
Imec and Panasonic Present breakthrough in CMOS-based Transceivers
At the 2015 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), imec and Panasonic presented a transceiver chip for phase-modulated continuous-wave radar at 79GHz. This achievement demonstrates the potential of downscaled CMOS for cheap millimeter-wave (mm-wave) radar systems that can be used for accurate presence and motion detection...

Xilinx, BEEcube Announce Scalable Prototyping Platform for 5G MIMO Systems
Xilinx and BEEcube today announced a highly scalable prototyping platform for 5G massive MIMO antenna systems. The new MegaBEE prototyping platform supports up to 256x256 antennas and provides all the elements necessary to put a massive MIMO system on the air within LTE bands and without external hardware...

Acer C205 Pocket Projector Wins iF Design Award 2015
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer, the world’s No. 3 brand for projectors worldwide in 2014 , announces that the Acer C205 LED projector has been chosen for the iF Design Award 2015 of Germany. The C205 LED projector is the latest addition to Acer’s acclaimed projector lineup...

Renesas Develops 28nm Embedded Flash Memory for Faster Automotive MCUs
Renesas Electronics today announced that it has developed a new flash memory technology that achieves even faster read and rewrite speeds. The new technology is designed for on-chip flash memory microcontrollers (MCUs) using a 28-nanometer (nm) embedded Flash (eFlash) process technology...

Greater Flexibility in TV Panel Price Dealings as Chinese New Year’s Production Cut
The newest panel price report from WitsView, a division of TrendForce, indicates that Chinese New Year had some effects on panel module production and reduced pressures on the supply side in February. However, the extent of positive support on panel prices driven by the holiday period has been quite limited...

Expert Forecasts DDR4 Kicks off DDR3 in 2015
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Wu Jin-rong, General Manager of Explore Microelectronics, forecast that DDR4 is gradually replacing DDR3 to become the mainstream standard of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). He even stated that the shipment of DDR4 will surpass DDR3 by the third quarter of 2016...