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Friday 7 August 2015
Huawei, Xiaomi to hike adoption of in-house-developed smartphone APs
Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi Technology are expected to increase adoption of in-house-developed ARM-architecture application processors (APs) in their own-brand smartphones. Huawei's...
Thursday 6 August 2015
Smartphone, tablet component suppliers unable to clear inventories until 4Q15
The current high levels of inventory held by upstream component and part suppliers for smartphones and tablets are unlikely to ease until the fourth quarter of 2015 due to sluggish...
Thursday 6 August 2015
Foxconn denies signing pact with India-based Gautam Adani
Foxconn Electronics has denied a Taiwan media report indicating that it plans to team up with India-based Gautam Adani to jointly set up production lines for the manufacture of Apple...
Thursday 6 August 2015
Largan Precision reports revenues for July 2015
Largan Precision has reported consolidated revenues of NT$5.255 billion (US$166.43 million) for July 2015, representing a 2.9% increase on month and 49.54% increase on year.
Thursday 6 August 2015
Sony Mobile likely to outsource wearables to Taiwan ODMs
Sony Mobile Communications is reportedly in talks with Taiwan-based ODMs for possible production of its smart wearable devices, including smartwatches and smart bands, in addition...
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Acer reportedly lands server orders from TSMC
Acer has reportedly obtained orders for servers used in data centers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which could affect TSMC's orders to its original supplier...
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Xiaomi reportedly developing ARM solutions, paper says
Xiaomi is engaged in the development of mobile processors based on the ARM chip architecture, and is expected to have the first in-house developed chips for handsets in early 2016,...
Wednesday 5 August 2015
Digitimes Research: Taiwan handset shipments to remain flat in 2H15
Combined handset shipments by Taiwan-based handset vendors and ODMs in the third and fourth quarters are likely to be lower than the amount they shipped in the second quarter, reflecting...
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panels - 2Q 2015
Handset applications have been the main output for Taiwan makers' small- to medium-size panel production. But the makers are shifting their focus from feature phone panels to smartphone...
Tuesday 4 August 2015
China market: Huawei to offer business-use cloud services
China-based telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies has announced that it plans to launch business-use cloud services in the China market, in addition to its current role as...
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Inspection service company Sporton posts revenue growth in July
Taiwan-based Sporton International, which provides mobile device testing and certification services, has announced consolidated revenues for July 2015 increased 1.1% sequentially...
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Taiwan market: Acer sees strong sales at TCAS
Acer has achieved better-than-expected results during the Taiwan Computer Application Show (TCAS) 2015 in Taipei, recording a sales growth of 40% compared to 2014. The results may...
Tuesday 4 August 2015
iPhone 5c successor to feature FinFET chips, say sources
Apple is not expected to launch a successor to the iPhone 5c this year, but will instead introduce its next-generation budget smartphones in second-quarter 2016 with the devices coming...
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Digitimes Research: RT Works launches robot to help people walk
Japan-based RT Works has launched Robot Assist Walker RT. 1, an autonomous walking-assisting cart to help old people walk, in the Japan market, becoming the fourth model of personal...
Monday 3 August 2015
Taiwan motherboard players targeting China embedded market for growth
Seeing that PC demand remains weak, motherboard players have been trying to expand into the embedded product market especially in China. Players such as Gigabyte Technology and ASRock...