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China SMIC Acquires LFoundry to Step into Global Automotive Electronics Market
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Published: Jun 26,2016

Acer to Invest in Starbreeze through Two-year Convertible Bond
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Acer announces its intent to acquire Starbreeze AB’s (First North: STAR) convertible bonds through a private placement transaction. Starbreeze and Acer have reached a term sheet whereby Starbreeze will issue US$9 million (SEK 74...

Acer and Starbreeze Boards Approve Definitive Agreement to form Joint Venture for StarVR
TAIPEI, Taiwan- Acer and Starbreeze AB announced today that their respective Board of Directors have approved the establishment of a joint venture for design, manufacturing, promotion, marketing and sales of the StarVR Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Display (HMD) as previously announced May 15th, 2016 upon signing the letter of intent...

Taiwan Hosts VR/AR Gaming Technology Summit to Discuss the Latest Trends
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan on June 23-25 2016 will host the “Gamera VA/AR Game Development Technology Summit” and have invited over 20 professional lecturers, which include high level personnel from AUTODESK, AMD, CRYTEK, HTC, NVIDIA, RAZER, UNITY, Taiwan iStaging, and ARPLANET, to discuss the newest VR technologies and trends...

ASE Receives 2016 Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE) today announced it has received the 2016 Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award (AREA) in the category of “Social Empowerment” for its ASE30 Environmental Conservation Fund (ECF)...

SMIC Commences Successful Mass Production of Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 Processor
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced that the Snapdragon 425 processor and MDM9x07 has passed customer qualification and begun mass production in Beijing, after the successful technology transfer from SMIC's Shanghai 12-inch fab to SMIC's majority owned joint venture fab in Beijing...

Power Transistor Sales Expected to Stabilize and Begin a Modest Recovery in 2016
After dropping 7% in 2015 to $12.3 billion, power transistor sales are expected to stabilize and begin a modest recovery in 2016, growing by a little over 1% to $12.4 billion, according to the latest edition of IC Insights’ annual O-S-D Report...