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Thursday 31 December 2015
Acer expands smartphone presence into Latin America
Acer has announced cooperation with Bahamas Telecommunications and Ecuador's Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones to sell its smartphones and wearable devices.
Wednesday 30 December 2015
Samsung starts mass production of bio-processors for health-oriented wearables
Samsung Electronics has announced it is mass producing an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health-oriented wearables market, the Bio-Processor.
Wednesday 23 December 2015
Acer announces brisk sales of smart bracelets
Acer has announced that it sold out 70,000 units of its fitness bracelet Liquid Leap Active during a 24-hour limited-time promotional campaign held through a TV shopping channel in...
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
China wearable device market continues to grow, with varied performance between segments, says IDC
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC ), wearable device shipments in China reached 7.37 million units in the third quarter of 2015, up 40.1% from the previous quart...
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...
Thursday 26 November 2015
Korea government to invest US$110 million into wearables development, says report
The Korea government has announced from 2016 it will invest US$110 million over a five-year period into developing materials and components for wearable products, according to Korea-based...
Thursday 26 November 2015
Himax obtains design-wins for smartphone-use force touch solutions
Himax Technologies has gained design-wins for its multi-level force touch controller series from leading smartphone vendors for models to be launched in the first half of 2016, according...
Friday 20 November 2015
Kionix announces 6-axis accel-gyro combo sensors
Kionix has announced the mass production of its KXG03 6-axis accelerometer-gyroscope combo and the unveiling of two new flagship 6-axis accel-gyro combos: the KXG07 and the KXG08.
Thursday 19 November 2015
Imec partners with UEST to develop emergency-detecting wearables
Nano-electronics research center imec and UEST, a Belgian start-up company, have started the production of Zembro, a smart bracelet designed to enable the elderly to connect with...
Monday 16 November 2015
Wearable devices becoming main growth driver for ODMs
Notebook ODMs are expected to see their shipments in the fourth quarter to drop from the third and the volumes may continue to decline in 2016, making mobile devices especially wearable...
Thursday 5 November 2015
Sony opens store in Taiwan mainly pushing mid-range and high-end products
Sony has opened a store in the Breeze Center shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan, and will mainly demonstrate its mid-range and high-end products including Bravia TVs, tablets, smartphones,...
Monday 26 October 2015
Richtek to focus on analog chips for mobile devices, wearables
After becoming a unit of MediaTek, Richtek Technology will continue to expand its analog IC portfolio and move more aggressively to gain market share, according to sources familiar...
Friday 23 October 2015
Digitimes Research: Pogo Pin to account for over 60% of power charging interfaces used in smart wearable devices in 2016
Pogo Pin will account for over 60% of power charging interfaces used in smart watches and smart bands in 2016, all types of USB together for nearly 20%, and wireless power charging...
Tuesday 15 September 2015
Worldwide wearable shipments to reach 173.4 million by 2019, says IDC
A growing list of vendors, a proliferation of devices, experiences, and price points, and steady consumer adoption will fuel growth in the worldwide market for wearable devices. According...