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Thursday 19 January 2017
Digitimes Research: KDDI sets up smart drone platform, Rakuten Mobile launches drone
In the Japan market, mobile operator KDDI set up a smart drone platform to store photographs and video in a database in the fourth quarter of 2016, while MVNO (mobile virtual network...
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Taiwan IC design houses pushing into automotive aftermarket
Taiwan-based IC design houses including Generalplus, Himax Technologies, Macroblock, MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics, Nuvoton Technology, Pixart Imaging, Sunplus Technology and...
Tuesday 17 January 2017
MacBook shipments to reach 15 million units in 2017, says paper
Apple's MacBook shipments are expected to grow 10% on year to reach 15 million units in 2017 due to new MacBook Pro products. Related supply chain players including Quanta Computer,...
Tuesday 17 January 2017
Acer, Asustek see notebook sales rising in Russia, says paper
Acer and Asustek Computer saw their notebook sales in Russia grow strongly in the second half of 2016 thanks to an economic recovery triggered by rising oil prices, according to a...
Tuesday 17 January 2017
IPC supplier IEI Integration braces for strong sales in 1Q17, says paper
Industrial PC (IPC) OBM and ODM IEI Integration will be able to maintain its sales momentum in the first quarter of 2017 after its quarterly revenues hit a record high in the fourth...
Tuesday 17 January 2017
ASRock reportedly to take over Pegatron system integrator orders
Pegatron Technology has been re-organizing its business groups since the second half of 2016 and has recently decided to gradually shift the group that handles small-to-medium-size...
Tuesday 17 January 2017
IPC maker Ennoconn sets price for ECB issue
Industrial PC (IPC) supplier Ennoconn, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, has set the conversion price of its five-year US$200 million European convertible bond (ECB) issue at NT$488...
Monday 16 January 2017
Sharp ending supply for Samsung may push up demand for 65-inch TV panels
Foxconn Electronics, following stake investment in Sharp, has had Sharp end supply of LCD TV panels for Samsung Electronics beginning January 2017, which is likely to increase global...
Monday 16 January 2017
Smartphone vendors likely to brace for component shortages in 2017
The risk for the global handset industry to brace for a shortage in supplies of some key components, including displays, memory products and optical sensing devices, in 2017 is rising...
Monday 16 January 2017
Compal negotiating to sell LCFC stake to Lenovo, says president
Compal Electronics is negotiating with Lenovo to sell its 49% stake in LCFC (Hefei) Electronics Technology, a joint-venture notebook maker established by the two companies in 2011,...
Monday 16 January 2017
Compal aims to ramp up device shipments by 10% in 2017
Compal Electronics aims to ramp up shipments of its device products by 10% to 87 million units in 2017, according to company president Ray Chen. Shipments of device products, including...
Friday 13 January 2017
BYD wins price negotiation priority for 2017 Asustek notebooks
Asustek Computer for the first time adopted online bidding for requests for quotations (RFQ) for notebooks to be launched in 2017, and China-based OEM BYD has won the first right...
Thursday 12 January 2017
Microsoft lowers 2017 Windows 10 licensing rates for low-cost notebooks
Microsoft has settled with notebook vendors on Windows 10 licensing rates for models to be launched in 2017, with costs for under 14.1-inch low-cost models lowered from 2016, according...
Thursday 12 January 2017
PC market stabilizes with solid 4Q16 shipments despite component shortages, says IDC
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, posting an on-year decline of 1.5%, according...
Thursday 12 January 2017
MSI pushing new gaming products in 2017, says paper
Micro-Star International (MSI) has released a total of 25 new VR-supported gaming motherboards targeting the mid-range to high-end sector and 21 new VR-ready mid-range to high-end...