a turnaround of their beleaguered smartphone business amid increasing competition, according to industry sources.

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China market: B2C transactions grow 32% in 2Q17, says Analysys

In China, B2C online shopping portals generated transactions totaling CNY860.46 billion (US$125.4 billion) in second-quarter 2017, growing 21.8% sequentially and 32.0% on year, according to Analysys International.

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China January-July software revenues at CNY2.991 trillion, says MIIT

China's software industry generated revenues of CNY2.991 trillion (US$435.92 billion) in January-July 2017, growing 13.5% on year, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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Digitimes Research: Development of small-size, low-cost LiDAR sensors leads to wider application

LiDAR sensors, whose use had been previously limited to surveillance in tunnels and at factories due to prohibitive pricing, will see growing adoption for self-driving, drone and home-use robotic applications, as vendors have been developing solid-state LiDAR sensors of smaller sizes at lower production cost.

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Asustek reports progress in business reorganization

Asustek Computer has provided updates on its business reorganization, revealing the management team has already been formed and the company has already achieved some results in the planning of business strategy, product lineup and execution efficiency.

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Taiwan approves 5-year NT$16 billion AI development plan

The Taiwan government has approved a Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) proposal to undertake five strategic tasks with a 5-year budget of NT$16 billion (US$527 million) to boost the country's development of AI-related industries and application.

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Silicon Works striving for orders from China, Taiwan

Korea-based Silicon Works is striving for orders from China- and Taiwan-based panel vendors, and intends to reduce its reliance on orders placed by LG Display, according to a Korea-based Digital Times report.

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Nidec to acquire SV Probe

Japan-based Nidec has announced plans to acquire SV Probe, a Singapore-based probe card manufacturer, through subsidiary Nidec-Read. A stock purchase agreement has been reached between Nidec-Read and SV Probe.

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Chief of Q'comm's Licensing Biz to Step Down

Derek Aberle, president of Qualcomm, will resign at the end of 2017 after 17 years with the fabless chip firm.

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Fab Tool Sales Show Signs of Coming Back to Earth

Billings rose for North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers for a 10th consecutive month in July, but declined on a sequential basis for the first time since January.

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Analysis vs. Analytics: Past vs. Future

What's the difference between analysis and analytics? One looks at the past while the other tries to predict the future.

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Brain Research Reimagines AI

Work on interfaces linking neurons and electronics may create breakthroughs in both health care and machine learning.

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Magnetic Skyrmions Hold Promise for Next-Gen Memory Devices

Researchers at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research and Nanyang Technological University have created a thin film material that allows them to control the size and density of magnetic skyrmions

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Movidius Beefs up HW Acceleration in AI Chip

Movidius launched Myriad X vision processing unit. While Myriad 2, its previous chip, was doing a lot of neural network workload in software, Myriad X is packed with more microarchitecture to accelerate deep-learning inference in hardware.

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MediaTek Rolls New Smartphone Chips

MediaTek, the second-ranked smartphone chip supplier after Qualcomm, is launching a pair of new SoCs for middle-tier handsets that the company expects to lead market growth as the high end loses momentum.

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AI OS 'Orchestrates' Cognition

The Conductor layer in Veritone's aiWare artificial-intelligence operating system orchestrates 112 specialized pattern-recognition engines to achieve more accurate results in less time.

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Android device launches drive 18.4% growth in 2Q17 in Australia, says IDC

The Australian mobile phone market, including feature phones and smartphones, exceeded growth expectations as it shipped 2.16 million mobile phones in the second quarter of 2017 as compared to 1.83 million during the second quarter 2016, representing an 18.4% on-year growth.

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Domestic demand may save Taiwan solar cell makers, says TSEC chairman

The Taiwan government has decided to strengthen development of renewable energy, mostly PV and wind power, as it seeks to phase out nuclear power, and this has afforded opportunities for local solar cell makers to survive, according to Ellick Liao, chairman of solar cell maker TSEC.

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Graphics card prices raised to reflect increasing memory costs

Consumer demand for graphics cards may be undermined by price hikes arising from GDDR memory shortage and first-tier vendors are expected to raise their Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080/1070/1060/1050 graphics card pricing by 3-10% at the end of August, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

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Digitimes Research: Google aims to achieve virtual experiences through daily life applications

Google's development of AI/VR/AR products can be backdated to as early as the launch of Google Search as the service is using machine learning algorithms to search for needed information that is closest to users. Along with maturing AI technology, Google has come out with its virtual assistant to offer services in a positive way that also allows two-way communications, according to Digitimes Research.

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China market: DPVR unseats HTC as VR headset leader in 2Q17, says Canalys

China-based DPVR (previously known as Deepoon) overtook HTC as the top VR headset vendor in China in the second quarter of 2017 with shipments totaling 18,000 units, up 30% sequentially, according to Canalys.

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Global tech heavyweights actively vying for smart home market pie

The market for smart home applications, particularly smart audio products, is emerging as a new major battlefield among global high-tech giants, as Amazon, Apple, Google and Xiaomi have tapped into the market with diverse smart speakers and Samsung is also gearing up for rolling out its own smart audio devices.

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Backend firm Lingsen to post strong 3Q17, says report

Taiwan-based backend service company Lingsen Precision Industries is expected to post its highest revenues since the third quarter of 2013 in third-quarter 2017, the Chinese-language Commercial Times cited market watchers as saying in a recent report.

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PCL ramping shipments of 32Gb optical transceiver modules

PCL Technologies saw shipments of its 32Gb optical transceiver modules for datacenter applications increase by five-fold in the second quarter of 2017, and the order visibility of this product line has extended to the first quarter of 2018, according to company chairman Gene Chen.

