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Handset vendor descriptions - Jun 2007
Last update: Monday 16 July 2007
The leading handheld device manufacturers in Taiwan come from many areas of the IT industry, ranging from companies focused solely on handsets and PDAs, such as High Tech Computer...
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Taiwan handset overview for 2005 - Jun 2006
Last update: Wednesday 2 August 2006
Worldwide mobile phone shipments totaled 825.5 million units in 2005, up 16.7% from 707.3 million in 2004, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC's) Worldwide...
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Table of contentsTable 1: Shipments and market share of top-five global handset vendors (million units)
Chart 1: Taiwan handset shipments (million units), 2002-2005
Chart 2: Taiwan’s share of global handset shipments, 2002-2005
Chart 6: Taiwan handset shipment share by price point, 1Q05-2Q06
Chart 8: Shipment proportion of top-3 Taiwan hanset makers, 1Q05-1Q06
Chart 9: Transmission technology of Taiwan's handset shipments, 2003-2005
Chart 10: Taiwan handset shipments by handset type, 2003-2005
Chart 11: Taiwan handset shipment breakdown by main display colors, 2003-2005
Chart 12: Taiwan handset shipment breakdown by camera resolution, 2004-2005
Chart 13: Siemens AG's global handset market share, 2003-2005
Table 3: Strategic targets for Taiwan handset makers in 2006
Chart 14: Global market forecast for 2/2.5G and 3G handset shipments, 2004-2009
Chart 15: Worldwide converged mobile device shipment share by OS, 2004-2009
Table 6: Worldwide converged mobile device shipment forecast by OS (k units)
Chart 16: Taiwan smartphone/PDA phone shipments by OS, 1Q03-4Q05
Chart 17: Smartphone/PDA phone shipments from Taiwan-based manufacturers, 1Q04-4Q05
Table 8: Shipments of Taiwan-based GPS-enabled
handheld device specialists (k units)Table 9: Net income of Taiwan handset component suppliers by industry

Handset vendor descriptions - Jun 2006
Last update: Thursday 27 July 2006
The leading handheld device manufacturers in Taiwan come from many areas of the IT industry.
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Table of contentsTable 1: Net income of leading Taiwan-based handheld device manufacturers (NT$m)
Table 2: Quarterly shipments of Taiwan-based handset makers (k units)
Table 4: New models by own-brand handset makers in Taiwan, 2004
Table 12: Compal Communications, handset models launched from 1999-2004
Table 18: Summary of HTC Universal 3G PDA phone launch worldwide
Chart 1: Revenue for Mitac's digital portable division (NT$m)
Chart 2: Revenue contribution of Mitac's digital portable division

Taiwan PDA and handset industry overview - May 2005
Last update: Monday 16 May 2005
The leading handheld device manufacturers in Taiwan come from many areas of the IT industry. From companies focused solely on handsets and PDAs, such as High Tech Computer (HTC) and...
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Table of contentsTable 5: Taiwan handset shipments and market share 2000-2005 (million units)
Table 6: Taiwan handset industry, 2003-2004 quarter shipments (million units)
Table 7: Taiwan handset industry, 1H handset shipments (million units) and shipment value (US$m)
Table 8: Taiwan handset market, unit sales in 2004 (million units)
Table 9: Taiwan handset makers, 2004 and 2005 handset shipments (thousand units)
Table 10: New models by own-brand handset makers in Taiwan in 2004
Table 11: Taiwan handset makers, 2003 and 2004 shipments (million units)
Table 12: Camera phones of total phone sales in 2002, 2003 and 2004 forecast
Table 14: Handset vendors announce first megapixel camera phones to be launched in 2H
Table 15: Taiwan market, camera phones with a 2- or 3.2-megapixel camera in 2005
Table 16: Taiwan handset industry, shipment contributions in 1Q and 2Q
Table 19: Taiwan PHS handset makers, major clients and 2003 shipments (million units)
Table 20: Demand for dual-mode cellular/WLAN phones (thousand units)
Table 21: Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), proportion of 3G subscribers
Table 23: South Korea, 3G users by June04 (million subscribers)
Table 26: Worldwide handset shipments 2001-2008 (million units)
Table 27: Worldwide smartphone production forecast (thousand units)
Table 28: Global smartphone shipments 2004-2008 (million units)
Table 32: PDA makers, 2003 ~ 2005 customers and shipments (million units)
Table 34: Taiwan handset component makers, planned dividends for 2004
Table 35: Taiwan handset makers and mobile system solution providers
Table 38: Worldwide white-LED demand for handset-use applications (thousand units)
Table 40: Epistar, blue-LED chip shipments by handset applications (million units)
Table 41: Shipments of blue LEDs used in handset flashes and LCD panels (million units)
Table 43: Taiwan SMD-LED makers, quarterly SMD-LED shipments (million units)
Table 44: Taiwan SMD-LED makers, Shipment proportions by blue- and white-SMD-LED segments
Table 46: Taiwan handset industry, shipment contributions in 1Q and 2Q
Table 51: Taiwan PCB makers, 2002-2003 shipments (million units) and market share
Table 53: Leading handset vendors, shipment proportion by regional industry
Table 54: Global handset PCB shipments in 2004 and 2005 forecast (million units)
Table 55: Ichia, monthly capacity at Taiwan and China plants (square feet)
Table 58: Global image-sensor market, 2003-2008 forecast (million units)
Table 59: Global top 10 companies revenue from shipments of image sensor (US$m)
Table 63: Worldwide crystal and oscillator forecast 2001-2008 (US$m)
Table 64: Arima, quarterly handset shipments (million units)
Table 72: BenQ, worldwide mobile-phone shipments (million units)
Table 78: Compal Communications, handset models launched from 1999-2003
Table 79: Compal Communications, quarterly handset shipments (thousand units)
Table 80: Compal Communications, full-year shipments (million units)
Table 82: Compal, March and April shipments by products (thousand units)
Table 84: Dbtel, own-brand handset sales in 2001-2004 (thousand units)
Table 93: Inventec Appliances, existing plants in China and Taiwan
Table 97: Lite-On Technology December consolidated revenues by product line
Table 101: Mitac, proportion revenues by products, Jan-Mar 2004

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- Taiwan handset overview - Jun 2010
The global handset market did not have a banner year in 2009, with overall shipments of 1.167 billion units representing a drop of 3.2% from the previous year,...
- Taiwan handset industry overview - Jun 2008
The use of handsets continues to grow around the world, both in mature and emerging markets, as the communication devices become ever more ingrained in people's...
- Taiwan handset overview - Jun 2007
Global handset shipments topped 977 million units in 2006, according to Digitimes Research, with Taiwan-based handset makers accounting for 14% of the market on...
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The rise of China smartphone brands
China-based vendors have been aggressive in rolling out new smartphones.
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
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Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.

















