
TSMC: Ramp 20nm Capacity at Record-Breaking Rate
HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Thursday held its 14th annual Supply Chain Management (SCM) forum to show appreciation for the support and contributions of its suppliers in 2014, and to recognize nine outstanding equipment and materials suppliers...

TSMC's Market Share is Going to Reach 53% in 2014
TAIPEI, Taiwan — At TSMC SCM 2014, the company's Co-Chief Executive Officer Dr. Mark Liu said that its market share is going to reach 53 percent in 2014, jumping from 49 percent that of last year. Talking about the semiconductor market, He forecast the year-of-year growth rate is at around 5, and the foundry is at around 12 percent...

Sony Launches Quad Core Processor Smartwatch in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan- Sony in Taiwan yesterday announced the SmartWatch 3, which uses the Google Android Wear platform and includes a 1.6 inch and 320 X 320 resolution TFT LCD screen and a built-in Qualcomm ARM A7, 1.2GHz quad core processor...

Acer CEO Speaks at the UK Parliament on Taiwan’s Computing, Smart Devices and Electronics
TAIPEI, Taiwan- Acer Corporate President and CEO, Jason Chen, was invited to speak at the UK Parliament on Taiwan’s development and future as a leader in computing, smart devices and electronics. In his speech, yesterday, Chen also talked about the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the sizeable opportunity it brings...

E Ink Announces Kobo eBook Access Program
TAIPEI, Taiwan — E Ink, an ePaper product and technology visionary, and creator of the reading screens, Wednesday announced an initiative to give E Ink's hardware partners the option to offer their customers access to Kobo's world-class catalogue of more than four million eBooks...

With GAMS, Future Classroom Coming Soon
TAIPEI, Taiwan — More and more classrooms in elementary schools and junior high schools have interactive whiteboards, MOST demonstrated what the future classroom will be. Yu Pao-ta, Associate Professor at CCU and his team worked on a project named Group Activities Management System (GAMS) to integrate the learning pad and apps, where user experience is being taken seriously to improve the traditional classrooms' atmosphere...