
Holtek Semiconductor to Penetrate the UAV Market in China
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Holtek Semiconductor, a professional IC design house having its major business activities focused in the area of microcontroller and peripheral component design and marketing. The company suggested that its 8-bit MCU has been applied to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) quadcopters in China, which also can be seen in fan motor products...

Chunghwa Telecom Speeds Up Research of 5G Technology
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan telecommunications company Chunghwa Telecom stated that it has already begun to research and develop fifth generation mobile telecommunications (5G) technology. In the future, it will collaborate with overseas telecommunications companies and equipment operators and expects to be able to quickly launch 5G mobile services in Taiwan...

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...