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Monday 18 December 2017
3D sensing to become mainstream for smartphones in 2018
3D sensing is expected to replace fingerprint sensing as mainstream for smartphones in 2018 with more smartphone vendors, including Huawei, Xiaomi Technology and Oppo, expected to...
Friday 15 December 2017
FET demonstrates new 5G base station with Ericsson
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has showcased its 28GHz 5G base station prototype system with Ericsson in Taiwan, the world's eighth such demonstration following similar events...
Friday 15 December 2017
China market: HTC enjoys strong pre-orders for Vive Focus
HTC has seen higher-than-expected pre-orders for its standalone VR head-mounted display (HMD), the Vive Focus, in China, with the device's high popularity to benefit HTC's December...
Friday 15 December 2017
MediaTek Sensio-powered smartphones, wearables to hit market in 1Q18
MediaTek has revealed that it has received orders for its newly released health monitoring solution, Sensio MT6381, from China-based first-tier smartphone vendors and other wearable...
Friday 15 December 2017
Optical communication specialist EZconn sees bright prospects in 2018
Taiwan-based optical communication products maker EZconn expects a significant revenue growth in 2018, as it will start mass shipments of 10G PON (passive optical networks) devices...
Friday 15 December 2017
Huawei, Oppo, Vivo cut smartphone orders by over 10%, say sources
China-based smartphone brand vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo (BBK) are taking about less 10% of smartphone shipments than their original orders from the supply chain makers...
Friday 15 December 2017
Africa's smartphone market bounces back in 3Q17, says IDC
Africa's smartphone market bounced back from two consecutive declines to post a sequential growth of 4.4% to 21.7 million units in the third quarter of 2017, spurred by ongoing economic...
Thursday 14 December 2017
China tech giants forming alliances to tap immense AIoT opportunities
With AI (artificial intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things) applications combing fast to create immense AIoT business opportunities, China tech giants are gearing up to strengthen...
Thursday 14 December 2017
AI to create more jobs by 2020, says Gartner
According to Gartner, 2020 will be a pivotal year in AI-related employment dynamics as artificial intelligence (AI) will become a positive job motivator. AI will create 2.3 million...
Thursday 14 December 2017
NXP pushing partnerships with China developers
NXP Semiconductors has announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and business unit of Alibaba Group. The two companies are working together to enable...
Thursday 14 December 2017
Digitimes Research: Korea pushing 5G commercialization
The South Korea government has set an ambitious goal to grab a larger pie of the global 5G market as it calculates that its 5G hardware and software market is expected to grow at...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Optical filter maker Apogee sees revenues up in November
Active/passive optical filter maker Apogee Optocom has reported revenues of NT$41.13 million (US$1.37 million) for November, up 22.39% on month but down 27.6% on year.
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Solomon Technology partners with UR for 3D vision technology development
Taiwan-based Solomon Technology, a 3D vision robot developer, has partnered with Universal Robots (UR) to integrate their technologies for robotic applications.
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Digitimes Research: Mobile operators looking for alternatives from unlicensed spectrum technology
With the popularity of the LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) networks growing at a pace slower than expected in part due to the difficulty in securing sufficient spectrum resources, a growing...
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Notebook ODMs see rising shipments in November
Taiwan-based notebook ODMs have announced their November shipments with Quanta Computer shipping 3.9 million units, up from 3.5 million in October. Quanta's notebook shipments reached...