Europe export drive is target of Leeds-based tech network

A Leeds-based electronics manufacturing business has been given a boost from a successful local exporter. Daletech Electronics has received free strategic export advice from Yorkshire firm Radio Design as part of a new export network in the Leeds City Region. The advice and mentoring from Radio Design director Eric Hawthorn will help Daletech directors realise ...

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Automotive regulators handle 60V inputs

Diodes has used a simple emitter-follower design to create linear voltage regulators that work with inputs up to 60V in automotive environments. The ZXTR2105FQ, ZXTR2108FQ and ZXTR2112FQ are designed to deliver 5V, 8V, or 12V regulated outputs respectively from nominal battery supplies of 12V or 24V at up to 15mA. “These devices can tolerate battery ...

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Metal plate shunt resistors handle high currents

PSJ2/PSL2 and PSG4/PSF4 are high-power resistive shunts from KOA, with two or four terminals respectively. Added to the PS series, and being stocked in Europe by TTI, they are constructed from solid metal alloy resistance element with copper terminals for what is claimed to be superior corrosion and heat resistance, along with excellent pulse resistance ...

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Deloitte opens cybre-threat hunting service in EMEA

Deloitte is to provide cyber-threat hunting services to companies in the EMEA region using the threat-hunting technology provided by Sqrrl. Threat hunting, in Deloitte’s definition, is the active search for cyber adversaries that have slipped past other defences. With the developing sophistication of ‘low and slow’, it said, and the growing impact of data breaches, ...

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XMOS launches development kit for far-field voice capture.

XMOS has made available its xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear evaluation kit as part of its range of  far-field voice capture products, Based on the XMOS VocalFusion XVF3100 voice processor, the kit is designed for developers, OEMs and ODMs integrating voice user interfaces into flat, or linear consumer electronics typically found at the “edge of the ...

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Swancor, TIPC Marine set up JV for offshore wind power

Wind power generation developer Swancor Renewable Energy has announced the establishment of a joint venture with TIPC Marine, a wholly-owned subsidiary of state-run seaport operator Taiwan International Ports Corp. (TIPC), for developing offshore wind farms.

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Taiwan IC design houses may see more consolidation in 2018

Taiwan-based established IC design houses are likely to become acquisition targets due to increasing competition and ongoing consolidation within the industry, according to industry sources.

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Digitimes Research: SiC, Gan power semiconductor markets to grow fast through 2025

While silicon remains the mainstream power semiconductor material, silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) are seen more suitable for power semiconductor devices needed by electric cars and mobile devices, as they can perform much better than Si in reducing on-state resistance and miniaturizing the size of power devices, thus helping the devices achieve fast charging, power consumption and high energy conversion functions. It is expected that the SiC and Gan power semiconductor markets will experience a higher growth than the Si semiconductor market by 2025, Digitimes Research believes.

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X-Fab unveils ultra-low-noise transistors utilizing 180nm CMOS platform

X-Fab has announced the expansion of its low-noise transistor portfolio based on the company's 180nm XH018 mixed-signal CMOS technology. Three new transistors are now available: a 1.8 V low-noise NMOS, a 3.3 V low-noise NMOS and a 3.3 V low-noise PMOS.

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Roborock expanding production capacity for robot vacuum cleaners

China-based Roborock, the maker of both Xiaomi Technology's Mi- and Roborock-branded robot vacuum cleaners, is ramping up its capacity by adding more molds into production lines, according to company founder and CEO Zhang Jin.

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Macronix to highlight novel SGVC 3D NAND development at 2017 IEDM

Macronix International has disclosed its research on a novel 3D NAND structure, called single-gate vertical channel (SGVC), will be presented as a highlight paper at the 2017 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco from December 2-6

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Hinge maker SZS diversifying product lines with higher MIM capacity

With the notebook industry entering a plateau period, Taiwan's leading notebook hinge maker Shin Zu Shings (SZS) is aggressively expanding product lines to include hinges for auto parts, medical equipment and machine tools by utilizing its MIM (metal injection molding) capacity, and will build two continuous furnaces in 2018 to support production of the new hinges.

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Cleanroom constructor UIS seeing orders swell, says report

Taiwan-based cleanroom maker United Information Systems (UIS) has seen its backlog of orders reach NT$17.67 billion (US$588.92 million), according to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA).

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Taiwan market: LG sees growing profits from OLED TV sales

LG Electronics expects earnings from sales of OLED TVs in the Taiwan market to grow significantly in 2018 as compared to those recorded in 2017, according to sources at LG Taiwan.

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Soitec soars

Soitec, the FD-SOI wafer manufacturer, has announced half year revenues to the end of September. Soitec grew revenues 26% at €143 million for a profit  up 139% at €22.5 million and EBITDA up to 24.4% of sales from 16.5% in H1’17. Net profit was  € 23.2 million versus € 3.1 million in H1’17 and € 8.4 million ...

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Mouser, TTI and Molex sponsor Dragon Racing Formula E team

Mouser  will sponsor the Dragon Racing team throughout the 2017–18 FIA Formula E racing season. The season kicks off December 2 and 3 at the Hong Kong ePrix doubleheader.   The 2017–2018 season marks the fourth edition of Formula E racing and the fourth-straight year that Mouser will be a team sponsor. Formula E features ...

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Yaskawa invests in GaN specialist Transphorm

Transphorm,  the 650V GaN specialist, has received a $15 million investment from Yaskawa Electric Corporation. A few weeks ago  Yaskawa revealed its  Σ-7 F servo motor relies on Transphorm’s high-voltage (HV) GaN. Transphorm intends to allocate the funds to various areas of its GaN product development. “We’ve seen the benefits of working with gallium nitride ...

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NXP MCU supports AWS FreeRTOS

NXP has introduced an MCU-based IoT module with onboard Wi-Fi and support for newly launched Amazon FreeRTOS on Amazon Web Services (AWS) – offering developers universal connections to AWS. Amazon FreeRTOS provides tools for users to quickly and easily deploy an MCU-based connected device and develop an IoT application without having to worry about the ...

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Toshiba Memory unveils 2TB NVMe SSD

Toshiba Memory has enhanced its line-up of client SSDs with the launch of premium models in its XG5-P series. The new NVM Express (NVMe) client SSDs improve on the performance of the current XG5 series models and double the maximum capacity to 2TB.

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Notebook hinge maker Sinher boosting MIM self-sufficiency rate to 50%

Notebook hinge maker Sinher Technology is installing two more batch furnaces to expand in-house MIM (metal injection molding) production capacity to meet growing demand, bringing to six the total number of such furnaces by the end of 2017 to achieve a self-sufficiency rate of 50%, up from the present 30-40%, according to company sources.

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Penetration rate of OLED smartphone panels to reach over 30% in 2018

The penetration rate of OLED panels in the smartphone display market is expected to reach over 30% in 2018 due to increasing adoption by smartphone vendors, according to industry sources.

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On-Bright denies speculation about China listing

Power management IC design specialist On-Bright Electronics has denied recent speculation that it was planning to shift listing from Taiwan's over-the-counter bourse to China's stock market.

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Samsung starts mass production of 10LPP process

Samsung Electronics announced recently that its foundry business has commenced mass production of system-on-chip (SoC) products built on its second generation 10nm FinFET process technology, 10LPP (Low Power Plus).

