Electronic News: 11月 2015

2015年11月30日星期一

IoT Networks Heat Up

Low power wide area networks for the Internet of Things have been attracting new entrants and investors at a heady pace with unannounced offerings still in the pipeline for 2016 trying to enable new IoT apps by undercutting costs and battery life for cellular and WiFi.

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Driven by IEEE Standards, Ethernet Hits the Road in 2016

A new trend emerging in the automotive market in 2016 is the migration of Ethernet, a tried-and-true computer network technology, into connected cars. The proliferation of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) features in many vehicles is also expected to expand Ethernet use.

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Bill Gates Back Multi-Billion Dollar Clean Tech Initiative

A public-private partnership for clean energy research and development kicked off the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris today. Philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced that he would donate $2 billion over the next five years to the newly formed Mission Innovation.

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Time to Embrace Plastic ARMs?

ARM may be the most successful semiconductor company ever produced by Europe in global influence and current market capitalization.

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Automotive Fatality: Is Connectivity Killing Us?

Given that taking connectivity away from drivers is nearly impossible (well, it won't happen), what is the key to reducing accidents?

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Taiwan market: Gamania becomes 1st O2O mobile e-payment operator

GASH Pay has become the first O2O (online to offline) mobile e-payment service operator in Taiwan after obtaining a license from the Financial Supervisory Commission, according to Albert Liu, chairman of Gamania Digital Entertainment, the e-payment firm's parent company.

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UK-based Consequential Robotics unveils MiRO, says TAIROA

UK-based innovation robot developer Consequential Robotics has unveiled MiRO, an in-house-developed puppy-mimetic companion robot prototype with an advanced brain to learn from its surrounding for making response, in Taiwan, according to Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robotics Association (TAIROA).

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BenQ applying Productivity 4.0-based smart factory solutions to Qisda factory

Display device and projector vendor BenQ is applying in-house-developed smart factory solution based on Productivity 4.0, an equivalent of the German-developed Industry 4.0 standard promoted by the Taiwan government, to affiliated Qisda's factory in northern Taiwan, with the completed smart factory to be shown as a pilot one in the first half of 2016, according to the company.

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Opto Tech sees booming shipments of LED display panels

LED maker Opto Tech, despite weak demand for LED lighting and backlighting, has seen booming shipments of LED display panels to the US, Japan and other markets, according to industry sources.

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Open bids for 2,500-2,600MHz bands increase to NT$25.275 billion, says NCC

Open-bid competition for 2,500-2,600MHz frequency bands available for 4G mobile communications on November 30 resulted in total bidding prices of NT$25.275 billion (US$778 million), 75.52% in excess of the total floor price of NT$14.40 billion, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).

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Digitimes Research: Global application processor market to rise 8.5% in 2016

The global market for application processors (AP) will rise 8.54% in 2016, according to Digitimes Research. Growth of demand for applications such as automotive electronics and smartwatches will outperform that for smartphones.

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Samsung continues to decrease TV production capacity in 2015

Samsung Electronics has reduced its TV production capacity by over 11 million units since the beginning of 2015 until the end of September due to weakening TV demand, according to a report from Korea-based Money Today.

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TSMC to dispose of Xintec shares

TSMC has announced plans to sell its 5.1% ownership of Xintec. The 5.1% Xintec ownership is part of the 10.2% Xintec ownership TSMC obtained from its purchase of OmniVision Technologies' local units in Taiwan.

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Make HUDs to Inform, Not Entertain

The head up displays now becoming popular in automotive design need to avoid feature creep.

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PowerPoint Presentations: One Chance to Make a First Impression

People are often blissfully unaware that they are presenting a mish-mash of clip-art and random images munged together with a visual assault of text fonts, sizes, and colors.

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Rohm cuts inductance in SiC power module

Rohm has introduced a 1,200V 300A all-silicon carbide half-bridge power module, with reduced inductance compared with its first devices – claimed stray inductance is 13nH. Rohm began mass production of all-SiC power modules in March 2012 – the 120A and 180A 1,200V products continue are selling into industrial and power sectors. “Although further increases in current ...

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Cyber Monday for Test Equipment?

And you thought Cyber Monday was just for consumer electronics.

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One week left to register for IoT Design event

There is now less than one week to register for our IoT Design conference, taking place on 3 December at the Brewery Conference Suite, near the Barbican. It’s London’s first design conference and exhibition for the Internet of Things, and its aim is to present real-world information about designing hardware and software systems for the IoT. You’ll hear from ten ...

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JST opens wet processing lab

JST Manufacturing has opened an applications laboratory where end-users can develop wet chip fabrication processes. The Idaho firm manufactures wet processing equipment, and the lab allows experiments with various chemistries tests on real equipment ranging from immersion and spray tools to dryers. Metrology equipment including a scanning electron microscope and Tencor particle counter is available. ...

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Technology Tackling Climate Change

We can still beat greenhouse warming climate change by adopting carbon-free electrical power generation and zero-emission vehicles.

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Toshiba Considers Listing or Partial Sale of Chip Business

Toshiba Corp. said Friday (Nov. 27) that it was considering splitting off its semiconductor business with listing it as a means of raising capital or it could sell off part of its chip business.

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Samsung targets wearable IoT devices with bio-processor

Samsung is aiming for a slice of the wearable health and fitness device market with a multi-function processor which will be introduced early in 2016. Dubbed the bio-processor, the system-on-chip device will carry out various body monitoring functions including PPG, ECG, skin temperature, GSR and body fat. It is essentially a processor with integrated DSP ...

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Delayed Roadmap Set for Debut at TSensors Summit

The MEMS and Sensors Industry Group has announced that it will release the outline of the TSensors (Trillion Sensors) Roadmap on December 9 at the 2015 TSensors Summit, being held in Celebration, Florida.

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Tower Buys Maxim's Texas Wafer Fab

Foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) is set to buy an 8-inch wafer fab in San Antonio, Texas, from Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) for $40 million in Tower stock.

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Marconi Back on the Airwaves

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Compliance is vital with new electromagnetic field exposure rules

The EU Directive 2013/35/EU on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (electromagnetic fields) published in mid-2013 is due to be transposed into UK law by July of next year, 2016. Howard Venning, managing director of Aspen Electronics, lifts the lid on the subject and ...

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Super low power microcontroller gets design kits

Ambiq Micro has introduced evaluation kits for its low power Apollo sub-threshold microcontrollers. A feature of the first EVB board is the integration of an on-board hardware debugger together with a complete software development kit. It also comes with FreeRTOS, along with the necessary hardware drivers. The Eclipse-based graphical software integrated design environment (IDE) and ...

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Boundary scan can be used for chip design

XJTAG has introduced the latest version (3.4) of its boundary scan development system, which improves the visibility into complex systems during product development and manufacture. According to the company, because of its ability to interrogate and control JTAG-enabled devices, boundary scan is being used to develop and debug products as well as test them. As ...

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Tiny lens makes LED lights shine brighter

Escatec has designed a miniaturised TIR (total internal reflection) lens for mounting on high brightness LEDs. The TIR lens is mounted directly onto the bare LED and secured in place using clear glue with no air gap for optimal optical coupling. The aim is to ensure that the light is transferred from the LED to ...

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Vishay welds 24kW resistor for reliability

Vishay has gone for welded constriction, ceramic insulators and stainless steel plate elements for robustness in its GRE2 ‘Milwaukee’ resistors, which can dissipate up to 24kW. The double-insulated devices can operate at up to 400°C and are aimed at capacitor pre-charge, capacitor discharge, dynamic braking, load testing, heating, and neutral grounding applications in locomotives, transit systems, harmonic filters, renewable ...

