With earlier years of accumulation, cloud computing is now currently at the fast development stage moving from early mainstream to mainstream. Read more for details on players in China and differences in cloud services
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Trends & Observations
China players, trends in cloud computing services
Electronics manufacturing services and design forecast 2014-19
Broken down my market sector, we should see EMS industry revenues increase to $423 billion on the rising strength of consumer electronics, servers and storage, networking equipment, automotive electronics, and medical electronics.
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Top 10 EMS providers and ODM rankings, reviews, ratings
We understand the contract electronics solutions industry. On the solutions supplier side, VentureOutsource.com founder Mark Zetter as set up and run contract electronics solutions divisions driving customer satisfaction. On the OEM customer side, we analyzed 3,000+ EMS manufacturing sales quotes …
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Establishing conflict minerals compliance reporting for electronics manufacturers
You (or your electronics manufacturer) are using ‘conflict minerals’. Your SEC report must include a description of the measures taken by your company to exercise due diligence on the source of the conflict materials, including chain of custody.
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The Silicon Valley of Asia
Hong Kong’s desire is to strengthen its competitiveness as an international hub and become a premier gateway to markets in mainland China and Asia. But becoming a regional gateway or point of FDI and business interests on the world stage, even with a concerted effort backed by government initiatives and funding is not easy for any region, in any sector. India tried years ago to become a global destination for electronics systems design and manufacturing (ESDM) or contract electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and failed.
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Mexico: Could value chain limits impact electronics re-shoring?
Countries cannot be or continue being competitive without efficient links with global markets. Do the relationships Mexico has with various global EMS providers located in the country offer enough of a transfer of capital, know-how, technology, standard and value-added services to represent global value chain contribution from Mexico?
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China smartphone, tablet CAGR forecast into the clouds
Chinese smartphone and tablet market is still tracking to nearly double in 2013, with smartphones showing good momentum and tablets offering both lower cost and higher performance features to stimulate demand according to a recent research report by investment bank Credit Suisse.
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China, emerging markets drives worldwide smartphone adoption
Asia remains the largest market in terms of potential growth, with China leading the way well into 2017, and beyond. Credit Suisse’s global hardware team raised their smartphone unit estimates because of a faster adoption pace of lower-cost Android smartphones in China and emerging markets.
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Samsung v. Apple: Metrics on revenue, unit share, handset profits, usage
From 2007 to 2013 the mobile handset industry operating profits increased 3x to $51 billion. Companies manufacturing the smartphones highlighted in the report include Apple, Samsung, Nokia and HTC among others.
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Q&A with Peter Marsh: Manufacturing Opportunity in the New Industrial Revolution
The critics of China are right. China has to show that in manufacturing as well as in other fields, businesses can innovate in design and technology. They need to be able to create products where they own the intellectual property and which can be branded as indisputably belonging to them. Moreover the products …
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