
Stable Prices for Chinese LED Package Market in June
The global average sales price (ASP) of 40-watt equivalent LED light bulbs in June fell 0.2% compared with the prior month to US$9.5, says the latest price report from LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. The global ASP of 60-watt equivalent light bulb also dropped 0...

Cardholder-sized Personal Safety Device Combines u-blox Cellular and GNSS
MCM Electronics Pty Ltd., an Australian company specializing in the security alarm industry, has announced the launch of a new personal safety device, developed in collaboration with u-blox. LONEworkr, a people tracker and SOS device in a card holder format, is designed to track lone and isolated workers in order to locate them in the event of an emergency...

Imec and ARM Collaborate on 7nm Technology and Beyond
imec has signed a strategic partnership with ARM. ARM’s involvement with imec’s INSITE program will focus on addressing the impacts of circuit design and system-level architecture on power, performance, area and cost of nanotechnology chip process nodes from 7nm and beyond...

Groundbreaking of TSMC’s Nanjing 12-inch Fab Will Lift IC industry of China
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), yesterday held the groundbreaking ceremony of its first 12-inch wafer fab in Nanjing, in China's Jiangsu Province. The new fab is projected to be completed in 2018 and to enter mass production of 16-nm process in second half of 2018...

Automotive LED Market to Grow at a CAGR of 6% in The 2016~2020 Period
The value of the global LED market has been growing at a crawling pace as demand for backlight LEDs contracts. Automotive LEDs, however, are one of the few sizable application markets that are developing rapidly along with other smaller markets for niche industrial LED products...

Hon Hai Leads Sharp to Transcend the Japanese Market
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Under the flag of Hon Hai, Commitva today (July 6) held a press conference with Minister of Foreign Market Development Division Junichi Iwaki for the release of the new Sharp AQUOS P1 cell phone. This cell phone will be sold throughout Taiwan from July 15 by Chunghwa Telecom and Senao; furthermore, it will be the first cell phone sold overseas by Sharp since 2011...