TAIPEI, Taiwan - Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), a Taiwanese IT industry research and consulting firm, indicated ten technology trends of 2017, including “Vertical integration”, “New development process”, “ArtificiaI Intelligence”, “Blockchain”, “AR/VR”, “360-degree video”, “Commercial drone”, “Bot economy”, “Platform economy” and “Internet celebrity economy”...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) officially adopted Bluetooth 5 as the latest version of the Bluetooth core specification this week. Key updates to Bluetooth 5 include longer range, faster speed, and larger broadcast message capacity, as well as improved interoperability and coexistence with other wireless technologies...

Nordic Semiconductor today announces the launch of its Bluetooth 5 ready nRF52840 SoC with features and capabilities that redefine the performance envelope of single-chip Bluetooth® low energy applications: especially in smart home and advanced wearables – including wearables for payments and medical – as well as industrial sensors and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices...

Semtech Corporation announced the availability of its new LoRa multi-band picocell reference design for a variety of indoor applications. Leading consumer and enterprise equipment manufacturers are currently testing the LoRa picocell reference design...

Integrated circuit sales for connections to the Internet of Things are forecast to grow more than three times faster than total IC revenues during the last half of this decade, according to IC Insights’ new 2017 Integrated Circuit Market Drivers report...

Silicon Labs has introduced a Bluetooth software solution that enables developers to efficiently create Apple HomeKit-enabled accessories. Silicon Labs’ Bluetooth solution with HomeKit support is pre-tested by Apple. This gives developers time-to-market benefits, eases engineering effort and helps end-product vendors minimize risks when getting their HomeKit-enabled accessories to market...

Together with partnersInfineon Technologies AG founded the “Open Laboratory for Smart Home Interconnection Security” in Beijing. Infineon is the only non-Chinese company among the founding members which include Midea, Huawei Consumer BG, Tencent and CESI, the China Electronics Standardization Institute supervised by the Ministry of industry and information technology...