SilTerra Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian home grown leading semiconductor wafer foundry, and Zhuhai Chuangfeixin Technology Co., Ltd. ("CFX"), an memory IP design house, jointly announced the production release of Anti-Fuse One-Time-Programming (OTP) IP in SilTerra's 160nm and 110nm High Voltage technology.CFX's Anti-Fuse OTP memory macro is silicon characterized and qualified on SilTerra's High Voltage technology. The OTP has demonstrated to achieve 10 years of data retention reliability and passed 1000hours of burn-in reliability tests. The CFX Anti-Fuse OTP IP is cost optimized in term of area and density, and do not require extra process masking steps.The IP would enable our customers to set parameters to optimize the power consumption, performance and color gamut of display driver IC."We are pleased to partner with CFX to offer silicon proven Anti-Fuse OTP IP on SilTerra's High Voltage technology. This would enhance our IP offering to meet our customer expectation in term of cost and data retention reliability especially in power management IC and display driver IC market." said Yit Loong Lai, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing of SilTerra."With our Anti-Fuse OTP memory IP fully qualified in both SilTerra's 160nm and 110nm High Voltage technology, CFX is able to expand our IP business not only in local China market but also to serve oversea design houses, who need our Anti-fuse OTP solutions. Our technology has such advantages as ultra-high reliability and security, wide operation temperature range (-45 degree C to 125 degree C), high speed, ultra-low power, high density, low program voltage and low post-program resistance. It provides high performance and cost effective solution to our customers" commented by Dr. Zhigang Wang, President and CEO of Zhuhai Chuangfeixin Technology Co., Ltd."Moving forward, we will continue to work closely with CFX to expand the Anti-Fuse OTP solution into our 110nm CMOS Logic technology platform." Lai added.About SilTerra Malaysia Sdn BhdSilTerra Malaysia Sdn Bhd is a semiconductor wafer foundry offering fabrication and design support services in CMOS logic, High-Voltage, Mixed-signal, RF and MEMS technologies down to 90 nanometer feature size. SilTerra's wafer fab has a design-in capacity of 40,000 eight-inch wafers per month and currently serves customers in US, EU, Latin America, Taiwan, Korea and China.Environmentally vigilant, SilTerra delivers award-winning, world-class performance to its customers seeking flexible capacity, custom technologies, competitive advantages and around the clock customer support. SilTerra is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001 certified. Starting commercial production in 2001, the company's headquarters and factory are located in Malaysia's Kulim High-Tech Park, with sales and marketing offices in San Jose (California) and Hsinchu (Taiwan).For additional information on SilTerra or its services, please visit www.silterra.com About Zhuhai Chuangfeixin Technology Co., Ltd.Zhuhai Chuangfeixin Technology Co., Ltd. ("CFX") is a leading memory IP provider with its design and engineering offices in Zhuhai (China), Beijing (China), and Milpitas (Silicon Valley, California).CFX's Anti-Fuse OTP technology provides most competitive memory macro size and most reliable performance to its customers. The OTP-IP core is 100% CMOS process compatible, and its implementation does not require special process optimization or additional process steps.For additional information on Chuangfeixin, please visit www.chuangfeixin.com

Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown to become more mature due to aggressive development by related players over the past few years and is now able to support more applications including autonomous driving, robots and voice assistant platforms. NVIDIA has been a pioneer of AI technology development and its expertise on GPU parallel computing also makes the company one of the top suppliers of deep learning hardware.GPUs originally served only as an engine for stimulating human imagination, conjuring up virtual worlds in video games and Hollywood films, but after over 20 years of development since 1999, NVIDIA's GPUs are now able to simulate human intelligence, running deep learning algorithms and acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.When asked about what is the definition of AI and what AI is capable of doing, NVIDIA general manager and vice president of Accelerated Computing business unit Ian Buck said it is better to think it as a new way of doing computing. AI has grown to become more known by people throughout the past decade because of its ability to replace the traditional algorithms and instead of needing human to give specific instructions for it to process, its neural network is able to figure out the algorithms itself from data.By giving a few million images of an object to an image network, it will be able to learn the most efficient way to detect the object. This is actually a new way of computing and instead of writing the code manually, people can let AI figures out the code for them, Buck noted.At Computex 2017, NVIDIA