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Monday 30 September 2019
Microsoft expanding AI R&D center in Taiwan
Microsoft is expanding its team at its AI R&D Center in Taiwan, which will focus on the development for three major areas - computer vision, user intention recognition and application...
Monday 30 September 2019
Huawei camera lens orders may reach 1.5 billion units in 2020
Huawei's procurement of smartphone camera lenses for 2020 may reach as high as 1.5 billion units, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Monday 30 September 2019
Pure Storage, HPE pushing into service subscription business
Pure Storage has announced the availability of its Pure as-a-service, allowing its clients to obtain services for all of its storage products via a subscription service, while Hewlett-Packard...
Monday 30 September 2019
BiiLabs, SoftChef launch blockchain-based IoT SaaS platform
Blockchain startup BiiLabs and IoT solutions provider SoftChef have jointly launched Benchy-Alfred SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for machine-to-machine (M2M) encrypted IoT...
Monday 30 September 2019
Wi-Fi 6 penetration growing
The penetration rate of Wi-Fi 6 technology is expected to reach 10% in 2020, with smartphone applications pioneering the adoption, followed by notebooks and smart household devices,...
Friday 27 September 2019
Qualcomm striving to excel in Wi-Fi market
Qualcomm is deepening its deployment in the Wi-Fi space as demand for IoT-related transmissions is ready for a jump-start, according to Dino Bekis, the firm's vice president and mobile...
Friday 27 September 2019
Global device shipments to decline 3.7% in 2019, says Gartner
Worldwide shipments of devices - PCs, tablets and mobile phones - will decline 3.7% in 2019, according to Gartner.
Friday 27 September 2019
NTPC-AWS JIC begins second-round of startup team recruitment
The NTPC-AWS Joint Innovation Center (JIC), established jointly by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the New Taipei City government, has activated the second phase of recruitment of startup...
Friday 27 September 2019
Edge computing crucial for AI, 5G complementarity, says Qualcomm CTO
While AI and 5G technologies will closely complement each other in a variety of applications, edge computing will play the most critical role in the complementarity of both technologies,...
Friday 27 September 2019
Intel provides new Optane, 3D NAND updates
Intel has unveiled its second-generation Optane storage-class memory codenamed Barlow Pass that will be launched along with its new-generation Xeon CPUs in 2020. Intel also disclosed...
Thursday 26 September 2019
Highlights of the day: Clients scrambling for TSMC capacity
Demand for 7nm manufacturing capacity at TSMC is so strong that long lines have been formed trying to secure supply from the foundry house for the advanced process. As supply is tight,...
Thursday 26 September 2019
More IT vendors to step into smartwatch sector
Following in the steps of Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi, more IT brands including Google, Oppo and Vivo are expected to step into the smartwatch space in the wake of a slowdown...
Thursday 26 September 2019
Qualcomm readies solutions to address 5G mmWave tech challenges
Construction of 5G mmWave base stations has been slow worldwide except in the US due to some major challenges affecting the development of related technologies, but Qualcomm has come...
Thursday 26 September 2019
5G phone shipments in China, Korea to total 10 million units in 2019
Combined shipments of 5G-enabled smartphones from Chinese and Korean vendors are expected to reach about 10 million units in 2019 - a result of collaboration between telecom operators...
Thursday 26 September 2019
AMD server market share expected to break 10% in 2020
AMD's second-generation EPYC server processors have landed significant orders from major IT players such as Dell, IBM and Nokia recently, with the chip vendor standing a good chance...