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Wednesday 28 March 2018
Inventec striving to cut costs
Inventec expects its first-half 2018 revenues to grow by a single-digit percentage on year and is planning to cut its overall manufacturing costs by 20% from a year ago in 2018 mainly...
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Foxconn to acquire Belkin to step into smart home market
Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT), a subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), has annouced plans to wholly acquire US-based mobile and peripheral devices...
Wednesday 28 March 2018
Lite-On Tech to ship smart streetlamps to Middle East
EMS provider Lite-On Technology has disclosed it will ship 3,000 smart LED streetlamps to the Middle East in second-quarter 2018 and expects additional shipments of about 100,000...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
2018 Smart City Summit & Expo opens
The 2018 Smart City Summit & Expo - Asia Pacific's largest exhibition of IoT-based smart city solutions organized by Taipei Computer Association, is taking place in Taipei March...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
IC designers poised to embrace robust orders for AI chipsets
Taiwan IC designers are poised to get a significant boost in overall output value in 2018 amid rampant AI (artificial intelligence) applications worldwide, as they expect robust AI...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Yen Sun reports strong profits for 2017 thanks to car-use fans
Cooling fan and home appliance maker Yen Sun Technology has announced its 2017 financial results with consolidated revenues growing 5.51% on year to come to NT$2.42 billion (US$82.64...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Inventec to sell Taiwan office building
Inventec has disclosed it is selling an office building that previously housed its server R&D center in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Although the company has already found a buyer, the two...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
AI packages unlikely to be available in near future, says academy chief
Though artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can be applied to any industry in the future, the application faces major challenges, one of which being the difficulty of rolling...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
HTC reports record quarterly losses for 4Q17
HTC has reported a record quarterly loss of NT$9.81 billion (US$337.37 million) or NT$11.93 per share for the fourth quarter of 2017.
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems to grow to US$19.1 billion in 2018, says IDC
Worldwide spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) systems will reach US$19.1 billion in 2018, an increase of 54.2% over the amount spent in 2017, according to IDC....
Monday 26 March 2018
Taiwan 3D sensor supply chain to gain more from new iPhones
As Apple has reportedly decided to continue using 3D sensor-based face recognition in its new iPhone devices in 2018, Taiwan suppliers in the 3D sensor supply chain, including those...
Friday 23 March 2018
Chenbro revenues grow, but profit drops in 2017
Taiwan-based server supplier Chenbro Micom has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.51 billion (US$187.67 million) for 2017, up 5.8% on year to reach a company record, but its...
Friday 23 March 2018
Taiwan government to promote cyber security industry
The Taiwan government's Department of Cyber Security has worked out plans to promote the country's cyber security industry, aiming to aiming to create 40 cyber security startups by...
Friday 23 March 2018
Android smartphones vendors turning to in-display fingerprint scanners
Smartphone vendors in the Android camp are rushing to incorporate in-display fingerprint recognition technology into their 18:9 all-screen models as they have turned conservative...
Friday 23 March 2018
Galaxy S9+ materials cost US$43 more than previous versions, says IHS Markit
The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory (model number SM-G965U1) carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost of US$375.80, much higher than for previous versions...