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Macronix completes capital reduction; shares soar

NOR flash and mask ROM chipmaker Macronix International returned to normal trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) on August 28 after completing a capital downsize. The company's share price today has exceeded its opening reference price set at NT$33.65 (US$1.12).

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Taiwan market: Shopee combines C2C and B2B2C

Singapore-based mobile e-commerce operator Shopee has combined C2C and B2B2C in the Taiwan market into a single platform to simplify use of its shopping services, according to the company's Taiwan COO Terence Pang.

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AI complementary to HI, says Microsoft Taiwan marketing head

AI (artificial intelligence) and HI (human intelligence) have respective advantages and thus should complement each other, according to Microsoft Taiwan's new marketing and operating director Jason Tsao, who is also head of staff for Microsoft Greater China.

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Lite-On Semi obtains GPP diode orders from major China smartphone vendors

Lite-On Semiconductor with its GPP (glass passivated package) bridge rectifiers has entered the supply chain of major China-based smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi, according to industry sources.

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China July mobile communication user number reaches 1.373 billion, says MIIT

Mobile communication service subscribers reached 1.373 billion in China as of the end of July 2017, increasing 0.59% sequentially and 5.23% on year, and 144.87 million (10.55%) of them were 3G users, 910.5 million (66.33%) 4G users and 1.199 billion (87.36%) mobile Internet-access users, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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China expected to lower feed-in tariffs for distributed PV systems

As construction cost for distributed PV systems is declining and demand is rising, China is expected to lower feed-in tariff rates for them, according to media reports.

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China e-car startup Singulato to roll out smart cars in 2018, says CEO

China's e-car startup Singulato Motors is scheduled to start volume production of smart cars capable of Level 3 (partial) autonomous driving in 2018, and roll out cars with Level 4 (high) automation in 2020, the firm's CEO Shen Haiyi has said.

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The Way I Work: Interview with Adam Carlson, Aerospace Engineer at GE

Adam Carlson, an aerospace engineer at GE, talks about how he got interested in engineering and writing about engineering. Adam now runs the Electronics Tutorials web site.

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Using mmWave Tech to Redefine Connectors

Keyssa, with its 60GHz mmWave tech, has no interest in a wireless horse race. It wants the connector market. The company sees an opening, as managing higher speed signals using copper is becoming too a big engineering challenge.

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Samsung Verdict Jolts South Korea

A five-year sentence for Samsung Group's boss will shake up Korea's conglomerates but is not expected to impact surging electronics businesses.

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Eclipse, Astronomers Descend on Small Town America

During the eclipse, big city astronomers do some good work in a tiny rural town.

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Silicon Labs CPT212B and CPT213B TouchXpress controllers are self-contained touch controllers that link to a host MCU, saving firmware development when adding touch to home appliances, medical equipment, consumer electronics, instruments, control panels and lighting. CPT212B features up to 12 sensor inputs in a QFN20, consuming 200 µA in optimised active mode and 1µA sleeping. ...

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UK made: Third Dimension gets order from Bombardier

GapGun is a hand-held metrology tool designed and made in Bristol by Third Dimension. Not only does it measure gaps, but whether panels are level and the radius of edges. Data is logged, and linked via Wi-Fi for the quality control audit trail. The latest order is from train maker Bombardier, for Aventra electric multiple ...

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EW BrightSparks programme seeks class of 2018

We are very pleased and proud to announce that we will be running a new EW BrightSparks programme for 2018, following on from its successful reception this year.

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Mayor of London appoints first digital tech Czar

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has appointed Theo Blackwell as first chief digital officer (CDO) for London. The role ranges from coming up with initiatives to build the capital’s status as a global tech hub particularly in the creation of public services which efficient and responsive to the needs of Londoners. Blackwell was previously ...

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Optical lens suppliers benefit from rising demand for multi-lens camera phones

While leading smartphone vendors, such as Apple, Samsung and many China brands, are rushing to launch smartphones with twin-lens or four-lens cameras, upstream optical lens players in the supply chains across the Taiwan Strait, including Largan Precision, Sunny Optical and Shenzhen O-Film Tech are busy with massive shipments in the second half of 2017, according to industry sources.

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EIH optimistic about 2H17

E-paper solution provider E Ink Holding (EIH) has given a positive outlook for the second half of 2017 as expanding e-paper applications, including e-book readers, e-notebooks, smart cards, mobile devices and wearable applications, will continue to fuel growth, according to company chairman Frank Ko.

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China market: LED penetration of automotive lighting is rising, says MacAdam VP

In the China market, the proportion of automotive lighting for LED lighting sources is increasing, and along with growing car sales, demand for LED automotive lighting is growing fast, according to Charles Wu, vice president for Taiwan-based LED automotive lighting device and module maker MacAdam.

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HTC declines to comment on spin-off or sell-off speculations

HTC has declined to comment on recent market speculations indicating that the company is currently conducting a strategic assessment on its future, including options to spin off its VR (virtual reality) business or a complete sell-off of the company.

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Worldwide wearable device sales to grow 17% in 2017, says Gartner

Gartner forecasts that 310.4 million wearable devices will be sold worldwide in 2017, an increase of 16.7% from 2016. Sales of wearable devices will generate revenues of US$30.5 billion in 2017. Of that, US$9.3 billion will be from smartwatches.

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Galaxy Note 8 to bring in new competition and impacts

The newly released Galaxy Note 8 is expected to trigger a new wave of replacement demand for high-end smartphones, bringing in a new round of competition to the high-end market segment as well as new impacts to the global handset supply chain.

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VIA collaborates with Microsoft to accelerate IoT solutions

VIA Technologies has announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring customers get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services.

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Everspin Appoints New CEO

Former SanDisk executive

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IoT Must Escape Silos of Things

A paradigm shift in how we represent data objects is needed to avoid building Silos of Things.

