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Thursday 26 October 2017
Semiconductor firms eye edge-computing opportunities
With edge computing promising to become an important part of cloud systems, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is eyeing the market opportunities with its advanced...
Thursday 26 October 2017
Industrial IoT: Q&A with SAP Labs China head Li Ruicheng
While smart manufacturing seems an unstoppable trend, Germany-based software vendor SAP SE keeps offering analytic tools to facilitate enterprises' upgrade toward Industry 4.0. Such...
Thursday 26 October 2017
Backend houses expect rising memory demand for servers and datacenters
IC backend houses have expressed optimism about memory demand for servers and datacenter applications, which require high-bandwidth and high-density memory devices. The memory demand...
Wednesday 25 October 2017
ARM pledges cooperation with Taiwan firms in AI, IoT applications
ARM has signed a letter of investment intent with Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), pledging to join the country's Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan through its global...
Wednesday 25 October 2017
China September mobile communication user base grows to 1.395 billion
There were 1.395 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of September 2017, increasing 0.91% sequentially and 5.95% on year, with 141.73 million (10.16%)...
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Digitimes Research: Development of edge computing accelerating
The development of on-device edge computing technology is heating up as related makers are seeking technology breakthroughs to address the concerns of privacy and protection of sensitive...
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Taiwan market: Sugar Phone launches two smartphones
French smartphone vendor Sugar Phone has unveiled the latest two models of its C11-series products, C11 and C11s, in the Taiwan market, with the availability to begin on November...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Apple-TSMC partnership started from home dinner hosted by Morris Chang, says Jeff Williams
Though a business partner of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for less than 10 years, Apple has become the largest customer of the world's largest foundry house in...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Huawei ships 112 million smartphones in January-September
Huawei shipped 112 million smartphones worldwide in the first three quarters of 2017, increasing 19% on year and positioning itself as the largest smartphone vendor in China, according...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan market: iPhone 8 devices best-selling smartphones in September
Though demand for the iPhone 8 series has been weaker than expected, the new Apple smartphones still recorded the best sales in Taiwan in September, making Apple the top smartphone...
Monday 23 October 2017
Taiwan OSAT firms busy packaging AMD GPUs for new iMacs
While Apple has started to release more orders to AMD for high-end GPUs needed for new iMac series since September 2017, Taiwan-based outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT)...
Monday 23 October 2017
Foxconn to ship 25-30 million iPhone X devices in 4Q17, says report
Shipments of iPhone X from Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision), Apple's sole contractor for the device, will reach around 2-3 million units before Apple begins to deliver the...
Monday 23 October 2017
Foxconn to help Sharp expand smartphone sales, says paper
The Foxconn Group (Hon Hai) is to exert all-out efforts to help Sharp expand its presence in the handset market, aiming to position the Japan-based brand among the top-five players...
Monday 23 October 2017
HPE-Foxconn server JV dissolved
A joint-venture server company established three years ago by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Foxconn Group (Hon Hai) has reportedly been quietly dissolved recently due to the...
Friday 20 October 2017
Asia Pacific Telecom gearing up for 5G network deployments
Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) is actively proceeding with deployments of 5G mobile communications infrastructure, with a spate of tests and certifications of network technologies scheduled...