Last update: Monday 13 May 2013 [90 news items]
Taiwan makers ship over 18 million digital cameras in 3Q09, says Digitimes Research
Oct 27, 11:54
Taiwan-based digital camera makers shipped 18.37 million units in the third quarter of 2009, a rise of 103.2% on quarter and 27.1% on year, according to Digitimes Research. However,...
Ability Enterprise sees strong revenues in September
Oct 7, 11:00
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Ability Enterprise has reported unaudited record revenues of NT$4.962 billion (US$153 million) for September 2009.
Altek, Ability Enterprise may receive Fujifilm DSC orders for India
Oct 5, 11:21
Japan-based vendor Fujifilm, which is beefing up sales promotion of its digital cameras in India to hike its market share from the present 5% to 15% as soon as possible, may release...
Digital camera makers Ability and Altek report 2009 revenue highs in August
Sep 8, 11:16
Ability Enterprise and Altek, two of the three largest Taiwan-based digital camera makers, on September 7 reported unaudited consolidated revenues of NT$3.516 billion (US$107 million)...
Ability Enterprise looks to ship nine million digital cameras in 2H09, says president
Aug 7, 11:21
Ability Enterprise expects to ship nine million digital cameras during the second half of 2009, increasing by 73.1% from the first half and by 20% from the second half of 2008, according...
Digital camera makers Ability Enterprise, Altek expected to obtain additional orders from Fujifilm
Jul 28, 10:38
Fujifilm has increased its fiscal 2009 (April 2009-March 2010) sales target from 8.3 million units originally to at least 9.0 million due to a better than expected sales performance,...
Digitimes Insight: Sony to expand DSC outsourcing in Taiwan
Jul 21, 10:11
Recent movement in the outsourcing market appears to indicate that Sony plans to source more of its digital still cameras (DSCs) from Taiwan contract manufacturers.
Altek, Ability Enterprise expected to benefit from Fujifilm bid in India digital camera market
Jun 12, 11:39
Japan-based digital camera vendor Fujifilm plans to boost its market share in India from the current 3% to 15% in three years, and thus is expected to release more ODM orders to Ability...
Altek ranked as top digital camera maker in 2008
Jun 12, 10:55
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek ranked as the world's number one ODM digital camera maker with shipments of 13.17 million accounting for a 22.9% share in 2008, the company...
Digital camera maker Ability Enterprise sees decreased revenues in May
Jun 9, 10:46
Ability Enterprise, a Taiwan-based digital camera maker, has reported revenues of NT$2.51 billion (US$77 million) for May, representing a drop of 7.71% on month and a drop of 1.57%...
Ability suffers on-year revenue drop in April due to component shortages
May 7, 10:51
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Ability Enterprise on May 6 reported revenues of NT$2.71 billion (US$81 million) for April, rising by 16.02% on month but dropping by 6.05% on yea...
Ability Enterprise raises 2Q09 digital camera shipment target
Apr 29, 10:30
Ability Enterprise, one of the three largest Taiwan-based digital camera makers, has raised its shipment forecast for the second quarter of 2009 by 5-10% to 3.15-3.2 million units...
Ability Enterprise forecasts decrease in 1H09 OEM digital camera shipments
Stockwatch - Mar 9, 11:44
Ability Enterprise, one of the top three Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera makers, expects to ship two million and three million digital cameras in the first and second quarters...
DSC and lens kit makers suffer revenue drops in January
Feb 9, 10:21
Altek, Ability Enterprise and Asia Optical, three of four main Taiwan-based makers of digital cameras, as well as Largan Precision, a Taiwan-based maker of optical lens kits, have...
Taiwan maker Ability Enterprise to land over 70% of Fujifilm's digital camera OEM orders, says paper
Newswatch - Jan 20, 16:38
Ability Enterprise, one of the top-three Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, will obtain more than 70% of Fujifilm's outsourced production of digital cameras in 2009,...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability suffer drops in October revenues
Nov 10, 14:48
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise recently reported revenues for October 2008, with respective figures slipping on month and on year.
Largan hits record consolidated revenues, Altek sees large growth on month in September
Stockwatch - Oct 6, 11:08
Largan Precision, a Taiwan-based maker of optical lens kits, and Altek, one of the top-four Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on October 3 reported their financial results...
Taiwan maker Ability Enterprise lowers 2008 digital camera shipment goal
Sep 10, 12:02
Ability Enterprise, the third largest Taiwan-based ODM/OEM maker of digital cameras currently, has downwardly adjusted its 2008 target shipment volume from 15.0 million digital cameras...
Ability Enterprise and Altek see August consolidated revenues up from July
Sep 8, 11:23
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera makers, Ability Enterprise and Altek, on September 5 reported consolidated revenues for August 2008, respectively hiking by 42.2% and 29.9% on...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek, Ability Enterprise see July consolidated revenues up on year
Aug 11, 11:39
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two of the top three Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on August 8 reported self-estimated consolidated revenues for July 2008, recording...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
- EverFocus launches ECOR960 X1 16CH with better image quality and more affordable price
- 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
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- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
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- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
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- 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
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN

Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...

Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...

MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...

Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- 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.

















