ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of industrial-grade DRAM modules and NAND Flash products, today expands on its DDR5 series lineup with the announcement of new industrial-grade DDR5 4800 ECC U-DIMM and ECC SO-DIMM memory modules. The DDR5 modules are designed for the latest Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake processors, and future DDR5 platforms, making them suitable for a wide range of applications, including servers, data centers, workstations, networking, telemedicine, edge computing, and High-Performance Computing (HPC).ADATA's industrial-grade DDR5 ECC U-DIMM and ECC SO-DIMM memory modules utilize original SAMSUNG ICs and offer capacities of 16GB and 32GB. DDR5 performs at twice the bandwidth of DDR4 with data transfer rates of up to 4800 MT/s, while also operating at a lower 1.1V for improved energy efficiency. In addition, they feature on-module Power Management ICs (PMIC), which improve power management and provide a more stable power supply with per-module granularity. What's more, the DDR5 ECC U-DIMM and SO-DIMM memory modules are equipped with On-die ECC (error correcting code) and Side-band ECC technologies for more reliable data transmissions.All ADATA industrial-grade DDR5 memory modules feature thermal sensors to prevent overheating for improved stability and use 30µ PCB gold plating for improved signal transmission, plus anti-sulfuration protection and conformal coating technology for resilience against pollution, dust, and humidity.For more product details, please visit ADATA Industrial's website:DDR5 ECC U-DIMM: https://industrial.adata.com/en/product/DDR5_ECCUDIMMDDR5 ECC SO-DIMM: https://industrial.adata.com/en/product/DDR5_ECCSODIMMADATA Industrial expends on its DDR5 series lineup with the launch of ECC modules.

As Taiwan enters the "dog days of summer," its electricity consumption has repeatedly hit new highs, and the importance of energy conservation and green energy has become ever more prominent. MEAN WELL, the world's leading brand of standard power supplies, has long been committed to improving product performance to assist all sectors in efforts of energy conservation and carbon reduction; especially in recent years, various industries have faced the impact of ESG, and the demand for energy-conserving and green energy products is even more intense. MEAN WELL's diversified products, through flexible combination of 3+N System Solutions, can help customers quickly achieve energy-conservation goals."3" here refers to Rack Power, Modular Power and System Power and "N" represents the infinite possibilities of MEAN WELL's product combination and flexibility. Under the 3+N System Solutions framework, MEAN WELL's new generation of industrial-grade chargers and inverters, bidirectional power supplies, and energy-saving burn-in system solutions have become energy-saving tools for all fields.MEAN WELL 3+N system solutionsEris Wu, Chief Technical Service Officer at MEAN WELL: "If an enterprise wants to reduce electricity bills while taking into account power stability and net-zero carbon emissions, peak-shaving and valley-filling of the energy storage system and bidirectional power conversion can store energy during off-peak hours and discharge during peak hours, so as to maximally allow for no distinct peaks or lows. Only by reducing stress on the power system can further save electricity costs, save energy, and reduce carbon." When electricity bills are about to rise, companies must step up and take countermeasures.Redundant, Portable Power Products are Becoming Readily AvailableMEAN WELL's new generation of industrial-grade chargers and inverters have complete specifications, ranging from low to high wattage, thus fully meeting requirements for battery charging, green energy storage, power backup, mobile device charging, mobile power supply, and stationary energy storage.Generally speaking, in places where there is no alternating current, electricity mostly relies on fuel generators to generate alternating current to meet demand. However, generators are not only noisy and polluting, they are also not in line with environmental protection; also, DC-AC inverters play an important role in green energy applications. In response to such needs, MEAN WELL's NTS/NTU series of inverters and NPB series of chargers are paired with customer battery systems, which can solve power supply problems in various places without AC power, and can also be used as battery-based UPS backup power sources."As long as customers select products from MEAN WELL's website according to charging current and load required for the application; and with the support of the global technical service team, they can quickly find the system solutions that they need," said Tony Hsieh, Section Manager of MEAN WELL's Technical Service Center.MEAN WELL continues to develop miniaturized products and increase the freedom of product installation to expand the scope of application further. For example, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals