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Thursday 23 January 2014
Taiwan market: Acer launches entry-level smartphone Liquid Z5
Acer has launched its Liquid Z5, a 5-inch entry-level smartphone equipped with MediaTek MT6572 1.3GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM and a 5-megapixel rear camera, in the Taiwan...
Thursday 23 January 2014
AMD offers new 12- and 16-core additions to Opteron 6300 series
AMD has announced the immediate availability of its new 12- and 16-core AMD Opteron 6300 series server processors, codenamed Warsaw. Designed for enterprise workloads, the new AMD...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Nexcom chairman expects 5% revenues to come from IPcam business in 2014
Industrial PC (IPC) maker Nexcom International is looking to have the IPcam business contribute 5% of its revenues in 2014 as the company is planning to integrate the product line...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
ECS expects to ship 3 million education-use tablets in 2014, says CNA
Taiwan-based ODM Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) shipped 300,000 education-use tablets in 2013 and expects to ship three million units in 2014, according to the Chinese-language...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Taiwan ODMs struggle to land mobile device orders from Samsung
While Samsung Electronics are expected to roll out an array of new smartphones and tablets for high-end as well as entry-level segments in 2014, the vendor is quite unlikely to release...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom lands exclusive rights for new media broadcasts of 2014 FIFA World Cup
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has obtained exclusive rights for new media broadcasts of the 2014 FIFA World Cup to take place in Brazil during June 12-July 13 in the Taiwan market and will...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Acer to beef up marketing of fast growing product lines, says CEO
Acer will devote more efforts marketing products with fast growth, mainly smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks and other hand-held devices, in 2014, said company president and CEO Jason...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan ODM handset shipments flat in 4Q13
Handsets shipped by Taiwan-based ODMs stayed flat in the fourth quarter of 2013, with Compal Communications and Arima Communications seeing their shipments decline significantly on...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
China white-box makers likely to launch array of wearable devices in 2Q14
China-based white-box mobile device makers are likely to launch an array of wearable devices, including smartwatches, in the second quarter of 2014, using chipset solutions from Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Xiaomi to see strong competition at home, unlikely to achieve 2014 shipment target
China-based Xiaomi has announced that the company plans to ship 40 million smartphones in 2014. But Digitimes Research believes the vendor is unlikely to achieve the goal as many...
Monday 20 January 2014
Korea market: Local handset vendors dominate LTE smartphone segment
The launch of LTE Advanced (LTE-A) services by Korea-based telecom operators has further enhanced the leading market position of Korea-based handset vendors in their home market,...
Monday 20 January 2014
Synnex Technology automating logistics centers
Taiwan-based IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International has been automating its logistics centers in Australia and China and will set up additional...
Monday 20 January 2014
Rising popularity of LTE phones to buoy Sporton 2014 sales
Taiwan-based Sporton International, which provides mobile device testing and certification services, expects to enjoy another record breaking year in 2014 buoyed by booming demand...
Monday 20 January 2014
Inventec focusing on hiking gross margin, says chairman
Inventec will focus operations in 2014 on increasing overall gross margins from nearly 5% in 2013 to over 5%, according to company chairman Richard Lee.
Monday 20 January 2014
Acer operating loss continues in 4Q13
Acer has reported a net operating loss of NT$8.218 billion (US$274 million) for the fourth quarter of 2013 mainly due to unsatisfactory sales performance, a loss of NT$1.3 billion...