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Wednesday 6 May 2015
Global tablet market – 1Q 2015
Global shipments of tablets in the first quarter of 2015 totaled only 49.08 million units, representing an on-quarter drop of 35% and an on-year decrease of 15%.
Wednesday 6 May 2015
China market: Prices for 4- and 8-core handset chips to fall
Prices for 8-core handset chips are set to fall below US$10 in 2015 while those for quad-core chips will slip to US$5, as chipmakers start a price war, according to industry sources...
Wednesday 6 May 2015
The mbed IoT ecosystem: Q&A with ARM CEO Simon Segars
Through intensified cooperation with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and MediaTek, semiconductor IP provider ARM performed well in 2014, seeing its clients ship...
Tuesday 5 May 2015
HTC April revenues down
High Tech Computer (HTC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$13.542 billion (US$441.32 million) for April 2015, representing a 32.37% drop on month and 38.66% drop on year.
Tuesday 5 May 2015
ThroughTek and Kii collaborate on next generation IoT cloud platform
ThroughTek, provider of innovative M2M solutions, has announced their cooperation with Kii to develop a next generation IoT Cloud Platform. Integration of multimedia solutions will...
Monday 4 May 2015
Digitimes Research: Taiwan to ship 25.5 million handsets in 2Q15
Taiwan-based vendors HTC and Asustek Computer as well as ODMs Foxconn Group (including FIH Mobile and Chi Mei Communication Systems), Compal Electronics and Wistron will ship 25.50...
Monday 4 May 2015
Quanta pushing into private cloud solutions for revenue growth
White-box server vendor Quanta Computer has recently started accelerating its private cloud computing solution development, looking to expand its sales in 2016 and the move is expected...
Monday 4 May 2015
ECS nets NT$0.68 per share for 1Q15
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) recorded consolidated revenues of NT$11.858 billion (US$376 million), net operating profit of NT$440 million, net profit of NT$377 million and net...
Monday 4 May 2015
Apple iPhone captures 12% smartphone market share in China in 1Q15, says Strategy Analytics
Smartphone shipments to China totaled 109.8 million units in the first quarter of 2015, rising 17% from 93.6 million units a year earlier, according to Strategy Analytics. Xiaomi...
Monday 4 May 2015
Taiwan market: Asustek to launch VivoWatch in early May
Asustek Computer will launch its new smartwatch, the VivoWatch, in the Taiwan market on May 8, priced at NT$4,588 (US$149), according to the company. The new wearable device will...
Monday 4 May 2015
Taiwan market: TWM aims at 3 million 4G users for end of 2015
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) has reached 1.6 million 4G mobile communication subscribers currently and aims to increase the number to three million at the end of 2015, the company said at...
Monday 4 May 2015
Chunghwa Telecom 1Q15 capital spending at NT$5.53 billion
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has set aside a capex budget of NT$30.7 billion (US$1 billion) for 2015 and spent NT$5.53 billion in the first quarter, according to the company at an April...
Thursday 30 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments to stay flat on quarter and reach 49.31 million units in 2Q15
Global tablet shipments are expected to stay flat from a quarter ago and reach 49.31 million units in the second quarter of 2015, but compared to the same quarter a year ago, the...
Thursday 30 April 2015
Samsung reports decreased profits for 1Q15
Samsung Electronics has reported net profits of KRW4.63 trillion (US$4.35 billion) for the first quarter of 2015, down 38.2% from the KRW7.49 trillion of a year earlier. Meanwhile,...
Thursday 30 April 2015
India market: Huawei aims to ship 2 million smartphones in 2015
Huawei aims to ramp up its smartphone shipments to India to two million units in 2015, according to Zhao Ming, president of Huawei's Honor Business Unit. Huawei held a 4% share of...