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GUEST OPINION by Ravi Rajendran, Vice President Asia Pacific, Cohesity: Corporate IT teams should make the most of Australia’s traditional January slowdown because they’ll need all their energy to deal with the challenges that lie ahead in 2021.

The global PC market is expected to fall by 3.4% in 2020, with PC shipments in the first quarter of 2020 falling by more than 25% sequentially and 10% annually due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting both the channel and supply chains in China.

The coronavirus outbreak will severely affect China’s smart devices market including smartphone and PC shipments, according to analyst firm Canalys which says it has dramatically revised previous forecasts of a 7% decline in smartphone shipments to a 40% to-50% drop for smartphones and 20% for PCs - with the proviso that the situation recovers to pre-outbreak levels by the end of February.

Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and OMRON Corporation are to conduct joint field trials using 5G at their plants and other production sites.

Ericsson is planning to build its first fully-automated smart factory in the US to produce advanced antenna system radios for rapid 5G deployments.

Australian semiconductor IoT start-up Morse Micro has secured $23.8 million in Series A funding to take its ultra low power Wi-Fi HaLow chip to mass production.

Australian battery manufacturer Redflow has decided to move the manufacturing headquarters for its zinc-bromine flow batteries from North America to Thailand.

After 1 year of solid development, the Sydney based start-up OrionVM has launched its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform into live production today (1st April 2011). Founded in early 2010 by three young like minded individuals, they had a dream of being the fastest Cloud Computing platform in Australia. One year and many sleepless nights later, they have done just that.