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16 Views of Hot Chips '17

Machine learning was the dominant theme of Hot Chips 2017 with talks by data center giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Baidu.

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UK semi-autonomous lorry trials in 2018

Lorries will be electronically bound together in ‘platooning’ trials in UK motorways, according to the Department of Transport. Up to three heavy goods vehicles will be bound in convoy with acceleration and braking controlled by the lead vehicle. All lorries in the platoon will always have a driver ready to take control. “If successful, this ...

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ARM Linux industrial computer gets EtherCat.

Harting has added EtherCat connectivity to its modular industrial computing architecture (‘MICA’). “MICA’s modular open-source software makes it the ideal solution for developing edge and cloud applications in production,” claimed the firm. “Creating the EtherCat functionality as an internal function module enables MICA to deliver benefits such as protection class IP67, connectors suitable for industrial ...

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Intel Probes Man-Machine 'Trust'

Acceptance of a self-driving car isn't just a question of trust versus control. Why should I want one? What values and benefits does it deliver?

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BAE’s most powerful space computer yet

BAE Systems has announced a radiation-hardened single-board space computer. Called RAD5545, it has a quad-core 32/64bit QorlQ Power Architecture processor running at 466MHz and offering 5.6 Drystone Gips of processing with 512kbyte/core L2 cache and 1Mbyte x2 L3 cache on a ANSI/VITA 78.00 SpaceVPX compliant 6U-220 board. Up to 16Gbyte of DDR3 ram can be ...

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Multi-length surface-mount connectors set board-to-board distance

WR-BTB is a family of surface-mount board-to-board signal connectors from Würth Elektronik. The plugs with coded guide are available in versions with 40, 64, 80 or 100 pins. Models with 0.8 and 1mm pitch are also available in various heights. Various male and female plugs can be combined to achieve a defined spacing between two ...

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EPSRC reveals leaders for sustainable energy research

Three leaders have been identified for the next phase of the UK’s Supergen Programme – to design research ‘hubs’ that will investigate sustainable energy technology. They received six-month grants (see below) to build consortia, investigate research strategies, devise networking plans and device engagement plans for their fields, according to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research ...

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Two-colour LED in 1608

Rohm is claiming the smallest two-colour LED with the launch of the 1608 size SML-D22MUW, intended for use behind seven-segment displays. Red, green die are included, and intermediate colours are possible using both die. The 1.6 x 0.8mm footprint is down 35% from 1.5 x 1.3mm two-colour LEDs. “In recent years, chip LEDs are being ...

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China AI startup Cambricon receives new funding of US$100 million

China-based AI chip startup Cambricon Technologies has newly raised US$100 million in series A round funding to support its development of advanced AI chips, which is expected to help turn the company into a tech unicorn with over US$1 billion in valuation in the near future, according to company sources.

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Distributed systems take up 50% of July PV installation capacity in China, says CEC

The total installation capacity for PV power stations and distributed systems completed and on grid around China in July 2017 was estimated at 10.5GWp, equally shared by the two segments, according to China Electricity Council (CEC).

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MOSFET supplier Advanced Power mulls price hike, says report

Taiwan-based Advanced Power Electronics is planning to raise prices of its MOSFET chips in the third quarter to reflect the tight market supply, according to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA).

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CPT to begin volume shipments of 18:9 smartphone panels in 4Q17

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) will begin volume shipments of 18:9 all-screen smartphone panels in the fourth quarter of 2017, with the bulk of the production coming out from its plant in Longtan, northern Taiwan and a small portion from its China subsidiary, Fujian Hua Chia Cai, according to the company.

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China market: Xiaomi smartphone shipments may reach 25-30 million units in 3Q17

Xiaomi Technology may ramp up its smartphone shipments to 25-30 million units in the third quarter of 2017, buoyed by the launch of multiple models, according to an industry estimate.

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BOE to catch up with LGD in large-size LCD panel unit shipments

China-based BOE Technology will see unit shipments of its large-size LCD panels reach nearly those shipped by LG Display in 2017, and is also likely unseat LGD to become the world's largest vendor of large-size LCD panels when its first 10.5G plant in Hefei runs at full capacity. The Hefei fab is scheduled to come online in 2018.

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Component shortage to hit smartphone sales

A shortage of components will hit premium smartphone sales in H2, says Gartner. “We expect a shortage of flash memory and OLED displays will affect premium smartphone supply in the second half of 2017,” says Gartner’s Anshul Gupta,  “we’ve already seen Huawei’s P10 suffer from a flash memory shortage, and smaller, traditional brands, such as ...

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Mobile DRAM grew 15% Q2 on Q1

Q2 shipments of mobile DRAM were up 14.8% on Q1, reports DRAMeXchange. Samsung and Micron had 10%+ growth. Samsung has over 60% of the market folloeed by Hynix with 21% and Micron with 15%. Micron’s outage at its Taiwan fab which lost 50K wafers, mainly for mobile DRAM, will affect its H2 numbers. Returning demand and higher ...

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Flash Memory Shortage Hits Smartphone Supply

Rising prices and limited availability of flash memory and OLED displays expected to affect sales of premium smartphones in the second half of the year, Gartner says.

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Western Digital May Get Toshiba Memory After All

New consortium reportedly has inside track with $17.3 billion bid.

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ASML opens branch office in Nanjing

ASML has announced the opening of a new branch office in Nanjing, China where its major client TSMC is constructing a new 12-inch wafer plant.

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Micro LED development is highly uncertain: Q&A with Epistar president Jou Ming-jiunn

While development of Micro LED technology is fraught with uncertainties, many firms engaged in the development believe that they will eventually succeed.

