
Acer Introduces the World’s First Laptop to Measure Less Than 1cm Thin
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Today at IFA Berlin, Acer unveiled its new Swift series of ultra-thin and lightweight notebook PCs. Comprised of four lines, namely the Swift 7, Swift 5, Swift 3 and Swift 1. The Swift 7 weighs in at just 2.48 pounds (1...

Robotic Vision Market Worth $5 Billion by 2021, Research and Markets Says
According to Research and Markets, the Robotic Vision Market is expected to be worth a little above $5 billion by 2021. Increase in the number of manufacturing and automation industries in the APAC region will be a key factor driving this market...

MCU Market Forecast to Reach Record High Revenues Through 2020
The IC industry’s original system-on-chip (SoC) product category—microcontrollers—is expected to steadily reach record-high annual revenues through the second half of this decade despite an overall slowdown in unit growth during the next five years according to IC Insights...

ADLINK and Wind River Collaborate on Joint R&D Center
ADLINK Wind River today announced the establishment of joint lab facilities in Shanghai, China and San Jose, CA, US, to promote the adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The Research & Development centers will feature Wind River Titanium Server software running on ADLINK’s hardware platform based on the Modular Industrial Cloud Architecture (MICA) open framework...

LTPS Panel Market to Face Oversupply in 2017, Says TrendForce
WitsView, a division of TrendForce, anticipates growing oversupply of LTPS LCD panels. Worldwide LTPS panel capacity expansion for this year is slower than initially expected as several new fabs have delayed mass production until after this year’s fourth quarter...

Samsung Starts Mass Production of Its 14nm Exynos Processor
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has begun mass production of Exynos 7 Quad 7570, the company’s newest mobile application processor (AP) built on 14-nanometer (nm) process technology for the budget smartphone market as well as other IoT devices...