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Friday 16 May 2014
Huawei and ZTE top fiber-optic CPE market, says ABI Research
Worldwide broadband customer premise equipment (CPE) shipments surpassed 146 million in 2013. Broadband subscriber net additions as well as existing customers upgrading to higher...
Friday 16 May 2014
Nokia tax dispute to affect FIH Mobile deployments in India, say sources
A dispute over taxes between Nokia and the India government is likely to bring some adverse impacts to the related supply chain, including a plant of FIH Mobile, in Chennai, India,...
Friday 16 May 2014
Digitimes Research: Intel to achieve 80% of 2014 tablet AP shipment goal
Intel is set to ship 40 million application processors (APs) for tablets in 2014, up 400% from the volume in 2013, though most market watchers believe the goal is rather difficult...
Friday 16 May 2014
HTC to start delivering HTC One mini 2 in June
HTC has unveiled a new member of its HTC One family, the HTC One mini 2, which sports a 4.5-inch HD display, 13-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel front camera.
Friday 16 May 2014
Taiwan market: Samsung launches mid-range LTE smartphone
Samsung Electronics has launched a mid-range LTE smartphone, the Galaxy Core LTE, in the Taiwan market, competing directly with HTC, Sony Mobile Communications and LG Electronics...
Friday 16 May 2014
Gigabyte, MSI see increased 1Q14 profits
Motherboard maker Gigabyte Technology has reported net profit of NT$725 million (US$23.9 million) for the first quarter of 2014 increasing 81.5% on quarter and 19.3% on year. Meanwhile,...
Friday 16 May 2014
Foxconn developing energy-efficiency containerized data centers
Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry) server and data center business group has been developing fourth-generation containerized data centers with PUE (power usage effectiveness)...
Friday 16 May 2014
Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom aims to add 80,000 MOD users during World Cup
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has obtained rights to broadcast 64 matches from the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil to take place during June 12-July 13 and aims to attract 80,000 new MOD (multimedia...
Thursday 15 May 2014
iPad growth slows in 2013 as tablet competitors grow 79%, says ABI Research
In the past year Apple's tablet OEM competitors experienced a growth of 79%, while Apple experienced only 13% growth in shipments largely due to increasing challenges as the tablet...
Thursday 15 May 2014
China Telecom 2014 fixed-line Internet-access equipment procurement down 47.5% on year
China Telecom will procure 6.37 million fixed-line broadband Internet-access devices in 2014, decreasing 47.5% on year mainly because the company has allocated a large portion of...
Thursday 15 May 2014
China smartphone market and industry – 1Q 2014
This report is divided into two sections; the first covers the China smartphone market, including shipments from international players and China-based players. The second section...
Thursday 15 May 2014
New Taipei City building up technology-enabled safe city with smart police administration
Following the student-led Sunflower protests which lasted about 20 days, most people in Taiwan have come to appreciate the police's hard work on the frontline, as well as the capability...
Thursday 15 May 2014
NCC to decide on whether to permit Ambit Microsystems to procure 4G equipment from Huawei within 2 months
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC), in response to Ambit Microsystems' request for a quick determination on whether to allow it to procure 4G base station equipment...
Thursday 15 May 2014
Handset ODMs ready capacities for wearables, but orders yet to come
Most Taiwan-based handset ODMs have built up capacities for producing wearable devices, but have yet to see any orders coming from major vendors, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 14 May 2014
China market: White-box handset makers using inferior parts and components for 3G smartphones
China-based white-box handset vendors, which have been forced to stay in the 3G sector amid rising popularity of 4G LTE smartphones, reportedly are using inferior parts and components...