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Taiwan July manufacturing production index up on year

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 113.45 for July 2017, decreasing 0.07% on month but increasing 2.94% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip powers Samsung Galaxy Note8

Qualcomm has announced that its premium mobile platform is powering Samsung's latest flagship smartphone for select regions. The Samsung Galaxy Note8 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile platform, which is one of the first commercial SoC manufactured using 10nm FinFET technology.

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Alibaba fund invests in 11 Taiwan startups

Alibaba Taiwan Start-up Business Fund (ATSBF), a US$300 million venture capital established by China-based ecommerce operator Alibaba Group, has so far invested in 11 Taiwan-based startups, it was disclosed at a ATSBF-organized forum in Taipei on August 22.

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China LED makers expanding capacities

Major China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers San'an Optoelectronics and HC SemiTek as well as LED packaging service providers MLS, Foshan Nationstar Optoelectronics and Hongli Zhihui are expanding production capacities, according to industry sources.

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China 1H17 LED lighting exports total US$10.4 billion, says GGII

China-based LED lighting firms recorded total export value of US$10.4 billion in first-half 2017, increasing 63% on year, and the corresponding export volume of 7.9 billion units grew 46% on year, according to Shenzhen Gaogong Industry Research (GGII).

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Hanwha Q Cells, LG, China PV makers reportedly mulling factory plans for US

South Korea-based solar cell and PV module makers Hanwha Q Cells and LG Electronics as well as a few China-based fellow makers, to cope with US global safeguards investigation of imported PV products, have reportedly surveyed candidate sites in the US for constructing factories there, according to industry sources.

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Global mobile DRAM revenues increase 14.8% in 2Q17, says DRAMeXchange

Global sales of mobile DRAM memory grew 14.8% sequentially to US$6.21 billion in the second quarter of 2017, according to DRAMeXchange. The industry is expected to post another sequential revenue growth in the third quarter.

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Semiconductor industry capital spending to rise 20% in 2017, says IC Insights

IC Insights has revised its outlook for semiconductor industry capital spending to 20% growth in 2017. Spending for the first half of 2017 was already 48% greater than a year ago, according to IC Insights.

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HMG wants data protection transition

Today, the government sets out its plans to ensure personal data would continue to move back and forth between the UK and the EU in a safe, properly regulated way. In the latest of a series of papers looking at the UK’s future partnership with the EU after we have left, the Government will consider ...

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Chip Capex Expected to Soar 20%

Semiconductor industry capital spending will soar by 20 percent this year, largely driven by Samsung, according to market watcher IC Insights. The key driver behind strong growth this year has been the memory chip segment.

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Testing With the Cloud: Keep Your Data Secure

By taking the right steps, you can calm security fears and move test data to the cloud.

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Moortec launches 7nm on-chip monitoring IP for SoC

Moortec Semiconductor, the Plymouth-basedIP  specialists for on-chip monitors and sensors, have brought out an embedded monitoring subsystem for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET (FF) process. Within the subsystem the 7nm Temperature Sensor is a high precision low power junction temperature sensor that has been developed to be embedded into ASIC designs. It can be used for a ...

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Digitimes Research: AR players shift focus to platform products

Major players in the augmented reality (AR) industry have slowed down the development of consumer-end products, and instead have shifted their strategies to focus on developing AR platform products, according to Digitimes Research.

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Taiwan denies rumors about ending feed-in tariffs scheme

Taiwan's Bureau of Energy, in response to rumors that the feed-in tariff scheme for renewable energy will come to an end, has clarified that renewable energy generators will be allowed to sell electricity to state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) or directly to power users and this does not mean the end of the feed-in tariff scheme.

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Another reform implementation drops India PC market to all-time low in 2Q17, says IDC

The overall India traditional PC shipments for the second quarter 2017 stood at 1.75 million units, which is an 18.9% decline on quarter and an 18% drop over the same period last year, according to IDC.

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Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch smartphone-based affinity credit card

Taiwan Mobile plans to team up with EasyCard and Taipei Fubon Bank to launch in September Taiwan's first smartphone-based affinity credit card to promote mobile payments in the local market.

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Winbond announces equipment purchases

Winbond Electronics, a memory chipmaker specializing in specialty DRAM and flash memory chips, has disclosed two purchases of machinery equipment from Lam Research and Tokyo Electron for a total of about NT$3.31 billion (US$109 million).

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Semiconductor market to grow 17% in 2017, says WSTS

The worldwide semiconductor market is forecast to grow by 17% to US$397 billion in 2017, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS). WSTS estimated previously a 11.5% increase.

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Taiwan July unemployment rate down on year, says DGBAS

Taiwan had 454,000 jobless citizens in July 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.84% which rose 0.10pp on month but dropped 0.18pp on year, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

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Vehicle Cybersecurity: Where Rubber Meets Code

Take a recent example of Fiat Chrysler's recall of 1.3 million pickups due to a software bug. Imagine if hackers found that code first and began exploiting it.

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Hot Chips Spotlights Chip Stacks

Intel and Xilinx presented dueling chip stacking techniques at Hot Chips as a U.S. research effort gears up to create standards for chiplets.

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Google Fellow: Neural Nets Need Optimized Hardware

Jeff Dean, leader of the Google Brain project, told an audience at the Hot Chips conference that neural networks need specialized computers to perform a small handful of specific operations that make up the vast majority of machine learning models.

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Magnetoelectric RAM Slashes Energy

French and Russian researchers built and demonstrated a magnetoelectric RAM (MELRAM) cell that requires 10,000x less current to read/write than traditional DRAM.

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Chip capex to jump 20%.

