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Wednesday 23 July 2014
China market: Xiaomi launches new flagship smartphone
Xiaomi Technology has launched its new flagship model, the Mi4, targeting the high-end smartphone market. The Mi4 comes with a 5-inch display, Qualcomm 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon...
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Apple new iPhones to come with different time tables to avoid competition
Apple's new 5.5-inch iPhone will come several months later than the new 4.7-inch model in order to avoid competition between the two models, rather than due to poor yield rates at...
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Taiwan market: Nearly 1,500 4G base stations in operation at end of June, says NCC
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) approved the establishment of 2,918 4G base stations, and 1,458 ones were in operation as of the end of June 2014.
Wednesday 23 July 2014
China Mobile TD-LTE user base increases to nearly 14 million in June
China Mobile saw its number of TD-LTE subscribers increase to 13.943 million at the end of June 2014, according to the company.
Wednesday 23 July 2014
USI reportedly lands SiP module orders for iWatch devices
Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), an affiliated company of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), reportedly has landed SiP module orders from Apple for its iWatch wearable...
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Fujitsu Taiwan and local university to set up Big Data R&D platform
Fujitsu Taiwan and National Cheng Kung University on July 22 signed an MoU for cooperation to establish a Big Data R&D platform specifically for agricultural applications combining...
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Taiwan tablet shipments plunge sequentially in 1Q14, says MIC
In the absence of new Apple products, tablets shipped to Apple - the major client taking up nearly 70% of Taiwan makers' tablet shipments - witnessed a 38% sequential decline in the...
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Taiwan server ODMs may benefit from Project Scorpio 2.0
Taiwan-based server ODMs including Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec may obtain orders arising from the beginning of Project Scorpio 2.0, the second version of a project to boost...
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments reach 55.06 million units in 2Q14
There were 55.06 million tablets shipped globally in the second quarter of 2014, decreasing 4.5% on quarter but increasing 17.9% on year, according to Digitimes Research.
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Advantech partners with Hiwin for robot business
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech has announced it will establish a strategic alliance with Taiwan-based automated product maker Hiwin Technologies, looking to gather...
Tuesday 22 July 2014
India market: Mobile platform providers to ramp up market share by tying up with local smartphone vendors
Mobile platform providers Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have geared up efforts to expand their market shares in India by cooperating with local handset vendors.
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Taiwan market: HTC launches HTC One (E8); to release more low-priced models in 2H14
HTC has launched the HTC One (E8), the plastic version of its latest flagship model the HTC One (M8), in the Taiwan market priced at NT$14,900 (US$497) unlocked.
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Digitimes Research: January-May handset shipments in China market down 28% on year
There were 178 million handsets shipped in the China market during January-May 2014, decreasing over 70 million units on year. The decrease was mainly because China Mobile shifted...
Monday 21 July 2014
Foxconn to set production lines for green handsets
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is planning to establish production lines at plants in Guiyang, China to manufacture handsets using recycled materials in the future,...
Monday 21 July 2014
HTC smarthpone shipments may drop 25-30% in 3Q14, says paper
HTC's smartphone shipments may drop 25-30% sequentially in the third quarter of 2014 as sales momentum for its flagship New One (M8) has not been as strong as expected, a report has...