SSD Adoption in Notebooks to Exceed 30% This Year, TrendForce Says
The latest research from DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, reports quarterly decline in the average contract price of mainstream PC-Client OEM SSDs in the first quarter of 2016. By architecture, MLC-based SSDs and TLC-based SSDs respectively suffered price declines of 10~12% and 7~12%...
Taiwanese Research Institute, ITRI, Selects CEVA-XC DSP for 4G Small Cell Base Stations
CEVA announced that ITRI, a Taiwanese research and development organization, has selected the CEVA-XC DSP for the development of its new 4G small cell base station platform. ITRI small cell projects are funded from the Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT) of the Ministry of Economy Affairs (MOEA), Taiwan...
VESA Publishes DisplayPort 1.4 Standard with 8K and HDR Support
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced on Monday that it has published version 1.4 of the DisplayPort (DP) audio/video standard. The first major update to DisplayPort since version 1.3 was released in September 2014, DP 1...
Most Global Citizens Favour Government have a Right to Access Private Online Conversations, CIGI Say
As new battles continue to emerge between national governments and private companies in the domains of national security and privacy, the results of a new survey, commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innova...
Panasonic Photovoltaic Module Achieves World's Highest Energy Conversion Efficiency of 23.8%
Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has achieved a photovoltaic module conversion efficiency of 23.8% (aperture area: 11,562 cm2) at research level, a major increase over the previous world record for crystalline silicon-based photovoltaic modules...
Scale of LED Industrial Lighting to Reach US$2.9B in 2016
According to LEDinside’s latest report, the market of LED industrial lighting is forecast to grow from US$2.93 billion in 2016 to US$5.20 billion in 2020, representing a CAGR of over 15% during the five-year period. Explosion-proof LED lighting is used in hazardous environments where petrochemical vapors, explosive gases and/or combustible dusts exist...