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(Taiwan Economic News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Patent Holder Year 2005 Ranking Year-To-Year Comparison Year 2004 Ranking TSMC 1 Advance 2 Hon Hai 2 Decline 1 ITRI 3 Unchanged 3 VIA 4 Advance 6 BenQ 5 Unchanged 5 AU Optronics 6 Advance 11 Macronix 7 Decline 4 UMC 8 Advance 10 Delta 9 Decline 7 Nanya Tech 10 Decline 8 Sources: National Chengchi University and National Taiwan University Skype Grants Gold Code Certifications to Accton, Inventec's Wi-Fi Phones Taipei, Sept. 25, 2006 (CENS)--Skype Ltd., a global leader of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) software, recently granted Gold Code Certifications to Taiwan's Accton Technology Corp. and Inventec Appliances Corp., which have begun big-volume shipments of Skype Wi-Fi handsets this month. Both Accton and Inventec successfully developed their Skype Wi-Fi phones late last year, but they can hardly ship the products due to lack of relevant certifications from Skype. According to Accton president Ken Lu, his company's Skype Wi-Fi phones are sold in the global small office, home office (SOHO) and enterprise markets under its own brands of Edge-core and SMC. The firm has also won orders from Belkin, a leading computer peripheral brand in North America. Accton claimed that its monthly Skype Wi-Fi phone shipment is expected to reach about 40,000 units. Inventec said that it has started to fill a Skype Wi-Fi phone order from Netgear, the No. 3 SOHO networking equipment brand in North America, with its first-batch shipment outstripping 10,000 units. The Taiwan company said that Netgear has started selling such product on its website. Geoffrey Prentice, co-founder of Skype, said earlier that the Wi-Fi Skype phone is his company's first try to directly implant Skype software into a compatible hardware

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Some institutional investors pointed out that currently the global number of Skype-service subscribers is about 113 million, serving as strong momentum for pushing the development of Skype-enabled products

Skype is the world's fastest-growing Internet communication offering, allowing unlimited free voice and video communication among Skype e-users. Skype is available in 27 languages and is used in almost every country around the world.

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