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Monday 3 February 2020
Taiwan 4Q19 international Internet bandwidth over 3,565Gbps
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 12 countries/cities reached total bandwidth of 3,565.368Gbps as of the end of fourth-quarter 2019, increasing 4.84% sequentially and 28.61%...
Monday 3 February 2020
5G equipment, networking device suppliers to brace for coronavirus impact
Global 5G chipmakers and networking device suppliers were ready to begin ramping up shipments at the end of 2019 to cash in on the roll-outs of 5G networks worldwide, but they now...
Friday 31 January 2020
IPC makers mull raising Taiwan production as outbreak widens in China
Taiwan-based IPC makers expect their shipments not to be much affected by the coronavirus outbreak as they have production lines in both Taiwan and China, but some of them are mulling...
Friday 31 January 2020
5G fixed wireless broadband CPE market to reach nearly 7 million units in 2024, says ABI Research
As operators continue to roll out 5G networks, 5G fixed wireless broadband consumer premise equipment (CPE) shipments will hit more than two million units in 2020, and increase to...
Friday 31 January 2020
ASRock revenues to rise on increased shipments with AMD chipsets
Taiwan-based motherboard specialist ASRock, after seeing its 2019 revenues surge 31.61% on year to a record high of NT$13.415 billion (US$443.16 million), is expected to extend the...
Thursday 30 January 2020
Samsung profit plunges in 2019
Samsung Electronics has reported its profit plunged 51% to KRW21.74 trillion won (US$18.53 billion) in 2019, compared to KRW44.34 trillion for 2018, as its semiconductor sales dropped...
Thursday 30 January 2020
How Foxconn-FCA JV might work in EV market
Foxconn Technology Group's plans to team up with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for the EV industry, which, together with its deployments in digital healthcare and robotics, will...
Thursday 30 January 2020
China smartphone market declines 15% in 4Q19, says Canalys
China's smartphone market declined 15% to 85.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, which marked the 11th consecutive quarterly decline and hit the market's lowest level since...
Thursday 30 January 2020
Apple reports record sales, earnings for FY1Q20
Apple has reported sales for its fiscal 2020 first quarter - ended December 28, 2019 - reached US$91.8 billion, rising 9% from the year-ago quarter to hit an all-time record, driven...
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Highlights of the day: More Apple products to have scissor switch keyboards
Apple reportedly is looking to adopt scissor switch keyboards in its new 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and new iPads slated...
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Pegatron said to set up stylus manufacturing plant in Vietnam
Pegatron reportedly plans to set up a new plant in Vietnam as part of its plans to ramp up its overseas production in 2020, likely to produce styluses for Samsung's smartphones.
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Taiwan ICT players set to gain from new AR/VR, AIoT applications
The just-concluded CES 2020 has witnessed diverse new tech innovations and applications, such as wearable devices focusing more on diverse health monitoring, AR/VR gears incorporating...
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Wistron ramping up iPhone production in India
Wistron plans to start ramping up output, including smartphones, from its third plant in India after kicking off trial production at the plant in November 2019, according to company...
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Hinge makers to ramp up shipments for foldable smartphones in 2H20
Taiwan-based hinge makers are expected to ramp up substantially their output for foldable smartphones starting the second half of 2020, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Global device shipments to grow 0.9% in 2020, says Gartner
Worldwide shipments of devices - PCs, tablets and mobile phones - will total 2.16 billion units in 2020, an increase of 0.9% from 2019, according to Gartner. In 2019, global shipments...