Nuvoton Becomes a WPC Memeber
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Wireless charging is still a prosperous business for many Integrated Circuit (IC) developers, Nuvoton has become a Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) memeber in light of penetrating the wireless charging market, while other companies developed wireless charging chips...
Automotive and Smartwatch-use Touch Panels Booming From the Dull Market
Market research firm IHS reported that the market for touch panels using currently available all touch technologies, such as projected capacitive, infrared (IR)/ optical, resistive, and surface acoustic wave (SAW), is estimated reach 1...
Automotive and DRAM to Top Total IC Market Growth in 2015
According to latest report from IC Insights, Automotive Special Purpose Logic, DRAM, and Automotive Application-Specific Analog devices are expected to exceed the 7% growth rate forecast for the total IC market this year. Five of the eleven categories are forecast to see double-digit growth in 2015...
UMC Broadens its 55nm eFlash Platform with Faraday's Silicon-proven IP
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Faraday Technology Corp., a fabless ASIC/SoC and IP provider, and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a semiconductor foundry, announced the availability of a complete set of low power consumption fundamental IPs developed for UMC's 55nm Low Power (LP) embedded Flash process on March 12...
Quanta Borrows 3,000 Workers from Foxconn for Apple Watch
TAIPEI, Taiwan — According to an earlier report, due to the negotiation between Apple, Quanta Computer, and Foxconn, Quanta cooperated with Foxconn in borrowing 3,000 workers for manufacturing Apple Watch, but Foxconn and Quanta withhold comment on it...
Infrastructure Boom Turns Southeast Asia into a Goldmine for LED Lighting
According to a recent estimation made by LEDinside, a division of Trendforce, the lighting markets of the six major Southeast Asia countries – Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Philippines – had a combined value of US$4...