The document is a weekly business and technology innovation report prepared by Ferhat Ünlükal on 11/16/2014. It provides headlines on recent developments in various industries such as consumer electronics, ICT, flat panel displays, semiconductors, software and retail/payments. Key highlights include Samsung investing $3 billion in a new smartphone factory in Vietnam, Sony launching an online TV service, Apple opening an R&D center in Cambridge, and the NCR Silver POS system enabling merchants to accept bitcoin payments. The report also provides market forecasts for various technologies such as the Internet of Things and wireless building controls.

1. BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION REPORT
Week 46
2014
Prepared by
Ferhat Ünlükal
11/16/2014

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BUSINESS &
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
REPORT
Week 46
Headlines
Consumer Electronics (CE)
• Samsung has applied for a licence to
invest $3 billion in building a second
smartphone factory in northern
Vietnam.
• Samsung announced Samsung Gear™
VR Innovator Edition will be available in
the U.S. early December.
• Sony's PlayStation is diving into the
entertainment business.
ICT
• Apple will be opening a research and
development center in Cambridge.
• IBM and NVIDIA just announced they
were building the world’s fastest
supercomputers.
• Xiaomi Technology Co reached an
agreement with US-listed Chinese video
streaming firm Youku Tudou Inc.
• Telpa plans to team up with Apple's
main assembler Foxxconn to make
mobile phones and tablets in Turkey.
• The IoT market will grow to $8.9 trillion
by 2020.
• There will be 74.5 million tablets
shipped globally in the fourth quarter of
2014.
• Worldwide Ultra HD capable set-top
box (STB) shipments will reach 48
million by 2020.
• Worldwide revenue from wireless
control systems for smart buildings is
expected to grow from $97 million
annually in 2014 to $434 million in
2023..
• The global market for nanotechnology-
enabled printing technology is expected
to grow at a projected compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.7%
over the next five years to total $31.8
billion by 2018.
Flat Panel Industry
• Sharp Corp has announced that it has
developed a 4.1-inch IGZO LCD panel.
• LG Display is on track to ramp up
production of OLED panels.
Semiconductor Industry
• Broadcom announced the addition of
more than 40 channel partners.
• NXP has teamed up with industry
leaders to launch a 'Communicating
Cars' test drive along the ITS.
• Toshiba announced the latest addition
to its TZ1000 family of ApP Lite™
application processors.
• Microchip announced its first App
Developer Specialist—WillowTree Apps.
• WiseChip Semiconductor has developed
low-color-temperature quasi-candela
OLED lighting technology.
• MIPI® Alliance introduced a sensor
interface specification for mobile,
mobile-influenced and embedded-
systems applications.
• The new market categories will help
the market for thin and flexible
batteries reach $300 million in 2024.
Software Industry
• Ubitus Inc. announced its partnership
with Alibaba to launch the cloud
gaming service in China.
Retail and Payment Industry
• The NCR Silver™ cloud-based point-of-
sale (POS) system for small businesses
will offer merchants the ability to
accept bitcoins as payment.
• HP announced expanded support for
new cloud-based payment platforms

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Consumer Electronics (CE)
Samsung
Investment in Vietnam
• South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co
Ltd has applied for a licence to invest
$3 billion in building a second
smartphone factory in northern
Vietnam, a government official said on
Monday.
• Samsung Electronics Vietnam plans to
build the factory in Thai Nguyen
province, where it opened a $2 billion
smartphone plant in March, said a
senior official at the province's Planning
and Investment Department.
VR Innovator edition and developer
Conference
• Samsung Telecommunications America,
LLC (Samsung) announced Samsung
Gear™ VR Innovator Edition will be
available in the U.S. early December.
Gear VR Innovator Edition, powered by
Oculus, delivers a fully immersive
virtual reality experience on the Galaxy
Note 4, creating an entirely new mobile
category.
Sony
Online TV services
• Sony's PlayStation is diving into the
entertainment business in a way that
may worry cable and satellite
companies.
• Sony unveiled its long-teased online TV
service, known as PlayStation Vue,
which will kick off with around 75
channels for each market with TV
shows, movies and other programs
from major networks and local stations
-- all without a cable or satellite
subscription.
• During the initial test rollout, viewers
will be able to tune into channels from
six media conglomerates: CBS, Fox,
NBCUniversal, Discovery
Communications, Scripps Networks and
Viacom. The 75 channels will include
paid-TV stalwarts such as Animal
Planet, National Geographic, Oxygen,
Sprout, Syfy, HGTV, Food Network,
Travel Channel, Comedy Central, MTV
and Nickelodeon.

