Sony has opened a store in the Breeze Center shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, and will mainly demonstrate its mid-range and high-end products including Bravia TVs, tablets, smartphones, wearables, digital cameras and headphones. Seeing ...
Tags: Bravia, digital camera, smartphone, Sony
The global sales of Android-based smartphones have been a disappointment affecting negatively the performance of Taiwan-based IC design houses, according to industry sources. Particularly in China's smartphone market, the share of Android ...
Tags: Android, China market, design, IC
In 2007 Sony grabbed the world's attention with its XEL-1 TV, offering pitch-black blacks and superb motion resolution from a wafer-thin, low power consumption panel. Despite its modest 11-inch size, the milestone product put organic light ...
Tags: OLED products, OLED display, Sony, Samsung
A combination of existing commercial applications and new consumer applications will drive the market for uncooled infra-red imaging technologies, according to Yole Développement, the French market consultancy. The company’s ...
The global market for laser materials processing systems reached a volume of US$ 11.6 billion in 2014. According to a preliminary analysis of 2014 data produced by Optech Consulting, based in Taegerwilen, Switzerland, that figure is up 8% ...
Tags: laser systems, fiber lasers, semiconductors
Apple, fresh off releasing the mega-sized iPhone 6S and even larger iPhone 6S Plus, is considering downsizing to a 4-inch device, according to one analyst. The analyst sees the 4-inch iPhone as a budget-priced model. The casing would ...
Tags: iPhone, led display
ACCO Semiconductor Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a fabless provider of RF front-end component manufactured using standard high-volume bulk CMOS processes, has announced mass production of the AC26120, a CMOS multi-mode multi-band power ...
Tags: ACCO, Semiconductor, smartphones
China-based white-box tablet vendors, due to stagnant growth in demand and increasing price competition, either have withdrawn from the market or are striving to shift to other product lines including smartphones, entry-level notebooks, ...
Tags: White-Box Tablet, smartphones, smartwatches
Ultratech, a supplier of lithography, laser--processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and high-brightness LEDs (HBLEDs), as well as atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, today announced that it has ...
Tags: Wafer-Level Packaging, LEDs
Pocket App, the UK’s largest independent app developer, is proud to announce that a new vehicle tyre pressure monitoring system for smartphones is now available for download. The new app which has been designed for Bridgestone ...
Tags: Pocket App, Tire Pressure APP, smartphones
Ford is planning to invest $1.8bn over the next five years in China to boost its research and development efforts in the field of smartphone connectivity, autonomous driving and other smart car features. China is a major market for ...
Tags: Ford, Smartcars, smartphone
Dialog Semiconductor (XTRA: DLG) and Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) announced today that Dialog has agreed to acquire Atmel in a cash and stock transaction for total consideration of approximately $4.6 billion. The acquisition creates a ...
Tags: Dialog Semiconductor, Atmel, Acquisition
Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH, a subsidiary of Tridonic GmbH & Co KG, Dornbirn and therefore part of the Zumtobel Group, has signed a licence agreement with Medion AG, Germany covering the use of silicate-based white LEDs. Medion is a ...
Tags: Tridonic, White LEDs, Licence Agreement, Medion AG
Everlight Chairman Robert Yeh recently refuted market rumors in Taiwan claiming the company’s decision to use Chinese manufacturers LED chips in its products has impacted Epistar’s revenue performance, according to a UDN report. ...
Tags: Everlight, Epistar, LED chip supplier
This LED badge launched at Burning Man this year has an OLED touch screen was designed by applying reproductive science and genetics. The personified light badges “inherit” a particular lighting sequence that can be passed on to ...
Tags: LED lighting design, Burning Man, LED badge