Networking and electronics component manufacturer Delta Electronic (
According to local media sources, Delta, one of Taiwan's leading original equipment manufacturing (OEM) suppliers of components for computer products and telecommunications equipment, won orders to manufacture Internet gateway servers from NEC Corp, according to NEC's Taiwan office.
The company placed the order size at 100,000 units, all to be sold in the Taiwan market this year. NEC's local representative office says the Taiwan market will grow by 40 percent year on year this year, and NEC hopes to catch that wave.
The worldwide market for servers is expected to hit 3.9 million units this year, according to market research firm, Dataquest, 14 percent growth over last year. Sales of desktop personal computers, by contrast, are expected to increase by 12.2 percent.
Taiwanese manufacturers of server components and full systems, including Acer Inc (
Slowing worldwide economic growth has put added pressure on companies to cut costs -- and outsourcing to Taiwan is considered a good way to do so. Cut-throat competition among industry players here ensures low contract prices for foreign buyers like NEC Corp, IBM Corp, Sun Microsystems Inc and Gateway Inc.
Earlier this week, industry sources confirmed Quanta received a large order for server and other PC related equipment from US-based Dell Computer Corp.
In related news, Delta Electronics reportedly won orders to provide components to Sony Play Station 2 game machines. Sony tapped Hon Hai Precision Industries (
There has been no order from Sony with regard to Play Station2 game machines.
Among the rows of vibrators, rubber torsos and leather harnesses at a Chinese sex toys exhibition in Shanghai this weekend, the beginnings of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shift in the industry quietly pulsed. China manufactures about 70 percent of the world’s sex toys, most of it the “hardware” on display at the fair — whether that be technicolor tentacled dildos or hyper-realistic personalized silicone dolls. Yet smart toys have been rising in popularity for some time. Many major European and US brands already offer tech-enhanced products that can enable long-distance love, monitor well-being and even bring people one step closer to
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