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MediaTek to place foundry orders with SMIC, says paper

MediaTek is considering to including China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) as one of its wafer foundry partners, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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Sharp expected to move headquarters, says report

Sharp is considering moving its headquarters from Osaka to nearby facilities in the city of Tenri, located in Nara Prefecture, according to a report from Japan-based Nikkan Kogyo Shimbu.

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Digitimes Research: Global all-in-one PC shipments to drop 3.9% on year in 2015

With consumer demand for all-in-one PCs remaining weak, and Apple's new high-end iMacs and the price cut for previous-generation models failing to drive sales, Digitimes Research expects all-in-one PC shipments to decline 3.9% on year in 2015 and reach around 13 million units.

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Sharp to sell production equipment and patents to China and India makers to improve finances, says report

In an effort to improve its finances, panel maker Sharp is expected to sell technology and patents to China- and India-based panel makers, according to a report from Japan-based Nikkei.

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TSMC to dispose of more Motech shares

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced plans to sell 29.16 million common shares of Motech Industries, or approximately 6% of the solar cell maker's paid-in-capital. After the sale, TSMC will hold approximately 12% of Motech shares.

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Upstream supply chain expects new Nintendo games console to achieve 10-12 million unit shipments in 2016

Nintendo's new game console is scheduled to enter mass production at the end of the first quarter 2016 and despite the fact that the Japan-based company is targeting to ship 20 million units in 2016, the device's upstream component suppliers expect shipments to only reach around 10-12 million units. Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly has been chosen to manufacture the device, but the company declined to comment on its clients or orders.

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Neo Solar Power adjusting allocation of solar cell capacities

Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power is adjusting allocation of its domestic and overseas production capacities through shifting a portion of capacity from Taiwan to Malaysia and China and adding capacity in Malaysia, according to company chairman Quincy Lin.

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Samsung aims to drop AMOLED pricing to within 10% of LCDs in 2016, says report

Samsung Display aims to bring down pricing of small- to medium-size AMOLED displays within 10% of that for LCDs in 2016, according to to a report from China Times.

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Shipments of large-size LCD panels will drop in 2016 but total area will expand by 8%, says WitsView

Shipments of large-size LCD panels (7-inch and above) for 2015 will reach 794 million units, according to WitsView. This figure represents a 4.1% on-year drop and a first-ever annual shipment decline for the large-size LCD panel industry. The anemic IT application market has been a drag on large-size panel shipments during 2015. On a brighter note, panel shipments in the TV application market have been strong and provide critical support for total shipment area, which is projected grow 3.8% on-year in 2015.

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Open bids for 2,500-2,600MHz bands increase to NT$23.820 billion, says NCC

Open-bids for 2,500-2,600MHz frequency bands available for 4G mobile communications on November 27 resulted in total bid prices of NT$23.820 billion (US$733 million), 65.42% over the total floor price of NT$14.4 billion, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).

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Taiwan 4Q15 economic growth rate forecast at 0.49%, says DGBAS

Taiwan's economic growth rate, on-year growth in GDP, for the fourth quarter of 2015 is forecast at 0.49%, downward adjusted 1.41pp from the preceding forecast in August, according to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) on November 27.

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GCL-Poly Energy to reduce solar wafer supply to Taiwan cell makers

GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, the largest China-based maker of solar-grade poly-Si wafers, will reduce supply to Taiwan-based solar cell makers by 10% in December, according to Taiwan-based solar cell makers.

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ECS to ship 2.5 million education tablets

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has obtained tablet orders from the education sector in Latin America via cooperation with Intel, and expects to ship 2.5 million units by the end of 2015, according to chairwoman LW Kuo.

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SSD contract prices fall for 4 straight quarters, says DRAMeXchange

The average price for client-SSDs used by computer manufacturers has fallen 10-11% in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to DRAMeXchange. The price already experienced sequentiall falls of more than 10% over the previous three quarters.

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PCB firm Unitech looks to automotive, IoT applications for 2016 growth

PCB maker Unitech Printed Circuit Board expects demand for any-layer designs for use in automotive electronics, wearables and other IoT-connected devices to increase and drive the company's revenue growth in 2016.

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The smartphone ambition: Q&A with Asustek CEO Jerry Shen

Buoyed by its ZenFone series smartphones, Asustek Computer has captured a portion of the global smartphone market and more importantly has started generating profits from its handset business.

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LTC adds wireless power transmitter

Linear Tech has introduced a wireless power transmitter to complement its wireless receiver ICs for the wireless charging market. The LTC4125 is a simple, high performance monolithic full bridge resonant driver, capable of delivering up to 5W of power wirelessly to a companion receiver. It functions as the transmit circuit component in a complete wireless ...

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2015年11月29日星期日

5G Idea Opens IoT Horizons

A battle of 5G air interfaces has started as one from researchers in Dresden claims it will open up new uses for the Internet of Things.

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Memory Advances HMC, HBM Gain Momentum

The path beyond DDR4 is unclear, which means there are opportunities for alternatives for Hybrid Memory Cube and High Bandwidth Memory to co-exist and gain traction.

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2015年11月27日星期五

EEVblog #824 – GW Instek GDS-1000B Oscilloscope Teardown

Inside the new GW Instek GDS-1000B series entry level low cost oscilloscope. Both the GDS-1054B and the GDS-1104B
What is the main mystery processor?
It is lower cost than the Rigol DS1054Z, how does it compare?
And a look at a SinX/X display processing anomaly that was discovered.

Forum HERE

Hires Teardown Photos:

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IoT Design focus: Rohde & Schwarz’s Reiner Stuhlfauth

In the next of our series focusing on speakers at the IoT Design Conference, taking place on Thursday 3 December at the Brewery Conference Suite near the Barbican in London, we focus on a communication technologies specialist from Rohde & Schwarz. The aim of the one-day IoT Design Conference is to present real-world information about ...

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5 Favorite STEM Programs for Black Friday Giving

Start a new tradition for the day after Thanksgiving: give to a STEM charity. Support a needed restoration of our science history that teaches the next generation.

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Supply Chain Proves Critical for Black Friday Success

Advanced supply chain planning is critical to success on the biggest consumer electronics buying weekend of the year.

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Slim and affordable Raspberry Pi Zero flies off UK shelves

Welcome the mini sized Raspberry Pi Zero. The Raspbery Pi Foundation describes it as "half the size of a Model A+, with twice the utility".

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Raspberry Pi shrinks to $5 Pi Zero

Raspberry Pi just got smaller and ridiculously cheap. Raspberry Pi Zero measures just 65mm x 30mm with a height profile of 5mm, it is the smallest form factor Pi available. And it costs just $5. It is a slimmed down Raspberry Pi Zero so there is only one Micro USB data port and a Mini HDMI port which ...

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Samsung to add IoT support in all products in 2020

Samsung Electronics is looking to make 90% of its ultra-thin LCD TVs and mobile devices support Internet of Things (IoT) applications prior to 2017 and, by 2020 all of Samsung's products will feature IoT support, according to president of Samsung Taiwan's solution business Gary Wu.

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Sales of commercial TVs drop in China during 3Q15, says firm

Sales of TVs in China's commercial segment dropped 1.3% on year during the third quarter of 2015 to 877,900 units, according to statistics from research firm AVC. The figure also represented CNY1.56 billion (US$243.96 million) in revenues, down 7.5% on year.

