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Tuesday 22 March 2011
Renesas may see USB 3.0 chip shortage after May
Japan-based chip designer Renesas has recently made clarifications to its downstream motherboard partners about the recent rumors that Renesas is currently seeing USB 3.0 controller...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
PQI unveils external USB 3.0 HDD
Memory module maker Power Quotient International (PQI) has announced a new 2.5-inch external hard disk drive (HDD) series, the H567L/V, which has both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 transfer...
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...
Thursday 10 March 2011
External keyboards for tablet PC expected to see weak demand
Despite most first-tier tablet PC players have designed their products with support of an external keyboard, Taiwan-based keyboard makers are taking a conservative attitude about...
Friday 4 March 2011
MRT Communication launches USB Cloud technology
I-Share (USB Cloud) is a unique solution designed by MRT Communication and SyncQuick specifically for file sharing over the Internet. As the Internet becomes more common, the sharing...
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...
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
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...
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...