Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market

May 17, 16:09

As 7- to 8-inch displays are expected to become a new specification for ruggedized tablets in 2014, vendors, such as Taiwan-based Getac Technology and Japan-based Panasonic, are eyeing...

Fujitsu forms Greater China division; turns business focus to ICT solutions

May 15, 22:10

Japan-based Fujitsu will start turning its business focus from hardware sales to ICT solutions and will change its marketing structure from overseas and Japan divisions, to three...

Quanta adopts low profile about cloud computing business

May 15, 20:09

Quanta Computer Chairman Barry Lam, at the company's recent inventors meeting, has stopped talking about the company's cloud computing business lineup and only said that the business...

Fujitsu considers hike in domestic in-house production due to yen depreciation

May 15, 14:47

Japan-based Fujitsu is considering increasing the proportion of domestic in-house production because the depreciation of the Japanese yen means production costs in Japan have decreased,...

Foxconn to become major investor in fiber-optic venture

May 13, 21:44

Taiwan-based fiber-optic cable maker Tai Tung Communication, the major shareholder of The Taiwan Intelligent Fiber Optic Network Consortium (Taifo), has announced it is giving purchasing...

Inventec acquires orders from new server clients for 2H13

May 13, 21:36

Inventec at its investor meeting on May 13 revealed that the company has acquired server orders from a new client for the second half and though Inventec refused to name the client,...

Advantech sees April revenues grow 16% on year

May 13, 15:19

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech has reported April consolidated revenues of NT$2.529 billion (US$84 million), an increase of 16.34% compared to NT$2.173 billion reported in April...

Arbor Technology to tap Southeast Asia market

May 7, 19:52

Arbor Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of embedded and industrial computing devices, will extend focus marketing from the North America market currently to Southeast Asia specifically...

Taiwan makers struggle to benefit from fast growing cloud computing storage market

May 3, 15:00

While global demand for cloud computing-based storage has been growing fast, it is difficult for Taiwan-based hardware makers to enjoy such business opportunities because cloud computing-based...

Micron intros new PCIe SSD for data centers

May 3, 11:22

Micron Technology has announced a new PCIe enterprise solid state drive (SSD) which it claims will improve overall performance in enterprise servers, appliances and storage platfor...

Promise expects 15-30% revenue growth for cloud storage in 2013

May 3, 10:39

Promise Technology, a Taiwan-based provider of RAID storage solutions, expects its revenues from cloud computing storage solutions in 2013 to increase on year by 15-30%, company chairman...

Inventec focuses on cloud computing business by developing data center server solutions

Apr 30, 10:42

Taiwan-based ODM Inventec has stepped into the cloud computing business with a focus on developing server solutions for data centers, and has participated in collaborative development...

AMD announces new embedded G-series SoC

Apr 24, 14:08

AMD has announced its new embedded G-series system-on-chip (SoC) platform, a single-chip solution based on the next-generation Jaguar CPU architecture and AMD Radeon 8000 series gr...

Lenovo seeking help from Taiwan ODMs for the server industry

Apr 23, 09:56

With Lenovo reportedly talking with IBM about the the acquisition of IBM's server business, sources from the upstream supply chain pointed out that the China-based vendor has already...

Quanta Computer lands orders for own-brand servers from Alibaba, Sina

Apr 11, 20:27

Quanta Computer has secured orders for own-brand servers for use in cloud computing data centers from Alibaba, the largest China-based e-commerce operator, and Sina, a large China-based...

Wistron reports rising March revenues

Apr 9, 14:30

Notebook ODM firm Wistron saw March consolidated revenues reach NT$60.88 billion (US$2.02 billion), showing a sequential increase of 37.07% and an on-year increase of 11.18%. The...

Gigabyte sees growth in March revenues

Apr 9, 13:50

Gigabyte Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$4.43 billion (US$147.54 million) for March, up 30.3% on month and 8.96% on year, while revenues reached NT$12.4 billion...

Taiwan market: GigaCloud launches cloud computing services for SMBs

Apr 3, 10:39

Taiwan-based GigaCloud on April 2 announced the launch of SaaS (software as a service) public cloud computing services in the Taiwan market, targeting small and medium businesses...

Intel to showcase latest technology in IDF 2013 Beijing

Mar 29, 14:00

Intel's annual IDF in Beijing, China, will be held from April 10-11 and hosted by Ian Yang, president of Intel China. Top company executives such as senior vice president Kirk Skaugen,...

Arbor Technology expects growing revenues from medical applications

Mar 29, 13:56

Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) firm Arbor Technology has reported that revenues from medical applications accounted for 38% of total revenues in 2012. According to company CEO,...

Inventec sees clients asking to place server orders directly

Mar 28, 12:27

As placing orders directly to ODMs is gradually becoming a trend among large Internet players, Inventec has revealed that a few clients have been asking about directly placing orders,...

Embedded system makers eyeing medical applications

Mar 26, 14:05

Taiwan-based embedded system makers such as Advantech, ICP Electronics, Arbor Technology, Avalue Technology, and Unitech have been aggressive in developing the medical application...

Taiwan server firms shift into spotlight

Mar 25, 12:16

Demand growth in the global PC market continues to slow down but the server market has been maintaining steady growth. International chipmakers have noted that the server market will...

Commentary: Taiwan cloud industrial parks to face reality check

Mar 20, 15:23

In the fourth quarter of 2012, Taiwan's government began announcing projects regarding government cloud services. In January 2013, the governments of Taipei and New Taipei City both...

Acer expands commercial offering with new Veriton P workstation and Altos server

Mar 19, 15:04

Acer has announced its entry to the professional workstation market with the Veriton P series and new Altos servers thereby expanding its commercial offering. The new workstations...

Power supply maker Zippy purchases Clevo facilities for capacity expansion

Mar 14, 13:46

Taiwan-based industrial and server power supply maker Zippy Technology has recently spent NT$2.67 billion (US$89.88 million) to purchase Clevo's plants and office buildings in Wugu,...

Adlink sees on-year growth in 2012 revenues

Mar 14, 11:15

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Adlink Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.6 billion (US$188.52 million) for 2012, up 11.77% on year, but the company's net profit dropped...

Taiwan government setting up environment cloud computing platform

Mar 13, 11:11

Taiwan is constructing a cloud computing platform for environmental administration with a 4-year budget of NT$600 million, according to Environmental Protection Administration (EPA...

Quanta Computer expects own-brand server sales to account for 85% of server revenues in 2013

Mar 12, 21:00

Quanta Computer has extended server production from an OEM basis to own-brand sales and expects the proportion of total revenues from servers from own-brand sales to increase from...

Retail channel motherboard inventory levels too high due to overstocking

Mar 7, 19:42

In order to hit their 2012 shipment targets, motherboard vendors significantly increased shipments in November-December 2012 although market demand did not rise, and consequently...

Asustek aims to lead touchscreen notebook market in 2013, says CEO

Mar 5, 22:03

Asustek Computer has set a goal of attaining the largest global market share for touchscreen notebooks, and the second-largest for all types of notebooks and tablets in 2013, company...

Mobeam and ams: Smartphone barcodes will finally be readable by all POS laser scanners

Mar 4, 22:25

Mobeam and ams AG have announced they have formed a partnership that will accelerate the ability of smartphones to transmit barcoded content that can be read by all point-of-sale...

Advantech targets US$1 billion revenues in 2013

Mar 1, 15:34

Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) player Advantech has announced 2012 total consolidated revenues of NT$27.552 billion (US$930 million), representing an on-year growth of 4.2% compared...