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Thursday 28 September 2017
Shanghai lab rolls out first set of NB-IoT industrial application standards
The Shanghai Joint IoT Lab has worked out the first version of standards governing the NB-IoT industrial applications, which has won endorsements from 13 IoT industry associations...
Thursday 28 September 2017
Seeking to become major IoT brand: Q&A with Aaeon chairman YS Chuang
As one of Taiwan's major makers of industrial PCs, Aaeon Technology was back to the capital market in late August 2017, when it was relisted on the local bourse six years after it...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
AI and smart speaker firms keen for Computex 2018, says TCA
Taipei Computer Association (TCA) has started the online registration process for exhibiting at Computex 2018 and a few hundred Taiwan firms, including those from emerging industries...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Baidu releases Apollo 1.5
China-based search engine Baidu has upgraded Apollo, its open-source autonomous driving platform, from the initial version 1.0 released on early July 2017 to version 1.5 by adding...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Chunghwa Telecom signs cooperation pact with Cisco
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cisco Systems calling for cooperation in the fields of new network technology, information security, data...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
China makes 820 million smartphones in January-July, says MIIT
China-based firms made 1,100.82 million handsets in January-July 2017, increasing 4.0% on year, and 820.75 million of them were smartphones, growing 3.4%, according to China's Ministry...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Apple iPhone 8 Plus carries over US$280 BOM, IHS teardown reveals
The new Apple iPhone 8 Plus, equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory, carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost that comes out to US$288.08, higher than any previous versions of the...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
IoT applications may take root in Indonesia in 5 years: Q&A with Advantech executive Ramdhani Gumilar
While the global development of smart manufacturing, smart medicine and smart cities is gaining momentum with the advent of the Industry 4.0 era, Indonesia is also quietly jumping...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Smartphone sales in Taiwan remain sluggish in August
Shipments of smartphones in the Taiwan market reached 589,000 units in August, decreasing 2.48% from the previous month as consumers were waiting for the release of new models from...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
China August mobile communication users grows to 1.382 billion
Mobile communication service subscribers in China increased 0.68% sequentially and 5.59% on year to 1.382 billion in August, 142.52 million (10.31%) of them being 3G users, 929.26...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Wearable brands releasing new devices
Wearable device brand vendors including Apple, Samsung Electronics, Garmin, Xiaomi, Huawei, LG Electronics and Fitbit, have recently started unveiling their latest products to compete...
Monday 25 September 2017
Beijing, Shanghai IC sectors prospering
The flourishing IC industries in Beijing and Shanghai has been pushing forward China's overall IC industry development, enabling the rapid rise of China in the global marketplace...
Monday 25 September 2017
Education IT spending in APEJ to surpass US$11.8 billion by 2020, says IDC
Education IT spending in the APEJ (Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan) area will increase from US$9.8 billion in 2015 to US$11.8 billion by 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
Monday 25 September 2017
iPhone X component suppliers told to slow down delivery, say sources
Apple has reportedly instructed component suppliers to withhold part of the component shipments prepared for the production of iPhone X devices, according to sources from Taiwan-based...
Monday 25 September 2017
Machine vision will gradually expand into consumer applications: Q&A with Arbor CTO Karl Chen
Taiwan-based Arbor Technology has been in the industrial PC (IPC) secor for over 20 years and has always been an important upstream partner of worldwide IPC brand vendors. With automated...