In Focus: Japan

SoftBank Group Corp. agreed to acquire ARM Holdings Plc in an all-cash deal valued at £24.3 billion. (US$32.4 billion), or ...

Toshiba and Western Digital celebrated the opening of the New Fab 2 semiconductor fabrication facility located in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, ...

Midokura announced $20.4 million in Series B funding for its software network virtualization solutions. Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM)  technology offers ...

At its annual Arcstar Carrier Forum in Tokyo, NTT Communications announced an agreement with 28 international carrier partners to further ...

Softbank announced plans to sell US$7.9 billion of the shares it holds in Alibaba Group Holding Limited (“Alibaba”). Specifically, the ...

Qualcomm has begun sampling new GigaDSL chipsets to help broadband operators to transition deployments from VDSL to Gigabit access technologies, ...

Researchers at NTT, Fujikura, and Hokkaido University have demonstrated the world’s highest density optical fiber. The optical fiber has a ...

NHN Techorus Corp., a data center operator in Japan, has deployed the Infinera Cloud Xpress to interconnect its Tokyo data ...

Researchers at NTT and and Osaka University announced an important step toward photonic computation by developing a large-scale artificial spin ...

KDDI has selected Ciena for the Japan Information Highway (JIH) submarine cable upgrade project. Ciena’s GeoMesh submarine solutions will be ...

Researchers at NTT and Tokyo University of Science  observed electronic oscillation (dipole oscillation) with attosecond (as: 10-18 of a second) ...

Researchers at NTT demonstrated the wavelength conversion of a single-photon wave packet required for quantum information-communication technologies. The company said ...

Fujitsu Optical Components Limited (FOC) announced commercial production of its compact, low power consumption CFP2 ACO transceiver, which supports both ...