17% of Consumers to Purchase a Tablet in the Next 12 Months, Gartner Says
According to Gartner’s survey that 17 percent of consumer respondents in mature markets intend to buy a tablet in the next 12 months. This will force strategic leaders to reassess market opportunities in this category, as basic and utility ultramobile upgrade rates could fall by 10 percent through 2016...
Renesas and Nevs Partner to Promote Energy Technology in China's New EV Industry
Renesas Electronics and National Electric Vehicle Sweden (Nevs) today announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement. Utilizing Nevs' Phoenix architecture technology for electric vehicles and Renesas' technologies for new energy vehicles, the companies will join forces on the development of various system solutions targeting China's new energy vehicle market...
3,000 Employees of CPT to Start Unpaid Leaves Next Tue.
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It's a freezing cold winter time to come for the panel industry. Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), one of Taiwan's leading flat panel suppliers, confirmed on November 5 that the company had asked its employees to take unpaid leaves due to a supply glut in the global flat screen industry...
UMC’s Fab8A Firm Wins the EEP Award for 13th Consecutive Years
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Fab8A firm of Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) wins the EEP Award for 13th consecutive years. What’s more, the company forecast that its gross margin for the October to December period is expected to fall to 17 to 19 percent...
China Spreadtrum to Launch Quad-core 4G Chip Using TSMC's 16nm
TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Taiwan's Economic Daily reported that China mobile CPU supplier Spreadtrum will launch a new quad-core smartphone processor- “whale 2” which will be produced in s TSMC's 16 nanometer process, scheduled to tape out this month and enter mass production in second quarter of next year...
Force Touch Will Not Be Popular Next Year
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Apple’s touch components supplier TPK said yesterday that despite been used in the new iPhone 6s, the force touch technology will remain at the introducing stage and there will be no bigger market scale in 2016...