have primarily adopted many mobile disinfection lights; MEAN WELL's miniaturized products can be directly integrated with the main body of these mobile systems to provide mobile charging functions and improve the mobility of devices. Similarly, medical carts, floor scrubbing robots, and other devices can also benefit from the convenience of MEAN WELL power supplies. In addition, through the combination of software, applications such as burners can quickly set voltage and current, making them more convenient.Bidirectional Power Supplies Convert + Recycle PowerMEAN WELL bidirectional power supplies are mainly used in battery R&D and testing. In recent years, with the development of green energy and sustainable development, battery consumption has grown rapidly. Thus, a good battery can help save energy and reduce carbon. From battery manufacture to shipment, charging and discharging processes of the battery must be repeated to maintain the level of function and performance of the battery.In the past, a charger and an inverter had to be used separately to perform charging and discharging. The heat energy generated by the discharge through resistance would dissipate into the air, causing the temperature of the working environment to rise. As the name suggests, MEAN WELL's bidirectional power supply combines those two devices—a charger and an inverter. In addition to charging the DC battery through AC, it can discharge seamlessly in the reverse direction within 1ms. The battery or the load terminal recovers the DC energy and is then converted into AC power, which is directly fed to the mains grid."In this way, the 1ms seamless switching function can graph the complete charge and discharge curve. The cost of charging and discharging equipment can be reduced, space can be reduced, and the maintenance work can be simplified as well. Furthermore, heat dissipation is greatly reduced, meaning the temperature rise of the working environment will be limited and the amount of air-conditioning can be reduced, all resulting in lower power consumption," said Simon Kuo, Product Manager of the Product Strategy Center.MEAN WELL's BIC-2200 series of Bidirectional Power Supplies has been top-rated since its launch. In addition to the above advantages, complete safety certification is another reason why MEAN WELL products are so well-received by both domestic and foreign customers. It is reported that many world-renowned automatic test equipment (ATE) manufacturers have adopted MEAN WELL's bidirectional power supplies to meet the high requirements of standard battery testing of European, American, and Japanese vehicle manufacturers.Example of a lithium battery manufacturing process using BIC-2200 seriesEnergy saving rate of the energy-saving burn-in system is as high as 80%MEAN WELL provides various energy-conserving products to its customers and strives to save electricity as a company internally. For example, for the burn-in process, MEAN WELL has developed and designed its Energy Recovery System (ERS) ERG-5000, which recycles and reuses the power used initially for burn-in testing.A small part of the insufficient electric energy is provided by the mains AC, giving an energy-saving rate as high as 81%. ERS saves electricity and reduces emissions of GHGs and harmful gases.The adoption of this energy-conserving burn-in system has earned MEAN WELL recognition in the "3rd Enterprises Environmental Protection Award" held by the Environmental Protection Administration. Now, MEAN WELL not only uses the ERS internally, but has also promoted it to industry partners, helping everyone save energy and reduce carbon.

MEAN WELL, the world's leading brand in standard power supplies, has recently been actively promoting its 3+N System Solutions. "3" here refers to Rack Power, Modular Power and System Power and "N" represents the infinite possibilities of MEAN WELL's product combination and flexibility. Eris Wu, Chief Technical Service Officer at MEAN WELL, states: "We mainly recommend the CMU2 Multi-Industry General-Purpose Smart Controller with a wide range of choices for system power supply, high-voltage centralized power supply, high-peak power supply, and energy-saving burn-in system, which can quickly satisfy the requirements of customers for equipment system applications."CMU2 multi-industry general-purpose smart controllerThe CMU2 controller combines digitization and intelligenceCMU2 is MEAN WELL's latest generation Multi-Industry General-Purpose Smart Controller. Different from the previous generation LCD display interface, the CMU2 uses a full-color touch screen. "In an era when a device is in each person's hands, this is the most intuitive operation method, which is very user-friendly. In the future, it can be directly modified for different appearances and uses through software and firmware, and it's extremely scalable," said Simon Kuo, Product Manager of the Product Strategy Center. Therefore, even if there are dozens of power supplies to be controlled, the user can still handle them all, with just one finger.The CMU2 system power controller can control up to 64 3200W power supplies. The system power supply is composed of several separate power supplies. For example, MEAN WELL's DRP-3200 series Rack Mount Power Supplies is one of customers' most commonly used power supply options.Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) synchrotron high-power light sourceCMU2 has earned the approval of national research centers MEAN WELL's CMU2 and system power supply combination is suitable for applications with high power consumption, including: industrial applications, water treatment, electric vehicle EV charging, electronic product aging operating systems, UV curing equipment, horticultural lighting, lasers, etc. Tony Hsieh, Section Manager of MEAN WELL's Technical Service Center, emphasized: "In these applications, digital and smart management of centralized power configuration can save a lot of trouble." CMU2 has built-in firmware and software for different applications, such as voltage and current adjustment required for power management, power monitoring, or burn-in time and load setting required for burn-in devices.The stability, intelligence, and cost-effectiveness of MEAN WELL power supply systems have always been very well-received. The recent successful introduction into national research centers is one more testament to MEAN WELL system power supplies being ready for the global stage. Solution components provided by MEAN WELL to research centers include: DRP-3200 series Rack Mount Power Supplies, DHP-1UT-A 1U Rack Mountable Power Supply Case, CMU2 Multi-Industry General-Purpose Smart Controller and 19-inch 15U Standard Case; output power of the parallel solution can reach up to 128kW.This system power solution will be used as a high-frequency system power supply for research centers, and will provide the RF amplifier with the energy needed to amplify tiny signals into the system.DC high-voltage centralized power supply enters the field of lightingDC high-voltage centralized power supply is an emerging power supply option for the 3+N system solutions. This is especially true considering that the energy issue has not diminished over the past two years. From power outages in China in 2021 and the reduction in natural gas supply caused by the Russo-Ukrainian War this year; hydrogen energy has even attracted attention again recently. These phenomena have drawn the market into paying increasingly more attention to DC high-voltage centralized power supplies.Tony Hsieh said, "The conversion efficiency of a DC centralized power supply in the system is higher as compared to AC power; this can reduce loss and is a good choice for environmental protection and energy conservation. In addition, it is easy to integrate in various power grids, which also makes DC centralized power supply promising for applications such as green energy power generation and energy storage systems."MEAN WELL is committed to implementing ESG, and believes it is responsible for promoting energy conservation and green energy. As the world's second-largest LED lighting driver power solutions manufacturer, MEAN WELL decided to enter the lighting field and provide a complete solution for DC high-voltage centralized power supply lighting. Market acceptance is expected to increase rapidly after power supply specifications become clearer.It is worth mentioning that the New Suzhou Intelligent Campus, which will be completed in the fourth quarter of this year, will use DC 380V wiring to supply the power needed for plant lighting and various machinery and equipment using a DC centralized power supply. It is undoubtedly the best demonstration field for DC centralized power supply.High-peak power supply saves cost and sizeMEAN WELL always tries its best to meet the needs of various customers. It is necessary to provide several times the rated current energy for many applications that use DC motors or capacitive loads to start the equipment instantly. MEAN WELL also launched the HRP-N3 series Peak Power Solution with built-in power factor correction AC-DC power supply. This series of power supplies has three power models: 150W/300W/600W.Take the industrial robot arm as an example: this device uses a DC motor as the driver for its movement and displacement to complete various actions. MEAN WELL's HRP-N3 series Peak Power Solution can provide a maximum of 350% peak power for 5 seconds, which is enough to supply DC motors with the power needed to complete instantaneous actions reliably and quickly.In general, when more power is required, common practices include: Replacing power supplies with higher power specifications, connecting more power supplies in parallel, and optimizing the system. However, these methods have the disadvantages of greatly increasing cost and taking up precious space. In contrast, HRP-N3, which can instantly provide peak power to equipment, reduce costs, reduce volume, and facilitate the installation of user-end equipment, making it the best solution.