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China-based Luxshare becoming threat to Taiwan connector makers, says paper

China-based connector maker Luxshare ICT has announced a private fund raiser to raise CNY4.6 billion (US$720.34 million) for capacity expansion for its USB Type-C, wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) product lines. Sources from Taiwan's upstream supply chain are concerned that the company's aggressive moves are likely to impact Taiwan-based connector makers, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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BenQ Medical Technology expects continued growth in exports

BenQ Medical Technology, a Taiwan-based own-brand maker of medical equipment and disposable medical materials, has a large proportion of consolidated revenues coming from overseas markets and expects continued growth in exports, company chairman Peter Chen said at a November 26 investors conference.

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Asustek eyes 30% share in Southeast Asia notebook market in 2016, says paper

Asustek is looking to raise its share in the Southeast Asia notebook market to 30% in 2016 to boost its overall notebook shipments in Asia Pacific to 2.5 million units in the year, up 25% from 2015, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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AOpen competes for digital signage orders, says chairman

While many digital signage providers focus on hardware, AOpen has been competitive through developing optimal solutions consisting of hardware, software, content, and maintenance services based on client needs, according to company chairman and CEO Bernie Tsai.

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2015年11月26日星期四

Apple tells supply chains it will use OLED in upcoming iPhones, says report

Apple has notified supply chains that it intends to switch to OLED panels for iPhones released in 2017-2018 and is calling on display makers in Korea and Japan to begin expanding production for the technology, according to a new report from Nikkei Asian Review that quoted supply chain sources in Japan.

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Foxconn invests in smartphone-rental service provider in Hong Kong, says paper

FIH Mobile, a subsidiary of the Foxconn Group, has recently invested US$13 million in Hong Kong-based handset rental service provider Tink Labs, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

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Tsinghua Unigroup seeking investment in SK Hynix, says report

According to China's ITHome.com, state-backed tech conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup intends to buy a stake in South Korea-based SK Hynix for around CNY30 billion (US$4.7 billion).

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Digitimes Research: Korea makers to mass produce transparent OLED displays in 2016

Korea panel makers have plans to mass produce 55-inch and above size transparent OLED displays from 2016 into 2017, according to Digitimes Research.

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Taiwan market: Acer expects strong sales for Predator gaming notebooks during IT Month

Acer has launched the full series of its Predator gaming products in Taiwan and expects demand to grow strongly during the local IT Month events running from November 28-January 13.

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US court fines Epistar US$9.3 million for patent infringement

The jury of a US district court in Massachusetts has made a preliminary decision to fine Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar US$9.3 million for infringing US patent No. 5,687,738 possessed by Trustees of Boston University.

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Tongwei setting up 5GWp solar cell plant in western China

China-based Tongwei Group has begun establishing a crystalline silicon solar cell factory in Chengdu City, western China. The factory will have annual production capacity of 5GWp, including 1GWp for monocrystalline solar cells, and 1GWp of the capacity will come into operation in 2016, according to China-based media reports.

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Taiwan notebook makers seeking lower chip quotes for 2016

Taiwan-based notebook makers are demanding their chip providers lower quotes for 2016 so that cost structures can be improved amid less-favorable market conditions.

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TSMC raises holdings in affiliate Xintec

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has hiked its holdings in affiliate Xintec to more than 51%, as a result of the addition of two new subsidiaries to TSMC, Xintec said in a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).

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TSMC may raise dividend for 2016

TSMC is likely to raise its annual dividend to NT$5-5.50 a share in 2016, as a result of lower capex and falling depreciation costs, according to market watchers.

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Samsung starts mass production of 128GB DDR4 modules for enterprise servers

Samsung Electronics has announced that it is mass producing the industry's first TSV DDR4 memory in 128GB modules for enterprise servers and data centers.

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Intel unveils 2016 tablet processor road map, say Taiwan makers

Intel has revealed its 2016 road map for launching tablet-use processors to partnering vendors, with the Atom X3 for use in entry-level tablets to arrive in the first quarter, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.

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Open bids for 2,500-2,600MHz bands increase to NT$23.1 billion, says NCC

Bids for 2,500-2,600MHz frequency bands for 4G mobile communications on November 26 resulted in total bids of NT$23.100 billion (US$711 million), 60.42% over the total floor price, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).

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Friday Quiz: Identify That 1998 Test Instrument

Can you identify these 9 test instruments advertised in Test & Measurement World in 1998?

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E2v super ADC is “free of non-harmonic spurs”

UK-based specialist chip firm e2v says it has produced its most powerful ever ADC. It is a 12-bit resolution analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) which has a sampling rate of 5.4Gsample/s, an instantaneous bandwidth in excess of 3GHz and latency as low as 26 clock cycles with a noise of -150dBm/Hz. According to the supplier, it will ...

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2015 Attendees – The after-party (III)

Check out our final gallery of Elektra guests, featuring the after show party – can you spot yourself or your colleagues? The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2015 were presented at a Gala Dinner at The Lancaster London hotel, and here is picture gallery from the awards ceremony itself. Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2015 Attendees – The ...

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Like Micron, SK Hynix Rejects Chinese Advances

Korean memory chip company SK Hynix has rejected an investment offer from China's state-backed Tsinghua Unigroup, according to local reports.

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NXP, Freescale Merger Clears FTC Hurdle

NXP Semiconductors NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has received clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for the sale of its RF power amplifier business to Chinese state-controlled Jianguang Asset Management Co. Ltd.

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GloFo Sale: Report Says Abu Dhabi Holding Talks

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Co. has held talks with potential buyers for all or part of Globalfoundries Inc. according to a Bloomberg report that cited unnamed sources.

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2015 Attendees – The awards (II)

Check out our latest gallery of Elektra guests – can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people? More still to follow. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2015 were presented at a Gala Dinner at The Lancaster London hotel, and here is picture gallery from the awards ceremony itself. See also: Picture Gallery: ...

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Glasgow creates long distance telecomms link for stationary quantum bit

Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Stanford, Tokyo and Würzburg have developed a new telecommunications technique involving quantum technology. The promise is of a more secure form of Internet-based communication – a tool for a long-distance telecommunication link that should in theory be impossible for hackers to breach. According to Glasgow University: The team, co-ordinated ...

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2015 Attendees – The reception (I)

Check out our gallery of Elektra guests – can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people? More to follow shortly. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2015 were presented at a Gala Dinner at The Lancaster London hotel, and here is picture gallery from the reception before the dinner and awards ...

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Commentary: Taiwan IC backend firms facing challenge from fast expanding China competitors

A recent media report indicating that China-based Jiangsu Changjing Electronics Technology (JCET) has landed SiP (system-in-package) module orders from Apple could serve as a warning to Taiwan's IC packaging and testing service providers.

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LCD TV shipments to increase under 2% in 2016, says WitsView

Global LCD TV shipments for 2015 will total 216 million sets, according to the latest estimation by WitsView. Shipments in 2015 will represent a slight annual decline, for the first time since the shipment slide in 2013. In the short term, consumer spending will generally remain weak due to the sluggish pace of the global economic recovery and currency fluctuations. In 2016 the year will unlikely deliver pleasant surprises as well because these macroeconomic factors will continue to affect the market. WitsView projects that global LCD TV shipments for 2016 will arrive at around 220 million sets, up 1.85% year on year.

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Sales of 40-inch TVs in Japan strong in October, says firm

TVs sized 40- to 49-inch accounted for 28.73% of Japan's overall TV sales in October while 30- to 39-inch units accounted for 28.66%. This is the first time when the 40-inch TV segment in Japan surpassed the 30-inch segment, according to Japan-based research firm BCN.

