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Thursday 24 January 2019
Intel, MediaTek, Qualcomm dominating 5G modem chips supply
While chipmakers and brand vendors of smartphones are striving to seek a preemptive presence in the segments of 5G IPs, patents and AP chips, the most critical 5G modem chip solutions...
Thursday 24 January 2019
3GPP standard working meeting sees royalties undercurrent
Some IP and patent holders of the latest communication technologies are taking the advantage of a 3GPP workshop currently being held in Taipei seeking to also accrue royalties for...
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Cisco offers Taiwan enterprises help in biz transformation
Cisco has hosted Cisco Connect TPE 2019 in Taipei, sharing its ideas about cloud computing. Cisco Taiwan president George Chen, during his keynote speech, ointed out that the company...
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Japan to kick off 5G commercial pre-service in 2019
Japan is pushing its development of 5G networks at full throttle, with its top-three telecom operators - NTT Docomo, KDDI au and SoftBank - set to kick off 5G commercial pre-service...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
CHT completes 5G NSA network architecture
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has announced that the company has successfully demonstrated its 5G NSA (Non-Standalone) network architecture through over-the-air interface in collaboration...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
5G moving out of lab for official kickoff in 2019, says MediaTek chair
The next generation of mobile connectivity, 5G, is moving out of its testing stage and will take off in 2019, according to MediaTek chairman MK Tsai.
Tuesday 22 January 2019
HTC launches blockchain-focused healthcare chat robots
HTC has teamed up with a hospital in Taiwan to launch a blockchain-enabled healthcare chat robot, dubbed LINE Bot, as it moves to deepen its deployment in the precision medicine and...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
More flagship smartphones with 10GB or more RAM to hit store shelves in 2019
New Android-based smartphones rolled out for 2019 will have some core components upgraded, particularly the upgrade to 10GB or more RAM in flagship devices, according to industry...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Server DRAM contract prices to fall larger-than-expected, says DRAMeXchange
Server DRAM contract prices are expected to fall by more than 20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, according to DRAMeXchange, which estimated previously a smaller 15% dro...
Monday 21 January 2019
Acer stepping up efforts for AI hardware business in 2019
Acer so far in January 2019 has already obtained two procurement orders for high-performance computing (HPC) products for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and is looking...
Monday 21 January 2019
CCL firms to thrive on 5G infrastructure construction boom
Demand for 5G infrastructure materials will grow exponentially in the next few years, generating many business opportunities for smaller suppliers of copper-clad laminates (CCL),...
Monday 21 January 2019
China vendors set pricing for initial 5G phones
China's vendors are likely to adopt a pricing strategy selling their 5G smartphones at about CNY500 (US$74) more than their current price ranges to increase profitability in 2019,...
Monday 21 January 2019
Flytech sets up subsidiary aiXpert Solutions
POS (point of sale/service) device maker Flytech Technology has discloed that via its wholly-owned subsidiary FeiShiun Investment, it has invested NT$42 million (US$1.36 million)...
Monday 21 January 2019
TIRC develops humanoid baccarat dealer robots for Macau casinos
Taiwan Intelligent Robotics (TIRC) has disclosed it has developed customized humanoid baccarat dealer robots for casinos in Macau.
Friday 18 January 2019
Taiwan Mobile cooperates with Asus Cloud for cloud storage business, says paper
Taiwan Mobile has announced to partner with Asus Cloud, a cloud computing service affiliate of Asustek Computer, to offer storage cloud services to Taiwan's small- to medium-size...