announced partnerships with Taiwan-based server players including Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), Inventec, Quanta Computer and Wistron to develop GPU-oriented datacenter products, aiming to fulfill market demand for AI cloud computing hardware.NVIDIA will provide these server players early access to its HGX reference architecture based on Microsoft's Project Olympus initiative, Facebook's Big Basin systems and NVIDIA'sDGX-1 AL supercomputers, as well as its GPU computing technologies and design guidelines to help them develop GPU-accelerated systems for hyperscale data centers.Buck pointed out that via the cooperation, server players can choose how they wish to design the layout of their datacenter server systems and the components they wish to adopt to create differentiation from each other and provide added value for their customers. NVIDIA's engineers will maintain close communication with these players to ensure they receive the support needed for hardware buildups, so the players are able to conduct development of datacenter server systems in the least amount of time and quickly release their products to market.NVIDIA is fully aware that clients want to have special customization such as form factor and method of cooling, for their server products, and therefore is working with the ODMs to create products using NVIDIA'sHGX-1 architecture.NVIDIA's vice president of Solutions Architecture and Engineering team Marc Hamilton also gave detail on NVIDIA's latest technology. He noted that the HGX reference design is created meant for the high-performance, efficiency and scaling requirements that cloud datacenter servers need and it will also serve as the basic architecture for ODMs to design their cloud computing datacenter servers.The standard HGX design architecture includes eight NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators in the SXM2 form factor and connected in a cube mesh using NVIDIA NVLink high-speed interconnects and optimized PCIe topologies. With a modular design, HGX enclosures are suited for deployment in existing data center racks across the globe, using hyperscale CPU nodes as needed, Hamilton added.However, this is not the first time NVIDIA has established collaboration with server players. In early March, NVIDIA announced collaboration with Microsoft to push a new hyperscale GPU accelerator to drive AI cloud computing: The HGX-1 hyperscale GPU accelerator, an open-source design released in conjunction with Microsoft's Project Olympus.The new architecture is designed to meet the demand for AI computing in the cloud – in fields such as autonomous driving, personalized healthcare, human voice recognition, data and video analytics, and molecular simulations. It is powered by eight NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs in each chassis, as well as NVIDIA NVLink interconnect technology and the PCIe standard – enabling a CPU to dynamically connect to any number of GPUs. This allows cloud service providers that standardize on the HGX-1 infrastructure to offer customers a range of CPU and GPU machine instance configurations.NVIDIA believes that cloud workloads are growing more diverse and complex than ever, and the highly modular design of the HGX-1 allows for optimal performance no matter the workload. It also provides up to 100 times faster deep learning performance compared with legacy CPU-based servers, and is estimated to deliver one-fifth the cost for conducting AI training and one-tenth the cost for AI inferencing.With its flexibility to work with data centers across the globe, HGX-1 offers existing hyperscale data centers a quick, simple path to be ready for AI.Buck pointed out that NVIDIA currently has two major areas where it can contribute in the AI market. One is in the datacenter, a lot of end devices actually need to communicate back to datacenters to get answers and NVIDIA has been focusing on developing AI technologies and training the neural network to learn new things. NVIDIA also works with its partners to develop software and hardware and is supplying kits including Cuda, cuDNN and TensorRT, which leading frameworks and applications can easily tap into, to accelerate AI and research.The second area is the GPU used in devices. An example is autonomous driving system. Since a car cannot only rely on datacenter to drive, equipping a super computer into car is a necessary work for the application. NVIDIA has several solutions including Jetson embedded platform and GPUs that are used for datacenter, can be adopted into the super computer.Microsoft, NVIDIA and Ingrasys, a Foxconn subsidiary, collaborated to architect and design the HGX-1 platform, which they are sharing widely as part of Microsoft's Project Olympus contribution to the Open Compute Project, a consortium whose mission is to apply the benefits of open source to hardware, and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the data center and beyond.To further improve the HGX platform's performance, NVIDIA launched Volta, its new GPU computing architecture, created to drive the next wave of advancement in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing in early May at NVIDIA's GTC show. The first Volta-based processor, the NVIDIA Tesla V100 data center GPU, is able to bring extraordinary speed and scalability for AI inferencing and training, as well as for accelerating HPC and graphics workloads.Hamilton noted that Volta, NVIDIA's seventh-generation GPU architecture, is built with 21 billion transistors and is able to output a performance that is equivalent to 100 CPUs in deep learning applications.Volta provides a 5x improvement over Pascal, the previous-generation NVIDIAGPU architecture, in peak teraflops, and 15x over the Maxwell architecture, launched two years ago. This performance surpasses by 4x the improvements predicted by Moore's law.Datacenters need to deliver exponentially greater processing power as these networks become more complex. And they need to efficiently scale to support the rapid adoption of highly accurate AI-based services, such as natural language virtual assistants, and personalized search and recommendation systems.Volta will become the new standard for high performance computing. It offers a platform for HPC systems to excel at both computational science and data science for discovering insights. By pairing CUDA cores and the new Volta Tensor Core within a unified architecture, a single server with Tesla V100 GPUs can replace hundreds of commodity CPUs for traditional HPC.Technologies include Tensor Cores designed to speed up AI workloads. The Tesla V100 GPU is equipped with 640 Tensor Cores to deliver 120 teraflops of deep learning performance, equivalent to the performance of 100 CPUs.An improved NVLink provides the next generation of high-speed interconnect linking GPUs, and GPUs to CPUs, with up to two times the throughput of the prior generation NVLink.Developed in collaboration with Samsung, the GPU supports 900GB/s HBM2 DRAM, allowing the architecture to achieve 50% more memory bandwidth than previous generation GPUs, essential to support the computing throughput of Volta.Both NVIDIA Tesla P100 and V100 GPU accelerators are compatible with HGX. This allows for immediate upgrades of all HGX-based products from P100 to V100 GPUs.With new NVIDIA Volta architecture-based GPUs offering three times the performance of its predecessor, ODMs can feed market demand with new products based on the latest NVIDIA technology available.HGX is an ideal reference architecture for cloud providers seeking to host the new NVIDIAGPU Cloud platform. The NVIDIAGPU Cloud platform manages a catalog of fully integrated and optimized deep learning framework containers, including Caffe2, Cognitive Toolkit, MXNet and TensorFlow.NVIDIA is seeing strong growth in AI applications across different channels, noted Buck adding that people are highly interested in hyperscale cloud, traditional OEM and AI-supported personal workstations. Demand from AI developers and researchers for high-end consumer-based PCs and notebooks has also been picking up.Currently, all major public cloud computing service providers have adopted GPU-power datacenter servers for their calculation need and the driving force for such a trend is AI, Buck said.This fact also corresponds to the latest market trend. In 2016, Taiwan's server revenues increased 4.8% on year, reaching NT$555.8 billion (US$18.6 billion) because of increased server demand worldwide. Revenues are estimated to grow to NT$588.6 billion in 2017 as demand from datacenter clients including Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft is expected to rise further.With demand for products featuring AI, such as robots, smart voice assistants, and autonomous driving solutions, continuing to see growth, GPU-oriented datacenter server shipments are expected to gain popularity in the industry.Although many of the related applications are not yet fully mature, business opportunities have grown quickly over the past few years. With NVIDIA's close involvement and assistance, especially on the software side, AI is expected to become a new growth driver for the IT industry and a new business direction that Taiwan-based hardware players can venture into to seek new opportunities.NVIDIA HGX reference architectureNVIDIA Tesla V100

Camera manufacturer Basler is adding 20 new high-resolution models to the portfolio of its most successful camera series, the ace. The ace line now includes over 120 cameras, representing the largest camera series in the industrial image processing market. To distinguish the models more easily, Basler will group the ace series into three product lines from now on: ace classic, ace U and ace L.Twelve ace Models with Sony Pregius Global Shutter SensorsTwelve of the 20 new cameras are equipped with the IMX253, IMX255, IMX267 and IMX304 sensors from Sony's Pregius line. These twelve models form the ace L product line offer resolutions of 9 and 12 megapixels and frame rates of up to 40 fps. These cameras stand out in particular due to the well-known, brilliant Pregius image quality at high resolutions and a pixel size of 3.45 µm. State-of-the-art global shutter technology ensures distortion-free images, even at high speeds. These qualities make the twelve new ace models well-suited especially for