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Monday 25 December 2017
Smartphone sales rebound in Taiwan in November
Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market expanded 11.88% on month and 3.17% on year to a nine-month high of 650,000 units in November, according to data compiled by local retail chann...
Monday 25 December 2017
VCSEL suppliers set for brisk sales in 2018
Taiwan-based VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) device providers, including Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC), Epistar, Advanced Wirelss Semiconductor (AWSC) and Global...
Friday 22 December 2017
Acer enjoys growing notebook sales in North America during 2017 holiday season
Thanks to year-end holiday demand, Acer's notebook sales went up 78% on year in North America during the holiday period from November 19-26, according to company chairman Jason Chen...
Friday 22 December 2017
Global shipments of wearable devices to nearly double by 2021, IDC says
The global shipments of wearable devices are expected to grow from 113.2 million units in 2017 to 222.3 million in 2021 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.4%, according...
Friday 22 December 2017
Shipments of iPhone X to reach 30-35 million units in 4Q17, say sources
Shipments of the iPhone X are estimated to reach between 30-35 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017 and stay flat or drop slightly in the first quarter of 2018, according to...
Thursday 21 December 2017
Foxconn to list IIoT subsidiary in Shanghai
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has decided to list its subsidiary Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) for common A-shares trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Thursday 21 December 2017
Facebook, Google moving to expand hardware presence in China
Web giants Facebook and Google are stepping up their deployments of hardware production in Asia, especially in China, with the former planning to set up an office in Shanghai in 2018...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
IoT platform operator PTC to set up reality lab
US-based IoT platform operator PTC has announced a plan to set up a Reality Lab to develop related AR, VR and MR applications in line with the Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing development...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
China market: China Mobile sets 2018 orders for optical components
China Mobile has announced the winning bidders for the optical communication components it plans to purchase in 2018, which will help boost shipments of Taiwan-based optical component...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
China market: Smartphone brands launch limited editions to promote brand image
China-based smartphone vendors, including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo, have waged a new round of promotional campaigns by launching limited editions of their premier models in order to...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
AI R&D needs to understand industries, says Microsoft Research Asia executive
R&D of AI (artificial intelligence) technology should be based on understanding of what the industries really need, according to Eric Chang, deputy managing director for Microsoft...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
Taiwan market: Garmin launches Vivoactive 3
Garmin has unveiled Vivoactive 3, its first GPS smartwatch equipped with Garmin Pay contactless e-payment functions, for immediate launch in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
Digitimes Research: ARM-based models may dominate lower-end PC market
As Microsoft and Qualcomm jointly announced in early December that the first Windows 10 notebooks with ARM-based Snapdragon 835 processors will be officially launched in early 2018,...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Huxen opens demonstration center for smart office applications
Smart office solution provider Huxen, a subsidiary of the Aurora group, has opened a demonstration center to promote the digital transformation by local enterprises using smart office...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
MediaTek and ITRI unveil new transmission technology for 5G
MediaTek and the Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have jointly developed a LWA (LTE/Wi-Fi Link Aggregation) prototype system and other technologies...