
Foxconn, SPIL Announce Collaboration on Smartphone Subsystem Packaging
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd(SPIL). Chairman of the Board Lin Bough and Hon Hai/Foxconn Chairman Terry Guo yesterday together attended an Association Press Conference to explain Foxconn and SPILS’ collaboration strategy on smartphone subsystem package technology while also imploring shareholders not to sell their stocks to ASE...

OMRON to Acquire U.S. Based Adept to Strengthen Industrial Automation Business
OMRON Corporation, and Adept Technology (Adept), a provider of intelligent robots, autonomous mobile robot solutions and services, today announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement whereby OMRON will acquire Adept...

SMIC, CICIIF and Qualcomm Intend to Invest into SJsemi
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd., (CICIIF), and a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated have announced the signing of a non-legally binding term sheet relating to a contemplated investment of $280 million dollars in the aggregate in SJ Semiconductor Corp...

Xu Nai-wen: Maker is a Spirit, a Culture
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Maker is an unmistakable trend all over the world. Xu Nai-wen, who is inspired by Arduino, an open-source electronic prototyping platform allowing to create interactive electronic objects in 2009. Now he has become the official Reseller of Raspberry Pi, he believes that maker is a spirit, a culture...

Sony, Olympus Announces 4K Surgical Endoscopy System to Be Commercialized
Sony, Olympus, and their medical joint venture - Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., are announcing that their jointly developed 4K surgical endoscopy system will be commercialized and made available for purchase in early October 2015...

India PC Market Declined 13% in the Second Quarter of 2015
The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totalled nearly 2.2 million units in the second quarter of 2015, a 13 percent decrease over the second quarter of 2014, according to Gartner. “Consumers accounted for 48 percent of total PC sales in the second quarter of 2015,” said Vishal Tripathi, research director at Gartner...