8.4 Billion Connected "Things" Will Be in Use in 2017
Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Total spending on endpoints and services will reach almost $2 trillion in 2017...
POCT Market to Expand Rapidly at a CAGR of 9.7% From 2015 to 2020, TrendForce Reports
The aging of the world's population has led to steady annual increases in the number of patients suffering chronic diseases. With demand for long-term care of chronic diseases on the rise, the point-of-care testing (POCT) market has also experienced a boom...
Sony Develops 3-Layer Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with DRAM for Smartphones
Sony Corporation today announced the development of the industry's first 3-layer stacked CMOS image sensor with DRAM for smartphones. The new image sensor consists of a DRAM layer added to the conventional 2-layer stacked CMOS image sensor with a layer of back-illuminated structure pixels and a chip affixed with mounted circuits for signal processing...
Panasonic, UMC to Develop Mass Production Process for New ReRAM
Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions has reached an agreement with United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) on the joint development of mass production process for next generation 40nm ReRAM. The agreed cooperative project will enable the integration of 40nm ReRAM process technologies developed by PSCS with UMC's high-reliability CMOS process technologies...
OPPO, Huawei, and vivo Lead Other Smartphone Brands in China in 2016
According to IDC, the smartphone market in China saw a 19% YoY growth and 17% QoQ growth in 2016Q4. For the full year of 2016, the market grew by 9% with top Chinese smartphone vendors taking up a larger share of the market. The 4 Chinese vendors in the top five were the same in 2015, and their share grew from 46% in 2015 to 57% in 2016...
COMPUTEX's InnoVEX 2017 to Focus on AI and IoT
TAIPEI, Taiwan- Taipei Computer Association (TCA), one of organizers of COMPUTEX, said that the InnoVEX 2017 startup exhibition will start from May 30 to June 1 at COMPUTEX at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) for a period of three days...