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Thursday 24 March 2016
Inventec, Advantech set up joint venture
Inventec and Advantech on March 22 jointly announced the establishment of a joint venture, AIMobile, for R&D, production and marketing of industrial wireless mobile devices for...
Wednesday 23 March 2016
HTC to hold product presentation on April 12
HTC will hold product presentations in Taipei, New York and London on April 12. The vendor is expected to unveil its new flagship model for 2016, likely named HTC M10, during the e...
Wednesday 23 March 2016
Quanta partners with Ericsson for cloud computing datacenter business
Quanta Computer has partnered with telecom equipment maker Ericsson to push the cloud computing datacenter market and the cooperation is expected to boost its telecom products' revenue...
Wednesday 23 March 2016
IoT business value to grow at CAGR of 17.5% over next 5 years, says Pegatron chairman
Internet of Things (IoT) has taken off, especially in smart city solutions that integrate IoT, cloud, and open data technologies. Overall IoT business value will grow at a CAGR of...
Wednesday 23 March 2016
15 million 4-inch iPhone SE to ship in 2016
Component makers in the iPhone supply chain in Taiwan are mostly conservative about the prospects of the new iPhone SE, expecting total shipments to reach 15 million units in 2016,...
Wednesday 23 March 2016
Innodisk to deal out cash dividend NT$5 for 2015
Industrial-class storage product vendor Innodisk plans to hand out a cash dividend NT$5 for 2015. The company saw its profits gain 10.48% on year to a record high of NT$560 million...
Tuesday 22 March 2016
Acer to undertake major restructuring; form holding company, say sources
Acer reportedly plans to implement a corporate restructuring project under which the company will divide its business into three major segments: PC, cloud and data center management,...
Tuesday 22 March 2016
Apple introduces iPhone SE with 4-inch display
Apple has introduced the iPhone SE with a 4-inch display, in a compact aluminum design that has been updated with matte-chamfered edges, a color-matched stainless steel Apple logo,...
Tuesday 22 March 2016
Taiwan market: FET aims at 500,000 OTT users at end of 2016
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) will enrich its OTT (over the top) content by procuring more drama series, movies and songs at a budget of up to NT$20 million (US$606,000) in...
Monday 21 March 2016
Digitimes Research: IBM, Cisco, ARM adopt other IoT protocols instead of LTE-MTC
Since LTE-MTC (machine type communications) standards in 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) R12 ( release 12) do not completely meet demands for IoT (the Internet of Things)...
Monday 21 March 2016
China vendors to ship 200-300 million fingerprint-recognition-enabled smartphones in 2016
China-based smartphone vendors have been mostly inclined to adopt fingerprint recognition for their mid-range and high-end models and consequently they will ship an estimated 200-300...
Monday 21 March 2016
EMEA external storage market continues to decline in 4Q15 but all-flash adoption soars, says IDC
The total EMEA external storage systems value fell 7.5% on year to US$2.08 billion in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to IDC's EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For...
Monday 21 March 2016
Oppo, Vivo strong smartphone shipments to benefit supply chain makers
China-based smartphone vendors Oppo and Vivo have managed to continue ramping their shipments to the domestic and overseas markets, which will assure steady orders for makers in the...
Friday 18 March 2016
Advantech posts EPS NT$8.08 for 2015
Industrial computing device and solution provider Advantech has reported net profits of NT$5.127 billion (US$158.53 million) for 2015, which translated into an EPS of NT$8.08 for the...
Friday 18 March 2016
Japan Display reforms highlight competitive nature of LTPS panel market
The announcement that Japan Display (JDI) is undertaking structural reforms is no surprise considering the competitive state of the LTPS display market for small- to medium-size pa...