Global Mobile DRAM Revenue Rises 6% in Third Quarter
Worldwide mobile DRAM revenue increased by 6% to US$3.46 billion in the third quarter, representing 29% of DRAM industry value, according to DRAMeXchange. As global DRAM supply remains tight, despite a slight decline in mobile memory prices, industry value still rose in the third quarter on the back of increased bit output...
50% People Considering Buying Smart Wristband Will Choose Smartwatch Instead
According to Gartner, wearable electronic devices for fitness shipments are forecast to reach 68.1 million units in 2015, down from 70 million units in 2014. This temporary dip in sales will be driven by an overlap in functionality between smart wristbands, other wearable fitness monitors and smartwatches...
IEK: IoT, Robot, 4G, 3D Printing and Biotech IS the Highlight of 2015
TAIPEI, Taiwan-“2015 industrial trends seminar” held by IEK to foresee the IoT innovation, Robot industry, 4G, 3D printing and biotech & medical will be the focuses for the next year’s research and development. Industrial Economics and Knowledge (IEK) pointed out that the machinery, telecommunication, semiconductor, green energy and biotech & medical will be the booming industries continuously in 2015...
Handset Cover to Occupy 70% Revenue of AVY Industrial in 2015
TAIPEI, Taiwan — AVY Industrial held investor conference on Monday, saying that it has become Lenovo's smartphone cover provider on September, and it has already shipped out 100 thousand covers on October, and it will be more and more on November and December...
Apple Raises OEM Assembly Costs
TAIPEI, Taiwan- According to Taiwan media reports, in order to ensure smooth iPhone 6 shipments, Apple has raised OEM prices for the OEM manufacturers Hon Hai and Pegatron. Reports state that this time Apple is willing to increase OEM expenditures in hopes of avoiding the problem of having labor shortages in China...
Innodisk Adds Comm Modules in News Embedded Series for IoT
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Innodisk, the service driven flash provider, announced the newest additions to its Embedded Peripheral line of expansion modules for embedded systems. Both using an mPCIe interface, the EMPL-G201 adds up to 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and the EMP2-X401 adds either 4 or 8 serial ports independently selectable by software to communicate in either RS232, RS422 or RS485 mode...