applications in highly automated 3D inspection systems or in traffic monitoring, for example in tolling.Eight ace Models with Sony STARVIS Rolling Shutter SensorsIn addition to these twelve cameras, Basler introduces eight new ace models with the IMX178 and IMX226 sensors from Sony's STARVIS line. These models join the ace U product line. Equipped with the latest rolling shutter technology and featuring high resolutions of 6 and 12 megapixels with up to 59 frames per second, they demonstrate their full potential especially in microscopy applications and less complex automation tasks in the electronics industry. The innovative BI (back-illuminated) sensor technology provides outstanding sensitivity at a small pixel size of 2.4 micron (IMX178) or 1.85 micron (IMX226). With these particularly light-sensitive sensors, the eight new ace cameras offer excellent image quality even in low light conditions.All 20 new ace models are available with the proven GigE or USB 3.0 interface and conform to GigE Vision 2.0 or the USB3 Vision standard. The GigE models excel with high-performance GigE Vision 2.0 features such as PTP. The ten color models also include the PGI feature set, the unique combination of 5x5 debayering, color-anti-aliasing, denoising and improved sharpness. Basler's pylon Camera Software Suite also ensures a fast and simple integration of the ace cameras. All 20 models are available as design-in-samples.New Names for an Easy OverviewWith the introduction of the 20 new models, Basler also presents a new naming system for the ace series. To make the selection clearer for customers and to better distinguish the various model features, Basler will group the ace series into three product lines from now on: ace classic, ace U and ace L. You can find a detailed description of the different product lines here: www.baslerweb.com/ace-product-linesMore Information: www.baslerweb.com/new-aceBasler adds 20 new high-resolution models to its ace camera series.

Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) has added a high-resolution, highly accurate mixed-signal channel card to its Wave Scale MX product family, extending the series’ range in testing analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog waveform converters.The new Wave Scale MX high-resolution card combines the industry’s highest parallel testing capability with the most reliable AC and DC performance. These attributes allow Advantest’s V93000 test platform to meet the increasing low-distortion, accuracy and linearity requirements in testing analog and digital waveform converters while also helping to reduce the cost of test and time to market for consumer audio and IoT devices.“Our new high-resolution Wave Scale MX card has the highest channel count and density,” said Hans-Juergen Wagner, senior vice president of the SoC Business Group at Advantest Corporation. “The card can support wider signal ranges and enable higher output levels from audio components.”The card provides high performance and fully independent AC and DC testing across as many as 32 instruments – 16 arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) and 16 digitizers – for either single-ended or differential signals. It has local, temperature-controlled references that ensure the highest DC stability over time, and single-ended signals can be referenced to a ground sense per channel to achieve the highest fidelity. An additional parametric measurement unit (PMU) at each pogo ensures highly accurate DC measurements. The card also can handle swings of up to 20 Vpp for single-ended signals and 40 Vpp for differential signals. All functions are controlled by Testprocessor software to maximize throughput and repeatability.The innovative architecture of Wave Scale MX cards enables simultaneous testing on all 32 instruments with totally different settings as there are no shared resources. The resulting in-site parallelism and high multi-site efficiency significantly reduces the cost of test for complex mixed-signal devices.In addition to a card with exclusively high-resolution resources, Advantest also is introducing a Wave Scale MX hybrid card that combines high-resolution and high-speed functions on a single card.Advantest is now accepting orders for its high-resolution and hybrid Wave Scale MX cards.About Advantest CorporationA world-class technology company, Advantest is the leading producer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry and a premier manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design and production of electronic instruments and systems. Its leading-edge systems and products are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor production lines in the world. The company also focuses on R&D for emerging markets that benefit from advancements in nanotech and terahertz technologies, and has introduced multi-vision metrology scanning electron microscopes essential to photomask manufacturing, as well as a groundbreaking 3D imaging and analysis tools. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its first subsidiary in 1982, in the USA, and now has subsidiaries worldwide. More information is available at www.advantest.com.

