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Monday 12 March 2018
HTC to set up VR accelerator center in London
HTC has announced that it will set up its sixth VR accelerator center in London to support VR startups in the UK and Europe.
Thursday 8 March 2018
StarVR to roll out HMD VR devices with eye tracker
StarVR, a VR device joint venture between Acer and Sweden-based Starbreeze, plans to roll out a new head-mounted display (HMD) VR series with Tobii eye tracking capability in 2018...
Monday 5 March 2018
Acer launches new mobile workstation
Acer has announced a mobile workstation, the TravelMate P8 in Taiwan and expects the product to help raise its revenue proportion from Taiwan's enterprise sector to 50% in 2018, according...
Monday 5 March 2018
Global January semiconductor sales increase 22.7%, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$37.6 billion for the month of January 2018, an increase of 22.7% compared to the January 2017 total of US$30.6 billion, according to the...
Friday 2 March 2018
Micron announces mobile 3D NAND solutions for flagship smartphones
Micron Technology has announced three new 64-layer, second-generation 3D NAND storage products, which support the high-speed Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.1 standard. Micron's new...
Thursday 1 March 2018
TDK to acquire ultrasonic sensor developer
TDK has reached an agreement with Chirp Microsystems, a developer of ultrasonic sensing solutions, in which Chirp becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of TDK. TDK expects to close the...
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Samsung Galaxy 9 to be available on March 16
Samsung unveiled its new flagship Galaxy S9 smartphones on the eve of the official start of the 2018 Mobile World Congress (MWC) running February 26-March 1 in Barcelona, seeking...
Friday 9 February 2018
Dassault Systemes aims to be like Amazon in design, engineering software sector
After scoring impressive revenue and profit performances in 2017, Dassault Systemes, a France-based specialist in offering 3D design and engineering software products, will move to...
Thursday 8 February 2018
HP expects rising share in Taiwan workstation market, says paper
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Taiwan has launched its latest enterprise PCs and workstations in Taiwan as well as a virtual reality (VR) backpack, a wearable workstation system supporting...
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Semiconductor sales hit record US$412 billion in 2017, says SIA
The global semiconductor industry posted sales totaling US$412.2 billion in 2017, the industry's highest-ever annual sales and an increase of 21.6% compared to the 2016 total, according...
Monday 29 January 2018
Gaming to surpass notebook in production value in 2020, says TH Tung
Taipei Computer Association (TCA) chairman TH Tung has pointed out that the production value of the gaming industry will have a good chance of reaching US$143.5 billion by 2020, an...
Friday 26 January 2018
HTC ships standalone Vive Focus in China
HTC has begun shipping its Vive Focus VR devices to consumers in China, expecting the availability of the standalone VR products to boost its sales performance for the first quarter...
Friday 19 January 2018
Metal-alloy chassis makers eyeing EV sector
Metal-alloy chassis makers Catcher Technology, Foxconn Technology, Ju Teng International Holdings and Casetek Holdings plan to develop motor chassis for electric vehicles (EVs), as...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
HTC unveils Vive Pro at CES 2018
HTC has unveiled a new version of its Vive headset, Vive Pro, at CES 2018 as the company moves to further enhance its VR hardware business along with other efforts to expand its VR...
Friday 5 January 2018
Acer to push VR concert with Taiwan music streaming service provider
Acer is cooperating with Taiwan-based music streaming service provider KKBox to host a virtual reality (VR) concert using its 8K Ultra HD 360-degree VR system.