
Acer Announces Full 2015 Windows-Powered Product Lineup Ready for Win 10
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Acer announces that its full 2015 Windows-powered product lineup and currently-shipping Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 portfolio will support the free Windows 10 upgrade when it becomes available on July 29, 2015...

IBM, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung Co-produce Industry’s First 7nm Test Chips
An alliance led by IBM Research announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE)...

IHS: Smartphones and Tablets Still Drive Demand for Cover Glass
According to IHS, smartphones continue to lead total area demand in the cover glass market; however, as the markets for smartphones and tablets mature, cover glass industry revenue growth is declining from 39% Y/Y in 2013 to 11% in 2015...

Asus Revises Down Its NB Shipments Forecast
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Asus announced yesterday the downturn of its annual notebook(NB) growth rate, with revising its NB shipments forecast down to 20 million units, to be the first NB manufacture to adjust its shipments target this year...

Microsoft's Responses to Challenges from New Upstarts in the IoT-era
TAIPEI, Taiwan - For years the PC market was dominated by Microsoft and Apple, and it was extremely difficult for rival operating systems to gain widespread acceptance. The main reason was that PCs have to be able to interact with all types of devices manufactured by a wide array of different companies...

Bayer MaterialScience Announces Covestro’s Chinese Trade Name
Bayer announced that its MaterialScience business will be Covestro, and Bayer MaterialScience will become a separate company in September 2015. The Covestro’s Chinese trade name will be科思創, which represents a bold new direction and bright future for an innovation-driven polymers company...