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Thursday 23 January 2014
Canon reduction in overseas production will not affect factories in Taiwan
Japan-based vendor Canon has decided to increase the proportion of total digital camera output produced domestically from 42% in 2013 to over 50% in 2015 through shutting or reducing...
Thursday 23 January 2014
PCB maker GBM expects return to profitability in 2014
PCB maker Global Brands Manufacture (GBM), which also provides PCB assembly services, expects to return to profitability in 2014. Brisk demand coming from the automotive electronics...
Thursday 23 January 2014
APLEX introduces cost-effective and durable industrial Panel PCs
APLEX Technology Inc., a global industrial computer product solution provider, announced a new industrial Panel PC - APC-3X93R series that adopts Intel Atom D2550 processor and provides...
Thursday 23 January 2014
Intel unveils latest Education Tablet and Classmate PC
Intel has unveiled its new education-focused reference devices at Bett 2014, a learning technology event in London, the UK. The new Intel Education Tablet and the Intel classmate...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Foxconn plans to take over IC design house Socle
An investment arm of Foxconn Electronics reportedly plans to acquire IC design house Socle Technology, in which Globalfoundries has a portion of shares, according to industry sourc...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Nexcom chairman expects 5% revenues to come from IPcam business in 2014
Industrial PC (IPC) maker Nexcom International is looking to have the IPcam business contribute 5% of its revenues in 2014 as the company is planning to integrate the product line...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
ECS expects to ship 3 million education-use tablets in 2014, says CNA
Taiwan-based ODM Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) shipped 300,000 education-use tablets in 2013 and expects to ship three million units in 2014, according to the Chinese-language...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Taiwan ODMs struggle to land mobile device orders from Samsung
While Samsung Electronics are expected to roll out an array of new smartphones and tablets for high-end as well as entry-level segments in 2014, the vendor is quite unlikely to release...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Acer to beef up marketing of fast growing product lines, says CEO
Acer will devote more efforts marketing products with fast growth, mainly smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks and other hand-held devices, in 2014, said company president and CEO Jason...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Toshiba launches new subsidiary after completing acquisition of OCZ assets
Toshiba has finalized the purchase of all assets of OCZ Technology, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary. Effective immediately, the subsidiary will operate independently as OCZ Storage...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Spreadtrum enters tablet market
Spreadtrum Communications announced on January 22 that it has entered the tablet market by introducing a quad-core chipset and a turnkey reference design.
Tuesday 21 January 2014
China white-box makers likely to launch array of wearable devices in 2Q14
China-based white-box mobile device makers are likely to launch an array of wearable devices, including smartwatches, in the second quarter of 2014, using chipset solutions from Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
ASRock ships 7.6 million own-brand motherboards in 2013
ASRock shipped 7.6 million own-brand motherboards in 2013, slipping 1.3% on year and 15.6% short of the target of nine million units, according to the company.
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Philips to transfer remaining 30% stake in TV joint venture TP Vision to TPV
Royal Philips has announced that it has signed a term sheet to transfer its remaining 30% stake in TP Vision, the TV joint venture with TPV Technology, to a fully-owned subsidiary...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Google's acquisition of Nest shows how B2C and advanced automation make for success in home energy management, says Lux Research
Google recently announced a cash purchase of home automation start-up Nest Labs for US$3.2 billion; Google Ventures has been a major investor in the company, whose last funding round...