
Increasing Unpaid Leave Cases in Taiwan Come after Unclear Economy
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The uncertainty of economic situation is growing. A few of Taiwanese technology corporations, including UPI, TERA XTAL, Epistar and CMC, have successively reported they will implement layoff and unpaid leave policy...

ASUS Lowers Its Smartphone Shipments Forecast to 21 Million units
TAIPEI, Taiwan - ASUS revised down its 2015 smartphones shipments forecast to around 20 million to 21 million units, narrowed its previous prediction of 17 million units to 25 million units shipments. Asus said that the adjustment was merely narrow the range, not revised down...

Taiwanese Firms Hard to Earn Profit by Manufacturing iPhone 6S
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Manufacturing cost of per iPhone 6S is NT$150, Taiwanese firms hard to earn profit. According to a research firm, the manufacturing cost of a iPhone 6S cost Apple NT$148.5, the cost of the new feature 3D Touch is merely NT$330, which occupied 1...

VIA Technologies Sells Subsidiary to Intel
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Mergers and acquisitions is an unmistakable trend in the semiconductor industry. As well as there are no everlasting friends or enemies in this world, especially in the semiconductor industry. Chip designer VIA Technologies Inc...

eMemory Receives TSMC IP Partner Award
HSINCHU, Taiwan – eMemory announced today that it has received TSMC’s 2015 IP Partner of the Year Award from TSMC. This award recognizes eMemory in such areas as technical support, customer service, and continued innovation...

IBM Research Is Nearing to Accomplish Carbon Nanotube Chips
IBM Research today announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies. IBM scientists demonstrated a new way to shrink transistor contacts without reducing performance of carbon nanotube devices, opening a pathway to dramatically faster, smaller and more powerful computer chips beyond the capabilities of traditional semiconductors...