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ITRI’s Fluid-Driven Emergency Lighting Wins Create the Future Design Contest
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Published: Dec 07,2016


Imec Demonstrates World’s First Vertically Stacked Gate-all-Around Si Nanowire CMOS Transistors
At IEEE IEDM conference, imec reported for the first time the CMOS integration of vertically stacked gate-all-around (GAA) silicon nanowire MOSFETs. Key in the integration scheme is a dual-work-function metal gate enabling matched threshold voltages for the n- and p-type devices...

Average Contract Price of PC DRAM 4GB Modules Rose to US$18 in November
Prices in the contract and spot markets for PC DRAM kept climbing between October and November, according to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce. The average contract price of PC DRAM 4GB modules increased by 2.86% monthly to arrive at US$18 in November, while the average spot prices of DDR3 and DDR4 4Gb chips respectively rose 6% and 2% monthly to reach US$2...

Wearable Devices Need to Be More Useful, Gartner Says
The abandonment rate of smartwatches is 29 percent, and 30 percent for fitness trackers, because people do not find them useful, they get bored of them or they break, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. "Dropout from device usage is a serious problem for the industry," said Angela McIntyre, research director at Gartner...

REYAX Integrates u-blox Wireless & GNSS Modules Solution into Industrial Router Platform
u-blox today announced that REYAX Technology, a leading industrial and telematics systems provider for aftermarket telematics, has launched a new industrial router platform that incorporates cellular, short range and GNSS modules from u-blox...

Micron to Establish 3D DRAM Packaging Plant in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, Micron Technology, Inc. has decided to establish their first overseas 3D DRAM memory packaging and testing plant in the Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung, and Amkor’s former General Manager will serve as the Taiwan General Manager...

TrendForce Forecasts LCD TV Shipments to Expand by 2.5% in 2017
Shipments of LCD TV sets worldwide for 2016 are estimated to grow by 1.9% annually to around 220 million units, according to the latest analysis by WitsView, a division of TrendForce. At the start of 2017, the U.S. consumer market will be bumpy in the short term due to the results of the country’s presidential election...