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Coopetition and coexistence in IC industry: Q&A with ASE COO Wu Tien-yu

The global semiconductor industry is experiencing faster quantitative and qualitative changes along with the increasingly fierce coopetition among wafer foundry, IDM (integrated advanced manufacture) and OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) players as well as the arrival of multiple new technologies and applications such as AI (artificial intelligence), big data, datacenters, autonomous vehicles and automotive electronics. Nevertheless, the symbiotic coexistence of the entire semiconductor supply chain has never changed, Wu Tien-yu, COO of Taiwan IC packaging and testing specialist Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), told Digitimes in a recent interview.

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Opto Tech, Tyntek to expand IR LED sensing device production capacities

LED chip and packaging service providers Opto Tech and Tyntek will expand production capacities for infrared (IR) LED sensing devices, according to industry sources.

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Cloudera to help university train big data experts

US-based Cloudera has signed an agreement to donate cloud computing curriculums, software and semiconductor-supporting practical technology to Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) to help its Department of Electric Engineering cultivate big data analytics experts, according to the university.

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Isolated mosfet driver delivers 5A to switch 300A, or more

Power Integrations has added to its isolated gate driver family, for mosfets and IGBTs, with a 5A driver in a wide-body eSOP package. 5A is enough for switches handling 300A, or more if an external booster circuit (see diagram) is added to push the drive to 60A. “This device provides n-channel drive for both the low ...

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25V mosfet gets down to 0.58mΩ and 61nC

  Vishay has introduced a 25V n-channel power mosfet that it claims has industry’s lowest maximum on-resistance: 0.58mΩ at 10V, and lowest gate charge and gate charge times on-resistance figure of merit for devices with on-resistance below 0.6mΩ – although the firm went on to say: “the device released today is one of the only ...

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Dual output power supply goes high and low

Excelsys Technologies has introduced an output module for its CoolX range of convection-cooled modular configurable power supplies, which provides up to 600W of power from one module (occupying three slots). Initially available with a 24V output, the CmE module provides up to 25A output current capability. Target applications are those which require one higher power ...

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Ocado grocery robots pick any shape and size

Ocado, the online groceries supplier, is using robotics in its distribution centres to select grocery products from the 50,000 different items available. The new system uses a proprietary computer vision system designed by Ocado’s technology robotics research team to calculate grasping points for a given item without requiring a 3D model of the object to ...

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Industrial strategy aims to be more inclusive to focus on skills and AI, says RAE

The Royal Academy of Engineering has welcomed the government’s industrial strategy white paper, Building a Britain fit for the future, because it takes inclusive approach to address the need for digital skills and focuses on the technologies for artificial intelligence and big data. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, writes: “Now ...

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Toshiba sampling 2Tb Flash chips

Toshiba is sampling Universal Flash Storage (UFS) devices  using BiCS FLASH 3D flash. The devices meet performance demands for applications that require high-speed read/write performance and low power consumption, including mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, and augmented and virtual reality systems.  The line-up will be available in four capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. All ...

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X-Fab adds low-noise 180nm transistors for audio and sensor amps.

Aiming at sensor interfaces, semiconductor foundry X-Fab has created more low-noise transistors for users of its 180nm XH018 mixed-signal CMOS process. There are three: 1.8V NMOS, with an eighth of the nose of its standard XH018 equivalent 3.3V NMOS, with a tenth 3.3V PMOS, with half “all of which offer drastically reduced flicker noise compared ...

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Farnell sells ten millionth Raspberry Pi

Premier Farnell is celebrating  the sale of 10 million Raspberry Pi with a special offer for customers Less than six years after it first began producing Raspberry Pi computers, Premier Farnell now sells over 50,000 Raspberry Pi computers each week to makers, industry and education across the globe. Over 4 million Raspberry Pi have been ...

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X-FAB adds to low-noise transistor portfolio

X-FAB has added three new low-noise transistors to its 180nm process node:  a 1.8 V low-noise NMOS, a 3.3 V low-noise NMOS and a 3.3 V low-noise PMOS – all of which offer drastically reduced flicker noise compared to standard CMOS offerings. These transistors are mainly designed for sensor deployments which require very low-noise signal amplification ...

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Uber Q3 loss of $1.5bn

Uber made a loss of $1.5 billion in Q3, according to the FT, on revenue of $2 billion and gross bookings of $9.7 billion. The Q2 loss was $1.06 billion and the increase in Q3 is being attributed to lawsuits, particularly the one with Waymo over alleged stolen IP. Last year Uber lost $2.8 billion ...

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Nextronics to ship up to 800,000 connectors for cardiac catheterization in 2017

Nextronics Engineering, a maker of connectors for industrial computing and optical communication devices, extended production to medical applications in 2009. It shipped 680,000 disposable medical connectors for cardiac catheterization in January-October 2017 and expects to ship 750,000-800,000 units for the whole year, according to the company.

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Downstream players scrambling to build up inventories amid tight wafer supply

The semiconductor supply chain - especially chip vendors - as well as downstream distribution channels and end-market customers, are rushing to pile up inventories by the end of 2017, seeking to secure better sales performance in 2018 amid lingering tight supply of upstream materials, parts and components, although market prospects for end-market devices remain unclear for next year, according to industry sources.

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Power components supply to remain tight in 1H18

The supply of power components is expected to remain tight throughout the first half of 2018 as the proliferation of automobile electronics products and IoT devices will keep demand for these components constantly at high levels, according to industry sources.

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Personal computing device market to see -2% CAGR through 2021, says IDC

Global shipments of personal computing devices (PCDs) - composed of traditional PCs (desktop, notebooks and workstations) and tablets (slate, detachable) - are expected to decline 2.7% on year in 2017, according to IDC. While this is a slower contraction compared to the previous year, the shipments will decline further by 4% in 2018.

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Canadian Solar to set up PV module plant in Taiwan, says newspaper

Canadian Solar (CSI) has applied for approval by Taiwan's Investment Commission to set up a PV module factory, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News.

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Xiaomi, Baidu to jointly develop integrated IoT/AI ecosystem

Xiaomi Technology has teamed up with Internet service provider Baidu to jointly develop an integrated IoT+AI ecosystem in China. The hardware-software integrated ecosystem will be established by leveraging Xiaomi's application scenarios, smart hardware devices, big data and Baidu's AI technology, mass data, knowledge maps and information services.

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China to crack down on faulty rooftop PV systems

Some provincial governments in China, such as Shanxi, Zhejiang and Shandong, have taken action to demolish residential rooftop PV systems with problems, according to China-based media reports.

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BOE seeks to become flexible OLED supplier for Apple, says report

China-based BOE Technology is seeking to become a flexible OLED panel supplier for Apple, offering to devote two fabs to making such applications exclusively for the US vendor, according to a Korea-based ETNews report.

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Some China PV makers to expand capacities to at least 20GWp

About 2-3 China-based vertically integrated PV makers plan to expand annual production capacities to at least 20GWp each, according to China Photovoltaic Industry Association (CPIA).

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Chassis maker In Win looks to turn profitable in 2018

Computer chassis maker In Win Development is expected to swing back to profitability in 2018 as the company has shifted its production focus to power supply products, IPCs, servers and cloud software solutions, while also reducing production cost by farming out production of electronics parts, according to company sources.

