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Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship less than 7 million digital cameras in 1Q13 Betty Shyu, DIGITIMES Research, Taipei [Friday 25 January 2013] Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical will ship 6.508 million digital cameras in total in the first quarter of 2013, decreasing 14.2% on quarter and 36.3% on year, Digitimes Research predicts. In terms of image sensors, 56.6% of the shipments will be of 16-megapixel CCD models, 22.5% of 16-megapixel CMOS models and 15.0% of 14-megapixel CCD models, according to Digitimes Research. Nikon will be the largest client accounting for 42.85% of the shipments, followed by Fujifilm's 18.56%, Sony's 10.91%, Casio's 9.65%, Olympus' 7.97% and Pentax's 2.55%. Ability Enterprise will account for 53.7% of the shipments, Altek 25.41%, Foxconn 17.96% and Asia Optical 2.92%. Related stories: Digital camera makers see 1Q13 revenues down on year (Apr 9) Ability Enterprise expects 2013 digital camera shipments to drop by 15-20% (Mar 11) Altek expects 10-20% sequential drop in 1Q13 revenues (Feb 27) Digitimes Research: Taiwan 4Q12 digital camera shipments hit 15-quarter low (Jan 22) Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to see 12.3% decrease in 2013 digital camera shipments (Nov 19) Digitimes Research: Taiwan 2012 digital camera shipments to drop 21% on year (Sep 4) Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers 2H12 digital camera shipments to fall 21.7% on year (Jul 23) Top |