
AUO Declines to Comment on the Speculation about Apple
TAIPEI, Taiwan — AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) shares on Tuesday gained 5.65 percent to reach NT$9.53 amid speculation that Apple Inc. plans to help finance the construction of an LCD production line with the island’s No. 2 LCD-panel maker...

Advantech and Mitsui Bussan Electronics Conclude WISE-PaaS Alliance Agreement
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Advantech and Mitsui Bussan Electronics announced conclusion of their basic “WISE-PaaS Alliance” agreement, which is a program for IoT hardware and software solutions. WISE-PaaS is a software platform that ensures IoT hardware such as sensor modules or gateways, as well as data generated from these hardware devices, can be utilized by cloud services...

Worldwide PC Shipments to Decline of 1% in 2016
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 75.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 8.3 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2014, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. For the year, 2015 PC shipments totaled 288...

Consumers Interest In Self-enabling vehicles, Though They Don’t Necessarily To Own Them
Consumers showing particular interest in self-enabling vehicles -- though they don’t necessarily want to own one in the traditional sense, according to the results of IBM’s automotive consumer study. “A New Relationship – People and Cars,” developed by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), reports that consumers show a high level of interest in self-enabling vehicles, or cars that can learn, heal, drive and socialize...

M2M Connections Accounted for By Roaming Growing Fast
According to Machina Research that there are now 350 million cellular based connections worldwide, and this will grow to 1.3 billion over the next five years. However, the proportion of M2M connections accounted for by roaming is growing even faster...

Microchip Offers Low-cost, Renewable Monthly Subscription License of Its MPLAB XC PRO Compilers
Microchip Technology today announced a flexible, low-cost, renewable monthly subscription license for the PRO editions of its MPLAB XC line of C compilers. The MPLAB XC8, XC16 and XC32 compilers offer reduced complexity, and provide the best execution speed and code size for all ~1,400 PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs), and are available with three optimization levels—Free, Standard and PRO...