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Price declines expected to broaden energy storage market, says IHS

Commercial energy storage activity is currently consolidated in just a handful of leading regions, but falling system costs will be a major factor enabling broader global market growth. For the first time, South Korea, Japan and the US will each exceed a record 100MW of annual energy storage installations in 2015. These three countries will account for 59% of global installations by 2016, but deployment will also increase in other regions in the next five years, according to IHS.

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Korea government to invest US$110 million into wearables development, says report

The Korea government has announced from 2016 it will invest US$110 million over a five-year period into developing materials and components for wearable products, according to Korea-based D-Daily.

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TEEMA urges Taiwan government to take action on China hostile headhunting

The Taiwan Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) has urged the Taiwan government to take measures on China enterprises' hostile headhunting as their actions have caused Taiwan companies to lose many intangible assets.

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D-Link scores points in marketing smart home devices in Europe

Networking/communication device vendor D-Link has sold more than 3.2 million smart home devices in the Europe market, with IP cameras accounting for about 80% of the volume, and expects revenues from the line in the market in 2016 to double, according to company chairman and CEO Roger Kao.

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All-in-one PC shipments to drop over 10% in 2015

All-in-one PC shipments may drop a double-digit percentage on-year in 2015 due to weaker-than-expected demand. Shipments in 2016 are unlikely to see any major growth and may stay flat from 2015, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

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2015年11月25日星期三

Taiwan PCB production value increases 7.1% sequentially in 3Q15

The production value of PCB products manufactured by Taiwan-based makers in Taiwan and China totaled NT$147.5 billion (US$4.544 billion) in the third quarter of 2015, up 7.1% on quarter but down 0.3% on year, according to the government-backed Industrial Economics and Knowledge (IEK) center.

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Taiwan market: TWM withdraws from 4G bidding

In open-bid competition for 2,500-2,600MHz frequency bands available for 4G mobile communications in Taiwan, Taiwan Mobile (TWM) temporarily waived bidding right for four times on November 25 and therefore was disqualified from the competition, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).

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Global LED shipment volume, value to grow in 2016, says Nichia executive

Global LED shipments in 2016 will increase 20-30% on year in volume and about 5% in value, Nichia's chief legal and IP officer Katsuyuki Akutagawa said at a press event in Taipei on November 25.

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Ibase Technology holds rosy business outlook for 2016

Industrial computing device maker Ibase Technology, through close partnerships with US-based digital signage software developer Scala, foresees steady orders for digital signage products and solutions and is optimistic about its operations in 2016, according to the company.

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More China firms developing own ARM-based chips

China-based ZTE has received a cash injection from the government enabling the company to accelerate the development of its own application processors, while Lenovo also intends to develop ARM-based chips in-house, according to industry sources.

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ASE to expand workforce at Chungli facility

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) will expand the workforce at its manufacturing site in Chungli, northern Taiwan to 15,000 from the current 9,000, as sales generated from the facility are set to expand, according to the IC packaging and testing house.

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Digitimes Research: Japan telecom operators offering household robots to boost revenues

Following the steps of Softbank, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI have also launched household robots as part of their efforts to boost revenues. The move is expected to ramp up the popularity of robots in Japan, according to Digitimes Research.

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Himax obtains design-wins for smartphone-use force touch solutions

Himax Technologies has gained design-wins for its multi-level force touch controller series from leading smartphone vendors for models to be launched in the first half of 2016, according to the Taiwan-based IC design house.

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Positioning Servo Design Gets Jumpstart with SoC and Software

Making things move just the way you want may have gotten a bit easier with TI's new Position Manager.

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Down with Productivity

How to kill a software team's productivity, in one easy lesson.

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MediaTek Sees Gains Against Qualcomm Slowing Next Year

MediaTek, which eroded Qualcomm's market share in smartphones this year, said its gains may slow in 2016 as its larger rival rolls out new products for the high-end segment.

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Guide For Selecting Encoders and Other Feedback Devices

Understanding How Feedback Encoder Devices Operate

Microsemi Sees off Skyworks to Win PMC-Sierra

Microsemi Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire PMC-Sierra Inc., a maker of chips for optical storage and communications.

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SiLabs Debuts MCU, Builds Smart Structures

Silicon Labs hopes to create buzz in the 8-bit market with its new microcontroller family that has high analog performance and peripheral integration.

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Intel's Bill Holt Sets Standard for Leadership in Semiconductor Technology

Never has there been a more critical time to shine a light on the importance of U.S. leadership in semiconductor technology.

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Vote for the Engineer of the Year!

Time for you to cast your vote for the DesignCon Engineer of the Year.

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Saleable Wearables: A Surprising List

The consumer electronics industry is feeling a little spooked by a drop of 4.36% in year-over-year demand - from October 2014-October 2015, according to Argus Insights - for a wearable market. Where has it gone wrong?

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Silica lathes will make industry turn, says government minister

The government is investing in research for the use of photonics in a range of advanced component manufacturing technologies. This is part of an important advanced manufacturing technology research programme which will incorporate research centres at the universities of Southampton and Sheffield, and Brunel University in London which will lead research into liquid metal engineering. ...

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2015 – The Winners

The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2015 were presented last night, and here are the pictures of all the winners. You can read the full list of winners, with details of the awards – see Elektra Awards 2015: The Winners – but pictures from the Gala Dinner last night, at The Lancaster London hotel follow below ...

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EEVBlog #823 – Rigol DSG815 RF Signal Generator Teardown

A look inside the Rigol DSG815 1.5GHz RF Signal Generator
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Government lacks clarity of vision, says Sir Hossein Yassaie

The government should be doing more to support the British semiconductor industry, Sir Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination, told last night’s Elektra Awards dinner at the Lancaster Hotel, London, where he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. “The problem for the UK semiconductor industry is getting companies to reach scale,’ said Sir Hossein “in the ...

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Elektra Awards 2015 – The Winners

The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2015 were presented at a Gala Dinner last night, at The Lancaster London hotel. The host this year was the comedian and writer Robin Ince with an enthusiastic audience representing all sectors of the industry. The full list of winners follows below, with photos and videos of the event, ...

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Largan said to face increasing pressure from Kantatsu

With Japan-based camera lens module maker Kantatsu's entry into Apple's iPhone supply chain and aggressively expanding its capacity, Taiwan-based Largan Precision, which has been the main supplier of iPhone's camera lens module, is seeing increased competition, according to sources from Taiwan-based market watchers.

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Three trends to take place in 2016 smartphone market, says Strategy Analytics

At least three major global shifts are predicted to take place in the smartphone market during 2016. Smartphone financing will become the norm, while Indonesia will join India as the next big smartphone market after China. Meanwhile, smartwatches will start to cannibalize fitness bands, according to Strategy Analytics.

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LONGi to supply 300MWp PV modules to CMNE, say reports

Xi'an LONGi Silicon Materials has won procurement orders for 300MWp PV modules made of mono-Si cells from China Minsheng New Energy (CMNE), according to China-based media reports.

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Touch panel makers reducing capital in light of competition

Many touch panel makers are resorting to capital reductions in light of revenue drops and decreased performance as a result of high competition in the market.

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Bids for 2,500-2,600MHz bands increase to NT$22.55 billion, says NCC

Open-bids for 2,500-2,600MHz frequency bands for 4G mobile communications on November 24 resulted in total bids of NT$22.55 billion (US$694 million), 56.6% over the total floor price of NT$14.4 billion, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).

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China market for packaged LEDs to grow at single-digit annual rate, says firm

Due to oversupply and price competition between suppliers of lighting LEDs, IHS forecasts China's total market for packaged LEDs will grow at a single- digit annual rate.

