N.A. Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts October 2015 B/B Ratio of 0.98
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.33 billion in orders worldwide in October 2015 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.98, according to the October EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI...
NVIDIA Releases the 1.0 Version of Two VR Software Development Kits
Delivering VR is a complex challenge, especially since immersive VR requires seven times the graphics processing power compared to traditional 3D apps and games. Today, NVIDIA officially released the 1.0 version of two powerful VR software development kits (SDKs): NVIDIA GameWorks VR and NVIDIA DesignWorks VR...
Altera Discloses Heterogeneous SiP Devices that Integrate HBM2 DRAM with FPGAs
Altera Corporation today disclosed the industry’s first heterogeneous System-in-Package (SiP) devices that integrate stacked High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) from SK Hynix with high-performance Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Stratix 10 DRAM SiP represents a new class of devices that are specifically architected to meet the most demanding memory bandwidth requirements in high-performance systems...
Chaney Ho: Our MDT Helps Taxi Drivers to Compete with Uber
XINBEI, Taiwan — Advantech, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and HwaCom Systems Inc. announced their collaboration of the mobile data terminal (MDT) and signed the MOU on November 19. Chaney Ho, President of Advantech, pinned high hopes on the MDT, saying that it will help taxi drivers to compete with the emerging and sweeping Uber app...
Macronix’s Quad SPI NOR Flash Power Xilinx FPGAs for the Aerospace and Defense Market
HSINCHU, Taiwan - Macronix International today announced a new high performance Quad SPI NOR flash for the Xilinx 7 Series and UltraScale FPGAs. These FPGA’s are geared towards the aerospace and defense, industrial, and public safety applications...
China Based CSOT Overtook AUO to Become No. 5 in TV Panel Shipments
According to the latest large-size panel report by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, TV panel shipments totaled 22.93 million units in October, down 6.3% from September but up 6.4% from a year ago. And China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) was ranked No...