CEATEC 2018

CEATEC was held from October 16th to 19th this year. AI, IoT, and 5G are the main topics for the exhibition. We can find electronic components and solution suppliers like muRata, ROHM, and TDK. ICT solution players like NTT, Fujitsu and NEC. But we can also find some unusual exhibitors this time, like NEXCO, JTB, and Lawson.

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ARM new Processors Architecture for ADAS

On Sep 26th, ARM announced their new Cortex-A76AE core for automotive application, especially autonomous driving car. ARM doesn’t produce process directly. They sell IP cores with licensees to MCU, CPU and SoC manufactories. They also issue licensees to fabless companies who wish to integrate an ARM core into their designs. ARM core users include Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, ST Microelectronics and etc.

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Another 3-year for Mr. Abe

As Shinzo Abe won the election as Liberal Democratic leader, he is on course to win the next 3-year Prime Minister position. After 14 months, he will become Japan’s longest-serving PM in the history. In recent year, the Japanese government shows rare stability and continuity. Shinzo Abe resigned Prime Minister in 2007 unexpectedly, because of his health issues. After that, almost every year Japan had a new Prime Minister until he took the position again in 2012.

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Waymo in China

Waymo, a spin-out Google self-driving project, opened a subsidiary in Shanghai according to the information in China’s National Enterprise Information Publicity System. It was registered in Shanghai’s free trade zone with 3.5 million yuan. Its Chinese name is Huimo (慧摩), a similar pronunciation of its English name.

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hot Summer x unusual Typhoon

Typhoon Jongdari 201812 track

Summer is a fireworks season in Japan. Tokyo usually will hold nearly 100 fireworks festivals from July to August. Sumidagawa Fireworks Festival is one of the most famous shows in Tokyo. It launched about 20,000 fireworks. Approx. 1 million people enjoyed this show. However, it almost ruined by the typhoon Jongdari last week. Jongdari craved an unusual counter-clockwise trajectory. It moved from the southeast to the west of Japan and hit Japan twice. Then, Jongdari went to China and made landfall over Shanghai. Continue reading “hot Summer x unusual Typhoon”