STAr Technologies, a provider of semiconductor test solutions, releases a new Sagittarius-WLR integrated platform for advanced Wafer-Level Reliability (WLR) tests. Sagittarius-WLR is developed to address new device reliability qualification needs for advanced nanometer node technologies. More than 30 test algorithms are newly developed or revised to meet advanced reliability qualifications including ultra-fast NBTI/PBTI, HCI, GOI/TDDB, isothermal electromigration, etc. Sagittarius-WLR is one of the most comprehensive all-encompassing software for fast, predictive, and qualified solutions for advanced technology nodes semiconductor devices with reliability qualifications.The Sagittarius-WLR covers most of the critical reliability test requirements and features parallel multi-device and multi-tester operations to reduce qualification time. With dynamic parallel execution mode, users can concurrently run multiple devices to reduce qualification time by stressing and testing devices in parallel. At the same time, the multi-tester operation mode allows independent and a maximum of 32 virtual testers running tests in parallel under one hardware configuration. This flexibility will enable all kinds of test splits and dynamic test selection with parallel automated test operations.Furthermore, Sagittarius-WLR is designed with functions that allow users to have efficient reliability with real-time display of Pass/Fail judgment and test data. This test system can further be applied for electrical process-control monitoring (PCM), reliability monitoring, and reliability qualification. The system data will simultaneously be stored in the file management system as raw data in office CSV or any user-defined format locally or in the cloud for online data analysis with software tools provided. Hundreds of copies of Sagittarius-WLR have been installed and all can be upgraded with the new capabilities and can successfully improve reliability qualification efficiency and increases throughput.Yu-Ming Chien, President of STAr Technologies test business group, comments on this high-value test system, "STAr is devoted to the development of semiconductor reliability test for decades and continues to provide solutions that enhance measurement efficiency and accuracy. Sagittarius-WLR is the best-integrated test platform and indeed improves reliability qualification efficiency and proven track records with installations covering all the top foundries."

In response to the serious global issues of energy conservation and carbon reduction, brushless DC motors (BLDC Motors) are playing a significant role and forming an important industry trend due to their improved energy efficiency. BLDC motors have the advantages of a simple structure, high efficiency, long life, low noise and smaller size. The research institute, Grand View Research, has predicted that during the period 2021 to 2028, the BLDC motor global market size will expand to US$26.3 billion, with a CAGR of 5.7%.Holtek Semiconductor (HOLTEK) has been deeply embedded into the BLDC motor drive industry chain for many years, retaining a focus on motor drive MCU development as well as algorithm technology. The company has strict control over the full process from design, research and development to production, enabling Holtek to provide its customers with a range of high-quality motor control MCUs as well as providing stable product delivery. Holtek's already released 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0+ HT32F65xxx series of BLDC MCUs have passed the UL/IEC 60730-1 Class B motor control software safety certification. When combined with Holtek's HT32 BLDC Motor Workshop motor development platform, customers have the ability to easily import BLDC motor control solutions, thus greatly reducing the development effort and technical threshold required for the design of related BLDC motor applications.BLDC motor microcontroller research and development1. FOC (field-oriented control) control requires accurate motor current information, a robust digital circuit MCU internal control mechanism and improved analog IP performance2. For cost-sensitive 2-shunt and 1-shunt current sampling technology, Holtek released the HT32F652xx series. By using its internal high-speed 2Msps 12-bit ADC and OPA together with a flexible digital trigger mechanism, it is able to offer solutions for increasingly complex motor control requirements.3. Have an excellent understanding of the key high-voltage and high-current technologies to develop a series of SoC MCUs which include an integrated Gate-driver and Driver. These are suitable for small scale highly integrated products which have limited driver board space, such as electric assisted bicycles, electric scooters, power tools, vacuum cleaners and low-voltage motor modules, etc.Reliable and stable BLDC motor drive algorithm developmentHOLTEK has accumulated many years of BLDC drive technology experience and is able to provide appropriate algorithms for different product application.1. Square Wave Sensorless: the high torque characteristics of square wave technology still retain an important market presence. Holtek provides special back-EMF filtering technology which is able to provide reliable startup, low speed stability and commutation accuracy.2. FOC Sensorless:-Patented rotor initial position detection technology (IPD): This is able to detect the rotor initial position when the motor is stationary to resolve the rotor pulsating when using the positioning method.