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Friday 21 July 2017
Full-screen smartphone shipments to surge in 2018, says Counterpoint Research
Shipments of bezel-free or alternative aspect ratio smartphones will exceed 120 million units in 2017, and will more than triple in 2018, according to Counterpoint Research.
Friday 21 July 2017
Taiwan market: FET launches position tracking service
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has launched a position tracking service, dubbed BoBee, targeting the elderly, dementia and children groups as well as the pet market.
Friday 21 July 2017
Chip demand for data centers to boom in China
With China's local governments looking to set up data centers, chip demand for data centers locally is set to surge, according to industry sources.
Friday 21 July 2017
Commentary: Implications of Samsung 5G networks
Samsung Electronics has accelerated the deployments of its 5G networks and will be ready to commence trial operations of the networks during Winter Olympic 2018, and to demonstrate...
Friday 21 July 2017
Self-serving store brings business opportunities to IT suppliers
Self-serving stores have grown to become a popular application in the IT and retail channel markets recently, prompting smart retailing hardware suppliers to turn aggressive about...
Friday 21 July 2017
Demand for 3-axis stabilizers spurred by live webcast spree
The increasing popularity of live streaming services on social networking sites and online video platforms has prompted mobile phone vendors to keep upgrading the photographing performance...
Friday 21 July 2017
Four Taiwan firms file countersuit against Qualcomm
Four Taiwan-based hardware production partners of Apple, namely Foxconn Electronics, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Pegatron, have jointly filed a countersuit against Qualcomm in...
Friday 21 July 2017
Enterprise board choices with new AMD and Intel CPU platforms: Whom to support?
Within one month, both Intel and AMD announced massive, long overdue refreshes of their server processor families, with EPYC and Scalable Xeon (yes, the credit card-style precious...
Friday 21 July 2017
Global telecom players making cautious 5G deployments
With the first set of 5G mobile communications standards slated to be released by 3GPP by the end of 2017, global telecom players are gearing up for deployments, but in a cautious...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Wearable players seeking measures as sales remain weak
Wearable players originally had high expectations about emerging IT applications, but several have started changing their strategies as most are seeing weak sales from the product...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Apple to build iCloud datacenter in Guizhou
Apple has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the government of Guizhou Province to invest US$1 billion to build a datacenter to promote its iCloud service in China.
Thursday 20 July 2017
Samsung Display to ship rigid OLED panels to Xiaomi, says report
Samsung Display will start supplying Xiaomi Technology with 6-inch QHD OLED (rigid type) panels in December 2017 for the production of Xiaomi's next-generation flagship smartphones,...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Upcoming Meizu Pro 7 series reportedly to utilize MediaTek chips
Meizu is scheduled to introduce its new Pro 7 and Pro 7 Plus smartphone series on July 26. The Pro 7 model is expected to feature MediaTek's 16nm Helio P25 SoC chip while the Pro...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
China market: Taiwan makers showcase automation equipment at Kunshan exhibition
In view of large potential demand for automated production in China due to the government's China Make 2025 initiative, Taiwan-based industrial automation equipment, device and component...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Worldwide public cloud services spending forecast to reach US$266 billion in 2021, says IDC
Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure is forecast to reach US$266 billion in 2021, according to the latest update to the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud...