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| Trade War delays Chinese plan on entering U.S. car market |
1/18/2019 |
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Yu acknowledged GAC's "uphill battle" to entering the U.S. market but he noted the company is making "steady progress." In addition to opening the design centers in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Detroit, he said it expects to have its North American sales company running by March. After that, GAC will start to establish a distribution network and build brand awareness in the U.S.
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| Photo Voltaic demand will reach a new high in India throughout 2019 |
1/18/2019 |
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In 2019, China and the United States will be the top two markets in the world, while India will be the country with the third highest PV demand and Japan the fourth. After 2019, India is the most likely to foresee a larger growth in demand thanks to its favorable environment and encouraging policies made by the local government.
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| LCD panel prices to decline starting Q2 2019 |
1/18/2019 |
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Increasing pressure from oversupply has resulted in a sharp decline in panel prices. Therefore, Samsung Display has strategically decided to allocate more capacity to QD-OLED TV production in advance. As the result, the stock-up demand for TV panels may arrive earlier than expected in 2Q19.
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| Nvidia aims at winning back the graphic market from AMD |
1/17/2019 |
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The collapse of the cryptocurrency mining market has left graphics card vendors with high inventories, and miners have been offloading their used cards in the second-hand market, resulting in a sharp sales drop in Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 2080Ti/2080/2070 graphics card.
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| Security lines at U.S. Airports increased to 3 hours long |
1/16/2019 |
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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport tweeted on Monday evening that it was experiencing "longer than usual wait times during peak travel" and advised passengers to "give yourself 3 hours to clear security."
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| RFID comes back alive with the rise of Industrial IoT |
1/16/2019 |
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Forecast to 2025' analysis that interconnectedness of devices has resulted in massive volumes of RFID data which needs to be managed and analysed. This has prompted RFID manufacturers to develop high-memory tags that can hold more information, software platforms with a business intelligence layer, as well as cloud-based solutions.
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| Intel partners with Redis Labs to advance 3DXPoint memory |
1/15/2019 |
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Redis Enterprise includes two usage modes for Optane-powered systems. Memory Mode prioritizes performance, and AppDirect mode prioritizes cost savings. "Using Memory Mode, Redis Enterprise-powered applications can achieve comparable performance to DRAM with significant cost benefits. Developers can achieve even greater cost savings using AppDirect mode with Redis Enterprise, while still delivering significantly faster performance compared to NVMe,"
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| Rigid-flex to drive PCB growth |
1/15/2019 |
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Rigid-flex boards will be increasingly needed to support production of ever-slimmer consumer electronic devices. Shipments of FPCBs for the iPhone X series almost double those for previous models, which has benefited Taiwan suppliers including Zhen Ding Technology (ZDT), Flexium Interconnect, and Career Technology.
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| AMD uses caution in selecting 7nm fab, partners |
1/14/2019 |
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"2019 will be an inflection point for the industry as we bring these new products to market," said AMD president and CEO Lisa Su when announcing the company's first 7nm CPU and GPU
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| Qualcomm and MediaTek first to offer WiFi 6 802.11ax chips |
1/14/2019 |
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Wi-Fi 6, announced in early October 2018 by Wi-Fi Alliance as the designation for devices based on 802.11ax standard, will become a crucial pivot point behind B2B business opportunities in the 5G era, according to industry observers.
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| Organic LED (OLED) found applications other than TV |
1/14/2019 |
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OLEDs promise to be the next big thing in solid state lighting technology and might become useful in other applications as well. Inorganic LEDs still tend to make more economic and technological sense for many applications,
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| Nature of IoT progress on |
1/11/2019 |
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In the past five years, the concept of internet of things devices has evolved from sensors and other chips uploading data to the computing cloud to data processing at the network edge, What's changing is that processing capability will move from the data center and flow toward the edge,
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| SK hynix joins the self-driving car race |
1/11/2019 |
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SK hynix is participating in the Consumer Electronics Show for the first time this week, joining its counterparts from other SK Group affiliates. In the affiliates’ joint presentation for autonomous driving technologies and solutions, SK hynix is in charge of the memory chips for autonomous cars.
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| AMD highlights first 7nm GPU at CES Show |
1/11/2019 |
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Su announced that the Radeon VII GPU would be available starting next month and that its second-generation Ryzen mobile processors would begin showing up in ultrathin and gaming laptops by the end of the first quarter.
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| Cypress offers automotive SOC with Bluetooth and WiFi combo |
1/10/2019 |
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The semiconductors, introduced at CES 2019, which is taking place this week in Las Vegas, are built on Cypress’ real simultaneous dual-band (RSDB) architecture that enables two data streams to run at full throughput simultaneously by integrating two complete Wi-Fi subsystems into a single chip.
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