Foxconn Archives - VR World

Analysis, Apple, Business, Companies, News, VR World

Foxconn Reportedly Pursuing The Acquisition Of Sharp

Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) is the largest producer of electronics in the world, but it spent most of its corporate history manufacturing items for western brands. As such, the company is mostly known for producing the vast majority of Apple iPhones and the vast number of other Apple products ((iPads, MacBooks shift manufacturing from OEM to OEM on annual basis). However, just like TCL was not happy with being an unknown brand in the west (reacted by purchasing Alcatel), Foxconn wants to become a household name. In order to realize their plan, Foxconn senior management seems to be venturing into the acquisition of Sharp –

Analysis, Apple, Asia Pacific (APAC), Business, Companies, Global Politics, Taiwan

How Can Taiwan Manufacturers Reduce Their Dependence on Apple?

Pegatron’s first post-iPhone 6 earnings showed a healthy profit margin. But what will happen to Pegatron and Hon Hai once Apple slows down production of the iPhone 6?

Apple, Asia Pacific (APAC), Breaking, Business, Companies, Global Politics, Hardware, Mobile Computing, Taiwan

Asus’ Balls of Steel vs. Apple’s Golden MacBook and Watch

Asus gets aggressive in its marketing, and goes after Apple’s two new flagship products.

Analysis, VR World

Xiaomi’s Mi Note Helps Boost Taiwanese Suppliers’ Business

Xiaomi’s mass production for Mi Note will help boost Taiwanese suppliers’ business.

Asia Pacific (APAC), Global Politics

Cross-Strait News Daily Round-up For Nov. 28

Highlighted business news in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong for Nov. 28, 2014.

Asia Pacific (APAC), Global Politics

Cross-Strait News Daily Round-up For Nov. 26

Highlighted business news in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong for Nov. 26, 2014

Android, Business, Hardware, Mobile Computing, Operating Systems, Software Programs, VR World

Nokia Returns with Nokia N1 Tablet by Foxconn

Nokia’s brand is getting a reboot with the announcement of the Nokia N1 Android tablet, which is the result of a partnership between Nokia and Foxconn.

Cloud Computing, Enterprise, VR World

HP Moonshot Using ARM 64-bit SoC

Last week ARM invited a group of journalists and analysts to Austin Texas to hear about their server, mobile, and wearable developments. ARM and their partners presented in-depth explanations of their version of the ARM architecture. On the first day of the conference, HP’s Dwight Barron gave an overview of their Moonshot system. They have been refining the specifications since its late 2009 inauguration. Moonshot’s design differs from the traditional servers which have been the general-purpose workhorses of the data center. These boxes have proved to be jacks-of-all-trades, able to run operations for organizations of every shape and size. They started with proprietary operating systems and a

Android, Hardware, Mobile Computing, Operating Systems, Software Programs, VR World

Google Glass' Bill of Materials is Only $80, Sells for $1,500

According to the guys at Teardown.com the very hot Google Glass wearable computer from Google only carries a bill of materials of $80, which is about of of what we were expecting. It doesn’t really come as much of a surprise though, because Google Glass itself is incredibly old technology in terms of mobile and wearables and it really doesn’t provide much technological innovation. In fact, most people will be shocked to know that the SoC powering the Google Glass is in fact the same SoC that powers the failed Blackberry Playbook which was released more than 3 years ago with the same SoC. At the

Search the site