At an investors conference held November 28, the company reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.426 billion (US$47.57 million) for the first three quarters of 2017, down 17% on year. Its gross profit reached only NT$218 million for the period, plunging 36% on year, with pre-tax loss reaching NT$200 million and after-tax EPS loss of NT$1.84.

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PCB maker Unitech to end 2017 with profitability

Unitech Printed Circuit Board is expected to return to profitability by the end of 2017, as brisk shipments to the smartphone sector and rising product ASPs have helped drive up the firm's earnings for the second half of the year. And the shipment boom is expected to last into 2018, allowing the company to expect better revenue performance in the coming year, according to company sources.

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GlobalWafers inks deal with client for supply beyond 2020, says report

Taiwan-based GlobalWafers, a silicon wafer supplier, has signed a multiple-year contract with one of its customers to ensure its sufficient supply of silicon wafers after 2020, according to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA).

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QiuckLogic adds BLE to Alexa sensor processor

QuickLogic has added Nordic’s BLE IP to  its EOS S3 Sensor Processing Platform Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design – the first commercially available reference design that supports voice-over-Bluetooth connectivity with Amazon Alexa. QuickLogic’s Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design combines QuickLogic’s EOS S3 Sensor Processing SoC, which features an ARM Cortex M4F-powered multicore sensor processing SoC ...

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HERE buys OTA specialist ATS

HERE, the road mapping company owned by Audi, Daimler and BMW, has bought Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS) which provides OTA (over the air) wireless software updates to connected cars. “The acquisition of ATS is a hugely important strategic investment for us to complement our portfolio as a premium automotive cloud provider,” says Ralf Herrtwich, SVP ...

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DENSO and NEC form jv for in-car connectivity

DENSO  and NEC have formed a jv called DENSO NEXT CO to develop in-vehicle information and communications equipment critical for fostering a connected environment inside vehicles, such as instrument clusters, head-up displays, and on-board communication equipment. The company will start operations on December 1, 2017. The recent cockpit innovation and advancement of connected technologies have ...

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U.S. Angles to Retake Supercomputer Lead

IBM, Intel, and AMD supercomputing platforms aim to beat China to exabyte computing, obsoleting the Top500's distributed-memory version of the Linpack benchmarks in the process.

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RISC-V Spins into Drives, AI

Western Digital and startup Esperanto tipped plans for storage and machine-learning chips using the open-source RISC-V architecture.

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CEA-Leti Moves Fast on New CEO

CEA-Leti, one of the largest micro- and nanotechnologies research institutes in Europe, lost its head recently, but recovered by naming Emmanuel Sabonnadiere as CEO, succeeding Marie-Noelle Semeria. CEA-Leti has provided no explanation of Semeria's contract non-renewal.

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IoT Skill Shortage Ahead

The growing Internet of Things is opening up a new range of jobs that require specific IoT skills--and we're already seeing a shortage of qualified candidates.

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Toshiba sampling 10TB 3.5″ HDDs

Toshiba is sampling 3.5inch HDDs with up to 10TB capacity which support up to 64 camera streams. The MD06ACA-V Series is designed for 24/7 streaming operation scenarios and is typically used for surveillance digital video recorders (SDVR), surveillance network video recorders (SNVR) and Hybrid SDVR. The HDDs have 7,200 rpm access performance. The 10TB model delivers ...

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Panasonic capacitors have high ripple current

New conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors from Panasonic benefit from high ripple current and low ESR values Panasonic has introduced smoothing capacitors featuring a high ripple current of 5.8Amps and enabling miniaturization of switching power supplies. The SEPG series of radial lead type conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors also benefits from very low ESR values ...

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Delta to install smart streetlamps supporting NB-IoT in industrial parks

Power supply maker and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics will install smart LED streetlamps which can be remotely controlled via NB-IoT networks in four industrial parks in northern Taiwan, according to the company.

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Earphone brand 1More achieves 40 million shipments milestone

China-based earphone brand 1More, a Xiaomi Technology-invested company, sold over 40 million earphones worldwide from August 2013 to July 2017 and is expected to be able to maintain an annual growth of around 30% in the coming years.

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Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments to see -3.2% CAGR in 2018-2022

Global notebook shipments are expected to experience a negative 3.2% CAGR in the next five years to reach 140 million units by 2022, as new consumer devices associated with such latest technologies as artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and flexible displays will emerge to erode consumer patronage for notebooks, according to Digitimes Research.

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AboCom in management takeover row

Wireless and networking solution provider AboCom System is facing a campaign against its management by some dissatisfied shareholders who, led by one of its corporate supervisors, aim to sack its present board of directors and other supervisors.

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Delta showcases IIoT solutions for smart manufacturing in Nuremberg

Taiwan-based Delta Group, a supplier of power, thermal management and automation solutions, is showcasing its latest integrated solutions and framework for smart manufacturing at the SPS/IPC/Drives/Nuremberg 2017 (SPS 2017) exhibition in Germany.

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Server shipments weaker than expected in 2H17

Demand for Intel Purley-based servers has not grown as strong as expected in the second half of 2017 with some brand vendors seeing their shipments reaching only half of their original expectations, according to sources from the server upstream supply chain.

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DJI dominates drone market, says VP

China-based Da-Jiang Innovations Science and Technology (DJI) has kept developing innovative drone models for various applications and has occupied over 70% of the global consumer drone market, according to company vice president Xu Huabin.

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China IC sector must develop large IDMs, says expert

China's semiconductor industry must move to establish major IDM (integrated device manufacture) enterprises with global competitiveness to fill up the deficiency of domestic IDM deployments, while continuing to strengthen its IC design and foundry businesses, according to Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMECAS).

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Taiwan market: Xiaomi to accelerate business operation

Xiaomi Technology will further enhance its presence in the Taiwan market in 2018 by expanding the number its retail shops and introducing more smart household appliances into the local market, according to Xiaomi Taiwan general manager Henman Lee.

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LT3964 step-down LED driver operates from 4V to 36V

The LT3964, a dual channel, 36V, high efficiency, synchronous, step-down LED driver with internal 40V, 1.6A power switches and an I2C interface that simplifies LED dimming control. The chip operates with a 4V to 36V input range, and features two independently controlled LED drivers that switch at up to 2MHz, resulting in a highly integrated, ...

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USA concerned about China AI capability

China is five years away from overtaking the USA in AI says a report today from the US Center for New American Security (CNAS).   “China is no longer in a position of technological inferiority relative to the United States but rather has become a true peer that may have the capability to overtake the ...

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Coil on Module for secure wireless payments

Infineon is expanding its CoM (Coil on Module) portfolio for secure contactless ID documents. The new SLC52 security chip is now available, integrated with the card antenna into a polycarbonate monoblock inlay. Conventional chip packages are welded, soldered or glued to the card antenna. With the CoM package, however, the chip module communicates with the ...

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Semiconductor Equipment Market Cools Further

Billings among North American semiconductor tool makers declined sequentially in October for a fourth straight month.

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South Korea Takes Bigger Slice of Mobile DRAM Market

Memory chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix increased their cumulative share of the mobile DRAM market to more than 85 percent in the third quarter while Micron Technology slipped.

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Infineon and Osram's Intelligent Matrix-lighting System for Vehicles

Video from ELIV 2017 illustrates how LED vehicle headlight systems can change the game in energy consumption and safety.

