Hon Hai Adjusts Operations in Full-Blown Effort to Develop IoT Enterprises
TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News, Hon Hai will this year undergo internal organizational restructuring. After the restructuring, the group will be reduced from 12 to 11 units, and what was originally the Server Business Unit will be integrated into the Telecom and China Netcom Business Unit...
Advantech, IBM Japan Cooperate on IoT-based Smart Manufacturing Solutions
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Advantech and IBM Japan today jointly announced that the two sides will collaborate on smart manufacturing solutions which will be based on the IoT technology. This collaboration will integrate with Advantech’s “WISE-PaaS ”, IBM’s “SoftLayer” cloud infrastructure services, and IBM “Bluemix”, allows users to have more complete IoT application development environment on this platform...
China Smartphone Market Sees Its Highest Shipment in 2015Q4
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), 117.3 million smartphones were shipped to China in 2015Q4. This is an 8% Year-Over-Year (YoY) growth vs the same period last year, partly driven by China’s annual singles day online shopping festival in November and Huawei’s strong shipments in the quarter...
Fujitsu Develops World's First Encryption Technology Able to Match Multi-Source Data Encrypted
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. today announced development of the world's first encryption technology that can match IDs or attribute values in information sources, such as classified or private data from multiple organizations, that are encrypted with different keys, without decrypting the information...
Mitsubishi Electric Develops 1Tb/s Multi-subcarrier Optical Transceiver Technology
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has developed a multi-subcarrier optical transceiver technology that significantly increases the data rate of terrestrial fiber optic communication. This new technology used a single receiver to achieve a data rate of one Terabit per second (1Tb/s)...
Taiwan’s IC Foundry Hold Its Ground Despite Earthquake Risk
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The earthquake occurred on February 6 in Tainan, Taiwan, leading to more than fifty people were killed and hundreds injured, while undermining the part of the fab plant of TSMC. Which resulting in TSMC's Fab 6 and Fab 14 had to shut down to recover for more than three days, once triggered disruption risk of global semiconductor manufacturing chain...