
ST Collaborates with China Partners for IoT Development Ecosystem
STMicroelectronics announces that its efforts to enrich the IoT development ecosystem have been further strengthened by the recent adoption of its STM32 Nucleo Development Kit by the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at Peking University and for the Xiao Gang Pao IoT development system by JUMA, an IoT software platform company...

Taiwan Ranks No. 1 in Worldwide Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Billings in Q3: SEMI
TAIPEI, Taiwan — SEMI’s figures for Q3 semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending show Taiwan on $2.85 billion million, ranks No. 1 in worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings in the third quarter of 2015...

Revenue Falls at Taiwan Chip Packagers and Testers
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Revenue falls at Taiwan two leading chip packagers and testers. Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), the world’s largest chip packager and tester, said its revenue contracted 5.4 percent to NT$26...

Global Semiconductor Sales to Sink 0.6% in 2016, TrendForce Says
Global market research firm TrendForce projects that the total revenue from sales of semiconductors worldwide will grow by a mere 0.9% year on year in 2015, a sharp plunge from the 10.5% year-on-year growth in 2014. Looking forward to 2016, the decline in the sales of memory products will become steeper and drag down the total semiconductor sales revenue...

NTT Communications Opens Top-Scale Data Center in Thailand
NTT Communications Corporation announced today the immediate launch of the Thailand Bangkok 2 Data Center, which boasts some 3,800 m2 of server room, equivalent to 1,400 racks, putting it in the top scale of data centers in Thailand...

NXP and Freescale Announce Completion of Merger
NXP Semiconductors N.V. and Freescale Semiconductor today announced the completion of the merger pursuant to the terms of the previously announced merger agreement from March 2015. The merger combined revenue of over $10 billion...