
Qualcomm and Tianyu Sign 3G/4G Chinese Patent License Agreement
Qualcomm Incorporated and Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment Co., Ltd. (Tianyu), yesterday announced that they have entered into a new 3G and 4G Chinese patent license agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Qualcomm has granted Tianyu a royalty-bearing patent license to manufacture and sell 3G WCDMA and CDMA2000 (including EV-DO), and 4G LTE (including “3-mode” GSM, TD-SCDMA and LTE-TDD) subscriber units for use in China...

Acer Expands its Smartphone and Wearable Businesses to the Bahamas
Acer America is broadening its smartphone and wearable businesses by bringing the Liquid Jade Z and 4.5-inch Liquid Z410 smartphones and Liquid Leap+ fitness tracker to the Bahamas. The smartphones and fitness tracker are available through Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) Ltd...

HTC Sells Taoyuan Factory to Inventec
TAIPEI, Taiwan — HTC said on Tuesday it is to sell a plot of land and a building TY5 in Taoyuan to Inventec for NT$6.06 billion (US$183.46 million) as part of its efforts to lower operational costs and boost efficiency. The company said the production facilities and its employees would be transferred to HTC’s three other properties in Taoyuan to centralize its production facilities...

MediaTek Expects 4G Chips Shipments to Account for 60%
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The 4G LTE handset chip will still be the most important growth driver of MediaTek in 2016, C.J. Hsieh, the company’s President forecast 4G long-term evolution (LTE) chips to account for 60 to 70 percent of the overall handset chip shipments in 2016, up from an estimated 40 percent this year...

Mitsui Chemicals Participates in Subsidiary of Taiwan's Sentronic International Corp
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. announced it is financially participating in MSCT Corporation, a subsidiary of the electronic component trading company Sentronic International Corporation (“Sentronic”), to promote business development of the Group’s metal resin integral molding technology, POLYMETAC...

Advantech IoT Devices Certified by Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Advantech announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring that customers can get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services...