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Monday 10 July 2017
HTC ties up with Volkswagen to develop VR applications
HTC has teamed up with Volkswagen to develop VR (virtual reality) solutions and applications for internal production and logistics operations of the German-based automaker, according...
Monday 10 July 2017
Taiwan market: New profit-sharing scheme needed for TV operators and content providers
A friction between Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and content providers for profit-sharing on content delivered through CHT's MOD (multimedia-on-demand) platform has become an issue involving...
Monday 10 July 2017
Frankfurt ISC 2017 post-show European high end computing adventure: a place in Taiwan for it?
Half a month in late-June European heatwave may make Computex-time Taipei feel actually comfortable; however there was a good reason this time to endure the heat – the ISC 2017...
Monday 10 July 2017
Great growth potential seen for software-defined market in Greater China: Q&A with VMware executive Bernard Kwok
As a leading virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure provider with a 85% share of the global virtualization software market in recent years, the US-based VMware is gearing...
Monday 10 July 2017
Xiaomi makes a comeback in smartphone market, says report
Xiaomi Technology has made a comeback in the smartphone market, seeing its smartphone shipments increase 70% sequentially to 23.16 million units in the second quarter of 2017, according...
Friday 7 July 2017
Taiwan to create AI innovation ecosystem
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has set aside a 5-year budget of NT$5 billion (US$165 million) specifically for developing AI (artificial intelligence) core technologies...
Friday 7 July 2017
Qualcomm seeks to ban iPhone imports to US
Qualcomm has announced that it is filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple has engaged in the unlawful importation and sale...
Friday 7 July 2017
HTC June revenues rise on brisk sales of U11 smartphones
Brisk sales of the HTC U11 series smartphones buoyed revenues at HTC in June, which climbed to the highest for 2017 at NT$6.89 billion (US$225.2 million). The monthly figures represented...
Friday 7 July 2017
Taiwan IC design houses seeing orders ramp-up from China smartphone sector
A ramp-up of orders from China's smartphone sector will buoy revenues at Taiwan-based IC design houses, particularly those specializing in LCD driver ICs, wireless charging solutions...
Friday 7 July 2017
HTC investigating smartphone fire incident in France
High Tech Computer (HTC) has commented on a couple reports that its smartphones has spontaneously caught fire in Taiwan and France, saying it is cooperating with third-party investigations...
Friday 7 July 2017
Nokia smartphones to feature Zeiss optics
Nokia-branded phone vendor HMD Global and ZEISS have signed a partnership that will see the two companies co-develop imaging capabilities and bring the Zeiss optics back to Nokia...
Friday 7 July 2017
Commentary: Power-saving is key concept in smartphone design
While new smartphone models for 2017 boast quite a few fresh features such as full screens, OLED panels, biometric systems, quick charge and wireless charge applications, these features...
Thursday 6 July 2017
Intel, Qualcomm to compete fiercely in AR/VR and AI sectors
Intel and Qualcomm are expected to compete neck and neck in the VR/AR and AI sectors as the two companies have continued to enhance their deployments in these areas. With new applications...
Thursday 6 July 2017
Getac sees revenues ride high in June
Ruggedized computing device maker Getac Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.81 billion (US$59.48 million) for June, increasing 17.95% on month and 11.27% on year...
Thursday 6 July 2017
Baidu deploys Xilinx FPGAs in new public cloud acceleration services
Baidu has deployed Xilinx FPGA-based application acceleration services in their public cloud, according to Xilinx. The Baidu FPGA Cloud Server, a new service in Baidu Cloud, features...