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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...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Smartening up Bluetooth earphones: Q&A with UnlimiterHear executives
With the growing popularity of smart speakers and voice assistance tools offered by first-tier Internet service providers, many have focused on the development of emerging home devices...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Digitimes Research: Taiwan handset shipments post gains in 3Q17
Shipments of handsets by Taiwan's brand vendors and ODMs reached 22.9 million units in the third quarter of 2017, up 11.2% sequentially and 85.3% on year, according to Digitimes Re...
Monday 18 December 2017
Taiwan market: LG, Oppo to launch new smartphones for year-end holidays
LG Electronics and Oppo both will launch new smartphone models in the Taiwan market on December 22, heating up competition for the year-end shopping season, according to sources from...
Monday 18 December 2017
3D sensing to become mainstream for smartphones in 2018
3D sensing is expected to replace fingerprint sensing as mainstream for smartphones in 2018 with more smartphone vendors, including Huawei, Xiaomi Technology and Oppo, expected to...
Friday 15 December 2017
FET demonstrates new 5G base station with Ericsson
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has showcased its 28GHz 5G base station prototype system with Ericsson in Taiwan, the world's eighth such demonstration following similar events...
Friday 15 December 2017
China market: HTC enjoys strong pre-orders for Vive Focus
HTC has seen higher-than-expected pre-orders for its standalone VR head-mounted display (HMD), the Vive Focus, in China, with the device's high popularity to benefit HTC's December...
Friday 15 December 2017
MediaTek Sensio-powered smartphones, wearables to hit market in 1Q18
MediaTek has revealed that it has received orders for its newly released health monitoring solution, Sensio MT6381, from China-based first-tier smartphone vendors and other wearable...
Friday 15 December 2017
Optical communication specialist EZconn sees bright prospects in 2018
Taiwan-based optical communication products maker EZconn expects a significant revenue growth in 2018, as it will start mass shipments of 10G PON (passive optical networks) devices...
Friday 15 December 2017
Huawei, Oppo, Vivo cut smartphone orders by over 10%, say sources
China-based smartphone brand vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo (BBK) are taking about less 10% of smartphone shipments than their original orders from the supply chain makers...
Friday 15 December 2017
Africa's smartphone market bounces back in 3Q17, says IDC
Africa's smartphone market bounced back from two consecutive declines to post a sequential growth of 4.4% to 21.7 million units in the third quarter of 2017, spurred by ongoing economic...
Thursday 14 December 2017
China tech giants forming alliances to tap immense AIoT opportunities
With AI (artificial intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) applications combing fast to create immense AIoT business opportunities, China tech giants are gearing up to strengthen...
Thursday 14 December 2017
AI to create more jobs by 2020, says Gartner
According to Gartner, 2020 will be a pivotal year in AI-related employment dynamics as artificial intelligence (AI) will become a positive job motivator. AI will create 2.3 million...