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Monday 20 July 2015
Synaptics announces panel driver IC solutions for mobile devices
Synaptics has announced sampling of ClearPad 4300, its second-generation touch and display driver integration (TDDI) product, and a lineup of four new display driver IC solutions...
Monday 20 July 2015
Taiwan 2Q15 international Internet bandwidth rises to 1.561Tbps, says TWNIC
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 15 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached total bandwidth of 1.561Tbps as of the end of the second quarter of 2015, increasing...
Monday 20 July 2015
Global dual-SIM smartphone sales to grow to 514 million units in 2016, says Strategy Analytics
Global dual-SIM smartphone sales will grow 19% from 431 million units in 2015 to 514 million in 2016. Almost one in three of the 1.6 billion smartphones sold globally in 2016 will...
Friday 17 July 2015
HTC launches 4 HTC Desire smartphones in the US
HTC has launched four new models of its HTC Desire family, the HTC Desire 626, 626s, 526 and 520, in the US targeting the mid-range segment.
Friday 17 July 2015
Wearable systems give major boost to total IoT sales in 2015, says IC Insights
Market revenues associated with network communications, sensing, and control functions in subsystems and objects attached to the Internet of Things (IoT) are forecast to grow 29%...
Thursday 16 July 2015
India x86 server market on a growth path in 1Q15, says IDC
According to IDC APeJ Server Tracker, the x86 server market in India grew 7.5% in terms of shipments, while in terms of revenues the market witnessed a double-digit percentage on-year...
Thursday 16 July 2015
Taiwan market: Samsung to launch Galaxy A8
Samsung Electronics plans to unveil its new smartphone, the Galaxy A8, in the Taiwan market on July 21. The Galaxy A8 features a metal body, 5.7-inch AMOLED display, Qualcomm 8-core...
Thursday 16 July 2015
Taisys showcasing smart thin-film SIM, slimduet application at MWC Shanghai
Taisys Technologies, a Taiwan-based provider of solutions for vertically integrating telecom and mobile banking services, is exhibiting in-house-developed smart thin-film SIM technology...
Thursday 16 July 2015
Microsoft may increase smartphone outsourcing as it closes China plants
Microsoft has closed its China-based handset manufacturing plants in Beijing and Dongguang, a move which will pave the way for the company to increase outsourcing of smartphones to...
Wednesday 15 July 2015
China market: 4G handset shipments soar in 1H15
China shipped a total of 237 million handsets in the first half of 2015, rising 7.4% from a year earlier, with shipments of 4G models increasing 381.8% on year to 195 million units,...
Wednesday 15 July 2015
Growth in cloud deployments counteracts flat EMEA infrastructure market in 1Q15, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker, IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe,...
Wednesday 15 July 2015
Security a must for IoT market: Q&A with NXP EVP Steve Owen
The acquisition of Freescale by NXP Semiconductors will make NXP the world's second largest MCU supplier after the merger. The deal highlights NXP's goal of making a significant inroad...
Tuesday 14 July 2015
Taiwan market: Oppo unveils smartphones R7, R7 Plus
China-based vendor Oppo has unveiled its 5-inch R7 and 6-inch R7 Plus smartphone in the Taiwan market. The R7 is available immediately at NT$10,990 (US$355) unlocked, while the R7...
Tuesday 14 July 2015
Micron boosts data center storage security with new SATA SSD featuring enterprise data encryption
Micron Technology has announced a new encryption-enhanced solid state drive (SSD) for read-centric data center workloads, accelerating the transition from legacy hard disk drives...
Tuesday 14 July 2015
Microsoft likely to focus on flagship, business-use smartphones, say sources
Microsoft, while initiating a new phase of restructuring of its smartphone subsidiary Microsoft Mobile, is likely to revamp its strategy for smartphones by focusing on high-end and...