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Wednesday 14 March 2018
Global server market – 4Q 2017

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Wednesday 14 February 2018
Facebook to launch two smart speakers in July 2018
Facebook is set to officially foray into the global smart speaker market in mid-2018 by launching two new models, codenamed Aloha and Fiona - both with 15-inch touchscreens - in July...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Competition to heat up in smart speaker chip sector in 2H18
As global demand for smart voice assistant devices is estimated to soar sharply from 30 million units to 50 million in 2018 before hitting over 80 million in 2020, an increasing number...
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Global 1Q18 server shipments to be flat, says Digitimes Research
Worldwide server shipments in the first quarter of 2018 are expected to stay flat or drop slightly due to seasonal impact, but demand from large-size datacenter clients will remain...
Friday 12 January 2018
Lithium batteries becoming popular choice for datacenter UPS systems
Datacenters' demand for lithium batteries used in their uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems is expected to rise dramatically in 2018, as tech giants including Google, Amazon,...
Thursday 21 December 2017
Facebook, Google moving to expand hardware presence in China
Web giants Facebook and Google are stepping up their deployments of hardware production in Asia, especially in China, with the former planning to set up an office in Shanghai in 2018...
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Cloud server provider Wiwynn to list on Taiwan stock market
Wiwynn, a cloud server subsidiary of Wistron, plans to strengthen its financial capability by listing its shares on Taiwan's Emerging Stock Board in mid-November 2017 and on the over-the-counter...
Thursday 26 October 2017
HPE, Wiwynn to provide Microsoft with Project Olympus servers
Microsoft has released orders to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Taiwan-based Wiwynn for making servers for its Project Olympus, a next-generation hyperscale computing hardware...
Friday 15 September 2017
Taiwan's Asia Silicon Valley plan to highlight AI, self-driving tech in 2018
After scoring impressive achievements at the end of its first implementation year in early September 2017, the Taiwan government's Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan (ASVDP) is...
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Competition in AI chip market heating up on full presence of global tech giants
Competition in the artificial intelligence (AI) chip market is heating up as nearly all major players in the IT industry have joined the race to develop AI chips and applications...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Amazon Echo faces challenge to stay on top of smart speaker market
Amazon's top-selling Echo smart speaker may see serious challenge from competitors, as it lacks support for non-English-speaking countries, according to sources from market watcher...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Facebook developing smart speaker with 15-inch touch panel
Following Amazon, Google and Apple, Facebook is also rumored to be planning to release a smart speaker product, but instead of voice recognition functionality, the company will focus...
Monday 3 July 2017
Solectron founder offers recipes to boost Taiwan tech strength
Winston H Chen founded Solectron in 1978. Under his leadership, the company grew into the world’s largest electronics manufacturing services provider with annual revenue of...
Monday 12 June 2017
Quanta, Wiwynn to expand server capacity as orders increase
Quanta Computer and Wiwynn, a server affiliate of Wistron, are expected to see server shipments increase in the second half of 2017, thanks to rising demand for big data generated...
Monday 5 June 2017
Facebook said to expand datacenter scale and prepare new hardware devices for 2018
Facebook is reportedly planning to establish more datacenters worldwide for possible launches of new services, according to sources from the upstream supply chain, who added that...