-Zero failure rate adaptive start-up technology: In situations where IPD is unable to be used, this will reduce mechanical vibration during motor startup. This technology can be adapted for various fan blades to allow a stable motor start.-A maximum speed of 150,000 rpm can be obtained.3. Multiple Stability Compensation-Hall sensor compensation is used to improve the Hall sensor angle deviation which can result in unstable estimated angle values.-Dead time compensation can improve current distortion, reduce harmonics and decrease audible noise.-Capacitor voltage ripple compensation will increase torque stability.-Current loop voltage compensation can control current surges and improves current control response.4. Increase the speed range-Weak field control to reach speeds exceeding the rated speed.-Over modulation technology used where weak field control cannot be used to increase speed.5. Automatic control parameter identification-Automatic identification of motor parameters within seconds.-Current loop PID gain without trial and error.BLDC motor control scheme foremost choice1. In addition to conforming to the complete UL 60730 standard self-inspection procedure, the HT32F65xxx series of MCUs also conform to the UL/IEC 60730-1 Class B motor control software safety certification. Here a complete program library and manufacturing inspection platform are provided, reducing both customer cost and time to achieve UL certification.2. The HT32 BLDC Motor Workshop motor development platform provides customers with an intelligent tool to assist with parameter configuration. This user-friendly platform includes a real-time monitoring debugging interface, ensuring that customers have an easy to use means to import BLDC motor drive technology into their product applications.3. Provides innovative remote services, where remote assistance can be provided to make adjustments without being in the same location or having the same equipment as the customer. This greatly reduces required time and travel thus greatly improving service efficiencies.HOLTEK provides complete BLDC motor solutions and high-quality technical services, which assist customers to reduce their development learning threshold resulting in much reduced development times. Refer to the HOLTEK official website for a more complete BLDC Motor MCU selection table and reference solutions.HOLTEK can supply complete BLDC motor drive solutions

LB Semicon is planning to offer fan-out wafer-level package (FOWLP) service next year at the earliest. The company completed the development of relevant technologies earlier this year and has been testing them with an analog chip customer since the first quarter. LB Semicon will likely offer FOWLP for RF and power management ICs.Fan-out packaging market was worth US$1.5 billion in 2020 but is expected to grow 15.1% per year on average to be worth US$3.4 billion in 2026, According to Yole Developpement.LB Semicon is a company in South Korea which provides the full turn-key service of WLCSP, RDL, bumping, probe test, back-end and etc.LB Semicon

STAr Technologies, a leading supplier of semiconductor reliability test systems, today announces the sale of Accel-RF HTOL Burn-In test systems to top semiconductor foundries in Taiwan. Accel-RF Instruments Corp., a STAr Technologies Group company, located in San Diego, U.S.A. and specializing in turn-key RF reliability and performance characterization test solutions for compound semiconductors, provides this HTOL burn-in reliability test solution.With industries driving increased complexity in RF systems, more components and devices are becoming part of the RF block diagram. To ensure complete system reliability, the qualification of critical components subject to high RF drive when in use is needed. Accel-RF, the world leader in the design and manufacture of RF reliability test systems, designed the RF-Biased Burn-In system with modular architecture and a high channel-capacity, expandable tray design, to provide the flexibility to qualify multiple device types within a small rack footprint. The system boasts a range of DC bias supply options, from high resolution/low power supplies for small devices including GaAs HBT and SiGe, to options for high power RF devices including GaN and LDMOS, etc.The RF-Biased HTOL Burn-In system configuration has all power supply control units and PCU modules embedded and controlled through the LIFETEST software and system controller. Auto-Bias features for gate/base and drain/collector levels, and on/off sequencing are programmable in the PCU setup. Each channel or DUT is independently sourced and controlled in this platform architecture. All temperature setting and control are achieved through the LIFETEST software and temperature monitoring is done independently and individually per DUT channel."The RF-Bias Burn-In reliability system addresses growing industry test requirements and enables manufacturers to collect the reliability data their customers demand, ensuring early adoption of their devices to the marketplace," Roland Shaw, president of Accel-RF commented. "The sale of our RF reliability systems to Taiwan's top foundries reflects our ability to stay on the cutting edge of semiconductor test technology, and shows that we have been recognized by the global semiconductor industry."Yu-Ming Chien, President of STAr Technologies test business group said, "Innovation is at the core of our corporate philosophy. The RF-Biased Burn-In reliability system diversifies and enhances our range of products, solutions and services. STAr Technologies will continue being committed to providing effective solutions to meet customers' test needs now and in the future."

Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the leader in Advanced ASIC, announced that they have silicon proved their 7.2 Gbps HBM3 solution, using SK hynix's first available HBM3 samples. The platform was demonstrated at the Partner Pavilion of the TSMC 2022 North America Technology Symposium; it contained an HBM3 Controller, a PHY, GLink-2.5D die-to-die interface, and a 112G SerDes. The platform supports both the TSMC CoWoS-S (silicon Interposer) and the CoWoS-R (organic interposer) advanced packaging technologies.The platform represents real-world CPU/GPU/AI/Networking chips by integrating multiple HBM3 memories, GLink-2.5D die-to-die interfaces, and 112G-LR lanes in a high power (up to 400 W) SoC. GUC designed the SoC chip, interposer, substrate and DFT to meet high power and high speed requirement at the system level; managed the consigned materials and final testing with extensive operation experience; and worked with TSMC on CoWoS package assembly.The HBM3 PHY and Controller IP are ready for high yield production at 7.2 Gbps. GUC's patent-pending interposer design allows HBM3 bus routing between PHY and memory at any angle while keeping the same signal quality as in regular straight HBM bus routing. It also provides a high flexibility for the SoC and interposer floorplan. GUC's patented solution enables a memory bus of one HBM3 die to be split into two Controller/PHY pairs in two separate SoC dies. This unique feature enables the configuration of 2:6 or 2:10 SoC vs. HBM3 use cases.SK hynix's HBM3 – used for GUC's Controller, PHY, and platform – provides up to 819 GB/s of bandwidth. "Recently we started mass production of HBM3 and are proving the world's first readiness of HBM3 and its best performance." said Sungsoo Ryu, head of DRAM product planning at SK hynix, "By this cooperation, SK hynix and GUC were able to confirm their partnership within the HBM ecosystem. We appreciate this collaboration as an opportunity to prove the world's best HBM3 solution and solidify our leadership in the premium DRAM market.""We are proud, together with TSMC and SK hynix, to demonstrate a first-in-the-industry HBM3 solution. Our HBM3 Controller and PHY are based on the long time and high-volume manufacturing experience of GUC's CoWoS/HBM2 products. At 7.2 Gbps we are ready for the ever-growing speed requirements of our customers.", said Jentai Hsu, vice president of GUC. "GUC has a unique combination of HBM3, GLink-2.5D and GLink-3D IP portfolio, CoWoS, InFO_oS, 3DIC design expertise, package design, electrical and thermal simulations, DFT and production testing, high volume manufacturing experience to enable fast development, and quick production ramp-up of the highest end CPU/GPU/AI/Networking products."To learn more about GUC's HBM3/2E, GLink-2.5D/3D IP portfolio and InFO/CoWoS/3DIC total solution, please contact your GUC sales representative directly or send email to IP-FAE-AM@guc-asic.com.Please visit https://www.guc-asic.comGUC 7.2Gbps HBM3 solution using SK Hynix's first available HBM3 samplesKey features of GUC's HBM3 CoWoS Platform

DIGITIMES Research report shows that Taiwan's ICT industry development has shifted from focusing on hardware to hardware/software integration models. The industry is combining big data analysis and AI applications in public IoT to facilitate the development of smart city management. Tools such as IoT, AI, cloud computing, and communications technologies are efficiently integrated with urban infrastructure to ultimately produce economic benefits and improve quality of life.It is estimated that the business opportunities of smart cities will reach US$2.6 trillion in 2025, mainly in the Asia Pacific region. This includes sectors such as smart poles, building, parking, monitor, government, transportation, fire protection, water conservancy and WITMED. Smart cities, with a massive business potential, will become the future momentum!DIGITIMES will have Ayesha Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Addo, to share her observation of new smart city applications as well as how technologies can improve people's life and government efficiency on July 21 smart city webinar.In a pre-event interview that asked about Taiwan's role in the smart city market, Khanna pointed out that Taiwan's expertise in semiconductor and hardware is important to smart cities' development as more data is being used to improve AI systems, resulting in rising demand for stronger infrastructure and hardware with next-generation AI semiconductors.Khanna believes that whether it is AI, robots, 3D printing, Internet of Things (IoT) or 5G, smart city's development should not start purely with technologies but the idea of assisting people to solve their problems or become the aspirational goal for citizens.When people want to have better energy and waste management in their city, designers can create an AI solution for monitoring energy usage that can turn streetlights on and off with a built-in smart lighting system. They can also build a centralized trash collection mechanism with sensors and have robots powered by AI to collect waste all around the neighborhoods to reduce traffic and road congestions.It is also important to collect and integrate publicly available data and data from the ecosystem's private firms to form a system. By combining data of taxi companies and traffic light operation, it reduces people's waiting time for taxies, while traffic congestion can also be significantly lowered with the system's assistance in rerouting or changing the traffic lights.Nowadays, because of the pandemic, the number of hospital visits via online meeting software or telemedicine services has increased dramatically as