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Turning a smartphone into a PC in a pocket: Q&A with Analogix
Tuesday 10 June 2014
According to a recent IDC research note, the transition toward mobile and cloud-based computing is unstoppable, with tablet volumes expected to pass total PC volume in the fourth quarter of 2014 and on an annual basis in...
Time ripe for development of smart peripherals: Q&A with Arima Communications president Owen Chen
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Smartphone ODM Arima Communications has decided to expand its product lines to include tablets, smart accessories and other new products, optimizing its platform development expertise gained from the smartphone sector and...
Make good products and growth will come naturally: Q&A with Gigabyte notebook team
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Despite being one of the market leaders in the motherboard and graphics card industries, Gigabyte Technology is relatively unknown as a notebook player. Digitimes recently sat down with Richard Ma, Gigabyte Senior Vice...
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Asustek Computer's Zenbooks, Transformer tablets and the Nexus 7 have helped expand its brand recognition, raising its share in the North America notebook market from 7% in the second quarter of 2012, to 8% in the third...
From hardware vendor to turnkey solution provider: Q&A with Shuttle
Wednesday 6 June 2012
The PC hardware industry has begun to evolve rapidly in recent years. The emergence of various hardware and software solutions and platforms has enabled hardware players to differentiate their products by venturing into...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
As iPad is expected to account for close to 60% of the global tablet PC market, while Apple has also launched iBook 2 and iBook Author to compete in the educational market, bringing strong pressure on its competitors such...
Looking to ride mobile computing wave: Q&A with Kingston co-founder David Sun
Monday 20 June 2011
Kingston Technology's revenues hit a record high of US$6.5 billion for 2010, representing a 58.5% on-year growth. However, high sales do not necessarily mean profits are high as well, company co-founder David Sun pointed...
The new frontier in mobile computing: Q&A with Qualcomm EVP Steve Mollenkopf
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Current trends in mobile devices have substantially changed how we think about computing in general, and looking at the market shows that these tectonic shifts will affect the entire supply chain, from semiconductor providers...
Acer aims at largest global market share for tablet PCs in 2-3 years, says CEO
Friday 26 November 2010
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci, at a press conference for Taiwan-based media in New York, stressed that faced with increasing competition for tablet PCs in the global market, Acer takes a fearless attitude and will avail itself...
Toward increased mobility: Q&A with ARM president Tudor Brown
Wednesday 24 November 2010
More than 20 billion ARM-powered processors have been shipped by semiconductor and system companies worldwide over the past 20 years, and the number is expected to top 100 billion in the next decade, according to ARM president,...
Broadcom talks about growing opportunities in wireless
Friday 4 June 2010
Michael Hurlston, senior vice president and general manager for the Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit at chip specialist Broadcom recently sat down with Digitimes to share his outlook for the wireless networking...
- Samsung teams up with Taiwan universities to push app development
- Digitimes Research: January-May handset shipments in China market down 28% on year
- Global UHD TV shipments may reach 20 million units in 2014, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments to grow 4.3% sequentially in 3Q14
- NMT process gaining popularity in smartphone industry
- Taiwan makers can tolerate 15-20% US anti-dumping rates for PV modules
- Unity Opto expected to ship 20 million LED light bulbs in 2014, says paper
- Compeq looks to strong revenue gains in 3Q14 on growing HDI board orders
- Advantech partners with Hiwin for robot business
- Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of over US$1.9 billion in January-June, says MOEA
- Taiwan Polysilicon may be unable to obtain syndicated loan
- Wind power will deliver more than 7% of world's electricity by 2018, says Navigant
- TV panel pricing remains flat in July except for 32-inch units, says DisplaySearch
- Taiwan market: HTC launches HTC One (E8); to release more low-priced models in 2H14
- JDI begins IPS-NEO panel production
- Foxconn to set production lines for green handsets
- Taiwan sees increased June export order value, says MOEA
- NSP subsidiary unveils PV system at southern Taiwan farm
- Taiwan market: 1.1 million LCD TVs to be sold in 2014, says Chimei
- PCB maker Gold Circuit to swing back to profitability in 2014
- Commentary: TSMC should support MediaTek to counter Samsung-Qualcomm alliance
- Solartech, Giga Solar to set up PV power stations in Japan, says paper
- LED luminaires and lamps for high-bay lighting applications to reach US$7 billion in annual revenues by 2021, says Navigant
- Asia Pacific PC market comes in close to expectations in 2Q14, says IDC
- India market: Mobile platform providers to ramp up market share by tying up with local smartphone vendors
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- China's Huawei reports 19% jump in sales (Jul 21) - BBC News
- Samsung SDI's suspension of plasma production a plus for earnings: analysts (Jul 2) - Yonhap News
- Facebook to acquire LiveRail (Jul 2) - Company release
- Company acquires WiGig industry leader Wilocity (Jul 2) - Company release
- Foreign investment into China falls in May (Jun 17) - BBC News
- Court confirms Intel's record-breaking EUR1.06 billion fine - Ars Technica
- Broadcom to explore strategic alternatives for cellular baseband business (Jun 2) - Company release
- Sharp shares rise as it returns to profit (May 13) - BBC News
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- Digitimes Research: On-cell touch panels unlikely to win favor in high-end smartphones in 2014
- Digitimes Research: Hisilicon AP to give Huawei cost advantage in high-end mobile device market
- Commentary: Panel makers need to be more active in developing products
- Digitimes Research: Google looking to clean up Android device mess in emerging markets
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Differentiation is the core advantage: Q&A MediaTek president Hsieh Ching-chiang
MediaTek has taken up to 60% of the 3G handset solution market in China, pushing the market value of...
AMD pushing ARM/x86-compatibility for server business, says senior VP Lisa Su
AMD has been reorganizing its businesss, such as moving its desktop business headquarters to Beijing,...
Intel prepared for emerging industries, says company president Renee James
Intel president Renee James, during a recent interview, told Digitimes that the company and its partners...
Turning a smartphone into a PC in a pocket: Q&A with Analogix
According to a recent IDC research note, the transition toward mobile and cloud-based computing is...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2014 global high brightness LED market, trends and shipment forecast
For the global LED lighting market, the market size will reach US$25.82 billion in 2014 or a market penetration rate of 23.4%. This is attributable to exponential shipment growth for light bulbs, tubes, and directional lamps.
- Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015
This Special Report provides forecasts through 2015 for Greater China touch panel shipments with breakdowns based on technology (glass, film, resistive), application (smartphone, NB and tablet) and by firm.
- 2014 global smartphone market forecast
This Special Report will provide in-depth analyses to forecast whether global smartphone shipments in 2014 will maintain a growth similar to that of 2013 and what the global shipment scale will reach in 2014.