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Sale of Goodix stake to boost MediaTek 4Q17 profits

MediaTek has raised its earnings per share (EPS) target for the fourth quarter of 2017 to between NT$5.66 (US$0.19) and NT$7.01, as a result of the recently-announced indirect sale of part of its stake in China-based Goodix.

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Taiwan motherboard makers stop accepting low-margin desktop OEM orders

Some Taiwan-based motherboard makers who provide desktop OEM/ODM services to brand PC vendors have decided to stop taking low-margin OEM orders, and instead have either reduced their desktop production lines or shifted more capacity to support production of IoT and AI devices, according to sources from motherboard suppliers.

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Egistec likely to supply fingerprint sensors for Samsung Galaxy S9, report says

Taiwan-based Egis Technology (Egistec) has been identified as the most-likely fingerprint sensor supplier for Samsung's flagship smartphone series slated for launch in the first quarter of 2018, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

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Cypress achieves aerospace-grade QML certification for 65nm and 40nm SRAM devices at UMC

Cypress Semiconductor has claimed its 65nm and 40nm technology platforms are the industry's first to achieve Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) certification for their advance product flows. The next-generation 144-Mbit Quad Data Rate (QDR) II+, 144-Mbit QDR IV and 16-Mbit Asynchronous SRAM devices, manufactured at United Microelectronics' (UMC) Fab 12A in Tainan, Taiwan, were qualified under the QML-V certification for aerospace-grade applications.

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UMC Xiamen fab approved to gain US$600 million in capital

Taiwan's Investment Commission has approved an application filed by United Microelectronics (UMC) to indirectly inject a total of US$600 million into the pure-play foundry's new 12-inch wafer fab in Xiamen, southern China.

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Race to top of market: Q&A with Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, president of Server Solutions at Dell EMC

The acquisition of EMC has enabled Dell's server business to enjoy impressive growth, and Dell stands a good chance of becoming the world's largest supplier by revenues by the end of 2017, according to to Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, president and general manager of Server Solutions at Dell EMC.

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China begins to set standards for smart home devices

The China Light Industry Council (CLIC) has started a process to set technological standards for smart home devices including electric appliances, locks, lighting and furniture.

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Qualcomm Sheds Light on Licensing Policy With 5G Rates

5G technology licensing rates, the same as the firm charged for 4G, offer perspective on Qualcomm's dispute with Apple and wireless industry grumbling.

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ThinkRF, VIAVI Combine Products for 5G

The two test companies have integrated an RF downconverter into a cellular analyzer, giving it analysis capability for 5G mmWave frequencies.

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LuxLive round-up

LuxLive as usual was a vibrant show, held once again a ExCel in London’s docklands. It is a tribute to just how far LEDs have penetrated the lighting market. Sadly, Electronics Weekly did not have time to visit the many Far Eastern manufacturers there, and steered away from most of the networking technology on show ...

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Webinar: IoT KnowHow – Securing Your Connected Technology

Electronics Weekly joins with Chipless Ltd to discuss the IoT and security in a webinar entitled 'IoT KnowHow: Securing Your Connected Technology'

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EnSilica co-processor lightens the ADAS processing load

EnSilica’s eSi-ADAS RADAR Imaging Co-processor seeks to solve the problem of RADAR data overload and resolution by doing it in a dedicated co-processor to enable tracking of potentially hundreds of objects to be made in real time. It is claimed to have up to 20x lower power requirements than today’s lower resolution systems and lower ...

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Booming automobile electronics business to benefit Taiwan backend IC service firms

Taiwan-based IC backend service firms including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Etrend Hightech, Lingsen Precision Industries and GEM Services are to benefit from the ongoing focus on automobile electronics devices by global IDMs such as Infineon Technologies and NXP Semiconductors, according to industry sources.

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ASE, SPIL to set up joint holding company in May 2018

Taiwan IC packaging and testing specialists ASE and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) will convene provisional shareholders meetings in February 2018 and set up a joint holding company next May at the earliest, as they have won all the necessary regulatory approvals after China issued a green light to their proposed merger on November 24, according to a joint statement from ASE and SPIL.

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Everlight wins bid to supply LED streetlamps in India, says paper

LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has teamed up with an India-based LED system vendor to win bids to procure LED streetlamps held by a few state governments in southern India and will install about 100,000 LED streetlamps in these states beginning 2018, Taipei Times cited a company executive at the Smart Asia 2017-Expo & Summit in Bengaluru during November 23-25.

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Tsinghua Unigroup secures financial support to facilitate memory chip plant

Tsinghua Unigroup has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Bank of Nanjing to facilitate the kickoff of the construction of a US$30 billion memory chip factory to be built by the chipmaker in Nanjing.

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MediaTek launches chipset supporting NB-IoT

MediaTek has announced its newest chipset, the MT2621 dual-mode system-on-chip (SoC) designed for Internet of Things (IoT) applications with both narrow band IoT (NB-IoT) Release 14 (R14) and GSM/GPRS connectivity. The MT2621 chipset brings dual-mode cellular technologies for IoT, and ensures lowest power consumption, the chip vendor said.

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Chroma ATE-invested firm receives ITRI technology transfer for semiconductor front-end process inspection

Innovative Nanotech, a firm with investment from Chroma ATE, has signed a contract with Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) for nanoparticles monitoring technology transfer.

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Digitimes Research: UV-C LED power output increases to 70-75mW

UV-C (in wavelength of 200-280nm) LED power output has increased to 70-75mW with application extending from disinfection of personal devices to medium-scale sterilization or purification.

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China and North America TV shipments fall sharply in 3Q17, says IHS Markit

The impact of higher LCD TV panel prices at the beginning of 2017 continued to weigh on retail demand for LCD TVs into third-quarter 2017 by way of slower retail price erosion, particularly in China and North America, the two most price sensitive regions,according to IHS Markit. However, demand in other regions showed signs of growth, especially in Europe and most emerging regions.

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Taiwan 3Q17 economic growth estimated at 3.10%

Taiwan's economic growth for third-quarter 2017 is preliminarily estimated at 3.10%, 1.21pp higher than the 1.89% estimated in August, according to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

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Commentary: China actively nurturing unicorns in Southeast Asia

Statistics from US-based research body CB Insights show that non-US unicorn startups commanded a 50% share of total global unicorns as of the end of August 2017, sharply up from only 37% as of the end of 2014, indicating the US is no longer a dominant country in nurturing startups. It also suggests that against Asian enterprises, particularly those in China, unrelentingly pursuing development and growth, the Silicon Valley seems stuck in the status quo.

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AMEC wins initial patent lawsuit against Veeco in China

China's State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has dismissed a request by Veeco Instruments (Shanghai) for invalidating a patent owned by China-based MOCVD set maker Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC), according to AMEC.

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Genius improving yield rates for iPhone X lens modules, say sources

Genius Electronic Optical is actively hiking yield rates for two lens modules - a 7-megapixel one and a 3D sensing one - for front cameras of iPhone X, which is likely to help improve its fourth-quarter revenues, according to the industry sources.

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China October mobile user base grows to 1.403 billion, says MIIT

China logged 1.403 billion subscribers to mobile communication services as of October 2017, increasing 0.64% sequentially and 6.49% on year, with 139.63 million (9.95%) of them being 3G users, 961.86 million (68.54%) 4G users and 1.243 billion (88.60%) mobile Internet-access users, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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Kinko developing receiver optical lenses for 3D sensing

Kinko Optical is developing receiver optical lenses for 3D sensing, which is expected to see fast growing adoption by smartphone vdndors, according to company chairman Kent Chen.

