TAIPEI, Taiwan — Powerchip Technology held its 20th anniversary party on Thursday, the company's CEO Huang Chong-ren pointed out that the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected car will be the major driving force of semiconductor industry within five years...

Internet of Things (IoT) has no doubt that will be one of the next big things, IC design, wafer foundry, or end device providers all aim at the IoT market. Taiwan's leading electronic and information technology (IT) companies are gearing up to seize the chance offered by the coming era of IoT...

Texas Instruments (TI) announced the industry's first flexible high frequency 13.56 MHz sensor transponder family. The highly integrated ultra-low-power RF430FRL15xH system-on-chip (SoC) family combines an ISO 15693-compliant Near Field Communication (NFC) interface with a programmable microcontroller (MCU), non-volatile FRAM, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and SPI or I2C interface...

International Data Corporation (IDC) envisions 2015 will be the year when Internet of Things (IoT) starts to deliver against the hype, but it will require vendors and customers alike to change their approach. “Companies are always looking for ways to drive business transformation...

The Economist issue Megachange: The World 2050 pointed out that chips will become smaller, cheaper, and more ubiquitous, until they finally become “smart dust.” This means that in the future the Internet will be able to accommodate countless network devices...

Broadcom introduced the industry's first dual-band Wi-Fi audio chip into its Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) portfolio. The new system-on-a-chip (SoC) delivers high-definition (HD) audio streaming over a Wi-Fi network to wireless audio devices and minimizes interference for premium sound quality...

Imagination Technologies announces that the highperformance,low power MIPS Creator CI20 development board is now available for pre-order.The MIPS Creator CI20 is an affordable micro-computer that runs Linux and Android and enables open source developers, the maker community, system integrators and others to create a wide range of applications and projects, ranging from home automation and gaming to wireless multimedia streaming...