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Wednesday 12 June 2019
Foxconn revving up development of IIoT, IoV, IoHT
Foxconn will leverage its core technologies such as industrial IoT (IIoT) to strengthen digital transformation and manage to become a provider of technology solutions associated with...
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Foxconn unveils new operations committee in leadership overhaul
Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision) has unveiled a leadership overhaul, creating a new operations committee with nine senior executives to manage its operations and make...
Wednesday 12 June 2019
HTC launches U19e, Desire 19+
In response to its weak smartphone sales in the previous months due to a lack of new models, HTC has rolled out two new smartphones targeting the mid-range segment - the U19e and...
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Intel to acquire Barefoot Networks
Intel has disclosed it has signed an agreement to acquire Barefoot Networks, a supplier of Ethernet switch silicon and software for use in the data center.
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Already detrimental to Huawei's smartphone business, the US ban will impact the telecom and enterprise equipment market in the long run
With Huawei already stocking up on crucial components, the US Commerce Department's ban will not stop Huawei from providing its products and services in the short term. However, the...
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Highlights of the day: Huawei continues 5G deployments
The US trade ban may have halted Huawei's expansions overseas, but has prompted China to accelerate the pace of 5G deplopyments domestically. Huawei reportedly is redesigning its...
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Huawei demand for 5G infrastructure materials may drop slightly due to redesign
Huawei may slow slightly down its pace of pulling in shipments of PCBs and related materials for 5G base stations in the short term as the company is redesigning circuit layouts to...
Tuesday 11 June 2019
New IC supply chain may loom in Asia for China tech sector
A new supply chain for China IT firms may gradually take shape in Asia in the future as they are seeking to wean themselves off US suppliers of crucial components and facilitate their...
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Taiwan ODMs expect server demand to pick up in 2H19
Taiwan-based ODMs, such as Quanta Computer, Wiwynn and Inventec, all expect demand for datacenter servers to pick up in the second half of 2019.
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Foxconn gearing up to promote IIoT applications to diverse industries
Foxconn Technology Group is moving at full throttle to develop industrial IoT (IIoT) applications, setting up 13 cloud affiliates to join forces with its Foxconn Industrial Internet...
Monday 10 June 2019
Cooling module makers see rising business in 5G segment
As China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is set to issue 5G licenses in the near future, sources from cooling module makers have pointed out that they have received...
Monday 10 June 2019
Transceiver module maker PCL positive about outlook for 2H19
Optical transceiver module maker TCL Technologies expects its shipments of 32G transceiver modules to grow 5-10% month-by-month starting July despite the uncertainty arising from...
Thursday 6 June 2019
AI to replace human jobs, lifelong learning needed to counter, says Morris Chang
Data and computing capability will be a decisive key to success in the upcoming AI and IoT era, and as AI will be able to handle a high portion of existing human jobs, people had...
Thursday 6 June 2019
Microsoft and Oracle to interconnect Azure and Oracle Cloud
Microsoft and Oracle has announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle...
Thursday 6 June 2019
Edge computing plays vital role in AIoT applications, says Aetina GM
AIoT applications are gaining momentum worldwide, as there will be some 2.4 billion IoT networks in the next 2-3 years to store, process and analyze big data at edge devices while...