China Economic Reviewin the venture. Texas Instruments will supply GSM (global system for mobile communications) technology, while Xoceco will make the phones at its base in Xiamen, Fujian province. The new phones are expected to enter the market in June this year.
China’s largest domestic computer maker, Legend, has signed an agreement with Texas Instruments and Chinese electronics firm Xoceco to make mobile handsets and wireless internet devices, South China Morning Post said. The three partners will set up a Yn150m joint venture to carry out research, development and manufacture of a new range of voice and […]
There were 5.1m new mobile phone subscribers in January, according to Ministry of Information Industry figures. This marked a return to increases of over 5m a month recorded in the first 10 months of last year. The Finnish phone maker Nokia has forecast that revenues from sales of handsets in Minoru/Imaginechina | China will […]
NEC, Japan’s biggest supplier of personal computers, intends to shift the bulk of its PC production to China to cut costs. The company plans to increase the proportion of its PCs for the Japanese market produced in China from the current level of 10 per cent to 70 per cent by March 2003. Production will […]
IBM and China’s Great Wall Technology Group have signed an agreement to produce and distribute IBM hard-disk drives for the world market, Reuters reported. Under the deal, a Great Wall subsidiary ExcelStor Technology will make and sell the desktop drive starting from the second half of 2002. In a separate announcement, Great Wall said that […]