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Monday 29 July 2019
Highlights of the day: Apple gearing up
Apple is said to be looking to boost its in-house IC design capability in a bid to stay competitive and its moves...
Monday 29 July 2019
Apple revving up in-house IC design capability; TSMC to benefit most
Apple has clinched a deal to acquire Intel's smartphone baseband (modem) chip business unit, and the US vendor is also expected to roll out MacBook models featuring its own ARM-based...
Monday 29 July 2019
Advantech develops AVAS for Taiwan hospital
Industrial computing solution provider Advantech has developed AVAS (Advantech video archiving & streaming), a mobile system for integrating medical images from various sources...
Monday 29 July 2019
Huawei gearing up 5G deployments via 3-pronged approach
Despite suffering hiccups in obtaining advanced 5G base stations chips from US suppliers, Huawei is still aggressively taking a three-pronged approach in carrying out its 5G deployments,...
Monday 29 July 2019
Building server-grade gaming products: Q&A with Supermicro senior product managers
Supermicro, a first-tier server vendor worldwide, has been aggressively developing gaming-related products with its experience from the server business. Supermicro is able to offer...
Friday 26 July 2019
Asustek receives strong pre-orders for new ROG Phone in China
Pre-orders for Asustek Computer's second-generation ROG Phone II in China have reached over 2.3 million units since the model debuted in Beijing July 23. The results are higher than...
Friday 26 July 2019
Huawei sharply boosts adoption ratio of in-house mobile SoCs
Huawei is expected to have 60% of its phones powered by Hisilicon's APs in the second half of 2019, compared with 45% in the first half of the year and less than 40% in the second...
Friday 26 July 2019
Desktop renewals ahead of Windows 7 EOL drive EMEA PC market in 2Q19, says IDC
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 1.1% on year in the second quarter of 2019 and totaled 16.4 million units,...
Friday 26 July 2019
Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business
Apple and Intel have signed an agreement for Apple to acquire the majority of Intel's smartphone modem business. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual...
Thursday 25 July 2019
Highlights of the day: Apple cautious, Huawei upbeat?
Preparations for production of this year's new iPhone devices have started, but component suppliers are bracing for weaker shipments...
Thursday 25 July 2019
Taiwan Mobile expanding ecosystem for IoT solutions exports
Taiwan Mobile is aggressively expanding its domestic telecom ecosystem integrating equipment suppliers and terminal application service providers while seeking to export solutions...
Thursday 25 July 2019
IC backend firms expanding capacities on strong demand from Huawei
Taiwan IC backend service firms are moving to carry out capacity expansions to meet increased shipment demand from Huawei and its chipmaking arm HiSilicon, which, coupled with growing...
Thursday 25 July 2019
Flex halts handset production for Huawei, say Chinese media
EMS provider Flex reportedly has stopped assembling Huawei's smartphones in China, with the client shifting contract production orders to BYD Electronics International and Foxconn...
Thursday 25 July 2019
Apple supply chain cautious about orders for new iPhones
Judging from the order visibility from Apple for the third quarter of 2019, the build-up of components for the production of new iPhone devices to be released later in the year could...
Thursday 25 July 2019
Galaxy Fold ready for launch starting from September, says Samsung
Samsung Electonics has disclosed it is conducting final product tests to make Galaxy Fold available to consumers starting from September in select markets, after making improvements...