Semiconductor capex will rise 20% this year, forecasts IC Insights. Although there was a slight pause in the upward trajectory in 1Q17, 2Q17 set a new record for quarterly spending outlays. Moreover, 1H17 semiconductor industry spending was 48% greater than in 1H16. IC Insights believes that whether industry-wide capital spending in the second half of ...

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Microsoft uses Intel FPGAs for real-time AI in the cloud

Microsoft has selected Intel’s Stratix 10 FPGAs as the main hardware accelerator in its new accelerated deep learning platform – code-named Project Brainwave. The aim is to use the accelerated deep learning platform to deliver artificial intelligence in real-time for its cloud services. This will provide facial recognition and voice recognition on smartphones. As well ...

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Laser Lighting Trial Starting in China

For perhaps the first time in the world, trials taking place in China next month will use lasers for street lighting, an innovation aimed at saving energy and eliminating the cost of expensive cabling infrastructure.

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Integrated batteries power e-bikes

The latest trend in electric bike (e-bike) design is the use of integrated batteries built into bicycle frames. The advantages of integrated batteries include better weight distribution and aesthetic design. An example, is the URV8 battery from BMZ Group. This is an integrated battery in an aluminum housing which is removable from the top, bottom, ...

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Farnell element14 targets the classroom with Raspberry Pi and LabView

The latest Raspberry Pi3 model B, Keysight instruments and 3D printers are among a list of key items now used to equip schools and colleges in the teaching of electronics, says Farnell element14. The distributor has created a list of hardware and software products which are highly relevant for teachers and educators. Items on Farnell ...

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China to phase in 14nm semiconductor process in 2018, says top tech master

China is proceeding with systematic deployments in 14nm semiconductor fabrication equipment, process, packaging and materials, which will be fully industrialized in 2018. And the nation will render major support to the development of 5-7nm procesess and 3D memories under its 13th Five-year Development Plan running 2016-2020, according to Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics under the Chinese Academy of Science.

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AUO, Innolux TV panel shipments to remain steady in 2H17, says report

Shipments of TV panels by AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux will remain steady in the second half of 2017 thanks to demand from China-based TV vendors, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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China market: Online advertising in 2Q17 reaches CNY74.10 billion, says Analysys

Online advertising service providers in the China market generated revenues of CNY74.1 billion (US$10.8 billion) in second-quarter 2017, increasing 17.8% sequentially and 16.8% on year, according to Analysys International.

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Soft-World sees 94% of 2Q17 sales from MyCard

Online game developer and operator Soft-World International has revealed 94% of its second-quarter 2017 revenues came from MyCard, its platform for purchasing credit points.

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China AI service provider Unisound gains strategic funding of US$45 million

China's AI service platform Unisound has gained CNY300 million (US$45 million) in strategic investment from an undisclosed group of investors to finance the firm's R&D on AI technologies and expansion of services to more areas, and the investors will also provide Big Data to help the company improve its capabilities, Unisound has announced.

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Intel debuts Coffee Lake CPUs

Intel announced its Coffee Lake-based processors with the first U series designed for 2-in-1 and ultra-thin notebooks on August 21. Intel will launch models for desktops in fall.

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HTC announces US$200 cut for Vive

In a move to make its VR devices more accessible to the mass market, HTC has announced a US$200 price reduction for its Vive virtual reality (VR) headsets.

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TowerJazz gets go-ahead for Nanjing fab

 TowerJazz has received the first payment of $18 million under its agreement with  Tacoma Technology and Tacoma (Nanjing) Semiconductor Technology which makes binding their earliet agreement to set up an 8-inch fab in Nanjing. The fab will be funded by Tacoma, the Nanjing Economic and Technology Development Zone through its Administration Committee, Credito Capital and other  potential ...

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China PCB firms step up capacity expansion

China-based PCB manufacturers including Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing (DSBJ) and Jiangxi Holitech Technology have moved to expand their production capacities eyeing a bigger piece of the global PCB market, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan reliance on diamond wire-sliced solar wafers to surge in 4Q17

As China-based poly-Si wafer makers are fast replacing slurry slicing with diamond wire slicing to reduce production cost, Taiwan-based solar cell makers have been compelled to adopt more diamond wire-sliced wafers, which will account for 50% of their overall wafer purchases in fourth-quarter 2017, up from the present 10%, according to industry sources.

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Digitimes Research: China smartphone shipments fall 11.8% on year in 2Q17

Smartphone shipments in the China market stayed flat on quarter but fell 11.8% on year to 94.1 million units in the second quarter of 2017, accounting for 28.9% of total global smartphone shipments, according to Digitimes Research.

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Taiwan sees foreign direct investment of US$4.4 billion in January-July, says MOEA

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has disclosed it approved 1,853 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$4.407 billion in January-July 2017, respectively decreasing 4.88% and 27.39% on year.

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Taiwan July export order value up on year, says MOEA

Taiwan received export orders totaling US$38.72 billion in July 2017, decreasing 4% sequentially but increasing 10.5% on year. It was 12th consencutive month that saw on-year growth, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

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Compal reportedly to sell stake in China JV soon

Compal Electronics has started to relocate its executives at LCFC (Hefei) Electronics Technology - the notebook manufacturing joint venture between the ODM and Lenovo - back to the headquarters in Taiwan amid rumors that it is ready to sell its entire stake in the JV to the China-based vendor, according to industry sources.

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Qualcomm developing 3D depth sensing technology

Qualcomm is partnering with its ecosystem partners to develop 3D depth sensing technology, which will be applied to Andriod smartphones powered the Snapdragon mobile chips, according to the company.

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Mitac to invest in India-based IT manufacturer

Mitac Holding has announced a plan to invest in India-based Infopower Technologies and will become a major shareholder of the firm. Infopower is a manufacturer of printed circuit board (PCB) and an electronics product assembly service provider.

