Last update: Tuesday 16 April 2013 [49 news items]
Foxconn may set up Apple-dedicated production line in Brazil, says media
Mar 22, 02:10
Taiwan-based Foxconn is likely to establish a production line specifically for making Apple products in Jundiai City, Sao Paulo State, southeastern Brazil, China-based tech.sina.com...
Asia Optical to set up digital camera factory in Brazil
Feb 9, 10:32
Asia Optical plans to establish a digital camera plant in Brazil to tap the Latin America market, according to the company.
Clevo to increase notebook shipments to Brazil
Jan 3, 10:43
Clevo expects its monthly notebook shipments to rise to 150,000 units during the first quarter of 2011 mainly due to orders from three new channel clients in Brazil, according to...
Second-tier notebook makers may benefit from Brazil procurement orders
Dec 14, 02:05
As the Brazil government is set to cooperate with Linux operating system designer Mandriva and Intel to offer 1.5 million Mandriva-based Classmate PCs to local children and will have...
Regional notebook vendors facing pressure in Latin America
Nov 16, 02:00
Notebook shipments in Latin America had an annual growth of 33% in the third quarter of 2010 with Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer and Dell saw 40%, 31%, and 21% growth, respectively; however,...
To advance into Brazil, AUO and TPV to establish JV for LCM plant
Sep 20, 10:48
To provide closer services to customers and to develop the emerging market, AU Optronics (AUO) has announced plans to establish a joint venture LCD module (LCM) plant with TPV Technology,...
Entrance of first-tier notebook brands in emerging markets hurting second-tier makers
Jul 12, 11:58
As first-tier notebook brands Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer have both recently turned their sales focus to emerging markets such as China and Brazil, and are competing mainly over...
World Cup drives flat panel TV growth in Brazil, says DisplaySearch
Mar 3, 14:34
Following a multi-year decline in TV demand, the flat panel TV market is forecast to heat up in Brazil in the run-up to the World Cup this summer, as the Brazil TV market has experienced...
Shuttle expects desktop shipments to reach 300,000 units in 2010
Feb 5, 15:49
Shuttle expects its desktop shipments will grow from 200,000 units in 2009 to 300,000 units in 2010, according to chairman David Yu.
Acer expects BRIC to boost its PC shipments in 2010
Oct 29, 17:10
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci has said that strong demand from Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) markets will be major contributors to the company's PC shipment growth in 2010.

WiMAX growing in India, Russia, Brazil, says Infonetics Research
Aug 3, 17:10
India is the largest single-country WiMAX opportunity in the world, with most of the major operators actively pursuing WiMAX, such as BSNL, Tata Teleservices, and Bharti Airtel, according...
China makers to vie for ODM netbook orders at Computex
May 13, 16:19
China-based makers, including Haier, Founder, Tsinghua Tongfang, Hasee, Great Wall and Malata, will showcase netbook PCs at Computex Taipei 2009 (scheduled for June 2 through 6) in...
Arima Communications setting up handset plant in Brazil
Feb 26, 11:44
Taiwan-based handset maker Arima Communications is setting up a handset-manufacturing plant in Jundiai in the Brazilian state of San Paulo, with commercial production slated for April...
Clevo ships 130,000 notebooks in June, says paper
Newswatch - Jul 11, 15:13
With increasing demand from vendors in Brazil, Clevo's notebook shipments in June reached 130,000 units, bringing total shipments in the second quarter to 350,000 units. Shipments...
- 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

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.
















