
French Pavilion to Showcase Mobile Payment Solutions at Cards & Payments Asia 2015,
CARDS & PAYMENTS, Asia’s largest and most established expo for the smart cards community will be held from 22 to 23 April 2015 in Singapore. This year’s edition is expected to attract approximately 7000 visitors coming out to meet some 200 exhibitors...

MediaTek Announces New Merger to Expand Product Lines
TAIPEI, Taiwan - MediaTek yesterday announced its subsidiary company Mstar Semiconductor’s acquisition of another investment firm, Alpha Imaging Technology Corp. (AIT). The purchase price per share was NT$37, and the total acquisition amount was approximately NT$2...

PC Shipments Declined 5.2% in First Quarter of 2015
According to Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 71.7 million units in the first quarter of 2015, a 5.2 percent decline from the first quarter of 2014. Lenovo and HP were the only two vendors among the top five worldwide that experienced an increase in PC shipments in the first quarter of 2015...

APAC Becomes the Frontline for IoT, Create US$583B Market Opportunity by 2020
International Data Corporation (IDC) announces today that the Asia/Pacific Internet of Things (IoT) industry will continue its strong growth, with the number of units, or “things”, connected to increase from 3.1 billion to 8...

TSMC: 10nm to Put Into Limited Production by Q4 of 2015
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The racing of semiconductor’s advanced process has come into 10nm, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) Co-CEO Mark Liu commented at a company event in San Jose, California on April 7, said that TSMC will put the 10-nanometer (nm) into mass production in 2016...

Intel’s New Chip with Wireless Charging Integrated
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Intel held the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2015 at Shenzhen on April 8, the company launched the next-generation chip code-named Skylake processor that integrated wireless charging, as well as supported its latest operating system (OS) Win 10 and facial recognition...