Last update: Friday 14 June 2013 [122 news items]
Quanta aiming to move all notebook production lines to Chongqing by 2014
Aug 16, 01:25
Quanta Computer is aiming to move all its notebook production lines except those for Apple's products to Chongqing, China within two years and estimates that its notebook shipments...
Taiwan OEMs may benefit from MILC orders in 2014
Jul 24, 01:35
As Canon has announced a new mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC) series - EOS M - to symbolize its entrance to the global MILC market, sources from Taiwan-based digital...
TV brands hope to profit off smart TV alliances
Jul 20, 12:02
TV brands hope to profit off smart TVs during the second half of the year by continuing to increase value-added functions as well as by forming a smart TV alliance, according to industry...

China TV brands to have 19% of global TV share by 2014
Jun 22, 11:48
China TV brands are estimated to have a 19% share of the global TV market by 2014 due to increasing LCD TV orders in China.
LED lighting demand for chips to exceed backlight units in 2014, says Lextar chairman
Jun 15, 15:44
LED lighting will become the main LED application in 2014, according to David Su, chairman of Taiwan-based LED firm Lextar.

Acer enters tier-3 to -5 cities in China
Jun 14, 01:30
Acer, starting 2012, is executing a three-year plan in China to expand its channel bases from tier-1 and -2 cities to tier-3 to -5 cities and is set to open new stores at a rate of...

Japan-based TV makers to mass produce large-size AMOLED panels in 2014
Jun 8, 16:16
Japan-based TV brands such Panasonic and Sharp will be mass producing large-size AMOLED panels as of 2014, giving them a platform to compete more with Korea-based AMOLED TV makers...
China Unicom aims at 30% of revenues from e-commerce services in 2014
May 18, 14:48
China Unicom, one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in China, plans to have its existing e-commerce platform become the largest of its retail channels, with a goal of having...
TSMC eyeing advanced process chip orders from Apple
May 2, 16:36
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) plans to ramp up 20nm production ahead of schedule have prompted industry sources to speculate that the foundry will be aggressively...
China wireless infrastructure investment to peak in 2014, says IHS
Apr 26, 01:00
Increasing expenditures on equipment intended to support the rollout of 4G LTE wireless services are expected to cause China's total spending on mobile infrastructure gear to peak...
Tablets to be 4th largest semiconductor market by 2014, says IHS
Mar 13, 11:26
Media tablets are expected to become the world's fourth-largest application for semiconductors in 2014, up from 35th in 2010, rising in just four short years from obscurity to a level...

Feb 21, 16:28
Taipei, Taiwan - Growing concerns about energy and emissions are driving a revolution in the lighting sector, according to a new report from Digitimes Research. Advances in technology...
LED lighting penetration rate to reach 10% in 2014
Feb 3, 12:15
The global lighting market output value reached US$92.2 billion in 2011, according to studies. Growth of the market was only 1% compared to 2010 due to economic woes in Europe and...

