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Thursday 1 February 2018
Smartphone solution providers face increasing uncertainty in 2018
Smartphone solution providers are expected to face increasing uncertainty in 2018 as the global smartphone market has become more mature and will grow at a slow pace, if not shrinking,...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Oppo to push 5G, AI developments to maintain smartphone momentum
China-based smartphone vendor Oppo will commit more resources to developing related 5G and AI technologies and applications as it seeks to enhance its presence in the global smartphone...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Quanta, Wiwynn moving to tap lucrative 5G server market
As the imminent arrival of the 5G era will trigger a new round of demand for cloud servers, Taiwan white-box server suppliers Quanta Computer and Wiwynn are aggressively taking different...
Monday 29 January 2018
Globalfoundries 45nm RF SOI offering ready for volume production
Globalfoundries' 45nm RF SOI (45RFSOI) technology platform has been qualified and is ready for volume production, according to the pure-play foundry. Several customers are currently...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Dedicated smartphone chipmakers turning conservative in marketing in 2018
Third-party smartphone application processor providers including Qualcomm, MediaTek and Spreadtrum Communications are expected to adopt a more conservative approach to promoting their...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Samsung to sell Exynos processors to other smartphone vendors
Samsung Electronics plans to begin selling its in-house developed Exynos mobile processors to other smartphone vendors in order to expand the scale of its smartphone chip platform,...
Thursday 18 January 2018
Wiwynn to increase manpower by 30-40%
White-box server and storage equipment maker Wiwynn, a subsidiary of Wistron, will expand its workforce by 30-40% in 2018 in anticipation of increasing orders, according to company...
Wednesday 17 January 2018
DRAM prices to rise further in 1H18, says Nanya
After experiencing an impressive rise in 2017, DRAM prices are expected to soar further in the first half of 2018, and overall market situations will remain steady throughout the...
Wednesday 17 January 2018
China DRAM firms unlikely to offer competitive products without licensed tech, says Nanya president
China DRAM players can hardly roll out competitive products if they fail to obtain licenses for using crucial technologies, and their in-house-developed products will pose little...
Monday 8 January 2018
Taiwan server shipment forecast and industry analysis, 2018
In 2018, global server shipments will grow 8.5% to reach 13.73 million units. Digitimes Research estimates server shipments worldwide will grow at a CAGR of 6.5% during the period...
Wednesday 3 January 2018
MediaTek may return to flagship-smartphone chip market in 2H18
Taiwan-based IC design house MediaTek's Helio X series flagship smartphone chipsets are expected to stage a comeback in the second half of 2018 at the earliest to brace for the advent...
Wednesday 27 December 2017
Accelerating 5G developments to push up optical component demand
With the 3GPP having announced the first implementable 5G NR specifications recently, telecom operators and networking device makers are expected to accelerate the developments of...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
MediaTek and ITRI unveil new transmission technology for 5G
MediaTek and the Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have jointly developed a LWA (LTE/Wi-Fi Link Aggregation) prototype system and other technologies...
Monday 18 December 2017
Globalfoundries charts 2-pronged approach for FD-SOI process
Globalfoundries (GF) will have its 12-inch wafer fabs in Dresden, Germany focus on using FD-SOI (fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator) process technology to fabricate automotive-use...
Friday 15 December 2017
FET demonstrates new 5G base station with Ericsson
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has showcased its 28GHz 5G base station prototype system with Ericsson in Taiwan, the world's eighth such demonstration following similar events...