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Published: Nov 10,2016

Prices of LED Light Bulbs Fell in October, TrendForce Reports
After being steady for two consecutive months, prices of LED light bulbs began to drop noticeably in China during October, according to LEDinside, a division of TrendForce. Branded light bulb vendors operating in the Chinese market begin promotional pricing much earlier before Singles’ Day on November 11...

E Ink and Japan Display to Cooperate in Developing ePaper Business
E Ink Holdings today announced E Ink has agreed to enter a long-term strategic alliance with Japan Display for electronic paper (ePaper) business. Through the partnership with E Ink, JDI intends to diversify its business scope beyond its existing LCD market...

Smartphone Shipments Forecasted to Grow by 4% in 2016
IC Insights forecasted that the total smartphone shipments are forecast to grow by 4% in 2016 to 1,490 million units after jumping by 13% to 1,430 million in 2015, to grow by 5% in 2017 reaching 1,565 million units. Overall, smartphone unit shipments are now forecast to grow at single-digit annual rates through 2020...

Ericsson, DOCOMO and Intel to Build 5G Trial Environment in Tokyo
Ericsson announced today an agreement with NTT DOCOMO and Intel to further advance 5G development by building a 5G trial network in various areas of Tokyo, starting in 2017.The primary aim of the trials is to test use case applications and radio performance...

Xilinx Unveils Details for New 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs
Xilinx today unveiled details for new 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs with HBM and CCIX technology. Containing the highest memory bandwidth available, these HBM-enabled FPGAs offer 20X higher memory bandwidth relative to a DDR4 DIMM and 4X less power per bit versus competing memory technologies...

Trump Presidency to Trigger Installation Rush in U.S. Solar Market, TrendForce Says
The result of the U.S. election may further aggravate the oversupply situation in the global PV market, according to Celeste Tsai, analyst for EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce. The federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar power, which the U...