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Turning a smartphone into a PC in a pocket: Q&A with Analogix
Tuesday 10 June 2014
According to a recent IDC research note, the transition toward mobile and cloud-based computing is unstoppable, with tablet volumes expected to pass total PC volume in the fourth quarter of 2014 and on an annual basis in...
Time ripe for development of smart peripherals: Q&A with Arima Communications president Owen Chen
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Smartphone ODM Arima Communications has decided to expand its product lines to include tablets, smart accessories and other new products, optimizing its platform development expertise gained from the smartphone sector and...
Make good products and growth will come naturally: Q&A with Gigabyte notebook team
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Despite being one of the market leaders in the motherboard and graphics card industries, Gigabyte Technology is relatively unknown as a notebook player. Digitimes recently sat down with Richard Ma, Gigabyte Senior Vice...
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Asustek Computer's Zenbooks, Transformer tablets and the Nexus 7 have helped expand its brand recognition, raising its share in the North America notebook market from 7% in the second quarter of 2012, to 8% in the third...
From hardware vendor to turnkey solution provider: Q&A with Shuttle
Wednesday 6 June 2012
The PC hardware industry has begun to evolve rapidly in recent years. The emergence of various hardware and software solutions and platforms has enabled hardware players to differentiate their products by venturing into...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
As iPad is expected to account for close to 60% of the global tablet PC market, while Apple has also launched iBook 2 and iBook Author to compete in the educational market, bringing strong pressure on its competitors such...
Looking to ride mobile computing wave: Q&A with Kingston co-founder David Sun
Monday 20 June 2011
Kingston Technology's revenues hit a record high of US$6.5 billion for 2010, representing a 58.5% on-year growth. However, high sales do not necessarily mean profits are high as well, company co-founder David Sun pointed...
The new frontier in mobile computing: Q&A with Qualcomm EVP Steve Mollenkopf
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Current trends in mobile devices have substantially changed how we think about computing in general, and looking at the market shows that these tectonic shifts will affect the entire supply chain, from semiconductor providers...
Acer aims at largest global market share for tablet PCs in 2-3 years, says CEO
Friday 26 November 2010
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, at a press conference for Taiwan-based media in New York, stressed that faced with increasing competition for tablet PCs in the global market, Acer takes a fearless attitude and will avail itself...
Toward increased mobility: Q&A with ARM president Tudor Brown
Wednesday 24 November 2010
More than 20 billion ARM-powered processors have been shipped by semiconductor and system companies worldwide over the past 20 years, and the number is expected to top 100 billion in the next decade, according to ARM president,...
Broadcom talks about growing opportunities in wireless
Friday 4 June 2010
Michael Hurlston, senior vice president and general manager for the Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit at chip specialist Broadcom recently sat down with Digitimes to share his outlook for the wireless networking...
Aemulus rolls out 5G test solutions
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Foxconn chairman to visit Wisconsin in early October
IT + CE | 1h 3min ago
IoT applications may take root in Indonesia in 5 years: Q&A with Advantech executive Ramdhani Gumilar
IT + CE | 1h 32min ago
Smartphone sales in Taiwan remain sluggish in August
Mobile + telecom | 1h 52min ago
China January-August software revenues total CNY3.460 trillion
IT + CE | 1h 57min ago
China August mobile communication users grows to 1.382 billion
Mobile + telecom | 2h 1min ago
Wearable brands releasing new devices
IT + CE | 2h 7min ago
Samsung ready to mass produce MRAM chips using 28nm FD-SOI process
Bits + chips | 2h 9min ago
Digitimes Research: Apple outraces Google for on-device AI development
Mobile + telecom | 2h 22min ago
SMIC to build new plant in Ningbo
Bits + chips | 2h 34min ago
Mikro Mesa, ITRI developing micro LED panels
LED | 2h 42min ago
Sigurd to enter board of Winstek
Bits + chips | 3h 11min ago
MEMS sensor demand for smartphones, automotive surging
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- iPhone X component suppliers told to slow down delivery, say sources
- Motech PV module alliance plan faces challenges
- Taiwan solar cell makers reportedly to form alliance to better competitiveness
- CPT reports tight supply for all-screen smartphone panels
- Panel makers look to mini LED backlighting
- China PV installations reach 3.36GWp in August
- Valeo joins ISELED Alliance
- Taiwan sets tentative 2018 feed-in tariffs for renewable energy
- Education IT spending in APEJ to surpass US$11.8 billion by 2020, says IDC
- Taiwan IC backend firms to enjoy strong 4Q17
- Machine vision will gradually expand into consumer applications: Q&A with Arbor CTO Karl Chen
- Taiwan fabless IC firms seeing orders pull in from China
- Taiwan August unemployment rate down on year
- Taiwan August manufacturing production index up
- China enacting law to facilitate development of self-driving cars
- Asustek to launch next-generation ZenFone 5 in March 2018
- Commentary: HTC faces new challenges after Google deal
- Taiwan science park January-June revenues reach NT$1.152 trillion
- Infineon to sell Newport manufacturing site to Neptune 6
- China IoT market scale estimated to exceed CNY1.5 trillion by 2020
- TCA modifies exhibition shows to attract new participants
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Machine vision will gradually expand into consumer applications: Q&A with Arbor CTO Karl Chen
Taiwan-based Arbor Technology has been in the industrial PC (IPC) secor for over 20 years and has always...
5G brings new business opportunities: Q&A with Alpha Networks chairman John Lee
Taiwan-based networking device maker Alpha Networks has expanded its product lines from mainly Ethernet...
At the 2017 World Congress on Information Industry (WCIT) held September 11-13 in Taipei, there were...
With autonomous driving becoming a new trend in the IT market, many first-tier IT players including...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- China AMOLED panel capacity expansion forecast, 2016-2020
This Digitimes Research Special Report examines the China AMOLED industry, focusing on the expansion capacity of the makers, the current implementation plans of major smartphone vendors in the market and the technological hurdles faced by the China makers.
- Taiwan server shipment forecast and industry analysis, 2017
Digitimes Research estimates that revenues from sales of server motherboards, servers, storage systems and related network system equipment by Taiwan-based vendors reached NT$555.8 billion in 2016 and the amount is estimated to grow 5.9% on year in 2017.
- Global notebook shipment forecast, 2017 and beyond
This Digitimes Special Report examines key factors in the notebook industry, including products, vendors and ODMs, that will affect total shipments in 2017 and through 2021.