AMD has launched its EPYC 7000 series high-performance datacenter processors. AMD was joined by multiple customers and partners at the global launch event on June 20 in presenting an array of systems, product demonstrations, and customer testimonials. The EPYC comes with up to 32 high-performance Zen cores and an exclusive feature set.At the event, AMD also launched Radeon Instinct GPU server accelerators including Radeon Instinct MI25, MI18 and MI6 as well as ROCm 1.6 software platform to help improve performance and efficiency for deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) calculation.The Radeon Instinct MI25 features AMD's new Vega architecture using a 14nm FinFET process and is suitable for large-scale machine intelligence and deep learning applications. The MI18 uses the high-performance, low-power Fiji GPU architecture and is designed for machine learning calculation and all sorts of HPC applications, AMD said. The MI6 is based on Polaris architecture and is also created for HPC, machine learning and Edge intelligence applications. AMD will start supplying the Radeon Instinct products to partners in the third quarter of 2017.Worldwide major server manufacturers also introduced products based on AMD EPYC 7000-series processors at the launch, including HPE, Dell, Asustek, Gigabyte, Inventec, Lenovo, Sugon, Supermicro, Tyan, and Wistron. Primary hypervisor and server operating system providers Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware showcased optimized support for EPYC, while key server hardware ecosystem partners Mellanox, Samsung Electronics, and Xilinx were also featured in EPYC-optimized platforms.All EPYC processors combine innovative security features, enterprise-class reliability, and support a full feature-set, according to AMD. An AMD EPYC 7601 CPU-based one-socket system shifts expectations for single socket server performance, helping lower total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), providing up to 20% capex savings compared to the Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4-based two-socket system, claimed AMD.The EPYC processors feature scalable system on chip (SoC) design ranging from 8-core to 32-core, supporting two high-performance threads per core. They also feature memory bandwidth configuration with eight channels of memory on every EPYC device. In a two-socket server, there is support for up to 32 DIMMS of DDR4 on 16 memory channels, delivering up to 4TB of total memory capacity.The 32-core EPYC 7601, 7551 and 7501 are priced starting at US$3,400, while the EPYC 7451 and 7401 are starting at US$1,850, the EPYC 7351, 7301 and 7281 US$650 and the EPYC 7251 US$475. For one-socket solutions, the EPYC 7551P is priced at US$2,100, the EPYC 7401P US$1,075 and the EPYC 7351P US$750.AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed at the event that following the releases of these 14nm Zen-based Naples series EPYC processors, the company is set to release its 7nm Zen 2-based Rome series processors between 2017-2020 to succeed the Naples series. In 2020, AMD will then announce the next-generation 7nm Zen 3-based Milan series.AMD may switch the manufacturing partner for its 7nm processors from GlobalFoundries to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which would improve yield rates and costs, according to industry sources.AMD EPYC datacenter processors: specificationsModelCore / ThreadBase freq (GHz)Max boost (GHz)TDP (W)EPYC 760132 / 642.23.2180EPYC 7551P32 / 642.03.0180EPYC 750132 / 642.03.0155/170EPYC 745124 / 482.33.2180EPYC 7401P24 / 482.03.0155/170EPYC 7351P16 / 322.42.9155/170EPYC 730116 / 322.22.7155/170EPYC 728116 / 322.12.7155/170EPYC 72518 / 162.12.9120AMD EPYC datacenter processorPhoto: Monica Chen, Digitimes, June 2017

Clientron Corp., a global leading provider of thin clients, POS and embedded systems, has unveiled its innovative R800 and Q800 for streamlined thin client applications. The innovative R800 and Q800 both feature a durable fanless design and a reliable embedded platform in an eco-friendly form factor compliant with Energy Star 6.1. They are built to support virtual desktop solutions and cloud computing applications, meeting the demands of today's mainstream thin client market.Reliable Embedded Platform and Innovate System DesignBoth R800 and Q800 are based on Intel Braswell Refresh delivering 15 years of product life and outstanding performance on less power consumption. The R800 features a solid aluminum chassis and comes with Intel Celeron N3160 quad-core processor offering high flexibility and performance, while the Q800 features an ultra-compact design powered by Intel Celeron N3060 dual-core processor for entry-level to mainstream thin client applications. The innovative designs promise