
Acer Announces Successful Year-end Deals
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer announced that its Black Friday deals in Pan America and Singles Day promotions in China saw 25% unit growth year-on-year. In the United States, Acer’s total U.S. Black Friday unit sales during the week of November 23 increased by more than 25% year-on-year (YoY)...

Robots to Reside in more than 1 in 10 American Households by 2020
New data from Juniper Research has forecast that over 1 in 10 American households will own a consumer robot by the end of the decade, up from under 1 in 25 this year. At this early stage in the market, shipments are expected to be dominated by so-called ‘task’ oriented robots assigned to take over household chores, such as lawn mowing or vacuum cleaning...

SoftBank, Bharti, Foxconn to Develop a 350MW Solar Plant in India
SB Energy, a three way joint venture between SoftBank Group Corp. (“SoftBank”), Bharti Enterprises Limited (“Bharti”) and Foxconn Technology Group (“Foxconn”), won the NTPC bid to develop a 350MW solar plant under the Phase-II, Batch-II, Tranche-I of National Solar Mission at a 25-year tariff of Rs...

Taiwan Lacks of the Service-Oriented Platform for VR, AR
TAIPEI, Taiwan — As smartphone sales in the world’s biggest smartphone market — China have fallen for the first time as the market reaches saturation, high hopes pinned on VR, AR technologies and devices would be a crucial growth driver in the future...

Apple’s Taiwan Lab Expected to Recruit Hundreds for Display Technology Research
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hsinchu Science Park Bureau (HSPB) stated that Apple’s Taiwan display laboratory, under the moniker of its local Taiwanese branch company gained approval to enter the district on November 11, 2014, and on April 14, 2015 the company registration was completed...

Semiconductor Equipment Sales Forecast $38 Billion in 2016
SEMI projects that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will decrease 0.6 percent to $37.3 billion in 2015, according to the SEMI Year-end Forecast, released today at the annual SEMICON Japan exposition...