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Lack of options holding back European tech start-ups, says Index

European start-ups are not motivating their employees by giving them sufficient equity, says VC company Index Ventures in a reprt called Rewarding Talent. It could explain why Europe doesn’t produce world-beating start-ups on the same scale as the USA. “We believe that a fresh approach to employee ownership is key to creating European tech giants ...

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Nissan gives boost to the internal combustion engine

Of the various options for the technological development of transportation, transformational improvement of the internal combustion engine has remained unconsidered. Until now. Nissan has developed a car engine (pictured) which has a variable compression ratio system which significantly increases power. The engine has a maximum thermal efficiency of around 40% – double the usual level ...

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NI ups power rating of PXI chassis

NI has introduced a PXI chassis with a higher power rating of 58W per slot. This represents a 50% increase in power and cooling per slot compared to previously released NI PXI Express chassis. Fan noise has been reduced in the 38W cooling mode with a 13dB improvement compared to the previously released PXIe-1085 chassis. ...

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Qualcomm issues 5G licensing terms

Qualcomm has issued the terms on which it will license FRAND patents for 5G. They are: ‘Consistent with Qualcomm’s Fair, Reasonable and Non- Discriminatory (FRAND) commitments, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Intellectual Property Right (IPR) policy and industry practice, Qualcomm’s cellular standard essential patent licensing program is based upon licensing mobile handsets that fully conform ...

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AI can be integrated with human intelligence to solve problems, says Microsoft Research Asia head

AI (artificial intelligence) is different from human intelligence, but they can be integrated to form super intelligence for solving problems, according to Hon Hsiao-wuen, managing director for Microsoft Research Asia.

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AUO reports high order visibility for high-end panels in 1Q18

Taiwan panel specialist AU Optronics (AUO) expects high order visibility for the first quarter of 2018, especially for high-end, high-value panel products, but it is guardedly optimistic about shipment performance in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to company sources.

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Osram starts operation at new LED chip plant in Kulim, Malaysia

Osram's new LED chip factory in Kulim, Malaysia, has kicked off operation, as the lighting vendor continues to expand its production capacity.

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China January-October software revenues at CNY4.421 trillion, says MIIT

China's software industry consisting of 35,108 companies generated revenues of CNY4.421 trillion (US$650.99 billion) in January-October 2017, growing 13.9% on year, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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Taiwan October manufacturing production index up

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 113.87 for October 2017, increasing 0.33% sequentially and 3.10% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

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Digitimes Research: Global large-size LCD panel capacity to see 7% CAGR 2018-2022

The overall global production capacity for large-size (9-inch and above) TFT LDC panels is estimated to see an impressive CAGR of 7% in the next five years, driven by robust market demand for public display and auto-use panels and the trend of tablets getting larger in size, Digitimes Research estimates.

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Melexis brings out miniature FIR sensors

Melexis has brought out a family of miniature far infrared (FIR) sensors for use in multiple applications where accurate temperature measurement is required. The MLX90632 family is based upon Melexis’ established FIR technology that utilizes the fact that every object emits heat radiation. The ultra-small integrated thermopile CMOS IC is a complete solution in a ...

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ChipMOS Shanghai to grab backend orders for China homegrown 3D NAND chips

ChipMOS Technologies (Shanghai), of which Tsinghua Unigroup is a major stakeholder, is expected to secure backend orders for 3D NAND flash chips developed by Yangtze River Storage Technology (YMTC), according to market observers.

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AUO to adopt mini LED backlighting in 2018, but micro LED development continues, says chairman

TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) will adopt mini LED chips for backlighting in 2018, but the move will not affect its development of micro LED applications, which will take a long time to commercialize, according to company chairman and CEO Paul Peng.

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BOE 10.5G line to heat up competition in large-size panel sector

Global competition in the large-sized flat panel sector is entering a new phase as China's BOE Technology has announced plans to advance the official operation of its first, as well as the world's first, 10.5G LCD panel plant to December 2017 from the original schedule in 2018, according to industry sources.

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China Big Fund planning second round of support for local IC sector

China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (known as the Big Fund) has raised an estimated CNY150-200 billion (US$22.8-30.4 billion) which will be spent for the second phase of its capital support for the country's local IC companies, Taiwan-based TrendForce said in its recent report.

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WirForce 2017: Gaming product vendors to unveil innovations

WirForce 2017, one of the major e-sport events in Asia, is taking place in Taipei November 23-26 and gaming product vendors including Gigabyte Technology, Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) are showcasing their latest gaming innovations and products to strengthen their brand recognition.

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Lenovo assigns new head for Taiwan office

Lenovo has appointed Benjamin Lin, its ex-head of the large enterprise PC business group, as general manager of its Taiwan branch office. Lin had worked for Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard (HP) prior to Lenovo.

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Global mobile DRAM revenues to surge in 4Q17, says DRAMeXchange

Average prices for mobile DRAM chips are expected to rise 10-15% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2017, when the industry will enjoy a higher sequential increase in output value than that in the previous quarter, according to DRAMeXchange.

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Taiwan market: Huawei launches Mate 10 series smartphones

Huawei has launched its Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones in the Taiwan market with the availability to begin on November 28. The Mate 10 carries a price tag of NT$20,900 (US$697), and the Mate 10 Pro NT$26,900.

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Comment: Industry 4.0 from the semiconductor industry’s perspective

How Industry 4.0 could add value, with the digitization and networking of the industrial value chain and its products

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Budget has not addressed Brexit fears of tech sector

If the Chancellor hoped to woo the tech sector with £500 million support for AI and handouts for broadband, 5G and smart cities he will be disappointed. The tech sector may find it difficult to see the positives in Philip Hammond’s ‘tech-boosting’ Autumn Budget. The tech sector seems to be unimpressed and it still has ...

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Degree apprenticeships build links with industry

The University of Hertfordshire is launching an engineering degree-level apprenticeship programme. Trainee engineers will be able to combine work and study, from September 2018, with an Engineering Degree Apprenticeship. The University is offering engineering courses in mechanical, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace or electronic engineering. Degree Apprenticeships are a pathway to gaining a degree-level qualification, while also ...

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3GPP tester goes sub-6GHz for early 5G

Rohde & Schwarz has a test instrument which can be used for validation of radio devices using the sub-6GHz 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) protocol. 3GPP’s 5G NR protocol will ultimately support frequency ranges up to 52.6GHz, but initial 5G designs will use frequencies below 6GHz with a focus on 3.5GHz. For these sub-6 GHz ...

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Computer modules fast-track ARM Cortex A53/A72 processors

Single board computer firm Congatec is now offering Qseven and SMARC standard modules with 64-bit NXP i.MX8 processors. These are based on the new ARM Cortex A53/A72 based processors. These processors integrate up to four cores and along with graphics for up to four independent displays. Since the modules are designed for the extended ambient ...

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Anglia grows small order split reel offering for prototyping

Anglia Components is extending its small order split reel service to cover more stock items. The distributor says customers can order low volumes for design and prototype phases on commodity surface mount parts in small quantities supplied in cut tape format.  Up to ten breaks can now be shown for each part. The distributor is ...

