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Yes, Apple did it. It put a 3D camera on the front of the iPhone X - and the technical approach is more complex than anyone had envisioned. This is not the time-of-flight (ToF) array we thought it would be, but a combination of a ToF proximity detector and an infrared “Structured Light” camera that can either use a uniform “flood” or “dot pattern” illumination.

Fan-Out packaging solutions have been the hottest topic in the advanced packaging industry for two years, and that will remain true, announces Yole Développement (Yole). Will the fan-out market growth keep going? Who can challenge the leading semiconductor company, TSMC? Is panel technology coming? What will be the next killer application? Many important questions face the fan-out packaging industry.

As reported by Reuters, South Korea’s SK Innovation said it has started commercial production of lithium-ion batteries with an increased portion of nickel, while reducing the usage of expensive components such as cobalt to extend battery life and cut costs.

In the AMD-NVIDIA battle, System Plus Consulting’s experts continue to pursue innovation and monitor progress. At the beginning of the year, AMD was pleased to announce its forthcoming GPU architecture, Vega. Presented at CES 2017 and commercially available mid-2017, AMD’s GPU has been meticulously analyzed by System Plus Consulting’s lab.

Display makers have long been intrigued and excited by the potential of organic TFT (OTFT) to enable the manufacturing of high performance, low cost flexible displays. Interest emerged in the mid 2000’s when performance of organic semiconductors reached levels similar to amorphous silicon (a-Si), the dominant display TFT backplane technology. Sony’s first ever flexible OLED panel demonstrated in 2007 used an OTFT backplane.

Yole Développement (Yole) expects the connected medical device market to reach $23B in 2022, with a 16.3% CAGR from $9B sales in 2016. More than 80% of the $9B sales contribute to the monitoring of major chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases.