Advantech has announced an investment to acquire a 20% stake in Impelex Data Transfer, a Taiwan-based system integration service provider, to form a strategic alliance for providing smart manufacturing solutions used in metal processing and hand tool production in the Greater China and Southeast Asia...

The global server shipments so far have only been mildly affected by labor shortages in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, but if the epidemic cannot be contained by the end of March, the server supply chain is expected to be significantly undermined by components shortages, according to Digitimes...

CoolBitX, a blockchain security company that is building the infrastructure necessary to close the gap between the mainstream market and crypto industry, has announced it has closed US$16.75 million in its Series B funding round, led by Japan's financial group SBI Holdings, with participation from...

Taiwan aims to hike its share of global IoT output value from 3.8% in 2015 to 4.2% in 2020, but the coronavirus outbreak is expected to make it difficult to reach the target, according to industry sources.

Embedded World 2020 has kicked off as scheuled in Nuremberg despite the coronavirus outbreak, but the epeidemic has prompted some exhibitors to either pull out or cut back their scale of participation.

The coronavirus outbreak is disrupting production at both assembly plants and their upstream suppliers, with components prices rising. Now MLCC and chip resistor prices are expected to increase throughout 2020. Memory pricing is also...

ODMs have seen more requests from their server clients for installing additional SMT lines in Taiwan as China's coronavirus outbreak has been impacting server supply from the country, with the development of the US-China trade tensions being another key factor, according to sources from the upstream...

Several international automobile manufacturers' production at joint ventures in China has been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, with General Motors, Volkswagen and Honda Motor hit severely in particular, according to Digitimes Research.

Smart vending machine solution developer Yallvend has developed an Internet-connected mask vending machine for trial use at some places in Taipei amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to company CEO Duncan Huang.

Demand for AMD's new 7nm EUV processors remains robust, with development projects for the chips commenced by PC, motherboard and graphics card makers this year set to be 10-20% higher than the levels in 2019, according to industry sources.

Smartization has become a key development strategy across all types of businesses. However, as different industries operate on different systems and in different environments, the design of smart systems has to incorporate a certain degree of customization to be able to accommodate business needs....

IP surveillance camera maker Vivotek will continue to pursue a two-pronged approach to promote its OBM and ODM businesses in 2020, leveraging different application technologies to tap various niche market segments, according to company chairman Owen Chen.

The government in Taiwan has decided to strengthen three major investment action plans to attract more Taiwanese and international firms to shift their investment focus from China to Taiwan amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Chronic illness affects more people than other diseases in Taiwan. In fact, according to Taipei City's Department of Health, seven of the 10 leading causes of death are chronic diseases and 64.3% of deaths are due to chronic diseases. Following the recent trend of smartization in the healthcare sector,...

The coronavirus outbreak is hitting hard the ICT industries and markets in China. Digitimes Research provides a preliminary estimation on the impacts on four major sectors: semiconductors, display panels, handsets and notebooks. Many...

Despite automation equipment, robotic arms and AGVs (automated guided vehicles), manual operation is still necessary for some manufacturing industries and thus harmonized collaboration between workers and robots is essential to Industry 4.0, according to Shinyi Fukui, executive officer for Technology...

High-definition electronic map provider Kingwaytek Technology has obtained Taiwan's approval for trial operation of autonomous mini-buses, and will start the trial on a road mainly used for sight-seeing trips in central Taiwan in March, according to the company.

Global all-in-one (AIO) PC shipments totaled 3.42 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, rounding out the volumes for the whole-year 2019 at 13.25 million units, down 3.4% on year, according to Digitimes Research's latest report on AIO PCs.

Server supply will remain stable for the rest of February as most brands still have components in their inventory. However, if China's coronavirus outbreak cannot be contained, the brand vendors' server shipments are expected to be disrupted after they completely deplete their components inventory...

Memory module maker Apacer Technology has cooperated with Allxon, a startup spun off from Acer, to provide a cloud computing-based platform for remotely monitoring operating conditions of industrial SSDs to minimize unexpected maintenance cost, according to company chairman Austin Chen.

Global server shipments went up 13.4% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019 thanks to rising demand from US large datacenter companies and China's server market. However, shipments in the first quarter of 2020 are expected to be affected by China's coronavirus outbreak, according to Digitimes...

China's coronavirus outbreak has significantly undermined local PC and server demand and is expected to affect related upstream suppliers' performances, as PC sales from China account for nearly 20% of the global volumes and those of servers nearly 30%, according to sources from the upstream supply...

Allxon, a startup spun off from Acer, has launched an open cloud computing-based management platform for all types of Internet devices in a bid to reduce labor- and time-consuming maintenance services, according to company chairman Chen Hsuan-bin.

POS (point of sale/service) device maker Flytech Technology increased investment in R&D of non-POS product lines, mainly kiosks, mobile POS devices and panel PCs, in 2019, and aims to increase the revenue proportion for them from about 20% in 2019 to 30% in 2020, said the company.

Factories in China may be avoiding installing collaborative robots at present due to the coronavirus outbreak, but long-term demand will be strong, according to Taiwan-based colaborative robot supplier Techman Robot.