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Wednesday 16 November 2016
India market: Smartphone shipments grow 17.5% in 3Q16, says IDC
Smartphone shipments reached 32.3 million units in the India market in the third quarter of 2016, increasing 17.5% over the previous quarter, according to data compiled by IDC.
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Digitimes Research: Cellular M2M IoT to be fast developing in China
Cellular M2M (machine to machine) IoT is expected to be fast developing in the China market since the China government in 2009 included IoT industries as a focus of the nation's long-term...
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Inventec expects 2017 hand-held device shipments to grow 17.2-20.7%
Invenetec expects its subsidiary Invenetc Appliances to ship 68-70 million hand-held mobile devices in 2017, growing 17.2-20.7% on year, the parent company said at a November 14 investors...
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Smartphone shipments to grow at single-digit rates through 2020, says IC Insights
Total smartphone shipments are forecast to grow by 4% in 2016 to 1.49 billion units after jumping by 13% to 1.43 billion in 2015, according to IC Insights. Moreover, smartphone shipments...
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Demand for AMOLED panels from China smartphone vendors rising
Supply of AMOLED panels for smartphone applications could be short of demand in 2017 due to increasing purchases from China-based smartphone vendors, according to sources from the...
Tuesday 15 November 2016
HTC announces wireless upgrade kit for HTC Vive
HTC has announced a tetherless virtual reality (VR) upgrade kit for the HTC Vive. The wireless kit, developed and produced by TPCAST, a HTC's Vive X Accelerator-invested company,...
Tuesday 15 November 2016
'd!conomy – no limits': Keynote theme at CeBIT 2017 reveals the enormous potential afforded by digitalization
Digitalization is transforming the economy and society more profoundly than any other advance in the history of technology. Increasing interplay across a wide array of digital technologies...
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Hiwin obtains orders with shipments scheduled through January 2017
Precision motion control component maker Hiwin Technologies has landed orders with shipments scheduled through January 2017, company chairman Eric Chuo said at a November 14 investors...
Monday 14 November 2016
Taiwan IC design houses to benefit from strong smartphone shipments by Oppo, Vivo
Taiwan-based IC design houses, including MediaTek, FocalTech Systems and Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT), are to see their shipments gain a boost in 2017 due to increasing orders...
Monday 14 November 2016
Digitimes Research: Smartphone shipments by Taiwan makers lower than expected in 3Q16
Shipments of smartphones by Taiwan-based brand vendors and handset ODMs declined 35% on year to 12.36 million units in the third quarter of 2016, according to data compiled by Digitimes...
Monday 14 November 2016
Acer strengthens ties with Tobii to develop VR devices with eye-tracking technology
Acer is expanding its cooperation with Sweden-based eye tracking solution developer Tobii Technology to develop head-mounted display (HMD) VR devices featuring eye tracking technology,...
Monday 14 November 2016
Asustek reports strong earnings for 3Q16
Asustek Computer has reported net profits of NT$5.979 billion (US$187.75 million) for the third quarter of 2016, up 45% on quarter and 42% on year. The earnings translated into an...
Monday 14 November 2016
Asustek to unveil Google Tango-enabled smartphone at CES 2017
Asustek Computer will unveil its first AR-enabled smartphone, the ZenFone AR, during the forthcoming CES 2017. The smartphone will support Google Tango, according to company CEO Jerry...
Friday 11 November 2016
Taiwan Mobile leads telecom operators with highest EPS for October
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) led the Taiwan's top-three telecom operators with the highest EPS of NT$0.48 for October, compared to NT$0.38 of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and NT$0.27 of Far EasTone...
Friday 11 November 2016
IPC maker Ennoconn sees profits down sequentially in 3Q16
Industrial PC supplier Ennoconn has reported net profits of NT$262 million (US$8.222 million) for the third quarter of 2016, down 1.81% sequentially but up 6.28% on year. EPS for...