
Xiaomi to Hand with Taiwanese OEMs Firms to Set up Plant in India
TAIPEI, Taiwan - President of Xiaomi, Lin Bin said yesterday, Xiaomi would work more closely with the Taiwanese supply chain, is currently working with FIH Mobile and Inventec Appliances to plan to set up factories in India. In addition, Xiaomi will open a " Xiaomi Fans Club " in Taiwan, which is the first overseas physical store outside the China...

Taiwanese IC Companies Eyeing the Wireless Charging Market
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese IC design companies are eyeing the wireless charging market, and most of them are developing related products which are subject to these technical advantages. For instance, Nuvoton, Generalplus, and Holtek are doing great work on Microcontroller Unis (MCU), which can satisfy customers' needs in designing wireless charging products...

Nuvoton Becomes a WPC Memeber
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Wireless charging is still a prosperous business for many Integrated Circuit (IC) developers, Nuvoton has become a Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) memeber in light of penetrating the wireless charging market, while other companies developed wireless charging chips...

Automotive and Smartwatch-use Touch Panels Booming From the Dull Market
Market research firm IHS reported that the market for touch panels using currently available all touch technologies, such as projected capacitive, infrared (IR)/ optical, resistive, and surface acoustic wave (SAW), is estimated reach 1...

Automotive and DRAM to Top Total IC Market Growth in 2015
According to latest report from IC Insights, Automotive Special Purpose Logic, DRAM, and Automotive Application-Specific Analog devices are expected to exceed the 7% growth rate forecast for the total IC market this year. Five of the eleven categories are forecast to see double-digit growth in 2015...

UMC Broadens its 55nm eFlash Platform with Faraday's Silicon-proven IP
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Faraday Technology Corp., a fabless ASIC/SoC and IP provider, and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), a semiconductor foundry, announced the availability of a complete set of low power consumption fundamental IPs developed for UMC's 55nm Low Power (LP) embedded Flash process on March 12...