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ICT Industry
Apple
R&D in Cambridge
• Apple will be opening a research and
development center in Cambridge,
England within the "next few weeks,"
according to a regional business
publication, Business Weekly. The
offices are reportedly located at 90 Hills
Road, and in the same city as offices
for other major tech firms like ARM,
Broadcom, Sony, Microsoft, and
Qualcomm. It's thought that Apple's
presence could start with about 20
workers and grow to as much as 40
within the next year.
IBM
Supercomputer with Nvidia
• IBM and NVIDIA just announced they
were building the world’s fastest
supercomputers. There is an ongoing
arms war for which country can field
the most powerful
supercomputers. There is, well,
everything on the line here because
these things are used for things like
modeling catastrophic weather events
and driving national defense. IBM,
NVIDIA, and the US all have something
not only critical to each other’s fortunes
but critical to the nation to prove here
and they announced how all three
would be addressing this opportunity.
Xiaomi
Investment in Video Content
• Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi
Technology Co reached an agreement
with US-listed Chinese video streaming
firm Youku Tudou Inc to invest in the
distribution and production of online
video content, a move analysts said will
be a win-win solution for the two
companies.
Foxconn
Partnership with Telpa
• Turkey's mobile phone maker Telpa
plans to team up with Apple's main
assembler Foxxconn to make mobile
phones and tablets in Turkey, Telpa
Chief Executive Sebahattin Yaman said.
• "They plan to invest in making tablets
and mobile phones in Turkey. Turkey is
a hub for them. They are also
considering moving production of other
goods to Turkey," Yaman said.
• Foxconn - which already assembles
Telpa phones outside Turkey - is in
talks with the Turkish government
regarding incentives for smart phone
production before making its final
decision, Telpa General Manager
Muzaffer Golcu said.
ICT Market
IoT Market
• Analyst firm IDC forecasts that the IoT
market will grow to $8.9 trillion by
2020 with anywhere between 30 to 50
billion connected autonomous things,
making the potential growth
opportunities staggering as sensors,
technology and networking come
together to enable buildings,
infrastructure and other resources to
swap information. Over the next
decade, as much as $3 trillion in global
smart technology opportunities will
exist for cities.
Tablet Shipments
• There will be 74.5 million tablets
shipped globally in the fourth quarter of
2014, increasing on quarter by 17.6%
but decreasing on year by 10.1%, and
of which 20 million units will be iPads,
27.8 million units of non-iPad models
launched by major vendors and 26.7
million units of white-box models,
according to Digitimes Research.
• Apple will account for 26.8% of the
shipments, followed by Samsung
Electronics with 14.6%, Lenovo 4.7%,
Asustek Computer 4%, Amazon 3.9%,