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Toshiba sampling constant current 2-phase stepping motor

Toshiba is sampling a constant current 2-phase stepping motor driver for automotive applications and a range of general uses, including adjusting the mirror for projection of heads-up displays, motorcycle valves and valve / damper controllers in HVAC applications. Production is scheduled to, start in July 2019. The TB9120FTG IC provides PWM 2-phase constant current control from ...

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Lite-On Tech develops IoT-based smart-home products

EMS provider Lite-On Technology has disclosed it has been developing IoT (Internet of Things)-based smart-home product lines, such as devices for smart lighting and smart energy management.

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IT spending in India to reach US$87.1 billion in 2018, says Gartner

India IT spending is projected to total US$87.1 billion in 2018, an increase of 9.2% from 2017 estimated spending of US$79.7 billion, according to Gartner.

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Automation market full of opportunities, says Aurotek executive

Aurotek, founded in 1981, was one of the earliest automation equipment component suppliers in Taiwan. The company started the business as a distribution agent of mechanical equipment components such as bearings, ball screws, and universal joints from Japan, according to Aurotek's special assistance to chairman Nelson Chang.

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Western Europe printer market declines in 3Q17, says IDC

The Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market decreased by 3.2% on year in unit terms in third-quarter 2017, accordinng to IDC. There were negative sales performances in both inkjet and laser markets for units, and value for the laser market was down too. In third-quarter 2017 shipments declined by 173,000 units to give a market of almost 5.1 million devices.

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NPO MLCC tight supply lingers due to booming demand

The market supply of MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitors) has remained tight, especially NPO models, due to increasing demand from the mobile-device fast charging and wireless charging segments, with the tight supply not expected to ease until the first half of 2018 at the earliest, according to industry sources.

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Thermal simulation compromised by hardware limitations

29% of thermal engineers are having to compromise the accuracy of their simulations due to hardware limitations, according to The State of Thermal, a survey of over 170 thermal engineers conducted by simulation software vendor 6SigmaET. Thermal simulation is integral to the design process for electronics devices – and yet a quarter (24%) of thermal ...

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Competition heating up in Asia Pacific gaming notebook market

Based on global shipments of Nvidia GeForce GTX series, about 5.5 million gaming notebooks will be shipped globally in 2017, up from 4.5 million units in 2016, with Asustek and Micro-Star International (MSI) standing firmly as the top-2 vendors. But they are facing increasingly fierce competition from other players, particularly in the Asia Pacific market, according to industry sources.

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MediaTek sells partial stake in Goodix

MediaTek has announced that through a HK-based investment arm, the company plans to dispose of part of its stake in China-based Goodix and transfer the shares to China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (CICF).

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China firm starts equipment move-in at DRAM fab, says report

China-based Fujian Jin Hua Integrated Circuit, which broke ground for a new DRAM fab in July 2017, has started equipment move-in for the facility, according to a report from Taiwan's TechNews.

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Flat panel demand to grow 7.2% in 2018, says IHS Markit

Global demand for flat panel displays by area is forecast to grow 7.2% to 210 million square meters in 2018 compared to 2017, according to IHS Markit. That will be the biggest annual growth since 2014.

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Global Unichip opens new office in Nanjing

Taiwan-based Global Unichip, a fabless ASIC design house, has announced the opening of a new branch office in Nanjing, China where its major foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is constructing a new 12-inch wafer plant.

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Single's Day highlights China e-commerce smart logistics

China-based e-commerce operators, including Alibaba and JD.com, efficiently utilized smart logistics services to maintain express deliveries of ordered products at the 24-hour Single's Day online shopping festival on November 11, according to China-based media reports.

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Taiwan market: Oppo launches R11s

China-based vendor Oppo has launched its new model, R11s, an all-screen Android smartphone, in the Taiwan market with the availability to begin in early December at prices starting NT$15,900 (US$530) unlocked.

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Epistar to increase VCSEL wafer output in 2018

LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has extended production to wafers for processing VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser), with plans to expand production for the segment in 2018, according to industry sources.

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North American semi equipment industry billings fall for 4th consecutive month

The three-month average of worldwide billings of North American equipment manufacturers decreased for the fourth consecutive month in October 2017.

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Taiwan October unemployment down

Taiwan had 443,000 jobless citizens in October 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.75% which dropped 0.02pp sequentially and 0.20pp on year, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).

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Startup Demonstrates ReRAM Retention, Endurance

Weebit Nano has been able to achieve 10 years' data retention achieved across 300nm 4Kb memory array cells at above room temperature.

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HPE Names Engineer to Succeed CEO Whitman

HPE, the server and comms half of the former Hewlett Packard, named computer engineer Antonio Neri to succeed Meg Whitman as CEO.

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£5m hardware security R&D centre launched at Queen’s University Belfast

Hardware security and the threat of cyber attacks is the focus of a £5m multi-university research initiative in the UK. Its hub will be the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), which was launched at Queen’s University Belfast this week. The Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) aims to tackle the problem ...

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Glasgow University works with local firms on silicon photon detectors

CST Global, the Glasgow-based  III-V opto-electronic, semiconductor foundry, is collaborating with the University of Glasgow and Gas Sensing Solutions on a project to fabricate active matrix, single-photon GaAs devices. The project will develop light-weight, monolithic, mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imagers, capable of detecting a single photon of IR light. These are primarily used to image gasses ...

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Investment in computer teaching welcomed by Microsoft

Chancellor Philip Hammond’s bid to improve the teaching of computing in schools has been welcomed by the tech sector following today’s Budget speech, The Chancellor plans to triple the number of fully-qualified computer science teachers from 4,000 to 12,000. Cindy Rose, UK CEO, Microsoft, comments: “We welcome the announcement by the Chancellor to triple the ...

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Autumn Budget 2017: AI, EVs and STEM

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has presented his 2017 Autumn Budget to Parliament.

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Toshiba adds 11 transistor arrays with DMOS FET outputs

Toshiba is adding 11 products to its line-up of new-generation transistor arrays equipped with DMOS FET outputs, capable of delivering high-voltage, large-current drive up to 50V/0.5A. The new devices expand the 37 products that are already part of the TBD62xxxA series, which have found application in areas including motors, relays, LEDs, and level shifters for ...

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Digitimes Research: China smartphone AP shipments to grow mildly in 4Q17

Shipments of smartphone-use application processors in China are expected to reach 179 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, up 4.1% on quarter and 1.4% on year, according to estimates of Digitimes Research.

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Digitimes Research: US leads in IoV development

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is being fast developed based on two standards of wireless communication technology, DSRC (dedicated short range communications) and C-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything) developed by 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).

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Gemtek establishes LoRa base stations in Beijing

Networking equipment maker Gemtek Technology has established 231 LoRa base stations for IoT applications in Beijing, and plans to expand the number to over 500 in the first half of 2018, according to company chairman Howard Chen.

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Volkswagen adopts Getac diagnostics solutions

Getac has developed two robust computer solutions for use in Volkswagen's international and group-wide vehicle diagnostics and other production applications.

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OSE looks to swing back to profitability in 2018

Memory backend specialist Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) is looking to return to profitability by the first half of 2018 due partly to increasing packaging and testing orders for logic ICs and from EMS clients, according to industry sources.

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Smartphone panel prices stay flat in November

Prices of a-Si and LTPS smartphone panels will remain steady in November due to decreasing demand for 16:9 handset displays, according to China-based market consulting firm Sigmaintell.

