Last update: Tuesday 19 March 2013 [16 news items]
Commercial TV viewing weak in Australia as streaming goes mainstream, says Roy Morgan Research
Mar 19, 18:28
Viewers in Australia are increasingly switching off live commercial TV and finding new ways to watch their shows, according to research firm Roy Morgan research. The proportion of...
Business tablet market to grow by more than 50% in Australia in 2013, says Roy Morgan Research
Mar 19, 18:23
The proportion of businesses in Australia using tablets is set to increase to 31% (from 23% currently) in the next 12 months, with the number of tablets in business use growing by...
Taiwan government helps domestic firms enter Australia solar market
Mar 19, 15:35
Taiwan's Bureau of Energy has invited the Australian Solar Council and representatives from large-size engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firms to join an investment...
Digitimes Research: Australia solar market to boom in 2012 as carbon tax system takes effect
Jul 19, 12:30
Australia is an ideal location to develop solar PV systems due to the abundance of sunshine hours. Since 2008, various states in Australia have been providing high feed-in-tariff...
Asia Pacific solar PV markets soar 165% in 2011, says Solarbuzz
Jan 30, 10:59
Asia Pacific photovoltaic (PV) markets continue to surge ahead of expectations, installing 2.8GW in fourth-quarter 2011 and a total of 6GW in fiscal year 2011. The region as a whole...
Asustek sets shipment goal for 2012
Dec 6, 01:35
Asustek Computer, at its global sales meeting on December 5, has set the shipment goals for its four major product lines for 2012 with notebooks and netbooks together to surpass 22...
Acer to supply notebooks to students in Australia
Dec 1, 14:39
Acer Australia has won a Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) tender to supply notebooks for round three of the National Secondary School Computer Fund. This contract...
Asustek and Acer quibble over notebook vendor rankings in China and Europe
Nov 1, 01:00
Asustek Computer, citing figures from research firm IDC, pointed out that the company's notebook shipments in China have already surpassed Acer and it has become the second largest...
AUO sponsors Apollo VI with high-efficiency solar cells in World Solar Challenge
Oct 13, 15:33
AU Optronics (AUO) has announced that the company is one of the main sponsors of Apollo VI, a solar car created by Taiwan's National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences. Apollo...
Trina Solar forms strategic partnership with Origin Energy Australia
Aug 18, 11:31
Trina Solar, an integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from ingots to modules, has announced that through its subsidiary, Trina Solar Australia, it has signed...
Synnex becomes IMB server sales agent in Australia
Jul 5, 10:31
Synnex Technology International, a Taiwan-based electronics distributor, on July 4 announced that its wholly owned subsidiary in Australia has obtained a sales agent right for IBM's...
Media tablet shipments to double in 2011, Android to triple in Australia and New Zealand, says IDC
Jul 1, 16:43
After a strong end to 2010 and in anticipation of new device launches, media tablet shipments across Australia and New Zealand shrank by 34% on quarter to slightly above 200,000 units...
HTC WP7 smartphones selling well in Europe, Australia, say Taiwan makers
Nov 3, 09:49
HTC is seeing better than expected sales for its Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) smartphones in Europe and Australia, with the HD7 introduced by O2 in Germany and 7 Mozart by Telestra...
Transcend lands distribution rights for Samsung memory cards
Oct 21, 12:03
Transcend Information has announced it has obtained rights from Samsung Electronics to distribute Samsung-brand memory cards in the Taiwan market. Transcend has also secured sole...
Taiwan solar cell maker Sunrise Global forms technology partnership with Australian university
Apr 28, 11:55
Sunrise Global Solar Energy (SGSE), a Taiwan-based maker of monocrystalline silicon solar cells, will cooperate with a research unit of Australia's New South Wales (NSW) University...
HTC and SingTel jointly unveil Android-powered HTC Dream handset in Singapore and Australia
Feb 5, 15:55
HTC (High Tech Computer) and Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) on February 5 jointly unveiled the first Android-powered mobile phone, the HTC Dream, in Singapore and Australia...
HTC introduces Desire Android-based smartphone
HTC Desire, a Android smartphone, is designed with a 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA display and powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The device is also Adobe Flash 10.1 ready. As with the...
Photo: Company, Feb 24.
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and HTC has unveiled the first Android-powered mobile phone for the Asia market, the HTC Dream. The Android-powered mobile device will be available...
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- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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- DIGIEVER partnership with EverFocus for better professional network surveillance solutions
- Advantech Introduces New 18" and 21" Widescreen Multitouch Panel PCs
- Digital Network Fuels Opportunities in Vehicle Surveillance Market
- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
- 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
- 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
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
- Chilisin sunken-type molded power inductor for MXM Graphic application
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- 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
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
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...
- 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.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
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.