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Monday 9 January 2017
Inventec to re-elect board of directors and new chairman in June
Inventec chairman Richard Lee said that the company will re-elect its boards of directors in June 2017 and he will also step down from the chairman post, but stay as a director.
Monday 9 January 2017
China market: HMD Global launches Nokia 6
HMD Global has launched its first smartphone, the Nokia 6, in the China market. The Nokia 6 will be available through JD.com in early 2017 at CNY1,699 (US$245).
Monday 9 January 2017
Huawei ships 139 million smartphones in 2016
Huawei shipped a total of 139 million smartphones in 2016, an increase of 29% from a year earlier, according to the company.
Monday 9 January 2017
HTC 2016 revenues hit 11-year low
HTC saw its revenues dip 16.4% on month and 1.7% on year to a five-month low of NT$6.41 billion (US$199.96 million) in December 2016.
Friday 6 January 2017
CES 2017: Intel unveils Compute Card, a credit card-sized compute platform
Intel has announced a new modular compute platform called the Intel Compute Card along with a range of partners who will be working with Intel to help accelerate the ecosystem of...
Friday 6 January 2017
CES 2017: New Asustek smartphones still feature 14nm Qualcomm chips
Asustek at the ongoing CES trade show in Las Vegas has introduced two new smartphones, the ZenFone AR and ZenFone 3 Zoom, both featuring Qualcomm's 14nm Snapdragon chips instead of...
Friday 6 January 2017
BT selects MediaTek to provide chips for home wireless networks
MediaTek at the ongoing CES trade show in Las Vegas announced that its Wi-Fi adaptive network technology has been selected to power BT's Whole Home Wi-Fi system, a self-configuring...
Thursday 5 January 2017
Cloud storage solution provider Hope Bay to lay off employees
Taiwan-based Hope Bay Technologies, an enterprise-use cloud storage solution provider, has decided to scale down its operations and plans to lay off 80% of its employees due to financial...
Thursday 5 January 2017
Supermicro enters gaming motherboard market
US-based server vendor Supermicro has entered the brand gaming motherboard market with its new Supero brand and released a series of products recently. The company has been pushing...
Thursday 5 January 2017
Smartphone vendors to showcase new products at CES 2017
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 will be hosted from January 5-8 in Las Vegas, the US, and firms including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Xiaomi and Huawei are expected...
Thursday 5 January 2017
IPC maker Ennoconn reports record high revenues for December, all of 2016
IPC maker Ennoconn, an affiliate company under the Foxconn Group, has reported record high revenues for December and all of 2016, buoyed by its overseas acquisition projects.
Thursday 5 January 2017
IPC maker Advantech to buy up to 60% stake in Korea-based Kostec
IPC and related solutions provider Advantech will invest less than NT$300 million (US$9.307 billion) to take up a 60% stake in Korea-based medical-use monitor product maker, Kostec,...
Wednesday 4 January 2017
Oppo, Vivo both target to ship over 150 million smartphones in 2017
China-based smartphone vendors Oppo and Vivo aim to ship over 150 million smartphones, in 2017, a target which some industry sources in Taiwan and China see as questionable.
Wednesday 4 January 2017
Wistron expanding ODM handset production capacity in India, says paper
Wistron is expanding ODM handset production capacity at its existing plant in the suburb of New Delhi from the current 600,000-700,00 units to two million a month, and it is also...
Wednesday 4 January 2017
CHT sets 2017 capex budget at NT$29 billion
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has tentatively set its capex budget for 2017 at NT$29 billion (US$900.74 million), up from NT$27 billion spent a year earlier, according to company president...