people find it more convenient and efficient. The technologies used by medical care system are also making improvements with some designers beginning to adopt biometric sensors onto the terminals for the machines to collect more patients' data, giving doctors more information to make intelligent diagnosis, such as handheld ultrasound products that can be connected via smartphones for patients to check on themselves via AI or by medical staff nearby and then send results to their doctors.Technologies for remote medical care are a key area that many IT companies have devoted their R&D effort to. Ambulances built with remote medical care system can connect doctors with ambulances care assistants for them to do checkups while transporting patents to the hospital. The doctors can also make an examination over patients' injuries via a head-mounted display (HMD) to save time.However, all these innovations still rely on 5G to form connections. The technology allows devices to communicate with each other with its fast transmission speed and has brought a revolution to the manufacturing industry and factories. In Singapore, a lot of investments are being made for deploying 5G infrastructure throughout the city. This is also the case for many other countries including the US.As smart systems are adopting more sensors to enhance their data collection ability, 5G's commercialization has become the key to unlock the potential of IoT. With telecom carriers worldwide keenly expanding their 5G infrastructure, Khanna is optimistic about the birth of more new smart systems and the rapid development of smart cities worldwide soon.In the end, the future of smart city will not be operated by one large central AI, but multiple small ones. Issues within smart cities' key sectors such as healthcare, energy and education will continue to be handled by government departments or public sector companies with them using AIs to optimize and create innovations for their services, Khanna said.Join DIGITIMES Asia smart city webinar in discovering the digital transformation of smart cities, find out how to build a smart city, and about the applications and connected solutions that drive city extensive improvements, creating better quality of life for residents and business opportunities for enterprises.For more webinar information, please visit https://reurl.cc/zZdEM0DIGITIMES Asia smart city webinar will start on 7/21

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, is continuing to build on the successful EMEA roll-out of its Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS) and is now launching global connectivity sales in the Asia Pacific region. This new launch complements Quectel's heritage of providing innovative modules and antennas to support cellular applications and allows customers to simplify their edge-based deployments by purchasing SIM cards and connectivity management alongside modules, antennas and design services. Adding connectivity broadens the company's portfolio and helps its customers to simplify the journey of designing, building, connecting and commercializing their IoT offerings.Quectel connectivity is available now in more than 190 countries via over 500 network operators, and currently provides 2G, 3G, 4G, NB-IoT and Cat-M connections. Connectivity from Quectel is available to the whole market and will particularly benefit deployments that can realize accelerated time-to-market and optimized business efficiencies from using a single supplier for module, antenna and connectivity.Embedded and integrated SIM (eSIM and iSIM) offerings are now entering mainstream adoption, and Quectel has recently launched the new BG773A-GL ultra-compact LTE Cat M1, NB1 and NB2 module which offers integrated SIM (iSIM) support. The iSIM capability of this new module provides huge flexibility and simplicity for integrators and IoT service providers, simplifying customer deployments that previously would have needed to have a local-market traditional SIM card installed and managed. With an eSIM or iSIM enabled module plus Quectel connectivity, the module, once powered up, will attach to the best available network."Quectel connectivity is built on the backbone of service, quality and reliability, backed by Tier 1 providers and robust service level agreements (SLAs)," said Richard Hart, Director of Global Connectivity at Quectel. "Our focus is on providing commercial flexibility for our customers to ensure they receive high-quality connectivity that enables their IoT solutions regardless of where they are located in the world. Using self-optimizing tariffs, we can minimize the risk of additional charges when issues such as over-the-air (OTA) software updates utilize extra bandwidth and therefore prevent bill shock."Alongside its long-standing global expertise in modules and antennas, Quectel also has significant experience in connectivity, having developed its QuecConnectivity platform that already manages more than 30 million SIMs in Asia. "Our module and antenna offering can now be combined with Connectivity-as-a-Service providing customers a single point of entry to Quectel's full portfolio of products and services," said Michael Wallon, VP Sales, APAC & ANZ."By adding connectivity to our capabilities, Quectel is reducing complexity for our customers by simplifying and accelerating IoT device deployment," said Patrick Qian, CEO of Quectel. "Quectel is committed to innovation that drives benefits for customers in the IoT industry, and our connectivity launch in the Asia Pacific region is another milestone in that journey. Quectel has helped IoT companies build a smarter world for more than a decade, now we will also connect a smarter world."