Last update: Thursday 14 March 2013 [108 news items]
Adlink sees on-year growth in 2012 revenues
Mar 14, 11:15
Industrial PC (IPC) maker Adlink Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.6 billion (US$188.52 million) for 2012, up 11.77% on year, but the company's net profit dropped...
IPC maker Firich to enjoy revenue and profit growths in 2013
Jan 28, 23:08
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Firich Enterprise expects to enjoy strong revenue and profit growth in 2013, as the company has recently formed a cooperation with gambling...
Advantech expected to achieve 15% on-year revenue growth in 2013
Dec 27, 13:44
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) player Advantech is expected to enjoy 15% on-year revenue growth in 2013, according to market watchers.
Flytech to expand distribution network in China
Dec 25, 13:58
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) player Flytech Technology recently signed a contract with China-based channel retailer China National Electronic Devices for the retailer to handle...

ICP Electronics to see growing revenues in 2H12
Aug 8, 16:07
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) player ICP Electronics expects its revenues in the second half of 2012 to see growth compared to the first, while the company will also achieve sequential...
MSI to launch a slide ultrabook in 4Q12 with a price of US$799
Jun 25, 16:13
Micro-Star International (MSI) is set to launch an 11.6-inch slide ultrabook, Ultrabook Slider S20, combining ultrabook and tablet PC functions together with a weight of about 1.3kg...
Advantech maintains goal of challenging US$1 billion revenues for 2012
Jun 14, 14:02
Although the IT market had been seriously affected by global economic turmoil, as the situation began turning positive in May, industrial PC (IPC) player Advantech will maintain its...
Rumblings of tight Intel Pineview supply in IPC supply chain
May 29, 01:35
Intel's Atom D525 (Pineview) processor, which has been adopted in industrial PC (IPC) products such as point of sales (POS), digital signage, gambling machines and industrial automation...
Adlink reports growth in revenues, but drop in profits
Feb 23, 15:28
Taiwan-based IPC player Adlink Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.01 billion (US$169.38 million) for 2011, up 9.23% on year, but the company's net profits dropped...
ASRock steps in ODM production of IPC motherboards
Feb 22, 01:35
ASRock has stepped into production of industrial PC motherboards on an ODM basis, according to the company.

IPC maker Ibase establishes subsidiary for game machines
Jan 5, 11:44
IPC maker Ibase Technology has established a subsidiary to handle the development of gaming machines. The new subsidiary, established in December 2011 with a capital of about NT$190...
Advantech takes full control of Advansus
Jan 4, 16:03
Taiwan-based industrial PC maker Advantech has announced that it has acquired Pegatron Technology's 50% stake in Advansus Computer to take full control of the joint venture.
IPC player Ibase spends NT$347 million to expand capacity
Sep 20, 01:35
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) player Ibase announced it will spend NT$347 million (US$11.63 million) to purchase land property and production plants in Taiwan to expand its capacity...
IPC maker Advantech posts high EPS in 1H11
Aug 19, 11:46
Industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech has announced net profits of NT$1.87 billion (US$64.57 million) or an EPS of NT$3.40 for the first half of 2011 with revenues of NT$9.5 billion...
IPC maker Adlink posts EPS of NT$1.63 for 1H11
Aug 12, 12:34
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Adlink Technology has announced net profits of NT$223 million (US$7.68 million) or an EPS of NT$1.63, on consolidated revenues of NT$2.57 billion...
Rugged handheld computer maker Unitech looks to strong sequential revenue growth in 2Q11
Jun 17, 15:19
Rugged handheld computer maker Unitech Electronics is expected to post revenues of NT$599 million (US$20.78 million) in the second quarter of 2011, up 27.9% sequentially, buoyed by...
Posiflex steps into medical care services through cooperation with 55Tone
Apr 29, 10:58
Posiflex Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of own-brand POS (point of sale/service) systems/devices, has developed interactive terminal devices for medical care of elderly people through...
Adlink sees on-year growth in 1Q11 revenues
Apr 28, 16:36
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Adlink Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$1.21 billion (US$42.18 million) for the first quarter of 2011, down 2.18% sequentially,...
Flytech to deal out 2010 dividend of NT$5.5
Stockwatch - Apr 27, 11:16
Flytech Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of POS (point of sale/service) systems and devices, will distribute a dividend of NT$5.5 - NT$4.5 in cash and NT$1.0 in stock - for 2010,...
Advantech sees over 40% on-year revenues growth in 1Q11
Apr 12, 13:58
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech has announced revenues of NT$1.86 billion (US$63.93 million) for March 2011, a new monthly high, and helping the company achieve on-year...
IPC maker Adlink sees strong results in 2010
Mar 3, 16:49
Taiwan-based industrial PC maker (IPC) Adlink Technologies has announced consolidated revenues of NT$4.58 billion (US$155.21 million) for 2010, up 71.53% on year, with net profit...
IPC maker Advantech posts EPS over NT$6 for 2010
Feb 25, 16:47
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech has posted net profits of NT$3.04 billion (US$102.77 million) for 2010, increasing 73% from a year earlier. The earnings translated...
IC distributor Promate saw 2010 pre-tax profit slip 2.75%
Feb 15, 01:10
IC distributor Promate Electronics saw its 2010 unaudited pre-tax profit slip 2.75% from 2009 to NT$495 million (US$16.87 million), and posted EPS of NT$2.25, the same as 2009.
Axiomtek resumes export activities following successful appeal
Feb 9, 16:04
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Axiomtek has resumed its export activities starting February 7, 2011 after the company appealed to The Board of Foreign Trade under Taiwan's...
AMD introduces APU for embedded market
Jan 20, 12:21
AMD has announced immediate availability of the new AMD G-series accelerated processing unit (APU) for embedded systems. The AMD G-series, based on AMD Fusion technology, delivers...

