The dollar jumped to a two-year high against the yen Thursday on expectations that Japan's new government will lower interest rates to boost the economy, weakening the yen.

The company plans to produce three-dimensional (3D) flash memory chips using fine-tuned vertical-stacked-array-transistor (VSAT) technology.

Industry experts say brisk sales of its latest smartphones, the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3, have driven its operating profit to an all-time high.

Corning has an all new version of Gorilla Glass ready for the new year, and it will be making its debut at CES 2013.

Google's head of products in India, Lalitesh Katragadda, told India's Economic Times that it expects data centers in Singapore and Taiwan to be operational in 2013. A third data center in Hong Kong is also under construction.

MidAmerican Energy is buying two solar power projects under construction in Southern California from SunPower Corp. that will generate 579MW of electricity.

Huawei Technologies, ZTE, and Samsung Electronics were named in a new patent- infringement complaint filed by InterDigital over technology related to the latest mobile-phone standards.

Archos 9.7-inch tablet will ship with Android 4.1 and a promising 2,048 by 1,536 IPS display. This matches the resolution of the current generation iPad.

Samsung has outed a pair of new monitors, unable to keep quiet about the stylish duo until their official reveal at CES 2013 next week.

Retailers are saying that the device will begin shipping later this week.

Imagination Technologies has announced that its CEO, Hossein Yassaie, has been awarded a knighthood by the Queen in Her Majesty's New Year Honours 2013.

The 1080p OLED TV will sell for US$10,300.

Global makers of liquid crystal display (LCD) television panels are likely to change their main product sizes in 2013 as part of efforts to boost profits, market information

Shares of Innolux and AUO, the top flat panel suppliers in Taiwan, moved sharply higher Wednesday morning on hopes that the two companies will

Taiwanese PC giant Acer is ready to rock the gadget world with a new $99 tablet set to compete in the low-cost market against Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

According to Pew's ongoing Internet & American Life survey, 25% of respondents - one in every four - now owns a tablet

Amazon announced 2012 holiday sales were the biggest ever, with consumers purchasing 306 items a second on their peak day

Some local residents and council representatives showed up December 26 at a meeting to protest against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s plan to build its first 450mm wafer fab plant at the Central Taiwan Science Park.

Fubon Financial, one of the most aggressive Taiwanese financial firms expanding into the Chinese market, said on Thursday it will buy an 80% stake in China's Firstsino Bank for CNY6.45 billion (US$1.03 billion).

Japan's industrial output tumbled more than forecast to the lowest level since the aftermath of the record 2011 earthquake. In contrast, South Korea's industrial output exceeded estimates in November and the nation's current-account surplus rose to a record.

China's largest private employer has pledged to sharply curtail workers' hours and significantly increase wages - reforms that, if fully carried out next year as planned, could create a ripple effect that benefits tens of millions of workers across the electronics industry.