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Friday 21 July 2017
Microsoft cloud strength highlights fiscal 4Q17 results
Microsoft has announced financial results for its fiscal fourth-quarter 2017 (ended June 30, 2017) with revenues reaching US$23.3 billion GAAP, US$24.7 billion non-GAAP; operating...
Friday 21 July 2017
Self-serving store brings business opportunities to IT suppliers
Self-serving stores have grown to become a popular application in the IT and retail channel markets recently, prompting smart retailing hardware suppliers to turn aggressive about...
Friday 21 July 2017
Ardentec obtains testing orders for car-use chips from TI
Taiwan-based Ardentec has grabbed testing orders for car-use chips from Texas Instruments (TI), which will buoy its sales performance in the third quarter, according to industry so...
Friday 21 July 2017
Acer to push new promotions in Asia Pacific
Acer will begin pushing a daily promotion activity from July 21-August 3 in 14 places in Asia Pacific to increase brand recognition, according to Acer Asia Pacific president Andrew...
Friday 21 July 2017
Four Taiwan firms file countersuit against Qualcomm
Four Taiwan-based hardware production partners of Apple, namely Foxconn Electronics, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Pegatron, have jointly filed a countersuit against Qualcomm in...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Wearable players seeking measures as sales remain weak
Wearable players originally had high expectations about emerging IT applications, but several have started changing their strategies as most are seeing weak sales from the product...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Qualcomm net profits fall 40% in fiscal 3Q17 amid Apple dispute
Qualcomm has announced revenues for its fiscal third quarter ended June 25, 2017 decreased 11% on year to US$5.4 billion, while net profits fell 40% from a year ago to US$900 million...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Acer expects more income from enterprise products in 2017
Acer has been aggressively pushing its revenue contribution from the enterprise product business and is planning to increase the percentage from 35% in 2016 to 40% in 2017 for the...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Taiwan market: Fujitsu launches new notebooks
Fujitsu has launched its new NB Lifebook U9-series notebooks in the Taiwan market targeting the business PC sector. The Japan-based brand aims to double its notebook shipments in...
Thursday 20 July 2017
Taiwan market: Garmin launches sports camcorder VIRB 360
Garmin has introduced VIRB 360, a sports camcorder enabling 360-degree video recording, for launch in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$25,900 (US$852), according...
Thursday 20 July 2017
TV inventory levels at top brands escalating
Inventory levels of TVs at the world's top-eight brands have scaled up recently, which could undercut demand for TV panels in the second half of 2017 and therefore push TV panel prices...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Taiwan market: Asustek launches baby physiological monitor
Asustek Computer has launched Asus VivoBaby, a device to monitor a baby's heart rate, skin temperature and abdominal condition, and transfer data via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to the cloud...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Installed 8-inch fab capacity to rise through 2020, says SEMI
Installed 8-inch (200mm) fab capacity has increased since 2009, and will reach close to 5.4 million wafers per month (wpm) by the end of 2017, according to SEMI. By 2020, 200mm capacity...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
China market: Replacement demand rising for aftermaket LED automotive headlights
Demand for automotive headlights with pluggable LED lighting sources has taken off in China's car maintenance sector, and Lumileds, Cree and Taiwan-based LED makers have cooperated...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Macronix launches AEC-Q100 full compliant NAND flash memory
Macronix International has launched an AEC-Q100 Grade 2/3 compliant NAND flash memory product. The company added its NAND flash memory has passed all the stringent AEC-Q100 reliability...