By 2018, 50% of Consumers in Mature Markets to Use Smartphones or Wearables for Mobile Payments
According to Gartner, Inc., with half of consumers in mature markets expected to be using smartphones or wearables for mobile payments by 2018. This is just one of many innovations impacting customer preferences in the personal technologies market...
ASE Offers to Purchase Rest of SPIL Shares
Taiwan — Mergers and acquisitions take place again. Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) on Monday proposed acquiring the remaining 75 percent of rival Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL) for US$4 billion in cash, as a countermeasure to SPIL’s planned sale of stock to China’s Tsinghua Unigroup...
Mouser First to Stock the New S5 Series IGBTs, Part of the Infineon TRENCHSTOP 5 Family
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Mouser Electronics, Inc. is the first global distributor to stock the TRENCHSTOP 5 S5 insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) from Infineon. This new series in the ultra-thin wafer TRENCHSTOP 5 family boasts an industry-leading low typical saturation voltage of 1...
HSPB Confirms Apple Has Set Up a Display Lab in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan － Hsinchu Science Park Bureau(HSPB), the competent authorities of the Taiwan Hsinchu Science Park, confirmed that Apple has set up a display research lab in Taoyuan Longtan, Taiwan, this year, and they are processing the development of new display technologies...
Mitsubishi Electric to Build Elevator Factory in South Korea
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it will build a new factory for Mitsubishi Elevator Korea Co., Ltd. in the Songdo area of the Incheon Free Economic Zone in South Korea. Relocating KMEC’s development and manufacturing bases to the new facility will strengthen Mitsubishi Electric’s capability to respond to global needs for high-speed elevators, including by expanding annual production capacity 2...
Micron Acquires Inotera to Ensure Total Cooperation from the Taiwanese DRAM Foundry, TrendForce Says
U.S.-based DRAM manufacturer Micron Technology announced yesterday that the company will buy the remaining share that it does not own in its Taiwanese foundry partner Inotera Memories via a share swap transaction. According to DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, Micron’s motives behind the acquisition is more complex and multi-faceted...
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