Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has said it plans to hire more than 3,000 employees in 2010. The new recruits will be mostly engineers and technical staff but will...
Some players in China's solar industry are developing upgraded metallurgical grade silicon (UMG-Si), which is cheaper to produce than polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) made using the...
The Cloud Computing Research Center for Mobile Application (CCMA), established by the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in September 2009, plans...
The PND R&D teams under Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Wistron have been shifted to the development of e-book readers and MIDs due to declining PND orders,...
Taiwan-based connector and handset maker Foxlink will invest NT$9.4 billion (US$291 million) to set up a R&D center at the Dongguan Songshan Lake Science and Technology Industry...
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) each signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Microsoft on November 4 for cooperation and R&D on...
Belgium-based Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) plans to set up a R&D center in Taiwan in 2010 with an aim to accelerate the development of the MEMS market in Taiwan,...
Foxconn International Holdings (FIH) plans to consolidate a total of eight handset R&D units belonging to member companies within the Foxconn Group, including Foxconn Electronics,...
Inventec recently started up a new R&D center for server and industrial PC related products in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The company expects its annual revenues from the server business...
Aiming to fend off increasing competition from rival vendors in the smartphone segment, Nokia has reportedly released RFI (request for information) requirements on ODM production of...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) currently focuses its R&D on 28nm and 22nm processes and related key technologies as well as 18-inch wafers, according to company central...
EMS provider Jabil Circuit is reportedly following the steps of rival company Flextronics International of seeking to recruit R&D staff from handset ODMs in Taiwan to strengthen...
Samsung Electronics has employed Mong-Song Liang, who formerly served as senior director of the Logic Technology Platform Division at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on September 28 announced the appointment of Shang-Yi Chiang, a former TSMC vice president of R&D, as its senior VP of R&D...
MediaTek has announced that it has spent 744.95 million yuan (US$109.09 million) buying an office building in Beijing, China, with market observers speculating that it is a step the...
