
Korean TV Brands Maintain Top Share Worldwide, IHS Markit Says
Worldwide TV shipments fell slightly more than expected in the first quarter of 2017, declining 4.7 percent to 46.7 million units as slowing price erosion led to a weakening consumer demand according to IHS Markit. Despite this, the growth in average screen size continues to be strong rising four percent, to just over 42 inches...

Samsung Ramps up 64-Layer V-NAND Memory Production for Expanding Flash Storage Solutions
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun volume production of 64-layer, 256Gb V-NAND flash memory for use with an expanding line-up of storage solutions for server, PC and mobile applications. Since Samsung began producing the industry’s first SSDs based on 64-layer 256Gb V-NAND chips in January for key IT customers, it has been working on a wide range of new V-NAND-based mobile and consumer storage solutions...

Andes and M31 Collaborated on Optimal Power Efficiency CPU Implementation for IoT SoC Market
HSINCHU, Taiwan – Andes Technology Corporation and M31 Technology today jointly announced that AndesCore N705 CPU had adopted M31’s low-power silicon IPs and Power Management Kit (PMK) to provide a very low power consumption CPU solution for SoC design in IoT and related low power applications...

TrendForce Anticipates 18:9 Displays to Help Drive Shipments in Stalling Smartphone Market
WitsView, a division of TrendForce, reports that increasing screen to body ratio and narrow bezel are two major trends in smartphone design for this year and are expected to drive changes in specifications of smartphone panels...

Winbond to Upgrade NOR Flash Production Capacity to Solve Shortage
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese NOR Flash memory manufacturer Winbond Electronics Corporation yesterday stated that there is a significant global supply shortage of NOR Flash memory with many clients waiting for the delivery of their orders...

E Ink and QuirkLogic Strengthen Partnership to Create New Markets
E Ink and QuirkLogic today announced the expansion of their existing partnership into new markets and geographies. The two companies have collaborated to create the first real-time ideation solution named Quilla, which was launched earlier this year and will be generally available in July...