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Galaxy S8 best-selling Android smartphones in 2Q17, says Strategy Analytics

Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S8 was the world's best-selling Android smartphone in the second quarter of 2017. Combined shipments of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus reached 19.2 million units in the quarter, according to Strategy analytics.

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Global 2Q17 NAND flash market posts 8% growth, says DRAMeXchange

The worldwide NAND flash memory market posted revenues of US$13.22 billion in the second quarter of 2017, up 8% sequentially, according to DRAMeXchange.

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Walton net profits jump in 1H17

Memory-IC backend specialist Walton Advanced Engineering has reported net profits for the first half of 2017 reached NT$153 million (US$5.05 million), up robustly from only NT$17 million a year earlier. EPS for the six-month period came to NT$0.32.

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Microsoft Describes Next Xbox SoC

Microsoft described at Hot Chips its Scorpio SoC in the upcoming Xbox One X and it decision not to use high-bandwidth memory.

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NAND Prices Expected to Continue Rising

Market watcher says supply will remain tight until later in 2018, when 3D NAND production reaches maturity.

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Looking Back at Yesteryear's Measurement Tools

The flotsam and jetsam of gadgetry, especially old tools, can tell us interesting things about the times, the tech, and the people responsible for creating and maintaining it.

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Startup Unveils Graph Processor at Hot Chips

ThinCI, in presenting its "Graph Streaming Processor (GSP)," claimed that its graph processor can beat traditional computing engines such as GPU and DSP due to GSP's abilities to do direct graph processing, on-chip task-graph management and execution, and task parallelism.

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Microsemi joins US SiC and GaN initiative for 1.7 and 3.3kV devices

Microsemi has joined PowerAmerica, the US public-private initiative to promote the commercialisation of GaN and SiC power semiconductors, and US-based manufacturing. The organisation has $70m backing from the US Department of Energy over five years. The firm’s role at the organisation will be supporting the commercialisation of 1.7 and 3.3kV SiC mosfets and SiC Schottky diodes. “With ...

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WSTS Revises Chip Growth Forecast to 17%

Data from more than 50 member companies points to strongest industry growth since 2010.

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NVMe Will Oust SCSI by 2020

With a minimal premium on NVMe SSDs, the interface is expected to quickly become the defacto standard in storage arrays.

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Rambus Adds Security to RISC-V

Startup SiFive partnered with Rambus for a crypto core that becomes the first member of its DesignShare third-party IP program for RISC-V.

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PC scopes distil data from a million waveforms

UK PC-based oscilloscope firm Pico Technology has introduced automatic measurement of waveform parameters on up to a million successive waveform cycles. Calling it DeepMeasure analysis tool, it has facilities to sorted, analyse and correlate waveforms, and is included as standard with PicoScope 3000, 4000, 5000, and 6000 Series oscilloscopes. “As electronic devices become more complex, design engineering ...

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Limiter clamps 100W from 10MHz to 6GHz.

To protect low-noise receivers, Peregrine Semi’s PE45361 power limiter offers 50dBm (100W) pulsed power handling from a surface-mount package, operating from 10MHz to 6GHz. Pulsed in this case is 1% duty cycle  – 10µs pulses in 1ms – in a 50Ω system at 25°C. “PE45361 delivers reliable and repeatable power protection to sensitive low-noise receivers for ...

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Giantplus sees revenues ride high in 3Q17

LCD panel and module maker Giantplus Technology expects its current sales momentum to continue into October, buoyed by increasing demand for industrial and automotive panels, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report, citing company vice president Cheng Chih-tsuan.

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Digitimes Research: Top-5 notebook brand and top-3 ODMs see shipments slide on month in July

With inventory preparation for back-to-school demand reaching an end in June, first-tier notebook vendors' shipments slowed down in July with the top-5 brands' combined shipments dropping 31% on month and top-3 ODMs' combined volumes down 22%.

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Handset supply chain makers on high alert as smartphone competition looming

Suppliers in the global handset supply chain are nervously waiting for the planned release of new smartphones from Apple, Samsung Electronics and Huawei in the upcoming peak season as sales results of these new models will affect significantly the vendors' market shares as well as follow-up orders for related suppliers.

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Digitimes Research: Global TDDI chip shipments for 2017 to shoot up 191% on year

Global TDDI (touch and display driver integration) chip shipments for 2017 are estimated to drastically soar 191% on year due mainly to increased shipments of hybrid in-cell TDDI chips and the growing incorporation of TDDI chips into display panels, with Taiwan's chipmakers to command a global market share of nearly 40% in this sector, breaking the past dominance by the US-based Synaptics, according to Digitimes Research.

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Qualcomm to extend tie-up with TSMC to FinFET, says executive

Qualcomm has an almost 10-year collaboration with TSMC, and the tie-up will extend to FinFET process technology, said Sudeepto Roy, VP of engineering for Qualcomm Technology Licensing, at a recent event with Taiwan's media.

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High NAND prices expected to rise

NAND revenue grew 8% Q2 on Q1, and is expected to increase in Q3. “We expect supply to be under strain for the rest of 2017,” says DRAMeXChange’s Alan Chen, ‘relief will come later in 2018, when the manufacturing of 64- and 72-layer 3D-NAND Flash reaches maturity.” Samsung’s Q2 NAND revenue was up 11.6% to ...

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MediaTek selects MIPS for LTE modems

Imagination's MIPS CPUs are to be deployed in high-volume smartphone modems for the first time after MediaTek adopted the technology for a new processor.

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Hynix looking to acquire Toshiba says Korean report.

Hynix is looking to acquire Toshiba’s memory business, says a study from the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET) as reported by the Korea JoongAng Daily newspaper. Hynix is part of the INCJ/Bain consortium bidding for Toshiba, but it has always said it was only looking to provide finance. However it did transpire ...