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Strong smartphone growth in saturated cellphone market, says IC Insights

According to IC Insights, 89% of the new cellphones sold worldwide in 2015 are forecast to be replacements or additional cellphones sold to existing subscribers. Moreover, this percentage is forecast to rise to 91% in 2016 and to 94% in 2019, which means that only about 6% of 2019 handset sales are expected to be to new customers. This very high replacement sales rate is similar to the situation that already exists in the US automotive industry.

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Global spending on smart health services to grow at CAGR of 60% during 2016-2018, says TrendForce

Developments in the Internet and the Internet of Things (IoT) will propel strong growth in industries related to smart healthcare in 2016. According to TrendForce, worldwide spending on smart healthcare services (e.g. telemonitoring, diagnostic equipment, assisted living and bio-data tracking) will reach US$30 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 60% from 2016-2018.

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Led by Apple and China brands, high tech smartphone panel shipments rising, says IHS

Demand for LTPS TFT LCD shipments rose 30% in September 2015 to reach 51.6 million units, due to strong demand from Apple and China-based brands. Total smartphone panel shipments grew 4% on month to reach 160 million units in September 2015. While a-Si TFT LCD panels continue to lead the smartphone display market, LTPS TFT LCD panel shipment share is growing, according to IHS.

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China firm reportedly lands SiP device orders from Apple

Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), China's largest semiconductor packaging and test services provider, has reportedly grabbed assembly orders for SiP (system-in-package) modules from Apple for 2016.

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Toshiba develops 3D printer technology with faster fabrication speeds

Toshiba and Toshiba Machine have jointly developed a prototype of a 3D metal printer that delivers fabrication speeds more than 10 times faster than that of powder bed fusion printers, the most widely used methodology for metal sintering, according to Toshiba.

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2015年11月24日星期二

CGN to procure 600MWp PV modules in December

China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), a state-run utility firm that has extended from nuclear power to renewable energy, has announced open bids in December 2015 to procure 600MWp PV modules in total, according to China-based media reports.

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Wistron and Optiemus set up joint venture in India

Wistron has announced the establishment of a joint venture in Noida, a planned new town in northern India, with Optiemus Infracom, an India-based mobile telecom device distributor.

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Acer to enhance gaming notebook product line in 2016

Acer has sent out RFO (request for quotation) for gaming notebooks to be launched in 2016, signaling that Acer will strengthen marketing of the product line by increasing shipment volumes and launching more models, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.

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Digitimes Research: Next generation IEEE 802.11ay standards to come in 2017

IEEE is setting next generation wireless transmission standards at 60GHz, IEEE 802.11ay, which is expected to be completed in 2017. The new standards are likely to focus on new applications for mobile offloading, wireless backhaul, and others, according to Digitimes Research.

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India market: Smartphone shipments increase 21.4% on year in 3Q15, says IDC

Shipments of smartphones in India totaled 28.3 million units in the third quarter of 2015, up 21.4% from 23.3 million units shipped for the same period of a year earlier, according to IDC.

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China market: Xiaomi launches Redmi Note 3 smartphone, Mi Pad 2 tablet

Xiaomi Technology has launched the Redmi Note 3 smartphone along with the Mi Pad 2 tablet in China. The smartphone is priced at CNY899 (US$141) for 16GB and CNY1,099 for 32GB. Availability of the new smartphone starts on November 27.

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RS Technologies to open wafer reclaim fab in Taiwan

Japan-based RS Technologies, a provider of wafer reclaim services for the semiconductor industry, will hold an opening ceremony for a new wafer reclaim plant in Tainan, southern Taiwan on December 4.

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Uniflex Technology to be listed on TSE

Flexible PCB maker Uniflex Technology will be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) on December 15, according to the company.

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Global 3Q15 NAND flash market posts 2% growth, says DRAMeXchange

The worldwide NAND flash memory market posted revenues of about US$8.5 billion in the third quarter of 2015, representing an only 2.4% sequential increase, according to DRAMeXchange.

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Keep On Leaping Until At Least 2023

Expect UTC to keep the leap second for at least another eight years.

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IoT Meets 40,000 Streetlights

What would you build if you could get access to 40,000 streetlights?

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Want to Share Humongous Files with Friends? Here's How

If you need to transfer humongous files to your friends, then WeTransfer.com offers a surprisingly pain-free experience.

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Electronic Design’s Products of the Week (11/22-11/28)

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

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IPC Announces Soldering Competition Winner

IPC has announced the winner of its hand-soldering compeitin at Productronica 2015. Most competitions are held outside North America.

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Ooh Shiny! The iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit

With Christmas drawing close, you may be searching for gifts for family, friends, and colleagues, in which case the folks at iFixit have a few tasty items available.

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Meet The Startups From Wearable World Accelerator

A handful of new wearable and Internet of Things companies were on display at Wearable IoT World Labs' fall demo day last week. The local accelerator showcased eight companies in the wearable and automotive world in its downtown headquarters.

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MEMS Market: Ups and Upstarts

The newly renamed MEMS and Sensors Industrial Group hosted IHS, which predicted the growth of the microelectromechanical system (MEMS) growth rates through 2019.

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IoT Design focus: Electric IMP’s Hugo Fiennes

In the next of our series focusing on speakers at the IoT Design Conference, taking place on Thursday 3 December at the Brewery Conference Suite near the Barbican in London, we focus on an IoT specialist at Electric IMP. The aim of the one-day IoT Design Conference is to present real-world information about designing hardware ...

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Manufacturer makes cuts in Scotland

Plexus has announced plans to reduce capacity at its Livingston manufacturing site in Scotland. Fifty jobs will be affected by the reduction. It is the volume manufacturing capacity at the Pyramids Business Park which is affected. Plexus said it will maintain its rapid prototyping capabilities and Livingston Design Centre which are also based within the ...

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Bell Labs demonstrates super fast optical technology for 5G

Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent has demonstrated an optical fibre communications technology which it says has the potential to increase today’s 10 to 20 Terabit-per-second fibre capacities to Petabit-per-second capacity – the equivalent of 1,000 Terabits/s. With the comms market moving to 5G wireless technology, Bell Labs estimates that, within about a decade ...

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Cypress adds more ARM Cortex microcontrollers

Cypress Semiconductor has added to its ARM Cortex microcontroller offering with new M0+ and M4 parts. There are two new series of FM0+ microcontrollers, the S6E1B-Series and S6E1C-Series, which have more memory and new peripherals. The S6E1B-Series has been tuned for secure machine-to-machine (M2M) communication designs and the S6E1C-Series is optimised for wearables. There is ...

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Freescale Cortex-A7 module is designed for easy plug in

The efus A7UL module from Manhattan Skyline is built around a Freescale i.MX 7Ultralite processor which is based on a ARM Cortex-A7 core. There are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, CAN, USB, SPI and I2C interfaces and an interface for a touch display. According to the supplier, the efus 47 x 62mm form factor is designed to simplify ...

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Si Labs buys Telegesis

Silicon Labs has bought 17 year-0ld Zigbee mesh networking specialist Telegesis of High Wycombe which supplies many smart metering manufacturers. This acquisition accelerates Silicon Labs’ roadmap for ZigBee and Thread-ready modules and enhances the company’s ability to provide mesh networks. According to IHS Technology, 20 percent of all ZigBee PRO integrated circuits shipping today are ...

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IoT standards bodies merge

The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) is acquiring substantially all of the assets of the UPnP Forum. In exchange, OIC will offer membership to UPnP Forum members. The agreement will streamline and consolidate efforts around both organizations’ technologies and infrastructure, leading to increased alignment on standardization for the Internet of Things (IoT). Specific membership transfers will ...

