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Trends in industrial computing
Digitimes trackes the latest trends in industrial computing applications, including IoT, Industry 4.0 and automation and robotics.
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Friday 29 January 2016
Inventec Appliances hikes efficiency, cuts labor via automation
Smartphone and smart hand-held device ODM Inventec Appliances has increased overall production efficiency by over 20% and reduced the workforce at its factories in eastern China from...
Monday 18 January 2016
More than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of IoT by 2020, says Gartner
More than half of major new business processes and systems will incorporate some element of the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020, according to Gartner. The impact of the IoT on consumers'...
Tuesday 12 January 2016
Notebook players to take measures to save costs and expand into non-PC market in 2016
With the notebook market expected to continue seeing a single-digit percentage shipment decline in 2016, brand vendors and ODMs are expected to become more aggressive pushing into...
Wednesday 6 January 2016
Mitac Magellan SmartGPS navigation system adopted by Subaru
Mitac International has announced that its Magellan SmartGPS navigation system has been adopted by Japan-based automaker Subaru for vehicles equipped with its Subaru Starlink in-car...
Tuesday 5 January 2016
MediaTek to spin off Ethernet chip unit
MediaTek will likely spin off its Ethernet chip business into a wholly-owned company in 2016, according to industry sources. The move aims to seek new strategic partnerships in the...
Monday 4 January 2016
MediaTek expands R&D team within IoT BU
MediaTek has expanded the R&D team within its IoT (Internet of Things) business unit to more than 200 engineers, and the number of its IoT R&D staff will continue to grow...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
IoT market to boost MCU shipments, says ABI Research
The IoT market will be responsible for 150 million unit shipments of multicore microcontroller unit (MCU) chips in 2015, with that number to rise to 1.3 billion units by 2020, a 54%...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Taiwan IC design houses gearing up for IoT boom
Brisk orders for IoT-related products are expected to boost the performance of several Taiwan-based IC design houses specializing in MCUs, power management ICs and wireless transmission...
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Targeting future demand and creating new opportunities: Conquer Electronics responds to market challenges with advantage in automation and customization
Starting out as an OEM subcontracting jobs to laborers working at home 40 years ago, Conquer has now become the leader in fuse components. In the 1970s and 1980s when home appliances...
Tuesday 29 December 2015
Intel completes acquisition of Altera
Intel on December 28 announced that it has completed the acquisition of Altera, a provider of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology.
Thursday 17 December 2015
IoT market to nearly double by 2019, says IC Insights
Between 2015 and 2019, worldwide systems revenues for applications connecting to the Internet of Things (IoT) will nearly double reaching US$124.5 billion in the final year of the...
Thursday 17 December 2015
Digitimes Research: Google Brillo IoT OS still lacks system hardware partners
While Google has revealed more details of technology and cooperation partners for its IoT operating system Brillo, a lack of system hardware partners and specific direction for product...
Wednesday 16 December 2015
Digitimes Research: Amazon AWS IoT platform to flourish IoT cloud services
The recent launch of AWS (Amazon Web Services) IoT service by Amazon symbolizes the deployment of related IoT technologies has reached out from the initial concerns on protocol, gateway...
Wednesday 16 December 2015
IoT Gateways Adapt to Local Conditions to Extract True IoT Value
The IoT, big data, and cloud open up various smart applications from homes, factories, cities, to homeland security and disaster prevention and management. "When IoT is applied...
Wednesday 16 December 2015
Taiwan IC design houses look to auto and IoT related products for 2016 growth
IC shipments for automotive electronics, wearables and IoT devices will enjoy a higher increase than shipments for PCs, tablets and smartphones in 2016, according to sources at Taiwan-based...