
French IoT Startup Actility Announces $25M Funding From Foxconn, KPN, Orange and Swisscom
Actility, a provider of network solutions and managed information systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) market, announced it has secured a $25 million funding round led by Ginko Ventures. Ginko Ventures leads a prestigious group of investors including tier-one telcos KPN, Orange, Swisscom and Foxconn, along with the existing investors Fonds Ecotechnologies managed by Bpifrance Investissement, Idinvest Partners, and Truffle Capital...

DRAMeXchange: XMC to Be China’s Memory Base
On October 14, 2014, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced the establishment of the National Integrated Circuitry Industry Investment Fund. This announcement signaled China’s intent to create a competitive domestic semiconductor sector, starting with the DRAM industry...

CHT Aims to Have 4.2 Million 4G Subscribers
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chunghwa Telecom Co. (CHT), held its annual general meeting on June 26. The meeting was hosted by Chairman Tsai Lih-shyng. The shareholders in attendance represented 5,816,649,820 shares, or 74.98 percent of total outstanding shares...

Powerchip to Set a 12-inch Fab with China Hefei Government
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Powerchip announced yesterday that the company has signed a cooperation agreement with China Anhui Hefei government, to set up a joint venture of IC manufacturer “Hefei Jinghe”, a 12-inch fab located in Hefei with monthly production capacity of 40,000 pics , total investment amounted to 13...

Acer: Continue to Maintain Profits
TAIPEI.Taiwan - Taiwanese brand-name company, Acer, on the 23rd at a shareholders' meeting stated that a three-year period of change and reinvention, when it moved towards being a hardware and software services company, is the basis for its anticipated continuation of profits...

Taiwan OEM Firm Compal Revises Down NB shipments of 6%
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Compal Group today held shareholders meeting , Compal general manager Ray Chen said that the global notebook shipments will decline 4% to 6%, which original be forecasted to decline 3%; Tablet PC shipments expected to decline 1% of the original forecast, expanded to decline 10 % to 15%...