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Tuesday 18 July 2017
China market: Smartphone brands show polarized sales performances
China and Taiwan smartphone vendors are showing polarized sales performances in China market, with smaller vendors such as LeEco and Asustek Computer gradually losing ground and leading...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Taiwan firms urged to develop integrated chips for AI systems
Taiwan should strive to become an exporter of AI (artificial intelligence) system products and to develop niche-type integrated smart system chips that could reach a production value...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Xiaomi aims to ship 100 million smartphones in 2018
Xiaomi Technology has returned to a growth track and aims to ship over 100 million smartphones in 2018, according to company founder and CEO Lei Jun.
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Local Indonesia smartphone brands battling increased competition, says IDC
According to the latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone shipments in Indonesia recorded 7.3 million units in the first quarter of 2017, a 13% on-year growth. However,...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Singapore-based accelerator AIRmaker unveils office in Taiwan
AIRmaker, a Singapore-based startup accelerator focusing on IoT (Internet of Things)-based health care and smart city sectors, on July 17 unveiled its operating base at Southern Taiwan...
Monday 17 July 2017
Promise to partner with Adlink for hyperconverged systems
Storage solution provider Promise Technology has announced to partner with Adlink Technology and US-based software designer Epicor Software to push hyperconverged systems for manufacturing...
Monday 17 July 2017
HTC upgrades U11 to support Alexa voice service
HTC has tied up with Amazon and optimized its latest flagship smartphone the HTC U11 to support Alexa voice service, making the model the world's first Alexa-enabled smartphone, according...
Monday 17 July 2017
VIA announces Olami AI platform
VIA Technologies announced the start to beta testing for its Olami artificial intelligence (AI) platform on July 17. The platform is developed by VIA's AI team and features many cloud...
Monday 17 July 2017
Taiwan IT players to see opportunities from electric vehicle industry
Taiwan-based notebook component suppliers including chassis makers Catcher Technology, Waffer Technology and Ju Teng; cooling module makers Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry and...
Monday 17 July 2017
Worldwide IT spending to grow 2.4% in 2017, says Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.5 trillion in 2017, a 2.4% increase from 2016, according to Gartner. This growth rate is up from the previous quarter's forecast of...
Monday 17 July 2017
China industrial robot production and demand fast growing
As development of industrial robots is among target industries to be boosted in China's 13th Five-year National Development Plan, production of and demand for industrial robots in...
Monday 17 July 2017
Taipei Medical University introduces IBM Watson for Oncology
Taipei Medical University has introduced IBM Watson for Oncology, an AI-based cognitive computing system to help oncological physicians treat cancer, to Taipei Medical University...
Monday 17 July 2017
Production of OLED-version iPhone delayed, says paper
Production of the OLED-version next-generation iPhone will be delayed to November-December, shipping only in small volumes initially, according to a Chinese-language Economic...
Monday 17 July 2017
China market: Unmanned retail store sales on the rise
In the China market, transaction value at unmanned retail stores in 2017 will total CNY38.94 billion (US$5.73 billion) and will increase to CNY1.8 trillion in 2022, while the number...
Monday 17 July 2017
Samsung to announce launch date for Galaxy Note 8 in August
Samsung Electronics will launch its Galaxy Note 8 smartphone soon and will announce the official timetable for the planned launch at the end of August, according to Dongjin Koh, president...