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HMicro and STMicroelectronics Announce Wearable Wireless Biosensor Platform
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Published: Oct 05,2016

The World’s Most Energy-Efficient Biomedical Sensor Hub for Wearable Health Applications
imec, and Holst Centre (established by imec and TNO), yesterday announced a new sensor hub integrated as a system-on-chip (SoC) intended for a broad range of wearable health devices and applications. The SoC combines an unprecedented number of biomedical analog interfaces into a single chip, on-board digital signal processing, high fidelity operation, and multi-day monitoring capability with a single battery...

South Korean IT Display Manufacturers Replacing LCD with OLED, IHS Markit Says
Due to increasing capacity from China, South Korean LCD panel makers are quickly realizing that LCD displays profitability may eventually erode, so they are betting their future on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, the IT display category has become the first product line that LCD display manufacturers are quitting, according to IHS Markit...

Shipments of Mid-Size LCD TV Sets for 2016 Are Lower Than Initially Projected
Soaring prices during the second half of 2016 and the planned closure of Samsung Display’s L7-1 fab have created anxieties about supply shortages in the LCD panel market, according to the latest analysis by WitsView, a division of TrendForce...

NCKU Launches “Mosquito Man” Cloud Platform to Raise Awareness of Dengue Fever
TAINAN, Taiwan - A cloud analytic framework for dengue fever designed by a research team from Department of Electrical and Computer Sciences, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, helped the Tainan City Government to control the outbreak of dengue fever effectively...
Taiwan’s III and the French LETI Sign a MOU for the Development of IoTs and 5G
TAIPEI, Taiwan – LETI, a French research-and-technology organization with activities in energy, IT, healthcare, defence and security, and Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry (III) offically signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday, the two sides will collaborate on developing in the Internet of Things and 5G wireless communication technology...

Fitbit to Establish a Branch and R&D Center in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Taiwan's Economic Daily News, in observing Taiwan's manufacturing and research and development capabilities, American wearable devices manufacturer, Fitbit will establish a branch company and a research and development center in Taiwan...