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Monday 24 July 2017
Gigabyte to reorganize motherboard and graphics card businesses
Gigabyte Technology will begin a business reorganization on August 1 and merge its motherboard and graphics card businesses together. The new department will be led by Eddie Lin,...
Monday 24 July 2017
Taiwan 2Q17 international Internet bandwidth stands at 2.182Tbps, says TWNIC
Taiwan's direct Internet connection bandwidth with 12 countries (including Hong Kong and Macau) reached of 2.182Tbps at the end of the second quarter of 2017, increasing 4.19% on...
Monday 24 July 2017
IaaS spending to surpass SaaS spending for 1st time in 2017
The public cloud services (PCS) market in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) is expected to exceed the US$10 billion mark in 2017, according to IDC. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)...
Monday 24 July 2017
China reveals AI development plans
China's State Council has revealed plans for development of AI technology and applications through 2030.
Monday 24 July 2017
Advantech, Intel, Carrefour cooperate to create first smart hypermarket in Taiwan
Industrial computing device maker Advantech, Intel and France-based Carrefour have cooperated to establish Taiwan's first smart Carrefour hypermarket through adopting Advantech-developed...
Friday 21 July 2017
Microsoft cloud strength highlights fiscal 4Q17 results
Microsoft has announced financial results for its fiscal fourth-quarter 2017 (ended June 30, 2017) with revenues reaching US$23.3 billion GAAP, US$24.7 billion non-GAAP; operating...
Friday 21 July 2017
Full-screen smartphone shipments to surge in 2018, says Counterpoint Research
Shipments of bezel-free or alternative aspect ratio smartphones will exceed 120 million units in 2017, and will more than triple in 2018, according to Counterpoint Research.
Friday 21 July 2017
Taiwan market: FET launches position tracking service
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has launched a position tracking service, dubbed BoBee, targeting the elderly, dementia and children groups as well as the pet market.
Friday 21 July 2017
Chip demand for data centers to boom in China
With China's local governments looking to set up data centers, chip demand for data centers locally is set to surge, according to industry sources.
Friday 21 July 2017
Commentary: Implications of Samsung 5G networks
Samsung Electronics has accelerated the deployments of its 5G networks and will be ready to commence trial operations of the networks during Winter Olympic 2018, and to demonstrate...
Friday 21 July 2017
Self-serving store brings business opportunities to IT suppliers
Self-serving stores have grown to become a popular application in the IT and retail channel markets recently, prompting smart retailing hardware suppliers to turn aggressive about...
Friday 21 July 2017
Demand for 3-axis stabilizers spurred by live webcast spree
The increasing popularity of live streaming services on social networking sites and online video platforms has prompted mobile phone vendors to keep upgrading the photographing performance...
Friday 21 July 2017
Four Taiwan firms file countersuit against Qualcomm
Four Taiwan-based hardware production partners of Apple, namely Foxconn Electronics, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Pegatron, have jointly filed a countersuit against Qualcomm in...
Friday 21 July 2017
Enterprise board choices with new AMD and Intel CPU platforms: Whom to support?
Within one month, both Intel and AMD announced massive, long overdue refreshes of their server processor families, with EPYC and Scalable Xeon (yes, the credit card-style precious...
Friday 21 July 2017
Global telecom players making cautious 5G deployments
With the first set of 5G mobile communications standards slated to be released by 3GPP by the end of 2017, global telecom players are gearing up for deployments, but in a cautious...