excellent durability with capacitive-touch power buttons for switching on/off the systems without a mechanical part.High Flexibility and Enhanced Security OperationTo enable flexible expansion, the R800 offers 4K ultra-high-definition (UHD), supporting triple displays with two DisplayPorts and one HDMI port. In addition, the R800 features an innovative rotating ports-on-foot design with two built-in USB ports for expansion. Moreover, the R800 offers M.2 interfaces for optional WiFi modules, and it also supports optional PoE+ modules to provide up to 25W of power for the device. As a compact option, the Q800 offers 4K resolution dual displays with one DisplayPort and one HDMI port. The Q800 also supports the M.2 connector for system expansion. Both devices also support optional TPM 2.0 modules that are critical to providing a secure computing environment.Best Virtual Desktop Solution for Mainstream Thin ClientsBuilt to serve as virtual desktop solutions, the R800 and Q800 support multiple protocols including Citrix HDX, Microsoft RDP and VMware Horizon View to enhance multimedia streaming performance and expand desktop experience to cloud computing. The R800 and Q800 can run Linux, WES7, WES8, Win10 IoT operating systems to satisfy diverse needs. The R800 is a high-performance and flexible thin client which can be adopted for banking, multimedia and medical care solutions. The Q800 is a compact thin client solution suitable for office, school, and call center operations.The Clientron Thin Client R800 and Q800 are available now. For more product details, please contact Clientron's sales team or visit our website www.clientron.comThe Clientron R800 Thin Client based on Intel Quad Core processor supporting triple displays and 4K resolution for virtual desktop solutions.

Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) has shipped its 5,000th V93000 test system to Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT), a leading supplier of system-level semiconductor solutions. The recently installed system is equipped with the new DC Scale AVI64 universal analog pin card, Pin Scale 1600 digital cards and DC Scale DPS128 cards to meet IDT’s needs in new product markets.“IDT initially purchased the V93000 to address very-high-performance, high-speed clock and timing devices,” states Mr. Scott Martin, Vice President of Product and Test Engineering at IDT. “We now have a tester platform we can deploy for multiple product segments, enabling us to optimize our testing capabilities and reduce costs.”“The AVI64 has allowed the V93000 platform to expand into the power and analog market space, where it has rapidly gained wide acceptance among the leading analog and mixed-signal device manufacturers around the world,” said Hans-Juergen Wagner, senior vice president of the SoC Business Group at Advantest Corporation. “With the launch of the AVI64 in the V93000 platform portfolio, current and next-generation power and analog devices can be tested more efficiently and cost effectively, leading to faster time to market.”A member of Advantest’s versatile V93000 series of testers, the AVI64 module provides greater flexibility and scalability that enables unprecedented asset utilization, manufacturing flexibility and the lowest cost of test. The AVI64 is architecturally advanced compared to current market offerings, integrating on a single card 64 independent channels with multiple functions including precision DC source and measure, pulsed power capabilities, arbitrary waveform generators and digitizers, high-voltage digital I/O and time measurement capabilities. Traditional ATE solutions have been using multiple types of cards with much lower channel counts per card, limiting the ability to perform multi-site testing. The AVI64 delivers twice the parallel test count while significantly simplifying loadboard designs by reducing the need for relays. As a result, test times have been shortened and the cost of test has been reduced by as much as 50 percent compared to incumbent solutions.About IDTIntegrated Device Technology, Inc. develops system-level solutions that optimize its customers’ applications. IDT’s market-leading products in RF, high performance timing, memory interface, real-time interconnect, optical interconnect, wireless power, and SmartSensors are among the company’s broad array of complete mixed-signal solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive and industrial segments. