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Monday 24 February 2014
Google to use Qualcomm 8-core CPUs for next-generation Nexus 6 smartphone, says paper
Google will use Qualcomm's forthcoming 64-bit 8-core chipset solution, the Snapdragon 810, for its next-generation Nexus 6 smartphone, according to a Chinese-language Economic...
Monday 24 February 2014
Mozilla, Spreadtrum partner to deliver US$25 smartphone
Mozilla and Spreadtrum Communications announced on February 23 that they have teamed up to deliver turnkey Firefox OS reference designs with Spreadtrum's entry-level smartphone chi...
Monday 24 February 2014
Acer aims to ship 10 million smartphones in 2014
Acer is optimistic about smartphone sales in 2014 and has upward adjusted target shipments from five million to 10 million units, 6.67 times the 1.5 million units shipped in 2013,...
Monday 24 February 2014
Chunghwa Telecom to add overseas business offices
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will set up business offices in Myanmar and the Philippines in 2014 and plans to expand in India, the UK, and Latin America in 2015-2016, according to CHT's...
Friday 21 February 2014
Sporton posts EPS of NT$5.25 for 2013
Taiwan-based Sporton International, which provides mobile device testing and certification services, has reported net profits of NT$432 million (US$14.2 million) on consolidated sales...
Friday 21 February 2014
FET to procure 2.5 million handsets in 2014
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, will procure 2.5 million handsets of which most will be smartphones, as well as 360,000...
Friday 21 February 2014
Digitimes Research: Pay TV subscriber demand sees changes in 3Q13
Pay TV subscriptions in the US reached 84.5 million in the third quarter of 2013, with cable TV users making up 47.2%, while 40.3% were direct broadcast satellite users ,and 12.5%...
Friday 21 February 2014
Explaining the Chaiwan model for the mobile device supply chain: Q&A with Digitimes Research director Joanne Chien
While Digitimes is known as a media outlet, the company also includes a business unit that solely focuses on market research. Run independently from the Digitimes news organization,...
Friday 21 February 2014
Asustek to suspend dual-OS notebook project, says paper
Asustek Computer is likely to be forced to give up plans to launch its dual-OS notebook, the Transformer Book Duet TD300, due to resistance from Google, according to a Chinese-language...
Friday 21 February 2014
Application and Design Trends of Brand New 32bit MCUs for Embedded Connectivity
Addressing the embedded market's demand for high-performance, energy-saving and connected systems, Microchip has developed solutions basing on the MIPS32 microAptiv core architecture,...
Friday 21 February 2014
The prospects of the HTML5-based Firefox OS
With the fast expanding reach of the Internet and the approaching of the era of cloud computing, the HTML5 open platform enables quick development of cross-platform applications,...
Friday 21 February 2014
Foxconn constructs HTML5 smart cross-platform integrating support for eight screens, Internet and cloud
The prospects of smart applications, which are needed to serve the purposes of cloud-based networks of sensing devices, IoT (Internet of Things) and terminal devices, have triggered...
Friday 21 February 2014
Inventec lands smartphone orders from Sony Mobile, x86 server orders from Lenovo, says paper
Inventec has landed smartphone orders from Sony Mobile Communications as well as x86 server orders from Lenovo, according to a Chinese-language Liberty Times report.
Thursday 20 February 2014
Taiwan market: Xiaomi to launch flagship smartphone MI3
China-based vendor Xiaomi Technology will launch MI3, its flagship smartphone, in the Taiwan market for online sale beginning February 26 at a contract-free retail price of NT$9,999...
Thursday 20 February 2014
Twitter to release server orders to Taiwan ODMs, say Taiwan makers
Twitter will place orders for servers directly with Taiwan-based ODMs instead of vendors such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM, according to server supply chain players.