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Thursday 3 January 2019
Chipmakers keen to roll out NPU-based AI mobile SoCs
Discrete NPU (neural processing unit) is increasingly incorporated by chipmakers including Huawei HiSilicon, Qualcomm and MediaTek into their mobile chip solutions to execute AI computing...
Thursday 3 January 2019
Ennoconn to raise fund for IIoT development, says paper
Industrial PC (IPC) maker Ennoconn, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, is planning to raise NT$7.2 billion (US$231.12 million) for 2019 with NT$6 billion via issuing convertible bond...
Thursday 3 January 2019
Datacenter server demand to see sharp growth after sluggish 1H19
Orders for datacenter servers are expected to slow down in the first half of 2019, but will resume sharp growth in the second half and grow even stronger in 2020, as many first-tier...
Thursday 3 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: EDA going on cloud to cut IC design cost
Along with increasingly advanced foundry technologies, IC design cost has sharply hiked, prompting chip designers to use cloud computing services to undertake EDA (electronic design...
Thursday 3 January 2019
Apple lowers guidance for fiscal 1Q19 on weak iPhone sales in China
Apple has revised its guidance for fiscal first-quarter 2019 ended on December 29, expecting revenues of about US$84 billion, lower than the original estimate for the period, according...
Wednesday 2 January 2019
India external storage market grows 23.1% in 3Q18, says IDC
India's external storage market witnessed an on-year growth of 23.1% to reach US$81.8 million in third-quarter 2018, according to IDC.
Wednesday 2 January 2019
Wistron expanding investment in India
Wistron has increased the authorized capital of its subsidiary in India, Wistron InfoComm Manufacturing (India), to INR30 billion (US$430.62 million) to meet its future development...
Wednesday 2 January 2019
China top-4 smartphone vendors to maintain lead in home market in 2019
China's top-four leading smartphone vendors - Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo - are expected to be able to maintain their leaderships in their domestic market in 2019, as they will...
Friday 28 December 2018
AWS urges enterprises to step up digital transformation with cloud services
Enterprises can leverage external cloud resources to accelerate digital transformation at lower IT cost to boost competitiveness, according to Zhang Xia, Greater China principal enterprise...
Friday 28 December 2018
Pure Storage looks to Asia Pacific for 2019 growth
Flash-based storage solution provider Pure Storage expects sales generated from the Asia Pacific region to register a triple-digit jump in 2019 with demand from Taiwan and Indonesia...
Thursday 27 December 2018
ASIC vendors eyeing hefty demand growth
Taiwan-based ASIC vendors expect staggering growth in orders in the next few years, driven by demand from the high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors...
Thursday 27 December 2018
2018 review and 2019 outlook: The race to the top in the smartphone market
On November 26, 2018, Microsoft saw its market value of US$807 billion surpass Apple's NT$805 billion, officially making the software giant the most valuable IT player worldwide....
Thursday 27 December 2018
CHT to recruit talent for AI, IoT, big data
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) plans to launch a large-scale recruitment drive in 2019 as it expects to see an unprecedented wave of up to 5,000 of its employees applying for retirements...
Thursday 27 December 2018
Optical communications supply chain warming up for 5G
Firms in the optical communications supply chain have already started small-volume shipments catering to telecom carriers building 5G infrastructures, according to industry sources...
Thursday 27 December 2018
UR, Techman eye Taiwan collaborative robots market
Universal Robots (UR) and Techman Robot have stepped up efforts promoting collaborative robots in the Taiwan market.