SuperSpeed USB-enabled device shipments to top one billion in 2014, says In-Stat
Jan 11, 15:02
SuperSpeed USB-enabled device shipments are on a fast track and will surpass one billion in 2014, up from 70 million in 2011, according to In-Stat.
Windows-on-ARM platform to join notebook competition in June 2013
Nov 29, 13:48
Windows on ARM (WoA), a combination of Windows 8 and ARM-based processors, is expected to make an official appearance at the end of 2012 and will try to compete in the notebook market...
Netgear aims at over 15% of revenues from Asia Pacific by 2014, says chairman
Nov 28, 11:09
Netgear, a California-based vendor of networking/communication equipment, aims at revenues of US$2.0 billion by 2014, with the proportion coming from the Asia Pacific market expected...
Pressure sensors to become top MEMS device by 2014, says IHS
Oct 28, 12:13
Pressure sensors will become the leading MEMS device by 2014, thanks to their relatively high prices and expanding use in a host of automotive, medical and industrial applications,...
PC gaming hardware market to reach US$27 billion in 2014, says JPR
Oct 25, 16:50
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has announced its latest figures on the PC gaming hardware market for the second half of 2011 and forecast to 2014.
NAND to surpass DRAM in sales in 2014, says analyst
Oct 18, 11:52
The NAND flash market is expected to expand over the next several years but the DRAM market will shrink. The former will surpass the latter in revenues in 2014, said Andrew Norwood,...
IDF 2011: Intel to enter 14nm process in 2014
Sep 15, 01:10
Intel CPUs will enter 14nm processing by 2014, according to Steven Smith, vice president and head of netbook, tablet PC business speaking at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Fran...
Corning reiterates US$10 billion sales goal
Sep 9, 12:33
Corning vice chairman and chief financial officer James B Flaws has reiterated that the company remains confident of achieving US$10 billion in worldwide sales by 2014, according...
IC production value to grow modestly through 2014, says ASE
Aug 30, 12:17
The production value of the global semiconductor industry will achieve a CAGR of at least 7% for 2011-2014, IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has commented, adding...
Chunghwa Telecom to deal out all net profit as cash dividend in 2014-2015, says chairman
Aug 29, 11:35
Chunghwa Telecom, viewing that its reserve of accumulated undistributed earnings is on the rise to attain its current paid-in capital of NT$77.574 billion in 2014-15 and then it will...
OLED TV panels infeasible in cost until 2014, says AUO vice president
Jul 28, 10:52
While LG Display plans to offer 55-inch OLED TV panels, the production cost of large-sized OLED panels for use in TVs is currently much higher than that of LCD TV panels due to too...
Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant expected to start running in 2014, says president Ma
Jul 26, 11:09
Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou, during an interview held jointly by Japan-based Daily Yomiuri and Nikkei, indicated that Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant located on the northeastern...
Planned launch of Nvidia 28nm and 22/20nm GPUs moved back to 2012 and 2014
Jul 8, 14:55
Despite Nvidia CEO Huang Jen-hsun previously saying that the company is set to announce its new 28nm GPU architecture at the end of 2011 and 22/20nm in 2013, sources from graphics...
DDR4 market not expected to take off until 2013 or 2014
Jun 29, 14:26
The global DDR4 market will not come into shape until 2013 or 2014, one to two years after industry leaders kick off commercial production based on 30nm process technology, according...
ASE aims at global market share of 25-30% in 2014
Jun 29, 01:00
IC packaging/testing service provider Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) aims to hike its global market share from 17-18% in 2010 to 25-30% in 2014, COO Tien Wu said at the...
Computex 2011: Nvidia CEO expects smart devices to outperform PCs after five years
May 31, 01:40
Commenting on the tablet PC market, Nvidia CEO Huang Jen-hsun, at a company's press conference in Taiwan, pointed out that consumers do not care whether their products use x86- or...

Rise of e-book readers to result in decline of book publishing business, says IHS iSuppli
Apr 29, 15:00
Marking a major inflection point, the book publishing industry has entered a period of long-term decline because of the rising sales of e-book readers, new IHS iSuppli research ind...
Digital camera market turning to CMOS sensors
Mar 2, 11:17
Shipments of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for digital still cameras (DSCs) are set for rapid growth over the next three years, allowing them to exceed...
Automotive IC market set to grow 12% in 2011, says IC Insights
Feb 24, 16:31
The rapid motorization of China and other emerging markets along with recovery in the US automotive market, coupled with growing demand for on-board electronics, will help propel...
LTE to overcome WiMAX and dominate 4G shipments, says IHS iSuppli
Feb 9, 14:23
Driven by widespread mobile network operator (MNO) adoption, the next-generation wireless technology known as long-term evolution (LTE) by 2014 will have more than nine times as many...
Tablet PCs to grow 200% to 55.7 million units in 2011, says DisplaySearch
Feb 8, 10:14
Momentum behind tablet (slate) PC shipments is growing, with an on-year increase of nearly 200% to 55.7 million units expected in 2011, according to DisplaySearch. Though growth rates...
Worldwide mobile application store revenue forecast to surpass US$15 billion in 2011, says Gartner
Jan 26, 16:43
Worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, a 117% increase from an estimated 8.2 billion downloads in 2010, according to Gartner...
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
LED | 7h 7min ago
Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
IT + CE | 7h 9min ago
Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
IT + CE | 7h 14min ago
Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
Bits + chips | 7h 36min ago
Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and PS4
Bits + chips | 7h 37min ago
Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
Displays | 8h 34min ago
LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
LED | 8h 44min ago
Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
Displays | 8h 50min ago
GSEO sees profits in 2012
Before Going to Press | 7h 30min ago
Acer positions Gateway and Packard Bell as mid-range/entry-level brands
Before Going to Press | 7h 48min ago
IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
Before Going to Press | 8h 52min ago
Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
Before Going to Press | 9h 18min ago
Innolux expects slowdown in TV panel shipments
Before Going to Press | 10h 15min ago
HTC to continue supplying HTC Butterfly after launch of HTC Butterfly S
Before Going to Press | 10h 23min ago
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- Open cell business model is a threat to BLU makers, says Radiant chairman
- Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
- Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Taiwan panel makers see increased orders for 5-inch qHD panels from China telecom operators
- Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
- JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
- MediaTek allocating more resources for development of tablet solutions
- China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
- Tablet IC sales to soar in 2013, says IC Insights
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- DRAM supply shortage to extend through 2015, says Inotera executive
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
- NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
- Analog IC vendors to see orders rebound in 2H13
- Sean Maloney joins SMIC as independent non-executive director
- Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
- Releases
- White papers
- Bulletin
- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
19-Jun-2013 markets closed
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row

Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...

Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...

Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...

Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- 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...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.

