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., IDT has design, manufacturing, sales facilities and distribution partners throughout the world. IDT stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Stock Market® under the symbol “IDTI.” Additional information about IDT can be found at www.IDT.com. Follow IDT on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.About Advantest CorporationA world-class technology company, Advantest is the leading producer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry and a premier manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design and production of electronic instruments and systems. Its leading-edge systems and products are integrated into the most advanced semiconductor production lines in the world. The company also focuses on R&D for emerging markets that benefit from advancements in nanotech and terahertz technologies, and has introduced multi-vision metrology scanning electron microscopes essential to photomask manufacturing, as well as groundbreaking 3D imaging and analysis tools. Founded in Tokyo in 1954, Advantest established its first subsidiary in 1982, in the USA, and now has subsidiaries worldwide. More information is available at www.advantest.com.

Selected by the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA), Taiwan will host the 2017 World Congress on IT (WCIT) in Taipei during September 10-13, 2017. Often referred to as the “Olympics” of the ICT industry, WCIT is a high-level international congress that demonstrates the latest trends in the ICT industry.Having previously hosted the event in 2000, WCIT 2017 in Taiwan is a must-attend event for business executives, government leaders and media who will benefit from discussing emerging markets, legal and policy issues, political and economic trends, emerging technologies, ICT user perspectives and business opportunities in the global marketplace. With the theme “Living the Digital Dream”, this pinnacle event will feature keynotes from internationally recognized leaders who will shed light on the rapid advances in digital technology that are redefining our world, revolutionizing businesses, industries, governments, and society. WCIT 2017 will also demonstrate the momentum of innovative startups from Taiwan and worldwide.At the heart of the World Congress is WITSA’s vision of Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital Age, recognizing ICT as an enabler for businesses to enhance their competitiveness by using groundbreaking technologies and disruptive innovations while also potentially being a powerful force for the common good, in the jobs market, fostering creativity, bridging the digital gap in underserved populations, and promoting trust and security as well as driving businesses to create must-have products and solutions.WCIT 2017 will shine a spotlight on Taiwan, which – as a recognized global ICT leader - is well positioned to host WITSA’s pinnacle event. Taiwan not only has one of the world’s most complete ICT supply chains, but is the global leader in Smart Cities – successfully applying and integrating the latest in technological advances, including cloud computing, advanced sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), energy management, advanced urban transport, and many other solutions that enabling the possibilities to create cities that are more livable and sustainable. Taiwan is also a top innovator, and is slated to be the first nation in the world to achieve universal broadband access. Moreover, Taiwan had the honor of building the world’s first wireless city and is a global leader in research and development – being ranked among the top countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Reports. Steps are also well underway to make Taiwan a major exporter of cloud computing services and the country is noted as a leader in networked communications by the World Economic Forum’s Networked Readiness Index (the Global Information Technology Report 2014).Business is networking. At the WCIT, you will be part of a unique network of ICT professionals worldwide. Don’t miss out! Early Bird discounts are available until June 30!Travel to and experience the country that is living the digital dream! Register now at http://www.wcit2017.org/.ABOUT WCITFirst held in 1978 by WITSA (World Information Technology and Services Alliance), the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) has become the premier international IT forum. Bringing together visionaries, captains of industry, government leaders, and academics from all over the globe. It is an event of unparalleled scope and scale. Discussion topics range from emerging markets and technologies to legal and policy issues, user perspectives, new business opportunities and developing political and economic trends. The WCIT consistently attracts high level, internationally recognized leaders from government, industry, and academia. Furthermore, WCIT assists countries across the globe to facilitate their ICT policies. Accordingly, WCIT is constantly referred to as the “Olympics” of the ICT industry.

