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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...
- Taiwan IC suppliers to benefit as Samsung steps up purchases of IC parts
- MediaTek hikes 4G smartphone solution shipment target for 2014
- Silicon Motion looks to 15-20% sequential revenue growth in 3Q14
- Radiant Opto-Electronics nets NT$3.07 per share for 1H14
- HTC conservative about 3Q14
- Russia market: Smartphone competition heating up
- Solartech mulls shift of solar cell capacity abroad in response to US anti-dumping taxation
- UMC to ramp 28nm wafer capacity
- Young Optics 1H14 net profit down over 60% on year
- Unimicron net profits up significantly in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Promotion of HEMS appliances in Japan faces problems
- Vendors cutting notebook shipments to Latin America
- AUO expects 5-8% growth in 3Q14 small- to medium-size panel shipments
- Intel to see difficulties shipping 40 million tablet CPUs in 2014
- Taiwan PV makers hope to set floor prices in place of US anti-dumping tax
- Taiwan sets quality standards for LED light bulbs
- AUO reports staggering profit growth for 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan digital camera shipments in 2Q14 up 43.3% sequentially
- PCB/LCD equipment supplier Asia Neo Tech to debut on Taiwan OTC market
- Taiwan 2Q14 economic growth rate upward adjusted to 3.84%, says DGBAS
- Digitimes Research: China vendors ship over 101 million smartphones in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan ships 351.4 million small- to mid-size panels in 2Q14
- Macronix to start 8-inch OEM wafer business
- MediaTek 3Q14 revenues to grow 6-11% on quarter, say sources
- Taiwan market: InFocus to launch smartphone M810
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- Sharp pulls out of Italy to end overseas solar panel production (Jul 24) - Bloomberg
- BlackBerry looks to partnerships to compete with Apple and IBM venture (Jul 24) - Finacial Times
- Baidu to boost mobile investment after profit rises 34% (Jul 25)4 - Business Week
- Amazon reports big losses (Jul 24) - Forbes
- 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
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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 tablet demand forecast
This report analyzes the main players, their strategies and shipments forecasts for 2014, as well as other factors contributing to either growth or decline in various segments within the tablet market, with a particular focus on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft, along with whitebox vendors.