IPC maker Axiomtek suffers 6-month export ban
Jan 12, 17:03
The Board of Foreign Trade under Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has decided to prohibit Taiwan-based industrial PC maker Axiomtek from exporting its products for six months,...
Software designers partner with Taiwan IPC players to enter China market
Jan 4, 02:05
Several US-based software designers such as SCALA, BroadSign and Omnivex are cooperating with Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) players to enter China's digital signage and security...
IPC maker Advantech to set up second headquarters in Taiwan
Dec 31, 15:01
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech has decided to invest NT$1.51 billion (US$51.48 million) to build a second headquarters in Taiwan. The new headquarters will serve...
IC distributor Promate conservative about 2011
Dec 28, 02:00
IC distributor Promate Electronics expects orders from the European and the US industrial PC (IPC) and LED lighting sectors to be the main profit growth driver in 2011. However, due...
Dec 23, 01:55
IPC maker Adlink Technologies has responded to reports it is considering pushing solid state drive (SSD) related product lines saying that its SSD product lines will be mainly to...
Asustek subsidiary to take up 100% stake in IPC maker Aaeon
Dec 10, 01:05
The board of directors of Asustek Computer approved on December 9 a plan to take up 100% of the outstanding common shares of IPC maker Aaeon Technology via a subsidiary which will...
New Memoright SSD for IPC features military-grade security mechanisms
Nov 26, 11:24
Taiwan-based Memoright has introduced new industrial PC (IPC)-use solid-state drives (SSD) with military-grade security features.

IPC makers post strong on-year revenue gains in September
Oct 8, 02:25
Most industrial PC (IPC) makers posted strong on-year revenue gains in September 2010 thanks to increasing business capital spending and demand for automation. The number one supplier...
Lanner announces embedded system with 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports for vision control applications
Sep 23, 14:28
Lanner Electronics has released the LEC-2026, an embedded system with a specialized focus on network capabilities. The LEC-2026 is driven by the N270 Intel Atom CPU and the Intel...
Mass shipments of Intel E600-based IPCs to start in 1Q11 at the earliest
Sep 16, 13:43
Although Intel recently released its latest Atom E600 series processor for the embedded market, mass shipments of related industrial PCs (IPCs) are unlikely to start until the first...
- 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 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.
- 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.