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Theorem upgrades Unified Interface

Theorem Solutions, the Tamworth CAD/CAM/CAE specialist, has released Unified Interface (UI) which supersedes Theorem’s CADviewer and UI products. It has been specifically developed to optimise both data exchange and downstream processes using a single application that can be used to view, filter, translate and even publish interactive documentation from native 3D CAD data. Incorporating all ...

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Imec prototypes ion sensor

Imec and Holst Centre have prototyped a single-chip electrochemical sensor for simultaneous detection of multiple ions in fluids. The demonstrator paves the way to small-sized and low-cost detection systems for agriculture, healthcare and lifestyle applications, food quality monitoring and water management. Imec and Holst Centre’s ion sensor solution is a generic platform that can be ...

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Realtek IP camera chips enters BMW supply chain, says paper

IP camera chips from Realtek Semiconductor reportedly have entered the supply chain of BMW's fisheye reversing camera systems, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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Migration to Windows 10 to be fastest yet, says Gartner

Windows 10 is poised to become the most widely installed version of Windows ever, following on the path of Windows XP and Windows 7 before it, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that 50% of enterprises will have started Windows 10 deployments by January 2017.

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Protests spurring over forced unpaid holiday policy at CPT

Protests have spurred in various locations around Northern Taiwan over a move from Taiwan-based panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) to require thousands of employees to take unpaid leave, according to a new report from Taiwan-based Sanli SETN.

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IC designers eye business opportunity from force touch solutions

More Taiwan-based IC design houses, including FocalTech Systems and Himax Technologies, have stepped up their efforts to develop force touch sensors as China-based smartphone vendors Huawei and Xiaomi Technology are likely to launch flagship smartphones supporting 3D touch technology, according to industry sources.

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Asustek enjoys 60% share of Indonesia motherboard market

Despite performing similarly to Gigabyte Technology in terms of motherboard shipments in the worldwide market, in Indonesia, Asustek Computer currently has a 60% share in the local motherboard market, while Gigabyte only has 15% and Micro-Star International (MSI) 7%, leaving less than 20% of the market to others.

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Teco to ship wind turbines to Vietnam, says paper

Teco Electric & Machinery, in line with talks for orders for 30 2MWp wind power-generating turbines with a potential client in Vietnam, will ship three for trial use by the end of 2015, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News (EDN).

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Taiwan 3Q15 international Internet bandwidth rises to 1.611Tbps, says TWNIC

Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 15 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached total bandwidth of 1.611Tbps as of the end of third-quarter 2015, increasing 3.23% on quarter and 13.28% on year, according to the government-sponsored Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC).

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Global revenues from diesel generator set installations expected to total US$538 billion from 2015-2024, says report

Reciprocating engine-based diesel gensets are among the fastest-selling, least expensive distributed generation (DG) technologies in the world and cover many specialized segments that span different power classes, applications, and end-use customers. While natural gas (NG) gensets are capturing increasing market share due to emissions regulations and lower fuel costs, the low capital cost and fast-start capabilities of diesel gensets make them well-suited for backup power, oil & gas, and critical infrastructure applications, among others. Developing countries that are burdened by unreliable power grid infrastructure are expected to continue to be one of the major drivers of diesel genset sales in the short term across all power classes. According to a recent report from Navigant Research, revenues from diesel genset installations are expected to total US$538 billion from 2015-2024.

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2015年11月23日星期一

Altera and Yogitech add lockstep to Nios core.

Altera and Yogitech of Italy have come up with a Functional Safety Lockstep for the Nios II embedded processor which reduces risk in design cycles and helps system designers simplify certification for industrial and automotive safety applications. The lockstep is built using Altera FPGAs, SoCs, and certified tool flows, along with intellectual property (IP) cores ...

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Open bids for 2,500-2,600MHz bands increase to NT$22.12 billion, says NCC

Open-bids for 2,500-2,600MHz frequency bands for 4G mobile communications on November 23 resulted in total bidding prices of NT$22.12 billion (US$681 million), 53.61% in excess of the total floor price of NT$14.4 billion, according to the National Communications Commission (NCC).

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Inventec achieves major improvement in server orders for 2017

With Intel expected to launch its next-generation server platform Purley in the second half of 2017, vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and Lenovo have recently started finishing their request for quotation (RFQ) processes for server orders for 2017 and Inventec reportedly has landed a majority of server orders from HP, while its orders from Dell and Lenovo also increased dramatically, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

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Digitimes Research: Nexus 6P, Xperia Z5 series highlight latest smartphone presentation in Japan

Google's Nexus 6P, Sony Mobile Communications' Xperia Z5 series products and a number of feature phones highlighted the product presentation for the winter-spring session held by Japan-based telecom operators recently, according to Digitimes Research.

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TSMC operates electric shuttle buses in STSP

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has begun operating seven electric minibuses, dubbed the Lucky 7, for shuttle services in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) , according to the company.

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Samsung sees record-high inventory levels throughout 3Q15, says report

Samsung Electronics recorded its highest-ever level of inventory assets as of the end of the third quarter of 2015, with estimations at around US$19.2 billion, according to Korea-based Digital Times.

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Lenovo to phase out Vibe brand smartphones, says report

China-based vendor Lenovo has announced plans to replace its Vibe brand mid-range and high-end smartphones with its Lemon series and Motorola branding products, according to a China-based tech.qq.com report.

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Taiwan market: LG Electronics announces the availability of Nexus 5X

LG Electronics has announced the availability of Nexus 5X, a smartphone developed jointly with Google, in the Taiwan market, priced at NT$13,900 (US$428) for 16GB version and NT$16,900 for 32GB version unlocked.

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Jiangsu Aide Solar Energy Technology sees booming orders for PV modules

Jiangsu Aide Solar Energy Technology, Taiwan-based rectifier diode maker Pan Jit International's PV module subsidiary maker based in eastern China, has obtained many OEM orders with shipments scheduled through May 2016, according to Pan Jit.

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Taiwan October unemployment rate up on month, down on year, says DGBAS

Taiwan had 455,000 jobless citizens in October 2015, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.90% which rose 0.01 percentage point on month but dropped 0.05 percentage point on year, according to statistics released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) on November 23.

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

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 105.19 for October 2015, increasing 2.53% on month but decreasing 6.35% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on November 23.

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2015 large area display shipment declines offset by increase in shipment area, says IHS

Large-area display shipments are forecast to fall 5% on year, reaching 682 million units in 2015. This decline in unit shipments will be offset by an increase in large area TFT LCD shipment area, which is expected to grow 5%, according to IHS.

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EEVblog #822 – World’s Worst Tablet Computer Teardown

WARNING: You cannot un-see the dodginess inside this Esinomed Infoview Medical Tablet Computer!

Forum HERE

From the previous Mailbag video HERE

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EEVblog #821 – Mailbag

More Mailbag!
Extended Teardown Video HERE
Forum HERE

SPOILERS:
Military Mystery Item Teardown – UPDATE: This is very likely for a 1960’s NASA Atlas D ICBM communications system!
Likely designed by Ellis G. Goodwin
Get Your Ass To Mars Buzz Aldrin
October 22nd 2015 USA Today Back To The Future Newspaper
Kickstarter KeyDuino
Esinomed Infoview medical tablet computer
TDA7377 Power Amplifier Chip
500W PMPO Bullshit
Marine LORAN C Autopilot Teardown

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Silicon Labs Buys Zigbee Module Vendor Telegesis

Deal, worth $20 million, expected to accelerate the Silicon Labs' roadmap for ZigBee and Thread-ready modules.

