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Friday 12 January 2018
Lithium batteries becoming popular choice for datacenter UPS systems
Datacenters' demand for lithium batteries used in their uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems is expected to rise dramatically in 2018, as tech giants including Google, Amazon,...
Friday 12 January 2018
Mitac receives navigation solution orders from NY
Taiwan-based Mitac International's Magellan brand return-to-route navigation solution has obtained orders from New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) for use in snowplow and...
Friday 12 January 2018
AWS to set up innovation center in Taiwan
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the government of New Taipei have signed an MoU for setting up a joint innovation center in the northern Taiwan city. The center will start operation...
Thursday 11 January 2018
Quanta ships 3.7 million notebooks in December
Quanta Computer shipped 3.7 million notebooks in December, shrinking from 3.9 million units in November, with consolidated revenues for the last month of 2017 reaching NT$86.74 billion...
Wednesday 10 January 2018
Microsoft sets up AI R&D center in Taiwan
Microsoft today officially inaugurated an AI (artificial intelligence) research and development center in Taiwan, initially to focus on the development of AI technologies and applications...
Wednesday 10 January 2018
Fitbit Ionic to be available in Taiwan
US-based Fitbit will launch Fitbit Ionic smartwatch in the Taiwan market in mid-February at a recommended retail price of NT$10,880 (US$365).
Wednesday 10 January 2018
Not many Android phones to come with 3D sensing technology in 1H18
Not many Android-based smartphones launched in the first half of 2018 will come with 3D sensing technology due to technological and cost barriers, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 10 January 2018
MediaTek unveils edge AI platform
MediaTek has uveiled its edge computing NeuroPilot AI (artificial intelligence) platform. Through a combination of hardware and software, an AI processing unit (APU ), and NeuroPilot...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Advantech revenues up in December
Advantech has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.927 billion (US$132.81 million) for December 2017, representing a 6.76% drop on month and 2.65% increase on year.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Inventec sees 9% growth in 2017 revenues
Inventec has announced consolidated revenues of NT$44.45 billion (US$1.5 billion) for December, down 1.3% on month, but up 15.6% on year. Its 2017 consolidated sales came to NT$467.5...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Hiwin December revenues hit record
Mechanical motion control component and industrial robot maker Hiwin Technologies has reported consolidated revenues of NT$2.137 billion (US$71.2 million) for December, hitting a monthly...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
HTC unveils Vive Pro at CES 2018
HTC has unveiled a new version of its Vive headset, Vive Pro, at CES 2018 as the company moves to further enhance its VR hardware business along with other efforts to expand its VR...
Monday 8 January 2018
Ennoconn emerging as important IIoT arm of Foxconn
As a Foxconn Group's subsidiary specializing in designing and providing industrial computer (IPC) system solutions, Ennoconn will surely have an important role to play in the group's...
Monday 8 January 2018
HTC reports steep drop in December revenues
HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.02 billion (US$136.44 million) for December 2017, decreasing 29% on month and 37.3% on year, as sales of its new premier model, HTC U11+,...
Monday 8 January 2018
The IoT possibility for traditional IPCs: Q&A with Artila director of IoT Division Mike Kao
Artila Electronics is a long-term player in the IPC industry, but unlike most others that focus on developing x86 applications, Artila has chosen ARM-based systems as the main direction...