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Laster to develop over 10 LED headlight models in 2018

LED automotive lighting module maker Laster Tech will develop more than 10 headlight models in 2018, expecting the revenue proportion for headlight segment to rise from below 10% in 2017 to over 10% next yeat, the company said at a November 21 investor conference.

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Demand for LED automotive lighting rising in China

Demand for LED automotive lighting in the China market keeps growing, with demand focusing on taillights, brake lights, direction indicators, dashboard displays and in-car lamps, according to industry sources.

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Asustek top Taiwan-based global brand in 2017

Asustek Computer has been appraised as the most valuable Taiwan-based global brand in 2017 for the fifth consecutive year, according to Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

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Moore's Law can last two more process generations, says MediaTek chair

The Moore's Law that sets the pace of the semiconductor development can last two more generations, as the process technology may hit bottlenecks after advancing to 3nm node from the existing 7nm and future 5nm nodes, Tsai Ming-kai, chairman of Taiwan's leading IC designer MediaTek, has said.

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KYEC to see 20% more IC testing orders from Nvidia, Intel in 2018

IC testing specialist King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) is expected to see its orders from both Nvidia and Intel increase by more than 20% in 2018, as Nvidia is aggressively proceeding with more AI chips deployments and Intel is seen to intensify its cooperation with KYEC to consolidate its global market share for smartphone chips, according to industry sources.

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Xiaomi taps ex-MediaTek executive as investment partner

China-based smartphone vendor Xiaomi Technology has appointed former MediaTek co-COO Jeffrey Ju as a partner of its industrial investment unit, sparking widespread concerns in Taiwan's IC design industry.

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Digitimes Research: Global smartphone shipments to reach over 1.5 billion units in 2018

Global smartphone shipments are expected to grow 5% on year to reach 1.43 billion units in 2017 and expand another 4.8% to over 1.5 billion units in 2018, according to Digitimes Research.

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China Electric to offer energy-saving lighting

Taiwan-based China Electric is poised to apply for energy-saving certification for lighting products in order to receive government subsidies.

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Solartech to lay off 80 workers

Solar cell maker Solartech Energy has said it will lay off 80 employees working at solar cell production lines damaged by a fire accident breaking out on October 27, 2017.

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China hikes anti-dumping tariffs for Korea polysilicon makers

China's Ministry of Commerce has announced the results of a review of anti-dumping tariffs imposed on South Korea-based polysilicon makers, slightly increasing the tariffs for three first-tier makers.

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Global 3Q17 NAND flash market posts 14% increase, says DRAMeXchange

Revenues of the global NAND flash industry surged 14.3% sequentially to US$15.12 billion in the third quarter of 2017, according to DRAMeXchange. The price tracker credited the growth to increasing demand for NAND flash under the influence of traditional peak season and increasing demand for smartphones and SSD from servers and data centers.

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Meg Whitman resigns

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, the only woman to be CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, is to leave HP Enterprises at the end of January. HPE’s president, Antonio Neri becomes CEO on Feb. 1. Whitman oversaw the split of HP into HPE – the data centre business and HP – the PC and ...

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Analyst Warns on Semiconductor Stock Valuations

Chip stocks have surged in value over the past three years, but it might be time to sell before a downturn hits, according to Handel Jones of IBS.

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What AlphaGo Zero Means for the Future of AI

Intel's Bob Rogers explains the possibilities that emerge as AI progresses beyond standard machine learning. DeepMind's self-taught Go champion is just the beginning.

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Inside 5 AR/VR Headsets

Augmented and virtual reality headsets will see use in companies faster than in our living rooms, but that's not stopping developers from pushing the limits to woo consumers.

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Time to Look For Low-Cost DRAM Alternatives

DRAM is turning into a seller's market, and it's time to look at low-cost alternatives.

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MEMS Design Shrinks Speakers to Chip Scale

USound has developed microelectromechanical system (MEMS) chip-scale audio speakers, targeting in- and over-ear high-fidelity earbuds, smartphones, multidriver headphones, and other IoT wearables.

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Soitec Tunes Wafers for RF, Imagers, Photonics

In recent months, Soitec is talking up not just RF-SOI and FD-SOI, but Photonics-SOI, Imager-SOI and others. What are they, how are they engineered, and what are they for?

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Making Manufacturing Great Again Would Add $530 Billion to GDP

WASHINGTON--The U.S. manufacturing sector has weathered a bumpy road over the course of the past two decades, but successfully righting the country's industrial ship would mean an economic windfall of $530 billion, according to a new report from The McKinsey Global Institute.

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A Look At Over-the-air Software Updates for Vehicles

Microchip Technology demonstrates its infotainment connectivity solution at the 2017 ELIV electric vehicle conference in Bonn, Germany

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Maxim senses breathing, pulse, blood oxygen and more for wearables

Maxim is aiming at medical wearables with a set of chips for sensing various vital signs. In particular, its chips are aimed at wearables that meets US Fedral Drug Administration (FDA) sensing specifications – so far, said Maxim, no wearables have achieved FDA approval. MAX86141 is an autonomous dual-channel (for two photodiodes) optical pulse oximeter ...

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Nvidia Cuda opens door to fast DSP in PCIe PCs

Nvidia’s ‘Cuda’ graphics processors, with their high bandwidth PCIe interface, have opened the door to fast, but simple, instrumentation-grade DSP, according to Spectrum Instrumentation. Spectrum is a maker of digitisers – effectively low-noise multi-channel ADCs, some PCIe-based. Cuda is an Nvidia parallel number-crunching technology, that allows direct PCIe peripheral to GPU interaction without the host ...

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Infineon in mass production of 600V CoolMOS MOSFETs

Infineon is in production of 600V CoolMOS  high-voltage Superjunction MOSFETs. The 600 V CoolMOS CFD7 completes the CoolMOS 7 series. This new MOSFET addresses the high power SMPS market for resonant topologies. It offers industry-leading efficiency and reliability in soft switching topologies like LLC and ZVS PSFB. This makes it a perfect fit for high ...

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ARM and NanoGlobal working on molecular data analysis IC

Nano Global, the Austin Texas molecular data company, is working with ARM in a chip in a chip which  can be used in the recognition and analysis of health threats caused by pathogens and other living organisms. The first IC to be delivered from the collaboration is scheduled for 2020. The chip will leverage advances in ...

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Startup Breathes Life into Bio IoT

Startup Nano Global partnered with ARM to design SoCs than can detect and scrub pathogens in a wide range of medical and IoT products

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Taiwan Tohcello to establish ICROS tape factory

Taiwan Tohcello Functional Sheet, a newly established subsidiary of Japan-based Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello in Taiwan, has received approval to set up a plant in the Tainan campus of the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) to develop and manufacture protective tapes for the semiconductor manufacturing industry.

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Commentary: Micro LED development to benefit from micro-assembly

Integrating micro LED chips with various ICs and biometrics sensors using micro-assembly technology offers many business opportunities.

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First-tier China PV module makers mulling factory plans for US

Several first-tier China-based PV module makers, including CSI, Jinko Solar Holdings, Trina Solar, JA Solar Holdings and Xi'an LONGi Silicon Materials, are giving serious thought to establishing of solar cell and PV module factories in the US to cope with anti-dumping measures to be possibly taken by the US government.

