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Thursday 31 December 2015
Acer expands smartphone presence into Latin America
Acer has announced cooperation with Bahamas Telecommunications and Ecuador's Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones to sell its smartphones and wearable devices.
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Acer partners with Wistron to create BYOC smart classrooms in China, says paper
Acer has partnered with Wistron to set up Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) smart classrooms in Chongqing, China and it is the company's first smart education cloud computing project in...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Apple more than doubles smartphone shipments in MEA region in 3Q15, says Counterpoint Research
Overall the mobile phone market in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 23% on year in the third quarter of 2015, with the smartphone segment growing 31%, almost three times faster...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Commentary: Gaming notebooks, VR devices may not be as promising as expected
While the production of gaming notebooks and VR (virtual reality) devices looks to be promising in 2016, keen competition in the gaming notebook sector and a lack of supply chain...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Taiwan market: CHT reaches 2015 target 4G user base
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) had 4.4 million 4G mobile communication subscribers as of December 29, attaining the 2015 target it set in May 2014 when kicking off 4G commercial operation,...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Inventec buys HTC building to house business-use PC R&D headquarters
Notebook ODM Inventec on December 29 announced the acquisition of a factory/office building located in Taoyuan City, northern Taiwan, at NT$6.060 billion (US$184.5 million) from smartphone...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
IoT market to boost MCU shipments, says ABI Research
The IoT market will be responsible for 150 million unit shipments of multicore microcontroller unit (MCU) chips in 2015, with that number to rise to 1.3 billion units by 2020, a 54%...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Targeting future demand and creating new opportunities: Conquer Electronics responds to market challenges with advantage in automation and customization
Starting out as an OEM subcontracting jobs to laborers working at home 40 years ago, Conquer has now become the leader in fuse components. In the 1970s and 1980s when home appliances...
Tuesday 29 December 2015
iPhone shipments from production lines in 4Q15 to be 5-10% short of original expectations, say Taiwan makers
As demand for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus appear to have slowed down recently, shipments of iPhone devices from production lines in the fourth quarter of 2015 are likely to be 5-10%...
Tuesday 29 December 2015
Internet service providers slowing down on taking in server orders
Worldwide Internet service providers such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have recently started slowing down on pulling in their server orders from ODMs as they have been...
Tuesday 29 December 2015
Arima Communications to expand capital of Brazil subsidiary
Handset ODM Arima Communications will expand the capital of its wholly owned subsidiary in Brazil, Arima Communicacoes Brasil, by US$25 million, according to a company filing with...
Monday 28 December 2015
Thin and terminal client outlook lowered due to project delays and emerging market issues, says IDC
The global thin and terminal client market deteriorated during the third quarter of 2015, declining 6.7% on year, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Client Device...
Monday 28 December 2015
Taiwan market: Handset sales down slightly in November
Sales of handsets in the Taiwan market totaled 765,000 units in November, down slightly from the previous month, according to data compiled by local retail channels. Smartphones currently...
Monday 28 December 2015
Inventec becomes largest server ODM/OEM, says paper
Inventec has become the world's largest server ODM/OEM with a global market share of about 30% and clients including Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo, according to a Chinese-language...
Friday 25 December 2015
Taiwan market: Xiaomi ships over 600,000 smart bracelets in first nine months of 2015
Xiaomi Technology shipped over 600,000 units of its smart Mi Band in the Taiwan market during the January-September period of 2015, according to the company.