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Friday 18 March 2011
Taiwan firms eyeing USB 3.0 host controller orders
With Renesas suspending operations at several plants in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Taiwan-based controller IC suppliers are speeding up the process...
Wednesday 23 February 2011
USB 3.0 interface to become mainstream sooner or later: Q&A with Dan Harmon, interface product marketing manager, Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments (TI) is actively venturing into the USB 3.0 interface market for notebooks, desktops and smartphones as rival Renesas Electronics is still thriving in the segment...
Monday 21 February 2011
Faraday to see sequential drop in 1Q11 revenues
IC design service provider Faraday Technology expects revenues to drop by a double-digit rate sequentially in the first quarter of 2011, mainly due to slower-than-expected orders...
Thursday 17 February 2011
VIA Labs to ship new USB 3.0 hard drive controller in March
VIA Labs, a subsidiary of VIA Technologies specializing in USB 3.0 integrated chip controllers, is sampling new USB 3.0 controllers for external hard drives with volume shipments...
Friday 11 February 2011
USB 3.0 chip shipments to show 120% CAGR to 2015, says Digitimes Research
With more SuperSpeed-enabled motherboards, notebooks and other PC peripherals hitting store shelves, shipments of USB 3.0 host and device controller chips worldwide will increase...
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Renesas holds off planned price cuts in USB 3.0 host ICs due to no competition from Taiwan designers
Renesas Electronics has not carried out its planned reduction in USB 3.0 host IC prices to compete with Taiwan-based design houses, because the latter have not yet obtained USB-IF...
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Connector makers expect good profit if no price war
Taiwan-based PC connector makers expect the connector industry will see good growth in 2011 benefiting by the new notebook platforms as well as USB 3.0 applications. However, growth...
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Fresco 2-port USB 3.0 host chips expected to land USB-IF certification in 1Q11
IC design house Fresco Logic's FL1000 1-port USB 3.0 host controller chip has received USB Implementer Forum (USB-IF) certification, and its FL1009 2-port USB 3.0 host chip is expected...
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Himax unveils USB 3.0 pico-projector solution
Himax Technologies announced on January 18, 2011 the launch of what it claims is the world's first USB 3.0 pico-projector solution, which combines SVGA (800 by 600) high-resolution...
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Etron obtains NT$2 billion syndicated loan
Specialty DRAM design house Etron Technology on January 17 signed a five-year, NT$2 billion (US$69 million) syndicated loan provided by five banks to repay part of its previous loans...
Friday 14 January 2011
Evolution Technology to begin volume production of audio/video over USB 3.0 chips
ASIC design house Evolution Technology, a subsidiary of Faraday Technology, will soon begin volume production of its audio/video over USB 3.0 SoC chips, the ET12U32X, according to...
Thursday 6 January 2011
New Transcend USB 3.0 flash drive uses Innostor controller
Transcend Information has introduced a new portfolio of flash memory drives, the JetFlash 700, which the company is demonstrating at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. The drive uses Innostor's...
Tuesday 4 January 2011
MSI to showcase new all-in-one PCs, motherboards and graphics cards at CES 2011
Micro-Star International (MSI), in addition to its notebooks and tablet PCs, will also showcase its latest all-in-one PCs, motherboards and graphics cards at Consumer Electronics...
Monday 3 January 2011
USB 3.0 chipmakers to push into new AMD platform
USB 3.0 chipmakers have recently started to push their chips in AMD's new Ontario and Zacate platform, which do not support USB 3.0 natively, and since AMD will not launch a platform...
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Polytronics super low rho PPTCs offer the perfect over-current protection solution for the USB 3.0 era
PPTC (Polymer Positive Temperature Coefficient) temperature sensitive resistors have already become vital elements in today's motherboards, notebook, mobile phones and other consumer...