Metanoia Communications Inc. (Metanoia), a leading developer of very high-speed xDSL and Gfast PHY chipsets for the wireline broadband market, announced the successful completion of two important milestones today in its Gfast product strategy:a) Being part of a real product deployment with its Gfast chip embedded into an SFP (small form-factor pluggable) solution provided by Swisscom, and b) Certification of MT-G5321 based Gfast CPE and DPU products by the Broadband Forum (BBF) and the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL).Mass deployment of the SFP solution by Swisscom has started a couple days ago and will enable many customers to benefit from improvements in throughput and reliability without changing their router.“With the launch of G.fast SFP module co-developed by Metanoia, Huawei and Swisscom, we are offering to our copper customers an innovative and efficient way to upgrade their broadband data rates and quality of experience,” said Nicolas Stefani, router development expert at Swisscom.“Shipment of the first interoperable G.fast SFP in the market, by a top tier operator like Swisscom in their network, is a very significant achievement for Metanoia and the recognition of the maturity of our technology. We are happy to bring the benefits of our innovative technology by providing ultra high speed broadband service to Swisscom's customers by using a seamless and future proof form factor like SFP,” said Metanoia’s CEO, CT WU.Interoperability (IOP) has always been a crucial element for accelerated deployment of any broadband technology by operators. The recent announcement of Gfast-certified products by the BBF, in accordance with the Forum’s IR-337 certification test specification, is completing this critical step and thereby solidifying the already broad acceptance of the technology for mass market deployment as high throughput and reliability of these products enables operators to provide new higher value services to their customers.“We’re happy to see the hard work of certification participants, like Metanoia, coming to a successful conclusion,” said Lincoln Lavoie, UNH-IOL Senior Engineer for Broadband Technologies. “I have no doubt Gfast certification program has contributed to the success and robustness of the technology and the coming deployments and we’re looking forward to continuing to add new devices to the list of certifications.”CT Wu added, “Getting both our CPE and DPU products certified by UNH is a key step for operators to have confidence in the readiness of Metanoia's Gfast technology. Achieving these two milestones took significant efforts from our team, and we are pleased to see that this has placed Metanoia into a leading position in the Gfast market."Metanoia Gfast technology is based on a single configurable device MT-G5321, which can be embedded into both:a CPE solution (e.g. an SFP unit which can be plugged into any existing or future home gateways with an SFP cage), and a CO solution (e.g. a low power single port DPU solution).About Metanoia Communications Inc. Metanoia Communications ("Metanoia"), a subsidiary of Elan Microelectonics, is in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. Since its inception, Metanoia has been contributing to the development of several generations of semiconductor and software solutions for the wireline broadband and the in-home networking markets, delivering to broadband manufacturers very high-speed PHY devices with reliable and superior performances.For more information about Metanoia, please visit our website at www.metanoia-comm.com.

Bureau Veritas will be exhibiting at Mobile World Congress in Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), Shanghai between 28 and 30 June. We will present our comprehensive portfolio, covering virtually all aspects that have to be tried and tested to make the Internet of Things become a working reality.Meet our Bureau Veritas specialists at Stand #W2.B01 in SNIEC Industry Hall to learn about the hottest topics within todays and tomorrow’s smart world including Smart Home, Bluetooth 5, Connected Car as well as discussing the latest technical and commercial requirements. Over the course of the 3-day, we will be providing executive insights covering the latest regulatory, performance, security and interoperability challenges within the smart world with practical guidelines on how to address & overcome.