Apple Raises OEM Assembly Costs
TAIPEI, Taiwan- According to Taiwan media reports, in order to ensure smooth iPhone 6 shipments, Apple has raised OEM prices for the OEM manufacturers Hon Hai and Pegatron. Reports state that this time Apple is willing to increase OEM expenditures in hopes of avoiding the problem of having labor shortages in China...
Innodisk Adds Comm Modules in News Embedded Series for IoT
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Innodisk, the service driven flash provider, announced the newest additions to its Embedded Peripheral line of expansion modules for embedded systems. Both using an mPCIe interface, the EMPL-G201 adds up to 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and the EMP2-X401 adds either 4 or 8 serial ports independently selectable by software to communicate in either RS232, RS422 or RS485 mode...
China Consumes US$10.2 Billion Worth of DRAM in 2014
According to DRAMeXchange, the business potential of China's massive consumer market grew as PC, smartphone, and tablet manufacturers began setting their sights on the country. As of this year, nearly 4.789 billion DRAM chips and 3...
TSMC Accomplishes 16-nm FinFET Plus Risk Production
TAIPEI, Taiwan-TSMC announced on Wednesday that a networking and cellphone CPU based on its 16-nanometer FinFET Plus (16FF+) process has successfully in risk production, and the rest of reliability test will be finished until this month, will be mass production in July2015...
Sony New High-End Handset to Use MediaTek Qcta-Core Chip
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It seems that octa-core and 64-bit processor have become the standard of mid-tier or high-end handset, Sony is comparably quiet in this hardware specs war, however, supply chain said that Sony is going to launch a high-end octa-core handset...
Byebye Drainage bag, Welcome the Disposable Power Bank
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Smartphone consumes a lot of electricity as if it is a power eating monster, now there is a kind of disposable power bank that can come in need. Insufficient of electricity has been a nightmare for all the smartphone users, which resulted in the so called “drainage bag” — power bank...