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Monday 22 January 2018
Equipment monitoring enables precise prediction of failure
The manufacturing industry has always been fundamental to Taiwan's economic prosperity. However, the Made in China 2025 initiative and manufacturers being urged to return to the US...
Monday 22 January 2018
Taiwan 4Q17 international Internet bandwidth at 2.147Tbps
Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 12 countries (including Hong Kong and Macau) reached bandwidth of 2.147Tbps in fourth-quarter 2017, decreasing 4.02% sequentially but increasing...
Monday 22 January 2018
Taiwan IT players have big opportunites in AI, IoT era, says Pegatron chairman
Despite not performing well in the era of smart mobile devices, there is no reason for Taiwan's information technology (IT) players to feel pessimistic about their future prospects,...
Monday 22 January 2018
Acer ITS likely to win bus e-payment project in Myanmar
Acer's subsidiary Acer ITS has cooperated with Excel KC Myanmar to compete for a Yangon city government project to procure a smart e-payment system for a public transportation system...
Friday 19 January 2018
Taiwan to open 1st self-driving testing field in mid-2019
Taiwan will begin construction of its first self-driving testing field in a smart green energy science town in Tainan, southern Taiwan, in February 2018 and it will be open in mid-2019,...
Friday 19 January 2018
Foxconn to host shareholders meeting for FII China listing
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will host an extraordinary shareholders meeting on January 31 to discuss a plan to help its subsidiary Foxconn Industrial Internet...
Friday 19 January 2018
STSP moves to build up AI-centric robot production base
To fulfill its goal of setting up an AI-based robotic product manufacturing base in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), the STSP Bureau has been exerting efforts to solicit related...
Friday 19 January 2018
China court reportedly freezes Gionee chairman holdings
Liu Lirong, chairman of China's Gionee Communication Equipment, has reportedly seen his holdings of nearly 41% stake in the smartphone company frozen by a district court in China,...
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...
Thursday 18 January 2018
Taiwan launches biomedical accelerator platform
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has newly established a "Taiwan Biomedical Accelerator" platform to drive a new wave of innovations by local players in the biomedical...
Thursday 18 January 2018
Taiwan unveils diagnostic image sharing cloud platform
Taiwan's National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) has unveiled a cloud-based platform for sharing diagnostic images among local hospitals and clinics.
Thursday 18 January 2018
Largan Health sleep apnea ECG detectors adopted by China hospitals
Largan Health Technology, a developer of sleep monitoring systems for health purposes, has disclosed its sleep apnea ECG (electrocardiography) detectors have been adopted by over...
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Global IT spending to reach US$3.7 trillion in 2018, says Gartner
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total US$3.7 trillion in 2018, an increase of 4.5% from 2017, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
Wednesday 17 January 2018
TCL sees earnings to expand significantly in 2017
The China-based TCL Group has announced that its net profits for shareholders were likely to grow 62-75% on year to CNY2.6-2.8 billion (US$403.6-434.6 million) in 2017.
Wednesday 17 January 2018
iPhone supply chain braces for low order visibility in 1Q18
Component suppliers in the iPhone supply chain are likely to be forced to prolong their Lunar New Year holidays in the first quarter of 2018 due to low order visibility for iPhone...