
Acer Allies with Rakuten Mobile to Sell Liquid Z330 Smartphone in Japan
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer announces that its Liquid Z330 smartphone will be available through Rakuten Mobile in Japan, via both online channels and in brick-and-mortar Rakuten Mobile shops from mid-December. Rakuten Mobile is an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) service launched by Fusion Communications Corp...

Innolux Announces 3Q 2015 Consolidated Revenues of NT$ 88.8 Billion, Downs 5.3% YoY
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Innolux Corporation (“INX”) today announced its 3Q 2015 consolidated revenues. Combined net sales for 3Q 2015 amounted to NT$ 88.8 billion, gross profit was NT$ 10.8 billion, for a gross margin of 12.1%...

Multiple Smart City Solutions Powered by Semtech’s PLC Platform
Semtech Corporation and Wasion Group announced today their collaboration on the first roll out of the G3-PLC based Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) with China Southern Power Grid. Semtech’s multimode Power Line Communications (PLC) platforms will be used for communication in RS485 Meter aggregators, as well as for residential, commercial and industrial Smart Meters...

Lamp Devices, Infrared Circuits, and CMOS Sensors to Have Double-digit Growth
The worldwide market for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) has turned into a mixed bag of double-digit growth for several major product categories (lamp devices, infrared circuits, and CMOS image sensors) combined with single-digit declines in sales for nearly a dozen other categories (including most sensors, diodes, rectifiers, and power transistors)...

Q3 LCD TV Shipments Reach 53.1M Units, Grow 8.3%, But May Drop in Q4
Third-quarter LCD TV shipments worldwide stood at 53.1 million units, based on the latest reporting from WitsView, a division of TrendForce. Global shipments grew 8.3% quarterly due to the effects of the traditional peak season...

Intel Edison Module Offers Google Brillo Support
Intel announced today that its Intel Edison compute module is one of the first platforms to support Brillo, which Google released source code for today via an invitation program. Brillo and Weave form a solution for building connected devices...