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Compal, Foxconn to benefit from smart speaker demand, says paper

With Apple rescheduling the launch of its smart speaker HomePod from December to early 2018, Amazon's Echo series is expected to dominate the smart speaker market during the year-end holidays of 2017 and benefit the device manufacturers Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Compal Electronics, according to a Chinese-language Apple Daily report.

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Qualcomm suspends IIoT development projects with Taiwan IT players, say sources

Qualcomm may also temporarily suspend its cooperation with Taiwan-based IT players on the development of related Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications after it had decided to stop a 5G small cell collaboration project with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) over to an antitrust ruling against it by Taiwan's trade fair agency, according to industry sources.

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Nova to see more orders from memory clients in 2018

Taiwan-based Nova Technology, an expert in integrating water, gas and chemical engineering systems for semiconductor, photonics and other high-tech sectors, is expected to capture more orders memory clients across the Taiwan Straits to secure a brighter revenue prospect for 2018, according to industry sources.

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Digitimes Research: Worldwide tablet shipments to reach 128 million units in 2018

Seeing all-screen smartphones continue eroding tablet demand, tablet vendors, to differentiate the two product lines, are turning aggressively to promote 10-inch and above models with consumer-friendly prices, hoping to trigger a replacement trend. Digitimes Research expects worldwide tablet shipments to reach 128 million units in 2018 with on-year decline shrinking to around 10%.

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Taiwan October export order value hits record

Taiwan received export orders totaling US$46.60 billion in October 2017, hitting the highest-ever monthly level and increasing 1.5% sequentially and 9.2% on year. The value grew on year for the 15th consecutive month, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

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Baidu unveils smart transportation plan for Xiongan

China-based search engine Baidu plans to cooperate with the government of Xiongan New Area, northern China, to create a city featuring smart transportation in line with its ambition to develop self-driving vehicles, company chairman and CEO Robin Li revealed at a recent company event in Beijing.

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Asustek to remain top motherboard vendor in 2018

Asustek Computer is expected to stay in lead in the motherboard market in 2018 despite weakening overall demand, while its graphics card shipments have also been picking up during the past few months and are estimated to remain strong in 2018.

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Epistar expects mini LED to be growth driver in 2018

LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar is poised to produce mini LED chips for smartphone and TV backlighting and expects mini LED to be a major growth driver in 2018, according to company chairman Lee Biing-jye.

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Samsung to unseat Intel as top semiconductor supplier in 2017, says IC Insights

For the first time since 1993, the semiconductor industry is expected to witness a new number 1 supplier, according to IC Insights.

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ASE to expand WLCSP capacity at Singapore plant, sources say

In the wake of robust demand for wearable devices and automotive electronics applications, packaging and testing company Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) is set to expand wafer-level chip-scale-package (WLCSP) production capacity at its plant in Singapore with total investment estimated at US$2.5 billion, according to industry sources.

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SPIL to build new factory in China

Packaging and testing company Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has gained land use rights for a 147,097-square meter industrial site located at the Fujian (Jinjiang) IC Industrial Park, China., according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). The term of the land-use rights is 50 years.

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Taiwan market: Smartphone sales remain weak in October

Sales of smartphones in the Taiwan market totaled 581,000 units in October, down 1.02% from the previous month and 19.53% from a year earlier, according to data compiled by local retail channels.

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Siemens to buy Solido

Siemens is to buy Solido Design Automation, the Saskatchewan specialist in variation-aware design and characterisation software for the semiconductor industry. Variation-aware design and characterisation has become fundamental in designing complex ICs which combine analogue and mixed signal circuitry. Verification software needs to deliver confidence in the simulation results while avoiding time- and resource-intensive analysis methods, and ...

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Marvell buys Cavium

Marvell is to buy Cavium for $6 billion. Last year Marvell co-founders Weili Dai and her husband Sehat Sutardja were forced out of Marvell. They founded Marvell in 1995 and were accused of accounting irregularites which were unproven. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) awarded them the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. This is the ...

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Analysts Applaud Marvell-Cavium Deal

Analysts generally praised the merger of Marvell and Cavium as diversifying into broader comms and networking markets but were wary of revenue and profit growth.

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Samsung to overtake Intel to become 2017 No.1

After 24 years as No.1 semiconductor vendor, Intel will lose its crown to Samsung this year, reports IC Insights. Intel became No.1 in 1993 and was expected to match TI’s record as the only chip company to be No.1 for 25 successive years, but this year’s soaring memory prices will give Samsung the crown. ‘Samsung ...

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Qualcomm, China Mobile, ZTE Show 5G Data Interoperability

A 5G interoperability test system developed by Qualcomm, ZTE and China Mobile, combined with the pending development of the first 3GPP 5G-NR standard, are good indicators of the pending frenzy over 5G; it's a good time to take a Boot Camp course on 5G.

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Siemens Acquires Solido Design Automation

Deal provides first glimpse of what may be a more aggressive stance on M&A for Mentor Graphics under Siemens ownership.

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Partner chip adds high-grade security to IoT MCUs

Maxim has introduced a partner security chip for microcontrollers. Called the DS28E38 secure authenticator, it includes security keys created on-die by a ‘physically un-cloneable function’ (PUF), which the firm is branding ChipDNA. “We looked at existing PUF designs – we would have bought one, but they fell short,” said Maxim v-p of security business Dan Loomis, who ...

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Ignore IoT security at your peril, and everyone else’s too

Take IoT security seriously, however daunting this might be, is the message of Dan Loomis, v-p of security business at chip-maker Maxim. And he would say that wouldn’t he, because he was talking at the launch of a new security chip. But what he said is important for anyone designing an IoT product, regardless of ...

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Marvell Buying Cavium for $6 Billion

Latest semiconductor industry blockbuster would result in firm with $3.4 billion in annual sales.

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Worldwide electronics production is increasing strongly, except in Taiwan.

China’s production of electronics equipment has grown 13.8% so far this year, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, which is heading to be the largest annual growth for six years.   Last year China’s electronics production increased by 10%.   In the USA, year-to-date electronics production is up 5% – the strongest growth in 11 years. ...

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Taiwan market: Garmin to launch vivomove HR

Garmin has unveiled vivomove HR, a stylish hybrid smart atch, for launch in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$6,990 (US$231) for a sports edition and NT$9,990 for a premium model, according to sources at Garmin Taiwan.

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Acer digital signage products enter into Japan market, says paper

Acer has partnered with Japan-based software integration service provider SMedio to begin marketing its digital signage products in Japan's smart retailing market, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

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Digitimes Research: Top-3 Korea fixed-network players vary in marketing strategies

The top-three high speed fixed network communications firms in South Korea have adopted different marketing strategies to attract customer patronages, with the leading player Korea Telecom (KT) offering better broadband connection quality and a more complete array of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channels, according to Digitimes Research.

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India traditional PC market recovers in 3Q17 on strong consumer demand, says IDC

The overall India traditional PC shipments for the third quarter of 2017 stood at 3.03 million units, with a strong growth of 72.3% on quarter and 20.5% over the same period last year according to IDC's latest Quarterly Personal Computing Devices Tracker. Even after excluding large education projects of over 10,000 units, the market still grew 10.9% on year.

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More China entry-level VR, smartphone vendors to exit markets

Almost half of China's brand vendors of entry-level to mid-range VR (virtual reality) devices and smartphones have been forced to quit the markets, as the price gaps of their products with higher-end models have narrowed significantly to undermine their competitiveness, according to industry sources.

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