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Tuesday 25 July 2017
Amazon Echo faces challenge to stay on top of smart speaker market
Amazon's top-selling Echo smart speaker may see serious challenge from competitors, as it lacks support for non-English-speaking countries, according to sources from market watcher...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Quanta to see rising incomes from notebooks, servers and wearables in 2H17, says paper
Quanta Computer is expected to enjoy a strong second-half 2017 thanks to rising demand for notebooks, growing server sales and the release of the next-generation Apple Watch, according...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Ennoconn announces US$5 million investment in Suzhou, China
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Ennoconn has announced it will indirectly invest US$5 million to establish a subsidiary in Suzhou, China. The subsidiary will be responsible...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
PC shipments may be undermined by component shortages in 2H17
With first-tier vendors including Samsung Electronics, Apple and LG Electronics expected to unveil new smartphones in the second half of 2017, upstream component shortages are expected...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Facebook developing smart speaker with 15-inch touch panel
Following Amazon, Google and Apple, Facebook is also rumored to be planning to release a smart speaker product, but instead of voice recognition functionality, the company will focus...
Monday 24 July 2017
CEE and notebooks, main drivers of the EMEA traditional PC market recovery, said IDC
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks and workstations) continued to improve in the second quarter of 2017, with a stable performance...
Monday 24 July 2017
Gigabyte to reorganize motherboard and graphics card businesses
Gigabyte Technology will begin a business reorganization on August 1 and merge its motherboard and graphics card businesses together. The new department will be led by Eddie Lin,...
Monday 24 July 2017
Kinko developing automotive optical lenses
Optical lens maker Kinko Optical has stepped into development of automotive lenses and will possibly obtain corresponding orders beginning 2018, according to industry sources.
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...