German luxury car-maker BMW plans to launch 40 new or revised models under its brands BMW, Mini and Rolls Royce by 2018 as it looks to compete against its rival Mercedes. The company will focus on top end and premium segments in its ...
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Microsoft has agreed to license a batch of patents to Toyota to enhance connected car experience for consumers. Financial details of the agreement have not been disclosed. The deal will give Toyota access to a suite of in-car technologies ...
Benefiting from the steady LED market price and the rapid growth of the automotive lighting field, automotive LED value will reach $2. 817 billion (+14.8% YoY) in 2017, as LEDinside forecasts. Relatively speaking, the compound annual growth ...
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Regarding the performance of LED industry in Taiwan, due to low season, demand for InGan (blue) LEDs has dropped in the first quarter, while that of AlINGap (red) LEDs is still strong. Thus, institutional investors estimate that business ...
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At Semicon China 2017, executives at chip giant Intel, IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, equipment vendors ASML, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron (TEL), and nano-electronics research institute Imec talked about innovation to ...
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Mao Chuan Industrial Co., Ltd., founded in 1970 in Changhua County, central Taiwan, started up as a small OEM of clothing parts and related accessories and then, after gaining years of experience in punching, diversified into manufacturing ...
US auto giant General Motors has agreed to sell its European operations to French automaker PSA Group for €2.2bn. PSA will buy Opel/Vauxhall automotive operations for €1.3bn, while GM Financial’s European operations will ...
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As LED market penetration rate continues to increase, global LED market growth has slowed down in recent years. In China, domestic LED chip manufacturers have exceeded a dominant 70% market share. In addition, global companies have ...
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Harman has partnered with Ultrahaptics to bring custom haptic sensations to the connected car. HARMAN International, the premier connected technologies company for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, today announced the ...
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Ericsson, Orange, and PSA Group, owner of the Peugeot and Citroen car brands, have carried out connected-vehicle field trials using 5G technology. The trials were undertaken in France as part of the vendors' Towards 5G project, which took ...
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Daimler is planning to open a new facility in Russia for the production of Mercedes-Benz cars. At Esipovo Industrial Park, about 40 kilometers northwest of Moscow, a flexible production of SUVs and the E-Class Sedan will be established. ...
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Trillium, which aims to close the cyber-security gap threatening self-driving cars, has completed its Series A financing round with investments by Global Brain, Mizuho Capital and DBJ Capital. Tokyo-based Trillium designs and provides ...
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According to the data by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the Taiwan Transportation Vehicle Manufacturers Association (TTVMA), the production value of Taiwan's automobile parts and accessories industry reached USD ...
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Volkswagen has launched a new subsidiary designed to oversee $2bn in investments to promote zero-emission vehicles in the US. The new company, Electrify America, will be based in Reston, Virginia. It will invest in the construction and ...
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Honda Motor and Hitachi Automotive Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a joint venture company for developing, manufacturing and selling electric vehicle motors. The two companies now will conduct formal ...
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