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Acer 1.7% and Hewlett-Packard
1.3%, Digitimes Research indicated.
• Taiwan-based ODMs/OEMs will ship
30.64 million tablets in the quarter,
growing on quarter by 32.5% but
slipping on year by 13.8%. Foxconn
Electronics will be the largest
manufacturer accounting for 48.4% of
shipments, Pegatron for 24.1%,
Compal Electronics 14.6% and Quanta
Computer 11.1%.
Ultra HD STB Market
• Worldwide Ultra HD capable set-top
box (STB) shipments will reach 48
million by 2020, while the market for
HEVC STBs – the next-generation of
video compression technology – will
rise even further to 88 million units. In
2014, the market will deploy only about
60,000 set-top high-end gateway STBs
with Ultra HD and HEVC capabilities
within high-end gateway set-top boxes.
After the initial push of high-end Ultra
HD capable boxes in multi-tuner
gateway boxes, a second round of HD
HEVC boxes will roll out in areas with
demand for HD services where the last-
mile network build out is not otherwise
sufficient to deploy HD MPEG-4
services, according to ABI Research.
Wireless Control Systems for Smart
Buildings
• A recent report from Navigant
Research examines the state of the
global wireless building controls
industry, including global market
forecasts for wireless node unit
shipments and revenue through 2023.
• Wireless controls can be used to link
devices found in a variety of building
systems, including heating, ventilating,
and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting,
fire and life safety, and security and
access. In addition, they often provide
networked control in buildings or areas
where wired controls are simply too
challenging or expensive to install. Click
to tweet: According to a recent report
from Navigant Research, worldwide
revenue from wireless control systems
for smart buildings is expected to grow
from $97 million annually in 2014 to
$434 million in 2023.
Nanotechnology Enabled Printing
Technology
• BCC Research
(http://www.bccresearch.com) reveals
in its new report, Nanotechnology in
Printing: Global Markets, the global
market for nanotechnology-enabled
printing technology is expected to grow
at a projected compound annual
growth rate (CAGR) of 17.7% over the
next five years to total $31.8 billion by
2018. The Asia-Pacific region is the
largest buyer of printing technologies
and will retain growth through the
forecast period with 17.3% CAGR and
reach revenues of $20.2 billion.

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Flat Panel Industry
Sharp
4.1 inch IGZO Panel
• Sharp Corp has announced that it has
recently developed a 4.1-inch IGZO
LCD panel that packs a rich resolution
of 736ppi.
• Sharp’s newly-developed display is an
IGZO LCD panel that measures 4.1-
inches with a resolution of 2,560 x
1,600 (WQXGA) or equal to 736ppi.
• Sharp aims to start volume production
of the new panel in 2016 with samples
to ship in 2015.
LG Display
OLED Panel Production
• LG Display, the display-making affiliate
of LG Electronics, is on track to ramp
up production of OLED panels in
December.
• The company is already producing
OLED panels at its M1 line at its factory
in Paju, South Korea, which has a
maximum production capacity of 8,000
glass substrates per month.
• LG is preparing to start operations of its
M2 line, which could produce up to
26,000 OLED panels per month when
fully operational.
• The M2 line is an 8th generation line,
meaning it cuts 2,200x2,500m
substrates into panels. The larger the
glass substrate, the less waste material
produced, meaning LG will cut costs in
making panels. The M2 line will
produce 55-, 65- and 77-inch panels.
Semiconductor Industry
Broadcom
IoT Ecosystem
• Broadcom Corporation (BRCM), a global
innovation leader in semiconductor
solutions for wired and wireless
communications, announced the
addition of more than 40 channel
partners, optimized to serve the
expanding Internet of Things (IoT) and
high volume Ethernet IC markets. The
company's new scalable sales model
provides the structure and broad
ecosystem needed to meet increasing
demand from thousands of developers
seeking access to its growing portfolio
of mass market products.
NXP
Communicating Cars
• NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXPI) has
teamed up with industry leaders to
launch a 'Communicating Cars' test
drive along the ITS (Intelligent
Transport Systems) Corridor across
Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.
Starting today from the world's leading
electronics trade show -- electronica --
in Munich, the tour will see a convoy of
Honda smart vehicles drive through
1300km of roads, including ITS test
fields in Munich, Vienna and Helmond
fitted with Siemens intelligent traffic
infrastructure. The demo cars, which
are fitted with leading and secure NXP
communications technology, will
showcase the benefits of smarter traffic
control including improved road safety
and reduced pollution.
Toshiba
Wearable Device Solution
• Toshiba America Electronic
Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, a
committed leader that collaborates with
technology companies to create
breakthrough designs, announced the

