US Companies Take Up 58% of the Patent Share on Smart Home Energy Management
In recent years, energy conservation has risen up the global agenda, putting HEM (Home Energy Management) front and center in smart home energy technologies Major countries have taken measures to build infrastructure and introduce related regulations...
TCI to Launch Efficient and Low-Cost Standard Touch Panel
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese touch panel solutions provider Twinwill Communtech Inc.(TCI) is planning this year to launch a series of standard touch panel products from7-inch to 25-inch measurements. TCI finished the development of these products at the end of last year, and currently they are undergoing verification...
HTC to Spin-Off Vive in to Independent Company
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The HTC Vive will not only be the rebuttal of the company’s extinction forecast from media, HTC Chairperson Cher Wang planned to separate HTC’s VR operations from its core business and to form an independent entity, Chinese-language Commercial Times reported Monday...
Samsung Begins Mass Producing World’s Fastest DRAM
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 4-gigabyte (GB) DRAM package based on the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) interface, for use in high performance computing (HPC), advanced graphics and network systems, as well as enterprise servers...
Plessey to build LEDs in cubic GaN to overcome The Green Gap
Plessey, Anvil Semiconductors and the University of Cambridge announced today that they are working together to fabricate high efficiency LEDs in cubic GaN grown on Anvil's 3C-SiC / Si substrates. Cubic GaN has the potential to overcome the problems caused in conventional LEDs by the strong internal electric fields which impair carrier recombination and contribute to efficiency droop...
Worldwide IT Spending is Forecast to Grow 0.6% in 2016, Gartner Says
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.54 trillion dollars in 2016, just a 0.6 percent increase over 2015 spending of $3.52 trillion dollars, according to Gartner, Inc. 2015 saw the largest U.S. dollar drop in IT spending since Gartner began tracking IT spending...