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Clock distribution IC has 3 independent outputs

Linear Technology has introduced a 1.8GHz clock distribution IC with three independent outputs, each with its own divider and phase delay. The device, the LTC6954, has a jitter specification of less than 20femto-second (RMS) additive jitter over the 12kHz to 20MHz bandwidth. This minimises the noise the chip introduces when dividing and distributing its input clock. ...

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Using a 3D Printer to Create Prototyping Jigs

Steve Manley is creating mega-useful jigs to facilitate the construction of his hobby projects using his new 3D printer.

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Tsinghua, Infineon Kicking Renesas' Tires

Renesas Electronics has become an investment target to suitors outside Japan, including China's Tsinghua Unigroup and Infineon Technologies in Germany, as Innovation Network Corp. of Japan (INCJ), a government-backed turnaround fund, plans to draw down its investment.

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Stocking Stuffers for Electrical Engineers

We all like presents. Electrical Engineers aren't much different from normal humans in this regard.

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Five Bad Marketing Habits to Stop in 2016

You can't do everything, so focus on the activities that will produce the most return.

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IPC Announces Soldering Competition Winner

IPC has announced the winner of its hand-soldering compeitin at Productronica 2015. Most competitions are held outside North America.

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IoT Groups Merge Efforts

The Open Interconnect Consortium and the Universal Plug and Play Forum will combine efforts to gain heft in the battle to define the Internet of Things.

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Segger Demonstrates its Embedded Software with emPower Hardware

Segger has released the emPower evaluation board, dedicated to convey an out-of-the-box experience of the company's embedded software offerings.

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Micron Commits to Pushing OpenMP Standard

API for popular shared-memory parallel programming model has gained widespread use for developing parallel applications for platforms ranging from embedded systems and to multicore systems and shared-memory systems

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10 Early Stage Technology Innovations Point to the Future

Emerging technologies, including printed electronics, wearable technology, 3D printing, sensors, energy harvesting, electric vehicles and new advanced materials,are set to change the electronics market. Here's a look at 10 innovative embryonic technologies.

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Photometer measures LED brightness and spectrum

Pro-Lite Technology is selling a portable, touch-screen illuminance photometer from Konica Minolta. The CL-70F can be used to measure various types of light source, including LEDs. It measures the illuminance (in lux) from the light source as well as the visible spectrum (380-780nm), correlated colour temperature (CCT, Kelvin), CIE chromaticity (xy), CIE tristimulus values ...

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Kyocera TFTs designed for automotive temperatures

Ginsbury is selling two small-format TFT display modules from Japanese display manufacturer Kyocera. The addition of a 4.2-inch and a 5.0-inch display module expands the range of TFT display modules available from Kyocera. The design of the new display modules is based on automotive specification requirements and boasts an extended operating temperature range of -30°C ...

Richard Wilson

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Medical 30W power supplies are CF and BF class

Powerbox has introduced a range of medical power supplies which combine low leakage with electromagnetic compatibility designed for medical systems in CF class and BF class. The OFM30 series of 30W open-frame supplies has specified leakage current is less than 10µA, and EMC Class B average margin is 6dB. They will deliver 30W in continuous ...

Richard Wilson

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What microprocessors need for high-reliability aerospace systems

Military grade electronic components such as FIFO, non-volatile memory, data converters, DRAM and processors can be offered over an extended temperature range or for particular environmental conditions using specialist device packaging, writes Sébastien Frasse-Sombet. As a specialist semiconductor manufacturer, e2v has worked with semiconductor companies such as Maxim, Micron, Everspin and Freescale Semiconductor to supply ...

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Toshiba launches single-chip Qi vi.2 15W receiver

Toshiba has launched a single-chip 15W wireless power receiver IC with the Qi v1.2 specifications defined by the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC). The receiver, TC7766WBG, has been designed for use in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and a range of mobile industrial devices. The TC7766WBG enables fast wireless charging, with charging times similar to, ...

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Bodle may transform displays

Phase change displays could dramatically increase mobile phone battery life and Bodle Technologies has picked up ‘significant’ seed capital to develop them. Bodle’s technology is said to be based on rewritable DVDs using electrical pulses to create vivid displays that require no power and can be viewed clearly, even in direct sunlight. Since 90% of ...

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3D Printers Spit out Small PCBs

Two companies showed 3D printers that can make small printed circuit boards and others including Qualcomm showed advances in plastic electronics at an IDTechEx event here.

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Intel appoints Venkata Renduchintala president of new business unit

Intel has announced the appointment of Venkata Renduchintala as president of a newly created Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group. Renduchintala has also been appointed as an executive officer of Intel.

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Huawei shifting orders away from JDI to Samsung

Huawei Device is expected to shift its orders to suppliers with more competitive pricing heading into 2016, according to industry sources.

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Quanta, Wiwynn see more orders from server clients for 2016

Quanta Computer and Wiwynn, a server subsidiary of Wistron, are expected to land more cloud server orders from their clients in 2016 as Internet service providers are looking to reduce their suppliers in order to further cut costs. Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell are expected to be impacted by the decision.

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E Ink revenues to drop in 4Q15, says company

Following a 23.8% sequential increase to NT$4.393 billion (US$136.33 million) in revenues during third-quarter 2015, E Ink Holdings (EIH) expects its fourth-quarter performance to decline due to unfavorable conditions in the technology industry, according to the company.

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Indonesia market: Asustek is biggest notebook vendor

Asustek Computer has become the largest vendor for notebooks, DIY motherboards and graphics cards in the Indonesia market, company CEO Jerry Shen has said.

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Samsung shifting research personnel, says report

Samsung Electronics will decrease personnel at its Samsung Seoul R&D Campus by as many as two-thirds in order to restructure its business model and operations, according to a new report from ChosunBiz.

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San'an Optoelectronics, Epistar maintain low utilization rates

LED epitaxial wafer and chip suppliers San'an Optoelectronics and Epistar have maintained low utilization rates amid oversupply in the global market, according to industry sources.

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Targeting Taiwan IC sector: Q&A with Tsinghua Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo

China-based Tsinghua Unigroup is currently riding high in the global semiconductor industry with a series of acquisitions totaling over US$10 billion in the past two years. Tsinghua Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo visited Taiwan recently after his company struck a deal to acquire a 25% stake in backend service company Powertech Technology (PTI) for US$598 million.

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Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of nearly US$3.7 billion in January-October, says MOEA

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 3,118 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) with a total value of US$3.689 billion in January-October 2015, respectively increasing 6.34% and decreasing 6.77% on year, according to MOEA statistics released on November 20.

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

Taiwan received export orders worth US$42.55 billion in total in October 2015, increasing 2.9% on month but decreasing 5.3% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on November 20.

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US fab tool book-to-bill ratio slips in October, says SEMI

The SEMI book-to-bill ratio for US manufacturers of semiconductor equipment slid to 0.98 in October 2015 after having stayed above parity for three straight months.

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Thermal Analysis of PCB Mounted Small Outline Packages

How thermal analysis tools can be used for testing and evaluating the small outline packages found on reduced-sized PCBs in modern consumer devices.

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Top 10 Reasons Compliance Programs Fail

While intentions may be good, many companies still struggle with compliance. Here's a list of the top ten pitfalls.

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Clever ICs Improve on Diode's Simplicity

Simple is good, as diodes have proven many times, but an IC-based enhancement can sometimes produce far superior performance.

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Intel Taps Q'comm Exec to Head New Group

Intel combined four divisions into one and named former Qualcomm exec Venkata Renduchintala to head the business which spans PCs, IoT, software and engineering.

