Handset solution vendors competing neck and neck in 3G smartphone market in China

Sep 13, 15:12

Demand for smartphone solutions in emerging markets, particularly in China, is gaining momentum, pushing chipset vendors to compete neck and neck to grab a large piece for the growing...

Asustek may have difficulties achieving 2011 notebook shipment goal

Jul 26, 01:30

Taiwan-based notebook vendor Asustek has achieved a strong performance in the tablet PC market, but may not be able to achieve its shipment goal of 20 million notebooks and netbooks...

MediaTek to increase investment in 3G, says chairman

Jul 19, 11:54

MediaTek will further strengthen its deployment in the global 3G chipset market by pouring more capital and resources into the development of platform products and application software,...

MediaTek to ship 3G solutions in August

Jul 13, 11:39

MediaTek has confirmed that it will begin to ship its HUSPA solution, the MT6573, to clients in August, but the company declined to comment on market speculations that it has landed...

ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo monopolize China Mobile procurement of 10 million 3G handsets, says report

Jul 8, 15:44

China-based vendors ZTE, Huawei Device and Lenovo have won China Mobile's latest procurement open bid to share the total supply volume of 10 million TD-SCDMA 3G handsets priced at...

China market: 3G users near 74 million in May

Jun 28, 10:40

The total number of 3G mobile subscribers in China kept increasing to 73.76 million as of the end of May 2011, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII...

Qualcomm likely to slash 30% off entry-level 3G solutions in next 9-12 months, says paper

Newswatch - Jun 16, 15:31

Qualcomm is likely to slash its prices for 3G smartphone solutions by 30% in the next 9-12 months in order to prevent other chipset makers from grabbing its share in the entry-level...

Spreadtrum acquires stake in UMTS/HSPA modem chipset developer

Jun 14, 14:28

Spreadtrum Communications, a major fabless semiconductor provider in China with technology in both 2G and 3G wireless communications standards, has announced that it acquired an approximately...

China market: 3G network investment totals CNY289 billion

Jun 14, 10:44

China Mobile, China United Telecommunications and China Telecom have cumulatively invested a total of CNY289 billion (US$43 billion) in setting up 3G networks consisting of 697,000...

MediaTek to embed Yahoo services in handset chips

Jun 2, 01:05

MediaTek has reached an agreement with Yahoo under which the IC designer will embed Yahoo's services into its chips targeting smartphones and 3G handsets, according to the companie...

Baseband processors still essential, says Petrov Group

May 3, 17:02

With the proliferation of tablets and smartphones application processors are in the limelight, but another group of mobile processors, basebands, deserve attention too, according...

China market: China Telecom offers HTC dual-mode 3G handset S710d

Apr 20, 12:25

Smartphone vendor HTC and China Telecom have unveiled HTC S710d, a customized 3G handset model for the carrier for immediate lunch in the China market, according to HTC.

Quanta Computer expected to see booming shipments of PlayBook

Apr 13, 15:53

RIM is internally optimistic about the marketability of its PlayBook tablet PC and therefore has placed large-volume orders for shipments in the second and third quarters of 2011...

MediaTek 1Q11 revenues down 12% sequentially

Apr 11, 11:42

Fabless IC firm MediaTek has announced NT$7.81 billion (US$270 million) in March 2011 revenues. The figure comes below market watcher estimates of over NT$8 billion. MediaTek's revenues...

Taiwan market: NCC asks operators to educate 3G Internet-access users about bandwidth

Mar 25, 16:29

Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC), in view of a fast increasing number of complaints about speeds of mobile Internet-access services filed by 3G users, has asked mobile...

Integrated mobile processors to challenge standalone application processors, says Petrov Group (part 2)

Mar 16, 12:19

Recently several handset IC companies have announced integrated mobile processors – products that integrate baseband processor and application processor together with graphics...

Taiwan market: TWM to expand 3G network to cope with growing use of smartphones

Mar 8, 01:40

Mobile telecom carrier Taiwan Mobile (TWM), in view of fast increasing mobile Internet-access traffic due to growing use of smartphones and tablet PCs, will add expand its 3G network...

China's wireless carriers double capital spending on 4G in 2011, says IHS iSuppli

Mar 4, 11:13

China's investment in the next-generation 4G wireless technology known as Long Term Evolution (LTE) is set to double in 2011 as the country's major telecom carriers move to upgrade...

CeBIT 2011: ECS to showcase tablet PCs

Feb 22, 01:15

Taiwan-based motherboard maker Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) is set to showcase its latest 10.1-inch Windows 7- and Android-based tablet PCs at CeBIT 2011, which will be hosted...

China sees 3G user base grow by over 36 million in 2010, says media

Feb 11, 11:49

The number of 3G subscribers in China increased 36.834 million to 47.052 million at the end of 2010, China-based IT Times cited the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

AzureWare to showcase 3G mobile devices at MWC

Feb 10, 01:50

Network equipment maker AzureWare Technology will showcase 3G mobile devices, including 3.5G HSPA dongle routers, tri-band mobile routers and 3G built-in SiP modules, at the upcoming...

Spreadtrum and TSMC achieve 3G TD-SCDMA baseband processor milestone

Jan 27, 16:55

Spreadtrum Communications and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have unveiled their achievement on the first commercialized 40nm TD-SCDMA baseband processor. First...

China market: China Unicom makes five million inexpensive 3G handsets available

Jan 18, 01:45

China United Telecommunications (China Unicom), the only WCDMA 3G operator in China, on January 15 made available as many as five million inexpensive WCDMA handsets for contract-bundled...

BenQ to launch a tablet PC by the end of January

Jan 3, 16:27

BenQ plans to launch its first tablet PC by the end of January, 2011. The device will adopt Android 2.0, a 10.1-inch panel and will be produced by Qisda.

Arcadyan to launch 3G femtocell and LTE routers in 1H11

Dec 30, 15:29

Taiwan-based networking/communication equipment maker Arcadyan Technology expects to begin shipments of 3G femtocells and LTE routers, mainly to telecom carriers in Europe, in the...

China government sets hard to reach 3G user base target, says report

Dec 24, 13:45

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) aims at 150 million subscribers of 3G communication services in the China market in 2011, a difficult goal viewing that...

White-box handset makers gearing up smartphone and 3G handset production, MediaTek to benefit

Dec 3, 14:12

White-box handset makers in China are gearing up their production of in-house designed smartphones and 3G handsets, a trend which will benefit Taiwan-based IC design house MediaTek...

China market: Taiwan 3G handset vendors facing increasing competition

Dec 2, 01:35

In China's 3G handset market, Taiwan-based vendors including HTC, Inventec Appliances, Asustek Computer and Acer, are facing increasing competition from China-based and international...

China market: 3G users top 38 million at end of October, says MIIT

Nov 25, 01:05

There were a total of 38.64 million subscribers of 3G mobile communication services in the China market as of the end of October 2010, according to statistics released by the Ministry...

Mag.Layers launches 3G antenna switch modules

Nov 19, 09:45

Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics has started small volume shipments of 3G antenna switch modules, and expects the new product segment to become the company's major growth driver in...

Handset testing becomes increasingly more complicated, says CGC executive

Nov 11, 13:53

With smartphones becoming functionally more powerful and supporting a growing list of communications standards, testing certification is increasingly more complicated, said Chen Hengzhong,...