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latest addition to its TZ1000 family of
ApP Lite™ application processors for
wearable devices. The TZ1021MBG
processor is housed in a smaller,
thinner package than the first product
in the series, the TZ1001MBG,
launched earlier this year. Toshiba is
showcasing the new ApP Lite processor
later this week at Electronica 2014 in
Munich.
Microchip
Willow Tree Apps
• Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:
MCHP), a leading provider of
microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog
and Flash-IP solutions, announced its
first App Developer Specialist—
WillowTree Apps—the latest company
to join Microchip’s world-class Design
Partner Network. This new App
Developer Specialist category, which
designates an exclusive focus on Web
and native-app creation, builds on
Microchip’s deep roster of traditional
embedded hardware and software
development design partners.
WillowTree is an award-winning and
experienced iOS, Android™ and Mobile
Web app developer that enables
Microchip’s customers to focus on the
core of their Internet of Things designs
and expedite development cycles, while
ensuring an excellent mobile-interface
experience for their users.
WiseChip
Quasi-Candela OLED Lighting
• OLED display maker WiseChip
Semiconductor has developed low-
color-temperature quasi-candela OLED
lighting technology through cooperation
with Taiwan's National Tsing Hua
University and is poised to apply the
technology to high value-added lighting
in specific environment and for health
care, according to the company.
MIPI Alliance
Sensor Interface Specification
• MIPI® Alliance, an international
organization that develops interface
specifications for mobile and mobile-
influenced industries, introduced a
sensor interface specification for
mobile, mobile-influenced and
embedded-systems applications. The
new specification, named MIPI I3C (or
MIPI i3c), was developed with the
participation of vendors from across the
sensor and mobile ecosystems. The
name MIPI SenseWire℠ will be used to
describe the application of I3C℠ in
mobile devices and the use of the I3C
interface for mobile devices connecting
to a set of sensors, directly or
indirectly. MIPI Alliance issued the
announcement in conjunction with
MEMS Executive Congress, which is
taking place this week in Scottsdale,
Arizona.
Semiconductor Market
Flexible Batteries
• Form factor is becoming a major driver
shaping innovation and transforming
the energy storage industry globally.
This is fueled by the emergence of new
market categories such as wearable
electronic devices and Internet of
Things, which demand thinness and
flexibility. These new market categories
will help the market for thin and flexible
batteries reach $300 million in 2024.

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Software Industry
Alibaba
Cloud Gaming
• Ubitus Inc., the worldwide cloud
gaming technology leader, announced
its partnership with Alibaba's Digital
Entertainment Business Group to
launch the cloud gaming service in
China. With several cloud gaming
products, such as T-mall set –top-
boxes (Premium and 1S version) and
Haier Connected TVs, users can enjoy
new gaming experience to the next
level.
Retail and Payment Industry
NCR
Silver Cloud Based POS System and Bitcoin
Support
• The NCR Silver™ cloud-based point-of-
sale (POS) system for small businesses
such as retail shops, cafes and food
trucks will offer merchants the ability to
accept bitcoins as payment.
• “It’s smart to be able to accept
multiple payment options, as long
they’re easy to use”
• Bitcoin support, which will be
integrated with NCR Silver by the end
of 2014, will be free to merchants.
After registering with a bitcoin
processor, all merchants have to do is
activate bitcoin as a payment option in
the POS back office within NCR Silver.
Consumers, meanwhile, pay using a
mobile bitcoin “wallet” app which is
available in either the Apple App
StoreSM or Google PlayTM store.
HP
New Cloud Based Payments Platform
• HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced expanded
support for new cloud-based payment
platforms as well as Europay,
MasterCard, Visa (EMV) issuance with
its HP Atalla Network Security
Processor (NSP). These enhancements
extend HP Atalla's existing support for
EMV tokenization and card encryption.
• At BAI Retail Delivery 2014, HP also
unveiled results from a new study
revealing the most popular electronic
payment systems, adoption trends and
most critical technologies in securing
electronic payment methods.
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