Acer Unveils Two New Cloud Application Solutions for the Era of C&C
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer today unveils two new cloud application solutions: abPBX plus series for enterprises and aBeing series for individuals and other working environments. In addition, a New New Acer shall combine hardware, application software, and devices with a focus on providing people-centric services to embrace the era of a new C&C (Computing and Communication)...
Imec, Murata, and Huawei Introduce Breakthrough Solution for TX-to-RX Isolation for Mobile Phones
imec, Murata and Huawei will present a stand-alone multiband electrical-balance duplexer in 0.18µm SOI CMOS at MWC2015. This type of duplexer is a promising alternative to the fixed frequency surface-acoustic wave (SAW) filters implemented in mobile phones providing transmit-to-receive (TX-to-RX) isolation...
Semiconductor Unit Shipments to Exceed One Trillion Devices in 2017
According to IC Insights’ forecast that total semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discrete, or O-S-D, devices) are forecast to continue their upward march through the current cyclical period and top one trillion units for the first time in 2017...
ASUS VivoWatch said to be Unveiled at MWC
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It is widely circulated that ASUS is going to unveil its latest smartwatch VivoWatch at Mobile World Congress (MWC) on March 2, but ASUS withhold comment on it. The company's CEO Jerry Shen revealed that the next-generation smartwatch will be released after the second quarter of this year, in favor of better performance and less power consumption...
The China Smartphone Market Picks Up Slightly in 2014Q4
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), 107.5 million smartphones were shipped to China in 2014Q4, representing a 2% Quarter-on-Quarter (QoQ) growth. This culminates to 420.7 million smartphones being shipped to China in 2014...
Ghent University and Imec Demonstrate Interaction Between Light and Sound
Scientists from Ghent University and imec announce today that they demonstrated interaction between light and sound in a nanoscale area. Their findings elucidate the physics of light-matter coupling at these scales – and pave the way for enhanced signal processing on mass-producible silicon photonic chips...