
TPK Revenues Slip Results From Handset Touch Panel Display Shipments
TAIPEI, Taiwan — TPK Holding Co. has stated on July 31 its 22.7 percent year-on-year decline in revenues for the second quarter of 2015 was largely due to an 18 percent shipment decline for handset applications, which held a 51 percent share of the company’s overall revenues...

VIA Announces VIA Telecom to Sell Part of its Assets
TAIPEI, Taiwan — VIA Technologies, Inc. announced that VIA Telecom has reached a definitive agreement to sell part of its assets to an undisclosed buyer. Assuming satisfactory customary closing conditions, the company anticipates that the transaction will be completed by the end of the third quarter...

IBM Inventors Have Received More Than 400 Cloud Patents in 2015
IBM announced that its inventors have received more than 400 new cloud patents in 2015. Furthermore, over the last 18 months, IBM has secured nearly 1,200 cloud patents, bolstering the company’s ability to deliver innovative new cloud services, solutions and capabilities to clients across all industries...

Foxconn Keeps Investing Startup Light for Next-Gen Smartphone Camera
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Foxconn Group continued to invest smartphone camera technology. The company joined another round of Light's investment which was led by Formation 8, totaled $25 million, to fund a technology that can allow smartphones to have DSLR-like function and quality...

User Adoption of 3G and 4G Exceeds 50% in China
According to MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute), a Taipei-based ICT research institute, in the first quarter of 2015, the number of Chinese mobile phone users reached around 1.3 billion, of which 654.1 million were 3G and 4G users, representing a penetration rate of 50...

Ali Co. Will Showcase Optimized STB Chipsets in Sao Paulo
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Integrated circuit designer Ali Co. will showcase optimized STB chipsets at the ABTA 2015 in Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 4 to 6. The company’s booth is J7, which will present cost effective and performance optimized STB chipsets, that can assist users to deliver fast time-to-market solutions to targeted market segments...