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DRAM revenue at record levels

DRAM revenue hit a record $16.5 billion in Q2 after increasing 16.9% from Q1, reports TrendForce, with the sharp rise attributable o a declining under-supply allowing customers to replenish inventory. PC and server DRAM ASP rose 10% in the quarter while mobile DRAM ASP rose 4% as China smartphone vendors reduced orders on lower-than-expected shipments.   “The ...

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Competition heating up among Taiwan contact lens makers

Taiwan-based contact lens makers' competition in the domestic and overseas markets has become increasingly intense, according to industry sources.

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Global DRAM revenues increase 17% in 2Q17, says DRAMeXchange

Sales in the global DRAM market surged 16.9% sequentially to US$16.51 billion in the second quarter of 2017, when PC DRAM contract prices rose over 10%, according to DRAMeXchange. The revenues for the quarter were also a new historical high.

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Taiwan to build AI innovation ecosystem, says MOST

Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) will undertake five strategic tasks to establish an AI (artificial intelligence) innovation ecosystem in a bid to boost development of AI-related industries and application, according to MOST minister Chen Liang-gee.

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Taiwan 2Q17 economic growth estimated at 2.13%, says DGBAS

Taiwan's economic growth for first-quarter 2017 has been upward adjusted by 0.06pp from 2.60% estimated in late May to 2.66% and growth for second-quarter 2017 is estimated at 2.13%, according to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

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Tyntek production disrtuped by power outage

Visible and infrared LED chip maker Tyntek has disclosed a fire at its factory in northern Taiwan on August 18 temporarily disrupted power supply for production and it will take 7-10 days to resume supply.

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Taiwan science ministry may introduce smart power storage system from Tesla

With a recent massive power outage revealing the fragility of Taiwan's electrical grid and highlighting the need for power storage, the nation's Ministry of Science and Technology will not rule out introducing smart power storage systems from Tesla, the No. 1 electric vehicle maker and solar energy supplier in the US, in a bid to reduce the risk of large blackouts.

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Acer PV power station in Taiwan starts operation

Acer has revealed it has started operating a PV power station at its high-tech industrial Aspire Park in Longtan, northern Taiwan. The station will have total capacity of 2.8MWp, and the portion that has started operation can generate electricity of 3.52 million kWh a year, equivalent to carbon reductions 1,820 tons, Acer said.

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China July PV installation estimated at 10.5GWp

The PV power stations and distributed systems completed and on grid in China in July 2017 had an estimated total installation capacity of 10.5GWp, according to China Electricity Council (CEC).

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Ligitek expected to turn profitable in 2017

LED packaging service provider Ligitek Electronics suffered net losses for six consecutive years from 2011 to 2016 but its business in 2017 is expected to swing to profitability.

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HY Electronic plans TSE listing

Power discrete component supplier HY Electronic plans to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) between late third-quarter and early fourth-quarter 2017, according to the Cayman-incorporated company.

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Q'comm Details ARM Server SoCs

Qualcomm will describe at Hot Chips the Falkor dual-CPU custom ARM core in its Centriq server processor slated to ship later this year.

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Small Accelerator, Big Promise

Brookhaven Lab used a 3-D printer and permanent magnets to produce a proof-of-concept desktop electron-beam accelerator for physics research and cancer treatment.

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UN: Please ban autonomous killing machines

An open letter signed by 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies from 26 countries urges the United Nations to ban the use of lethal autonomous weapons internationally. Signatories include: Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, SpaceX and OpenAI (USA) Mustafa Suleyman, founder and head of applied AI at Google’s DeepMind (UK) Esben Østergaard, founder ...

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EEVblog #1017 – Enter The World Of Atto Amps

Dave tears down the Keithley 617 Electrometer, capable of measuring sub-femtoamp (attoamps!) resolution.

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Flex Electronics Approach an Inflection

The next five years in flexible electronics can be the most exciting we have witnessed if we can seize a bounty of opportunities and overcome remaining challenges.

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Scottish tech firm plans growth and recruitment

The head of a Scottish tech firm is predicting a period of sustained growth and more highly skilled jobs in the region. John Spence, managing director of Ichor Systems, said the semiconductor manufacturing equipment supplier is planning to expand its Lanarkshire-based activities into new markets in the wider engineering sector. Company turnover is up 15% ...

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Imagination secures big smartphone design-in with MediaTek

Imagination Technologies has secured an important design-in for its MIPS processor technology with MediaTek. Crucially this takes MIPS into high-volume smartphone modems. The mobile phone chipset firm has adopted the multi-threaded MIPS I-class CPU for smartphone LTE modems. The mobile device from MediaTek featuring MIPS technology is the latest MT6799 Helio X30 processor which uses ...

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Gate drive PSU aimed at SiC mosfets

Recom is aiming at powering silicon carbite mosfet gate drives with its latest 2W dc-dc converters. “High-frequency and high-voltage switching are the main challenges of driving SiC mosfets,” said the firm. “A typical DC/DC isolation voltage should normally be at least twice the working voltage, but the high ambient temperature and fast switching edges generated ...

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Mouser boosts IoT range with Digi XBee embedded modem range

Mouser has added to its IoT-focused product line after starting to stock the Digi XBee Cellular 3G global embedded modem. According to the distributor, the modem is designed to help OEMs avoid time-consuming and expensive FCC and PTCRB end-device certifications and it enables engineers to quickly and easily integrate 3G (HSPA/GSM) with 2G fallback connectivity ...

