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Friday 24 January 2014
Six-inch phablet sales face competition from 7-inch tablets
Sales of phablets (tablets with phone capability) with 6-inch or above displays have been rather limited due to strong competition from 7-inch entry-level tablets, according to market...
Friday 24 January 2014
MediaTek smartphone solution shipments to grow robustly in 2014
Shipments of MediaTek's smartphone solutions are expected to grow at a robust pace in 2014, buoyed by efforts by China-based smartphone vendors to expand overseas sales, and growing...
Friday 24 January 2014
China market: China Mobile, China Telecom aim to sell 100, 36 million TD-LTE devices in 2014
China Mobile and China Telecom, two of three 4G licensees in China, aim to sell 100 million and 36 million TD-LTE terminal devices, respectively, in the China market in 2014, according...
Friday 24 January 2014
Lenovo to buy IBM x86 server business for US$2.3 billion
Lenovo and IBM have entered into a definitive agreement in which Lenovo plans to acquire IBM's x86 server business. This includes System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers...
Friday 24 January 2014
Apple and Samsung remain biggest semiconductor buyers, says IHS
Apple and Samsung Electronics remained the world's largest buyers of semiconductor chips in 2013, but the intensifying battle between the two for the hearts and minds of consumers...
Thursday 23 January 2014
AIC JBOD provides maximum storage and unexpected power savings and flexibility
According to research company Gartner, Inc., storage spending is growing almost three times faster than IT budgets as a whole. Impressive growth in storage spending, fueled by relentless...
Thursday 23 January 2014
APLEX introduces cost-effective and durable industrial Panel PCs
APLEX Technology Inc., a global industrial computer product solution provider, announced a new industrial Panel PC - APC-3X93R series that adopts Intel Atom D2550 processor and provides...
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...