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Tuesday 25 July 2017
Ennoconn announces US$5 million investment in Suzhou, China
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Ennoconn has announced it will indirectly invest US$5 million to establish a subsidiary in Suzhou, China. The subsidiary will be responsible...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Taiwan market: Mobile e-payments monopoly is unlikely
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Android Pay successively landed the Taiwan market in late March, late May and early June 2017 respectively, and several local smartphone-based mobile third-party...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
China June mobile communication user base grows to 1.365 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.365 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of June 2017, increasing 0.56% on month and 4.93% on year. 148.69 million (10.90%) were...
Tuesday 25 July 2017
PC shipments may be undermined by component shortages in 2H17
With first-tier vendors including Samsung Electronics, Apple and LG Electronics expected to unveil new smartphones in the second half of 2017, upstream component shortages are expected...
Monday 24 July 2017
Samsung to hold new product event on August 23
Samsung Electronics has sent out invitations for what it calls a "Galaxy Unpacked" product event to be held on August 23, 2017 in New York. It is widely believed that Samsung will...
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...