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Japan Focuses on IoT Nuts & Bolts

Germany has Industry 4.0. The United States is forging ahead with an Industrial Internet Consortium. So, what can Japan contribute to the fast-growing world of the Internet of Things? Here's what we found at Embedded Technology 2015 in Yokohama.

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iPad Pro, We Have a Problem

The folks at Saddleback Leather had better get a move on, because daddy wants to start playing with his iPad Pro!

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Military Targets Wearables, Bioelectrics

Members of the Armed Forces may be the toughest consumers of wearables: they need more precise, lighter technology with longer battery life than the consumer wearable market. Here are some of DARPA's investments in wearables.

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EEs Report Highest Pay Increase Since 2008

The IEEE's annual salary survey found that electrical and electronics engineers employed in communications continued to command the highest median salary.

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Best of 2015: Li-Cell Backup-Power Management System

Among the slew of groundbreaking product announcements this year, Linear Tech’s portable-power-targeted system edged ahead of the rest.

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Toshiba upgrades RF SOI process

Toshiba has developed a next generation TarfSOI (Toshiba advanced RF SOI) process optimised for RF switch applications. Toshiba claims that RF switch ICs, fabricated using the new TaRF8 process such as the new SP12T process, achieve the lowest insertion loss in the industry of 0.32dB at 2.7GHz. Sample shipments of SP12T RF switch ICs fabricated ...

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Imec delivers bracelet to help the elderly

Imec and UEST, a Belgian start-up company, have started the production of Zembro, a smart bracelet designed to enable the elderly to connect with their relatives immediately, anytime and anywhere. The bracelets incorporate a mobile phone with one-touch finger activation. It also uses GPS location tracking and smart algorithms to autonomously detect emergency situations. The ...

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Three Si photonics platforms delivered by EU R&D project

CEA-Leti,and it partners have developed three silicon photonics platforms under the four year €10.2 million EU PLAT4M project. Leti’s platform delivers multilevel silicon patterning on 200mm SOI wafers allowing the design of various passive and active devices (such as modulator and photodiode) with thermal tuning capability. Two AlCu levels are available for routing. A PDK ...

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SEMI b-to-b goes negative

The SEMI book-to-bill ratio was 0.98 in October slipping into negative territory from the 1.04 of September. October bookings were $1.33 billion – 14.7% lower than the September 2015 level of $1.55 billion, and 20.3% higher than the October 2014 order level of $1.10 billion. October billings were $1.36 billion – 9.1%? lower than the ...

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QD Vision closes new funding round adding Tsing Capital and BASF Venture Capital as investors

QD Vision has announced a new round of investment led by Tsing Capital and BASF Venture Capital, prominent venture capital entities in Europe and China focused on innovative cleantech companies. This new round of QD Vision financing - totaling approximately US$22 million from both existing investors and new investors - will be used to invest in further development of intellectual property inventions and to support the company's accelerating growth.

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Korea panel makers anticipate steady 8K TV panel demand in 2018

Korea-based panel makers will strengthen investments into 8K TV panel development in anticipation for demand in 2018.

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Asustek launches Chromebit CS10

Asustek has announced its Chromebit CS10, a small Chrome-based device that turns a HDMI-compatible TV or monitor into a Chrome OS desktop. Chromebit CS10 is available in two colors - black and orange - and features an extension cable or bendable Flex Connect HDMI connector. The Chromebit CS10 has built-in automatic update system and the latest virus protection, giving users fast, smart and secure computing experience.

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HTC works with Shunwang to promote Vive in China, says paper

HTC reportedly has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with China-based Shungwang Technology for marketing and sale of its first virtual reality device, the HTC Vive, in the China market, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.

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Microsoft Dynamics AX delivers the power of the cloud to businesses

Microsoft has announced that the next release of its flagship ERP solution, Microsoft Dynamics AX, will be generally available in the first quarter of 2016. The new release, architected for the cloud, brings the power and intelligence of the next generation of cloud computing in an enterprise-class business application.

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Taiwan market: Alliance Digital Tech launches RicoPay

TSM (trusted service manager) Alliance Digital Tech on November 19 announced the launch of RicoPay, a NFC electronic wallet for third-party mobile electronic payments, in the Taiwan market.

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Taiwan market: Huawei steps up marketing for smartphones

Huawei plans to double the number of retail outlets for promotion of its smartphones in the Taiwan market to 400 in 2016 from 200 currently, according to sources from local retail channels.

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2015年11月19日星期四

Augmented reality on the rise with total market worth to reach US$100 billion by 2020, says ABI Research

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) continue to be hot topics in the technology industry. While VR continues to make waves in the press, AR will prove to be the bigger market in time, projected to reach approximately US$100 billion in total market worth by 2020, according to ABI Research.

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DSLR models to account for over 50% of Taiwan camera shipments in 2015, says Canon

Seeing declining demand for entry-level digital still cameras, Canon has turned to push DSLR models instead, and is looking to achieve shipment growth. Taiwan's DSC shipments will drop sharply from 816,000 units in 2012 to only around 314,000 units in 2015, while DSLR camera's proportion of overall camera shipments will grow from about 38% in 2012 to 51% in 2015.

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Alibaba offers Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund

China-based e-commerce operator Alibaba Group has started operating the Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund, a venture capital fund of NT$10 billion (US$308 million) specifically for Taiwan-based start-up teams or companies.

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Samsung to increase flexible OLED panel proportion to customers abroad

As a means to rely less on Samsung Electronics for orders, Samsung Display aims to increase its proportion of flexible OLED panels shipped to customers outside of Korea up to 30% by the beginning of 2016.

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New energy storage deployments in major Asia Pacific markets expected to total nearly 37GW from 2015-2025, says Navigant

While system costs remain one of the largest hurdles to the energy storage industry's growth, declining prices are helping to move the technology into diverse geographic markets. Because energy storage is quickly becoming a flexible and cost-effective tool for users to control energy costs and for grid operators to manage network instability, several countries are projected to see substantial growth in deployments in the coming decade, with five country-level markets in Asia Pacific expected to experience the largest increases globally. According to a new report from Navigant Research, new energy storage deployments in Asia Pacific's five major markets are expected to total nearly 37GW from 2015 to 2025.

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Samsung cuts 5,000 employees over last year, says FFS statistics

According to statistics from the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) in Korea, Samsung Group employees decreased by 5,000 over the last year to a total of 212,331, with half of cuts coming from Samsung Display and Samsung Electronics.

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China Internet TV brands show lower sentiment rankings than traditional TV brands despite online popularity, says MIC

The top-10 LCD TV brands on online stores Tmall and JD during 15 May 2015 and August 2015 were: TCL, Changhong, Hisense, Sharp, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, LeTV, Sony, Skyworth and Haier, according to the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC). At seventh place, LeTV was the only Internet TV brand that made it to the top-10 over the period. Other Internet TV brands such as Xiaomi and CooCaa dropped out of the rankings.

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Asustek Computers has sold 5 million smartphones in Indonesia

Asustek Computer launched ZenFone-series smartphones in the Indonesia market in 2014 and has cumulatively sold five million units, company CEO Jerry Shen said at an event to unveil ZenFone smartphones in Jakarta, Indonesia, on November 19.

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TV panel shipmemts increase on year in October, says WitsView

TV panel shipments totaled 22.93 million units in October, down 6.3% from September but up 6.4% from a year ago, according to WitsView, .

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Kionix announces 6-axis accel-gyro combo sensors

Kionix has announced the mass production of its KXG03 6-axis accelerometer-gyroscope combo and the unveiling of two new flagship 6-axis accel-gyro combos: the KXG07 and the KXG08.

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