Contract computer and mobile device manufacturer Inventec Corp (英業達) plans to expand its overseas operations in a bid meet the growing demand for its cloud-computing business, a company executive said yesterday.
The company believes the move will also help its customers react more quickly to the fast-changing industry, chairman Richard Lee (李詩欽) said on the sidelines of a Cloud Computing Association in Taiwan startup incubation initiative event.
Lee said the company is considering reopening its research and development center in Japan.
He also plans to visit Singapore, Europe and India to assess the possibility of building operational sites for Inventec’s cloud-computing business, he said.
“We have been focused on the Chinese market for the past few years and have neglected other markets for a while. It is time to expand our reach to other overseas markets,” Lee said.
Inventec has built an after-care service center in Japan for its PC clients and is evaluating a project to set up a final-assembly factory, Lee said.
The company is also looking to resume its operations in Singapore, while its new Indian factory is expected to begin production of notebook computers later this year, and may expand to also assemble smartphones and servers, he said.
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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