TAIPEI, Taiwan – Advantech announced yesterday that it entered into an agreement, subject to customary closing conditions, to acquire B+B SmartWorx Inc., a privately-held company based in Ottawa, IL, for US$99.85 million. B+B SmartWorx will be led by the current management team and will join Advantech’s Industrial IoT Business Group in developing new products and integrating global sales resources...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) forecast that as the spread of personal end device, the annual value of communication industry would be increased in 2016. Despite that, the global shipment of smartphone would be decreased by double-digit year-over-year...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — According to survey of the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), the business opportunity of Internet of Things (IoT) lies in healthcare, smart management and smart manufacturing. The center said that these three domains drive the associate IoT platforms, Asus and Advantech are two local big names in the field...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - MegaChips Corporation announced it will display “BlueChip PLC Multi-hop”, broadband PLC communication LSI, and “BlueChip Wireless”, IEEE802.15.4g-compliant Sub-GHz band wireless LSI at ARM Tech Symposia 2015 Taiwan on November 19, 2015...

SEMI today announces further details on SEMICON Japan, with new Innovation Village a new feature that includes 20 emerging startups, bringing innovation to Tokyo Big Sight on December 16 through 18. SEMICON Japan, already the largest and most important gathering of the semiconductor manufacturing industry...

Intel Corporation today announced a new Intel IoT Platform reference architecture and new hardware and software products as part of its effort to build out one of the most comprehensive offerings for the Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation and Mikroprojekt today announced availability of a new ECP5-based development platform to accelerate system design of communications and industrial applications at the network edge, including HetNet small cells, industrial IoT gateways, and IP cameras...