ASTRI

Expo visitors can experience 4G technology by watching HD live video broadcast at the Expo Sites. ASTRI and Innofidei help to bring this unique mobile broadband experience to visitors with the world’s first TD-LTE (pre-4G) dongle they developed.

The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) kicked off its year-long Anniversary celebrations on 23 April with a special commencement ceremony and an Open Day at the Charles K. Kao Auditorium in the Hong Kong Science Park.

Two of the latest technology breakthroughs of The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) caught a lot of attention at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010 held in Las Vegas from 7 to 10 January.

Dr Cheung Nim-kwan, Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, has recently been elected to the Board of Directors by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

ASTRI and Optek have jointly unveiled an advanced multimedia Audio Codec SoC ASIC (OPT5256) that supports multiple music format codec and audio effect post-processing.

ZTE and ASTRI will jointly demonstrate LTE TDD (Long Term Evolution Time Division Duplex) wireless HD video IOT calls at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva. This is also the first cross-vendor LTE TDD IOT successfully completed in the industry.

ASTRI and Credo Semiconductor Inc., an IC start-up company from Santa Clara, California, have signed an agreement to forge ahead the development of high speed data communication IC products for the global market.

In collaboration with Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry, ASTRI has recently completed interoperability testing of its WiMAX Access Service Network Gateway with base station with full success.

The technological advances in TD-LTE jointly developed by Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) and its partners from the wireless communications industry have drawn remarkable attention at the Mobile World Congress

A research team of ASTRI has recently won the “IDW Outstanding Poster Paper Award” at the 15th International Display Workshops (IDW) held in Niigata, Japan for its innovative ideas on liquid crystal display (LCD) power saving.