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China market: IoT chip demand promising, says ARM CEO

Shipments of ARM-based mobile chips from China-based chipmakers have been rising rapidly along with the country's fast-growing IC design industry over the past 10 years, according to Simon Segars, CEO for the processor IP vendor. Shipments of ARM-based IoT chips from the China industry are also expected to see explosive growth in coming years, said Segars.

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Taiwan market: Asustek launches Zen Fone 4 family products

Asustek Computer has officially launched its ZenFone 4 series products at an event in Taiwan, with three out of the family's four models to be available immediately in the local market.

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Leotek expects 40-50% growth in 2018 LED smart streetlamp shipments

Leotek Electronics, a subsidiary of EMS provider Lite-On Technology, has obtained orders for more than 100,000 LED smart streetlamps via open-bid competition in Taiwan, the US, the UK and the Middle East and expects shipments for the product line in 2018 to increase 40-50% on year.

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Lenovo reports net loss of US$72 million for April-June 2017

Lenovo has reported net loss of US$72 million for the fiscal first quarter ended June 30, 2017, during which the companmy recorded quarterly revenues of US$10 billion, flat on year, but an increase on quarter of 4.5%.

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Alibaba nets CNY5.65 per share for 2Q17

The largest China-based e-commerce service provider Alibaba Group has published its second-quarter 2017 financial report, posting consolidated revenues of CNY50.184 billion (US$7.403 billion), net operating profit of CNY17.513 billion, net profit of CNY14.031 billion and net EPS of CNY5.65.

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Taiwan ICT vendors have to offer turnkey solutions in Indonesia market: Q&A with TAITRA representative

Taiwan has adopted a New Southbound Policy eyeing trade opportunities from ASEAN and South Asia economies. The government-sponsored Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) plays an important role in implementing this policy.

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Taiwan market: Acer sponsors smarwatches for Universiade Taipei

Acer has sponsored 13,000 units of its limited-edition Leap Ware smartwatches for the Summer Universiade 2017 sporting event, hosted in Taipei, Taiwan from August 19-30.

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Wafer Works expects wafer prices to continue rising on strong demand

Taiwan-based Wafer Works, which makes small- to medium-size semiconductor-grade wafers, expects silicon wafer prices to continue rising on strong demand.

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Mirle seeing order backlog swell, says report

Semiconductor and LCD panel equipment supplier Mirle Automation has seen its backlog of orders exceeding NT$10 billion (US$329.7 million), according to a recent Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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Micron doubles size of R&D centre

Micron has doubled the size of its R&D centre in Boise Idaho with a new 100,000 sq ft facility. “That is very meaningful in terms of giving us greater flexibility to research and develop more memory technologies, so we can bring them faster to high-volume production at our building sites and bring those solutions faster ...

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DRAM Supply Improves Amid Record Sales

The DRAM shortage improved in the second quarter as sales hit an all-time high of more than $16.5 billion, according to a market watcher.

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Startup Runs MCU on 5 MicroW

Startup Eta Compute will demo at Hot Chips a Cortex-M3 running at 5 microW, targeting SoCs run on energy harvesters for the Internet of Things.

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Trump, Truth and American Manufacturing

The President's strained credibility and controversial stance on the ugly incident in Charlottesville has imperiled potential opportunities to revitalize high-tech manufacturing in the U.S.

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Can ST Unseat NXP in iPhone NFC?

When Apple next month rolls out its new iPhones, whose NFC chip will be inside? Right now, ST is keeping mum. Most analysts remain skeptical of the possibility, although some said it's "conceivable."

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EW BrightSparks 2017 profile: Andrew Cowan, Cobham Antenna Systems

In the latest in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2017, we highlight Andrew Cowan, who works as a signal processing engineer at Cobham Antenna Systems.

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EW BrightSparks 2017 profile: Calum Finn, Nestle

Continuing our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2017, we highlight Calum Finn, who is an apprentice engineering plant technician at Nestle.

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UK team moots better supercaps

Semi-interpenetrating polymer networks could improve supercapacitors, according to Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge, who are seeking alternatives to carbon supercapacitors. “Pseudocapacitance is a property of polymer and composite supercapacitors that allows ions to enter inside the material and thus pack much more charge than carbon ones that mostly store ...

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Don’t hold your breath for lithium-air cells

Rechargeable lithium air batteries could save a lot of weight, if only they could be made to work. Now MIT has proved another hopeful additive is flawed, although the understanding developed could help in the search for others. Like zinc-air non-rechargeables, the idea is to replace one energy-containing electrode material with oxygen, which is breathed ...

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Electro-colour-changing ink is printed with water

Georgia Tech chemists have developed water-based electrochromic film inks for colour-change applications such as auto-dimming rear-view car mirrors. “There were some hurdles to pulling it off,” said GaTech. “The finished product had to electrically operate comparable to films that are applied in an organic solvent, and also be water-resistant in spite of the water-based production.” ...

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Clean green graphene separation

Clean graphene be set free without damage to its growth substrate, using only simple safe chemicals, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – aiming to release it for use in flexible transparent electronics. The 2D material is synthesised using chemical vapour deposition onto a metal substrate, typically copper foil. “One particularly ...

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NI adds PCI Express Gen 3 remote control

National Instruments has announced a family of PXI remote control and bus extension modules with PCI Express Gen 3 connectivity. “PCI Express Gen 3 technology delivers increased bandwidth that is critical for data intensive applications like 5G cellular research, RF record and playback, and high-channel-count data acquisition,” said the firm. “This family augments our existing ...

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LDOs drop

Toshiba has announced a family of CMOS low drop-out (LDO) regulators. Called TCR4DG, they have an on-off control input and come in in fixed output voltages between 1.0 and 4.5V, at up to 420mA. Typical drop-out is 193mV (420mA, 3.3Vout). Low output noise voltage is claimed, and as befitting a Japanese company, the claim is ...

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