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Tuesday 10 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Apple, Samsung remain top-2 smartphone vendors in 1Q14; Xiaomi, Coolpad enter top-5
In the first quarter of 2014, Samsung Electronics and Apple together continued to account for almost half of the global smartphone market with LG Electronics staying in third position,...
Tuesday 10 June 2014
Network security sustains growth momentum in 1Q14, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, the security appliance market continues to see positive momentum. In the first quarter of 2014, worldwide factory...
Tuesday 10 June 2014
China market: China Mobile launches first own-brand 4G smartphone M811
China Mobile has launched M811, its first own-brand 4G smartphone, for sale in the China market at a contract-free retail price of CNY999 (US$160), according to China-based tec...
Monday 9 June 2014
White-box server players gaining support from first-tier component suppliers
Upstream component suppliers such as Intel and hard disc drive (HDD) makers, have started providing support to white-box server players such as Taiwan-based ODMs and the strategy...
Monday 9 June 2014
Synnex Technology sees decreased May revenues
IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International has reported consolidated revenues of NT$25.9 billion (US$859 million) for May, dropping 6.2% sequentially...
Friday 6 June 2014
Quanta, Wistron pushing new business measures to prolong competitiveness
Quanta Computer's white-box server subsidiary is planning to establish new branches in Hangzhou and Shenzhen, China to tighten its partnerships with China-based Internet players Alibaba...
Friday 6 June 2014
Acer to integrate MediaTek LinkIt in BYOC for wearable and IoT
Acer chairman Stan Shih at a cloud computing and Internet of thing (IoT) conference during Computex announced cooperation with MediaTek to bundle MediaTek's LinkIt IoT platform into...
Friday 6 June 2014
Taiwan ODMs focusing on integrated server, storage, switch solutions
Taiwan-based server ODMs are pushing aggressively into storage and switch businesses to enhance their profitability as solutions that integrate server, storage and switch, will become...
Friday 6 June 2014
Computex 2014: Microsoft, Google showcasing expanded supply chain in Taiwan
Microsoft and Google are showcasing their efforts to expand the supply chain ecosystems for their Windows Phone 8 smartphones and Chromebook notebooks in Taiwan at Computex 2014.
Friday 6 June 2014
Trends in mobile computing technologies and component packaging
2.5D interposer packaging technologies are being used in products ranging from Intel's Haswell/Broadwell processors to AMD's mobile high-performance GPU chips. DDR4, which is about...
Friday 6 June 2014
Lanner releases 4K-ready digital signage module and appliance
Today sees the release of two products from Lanner: The LEC-7388, an Open Pluggable Standard (OPS) compliant module; and the LEC-7388S, a digital signage industrial PC. Both the LEC-7388...
Friday 6 June 2014
IPC & Embedded Expo 2014 registration is open now
In August 2014, IPC & Embedded Expo 2014 will be held in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu. As the only large-sized technical exhibition focused on the IPC and embedded...
Friday 6 June 2014
IoT gateway based on Intel Quark SoC released by AAEON in collaboration with Asus Cloud at Computex 2014
In collaboration with Intel and Asus Cloud, AAEON will be revealing the world's first Intel Quark SoC gateway in a live demo at Computex 2014. Named the AIOT-X1000, this platform...
Friday 6 June 2014
Supermicro announces storage solutions optimized for extreme scale-out object-storage applications
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage technology and green computing announces complete server and storage rack...
Thursday 5 June 2014
Quanta, Wistron, Pegatron compete for WP8 smartphone ODM orders
Compal Electronics has already undertaken ODM production of Windows Phone 8 (WP8) smartphones for Nokia, and fellow makers Quanta Computer, Wistron and Pegatron are poised to compete...