
Market for Medical Semiconductors Seen Rising to $8.2 Billion in 2018
IC Insights reported that smaller and more powerful medical systems are driving up sales of ICs, sensors, and other devices for the medical semiconductor market. IC Insights believes medical semiconductor sales growth will strengthen this year and next before sliding back in the next expected economic slowdown in 2017...

Large-Size Panels Saw a 13.6% Decline in February’s Shipments
The newest display panel shipment report from WitsView, states that the February shipments of large-size panels totaled 56.71M units. This a 13% drop compared with the previous month and a 1.9% drop compared with the same period of the prior year...

A Scientist Wants to Help Poorest Farmers By Drones and GPUs
At nVIDIA GPU Technology Conference this week, Bingcai Zhang, a technical fellow with defense contractor BAE Systems, wishes he could help his brother, who still works on the 20-acre rice farm in China’s Hubei province where Zhang grew up...

ASRock Z97, H97 Motherboards Ready to Support 5th Gen Intel Core CPUs
TAIPEI, Taiwan –ASRock announced today that its Z97 and H97 are ready to support latest 5th Gen Intel Core Processors, can be upgraded by a fast and painless BIOS upgrade through the ASRock APP Shop software. The most noticeable differences between the 4th and 5th generation is that the 5th generation Intel Core processors provide superior performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2...

Apple Joins Facebook OCP, Will Boost Taiwanese ODM Firms
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Apple has officially joined the Open Compute Project (OCP), the Facebook-led open source hardware and data center design initiative, which is a boost to Taiwanese ODM firms. It is widely circulated that will be server developers, for instance, Foxconn, Quanta, Wistron, Inventec, and MiTAC...

Cadence, Intel Collaborate to Release 14nm Library Characterization Reference Flow
Cadence Design Systems and Intel Corporation today announced that the two companies have delivered a 14nm (nanometer) library characterization reference flow for customers of Intel Custom Foundry, continuing their collaboration on enabling digital and custom/analog flows for the Intel 14nm platform...