Apple slashes parts and components orders for 4Q11, say sources

Nov 9, 12:19

Apple has informed upstream suppliers of parts and components for iPhone 4S to delay part of their shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 to the first quarter of 2012 as sales of...

Taiwan market: Government issues green light for iPhone 4S

Nov 4, 14:57

Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the sale of Apple's iPhone 4S in the local market, paving the way for telecom service providers to begin to offer the...

iPhone component suppliers expect shipment boost

Oct 6, 14:21

Apple's suppliers are expected to benefit from the newly launched iPhone 4S and an 8G version of iPhone 4, with global shipments of the overall iPhone products likely to exceed 100...

Android, Window Phone smartphone vendors to expand market share on disappointing iPhone 4S, say sources

Oct 6, 01:20

The newly released iPhone 4S lags behind some mainstream smartphones as far as specifications are concerned, giving rival companies in either the Android or Windows Phone camps, including...

Pegatron may see future iPhone 4S orders drop

Oct 6, 01:00

Pegatron Technology, despite already having landed orders for 10 million iPhone 4Ss from Apple, may see its future iPhone 4S order volumes start dropping as consumer demand for the...

Apple orders boost touch panel shipments, but margins are low

Aug 18, 16:07

Strong sales of Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad 2 have boosted orders for Taiwan's touch panel makers in third-quarter 2011, but the low quotes for these orders may hurt their profitability,...

Apple hikes 2H11 iPhone orders to over 56 million units

Aug 15, 10:31

Apple has upward adjusted the total order volume for iPhones, consisting of iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4 CDMA and iPhone 5, for the second half of 2011 by 12-13%, from 50 million...

Products adopting AMOLED panels to grow in 2H11

Jul 5, 01:25

Samsung has been the biggest supporter for AMOLED panels. Industry sources stated there will be numerous mobile phone vendors adopting AMOLED panels in the second half of the year...

Pegatron receives orders for 15 million iPhone 5s from Apple

Jul 5, 01:10

Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is estimated to have landed orders for 15 million iPhone 5s (iPhone 4S) from Apple and is set to start shipping in September of 2011,...

Apple LTE-enabled iPhone 4S unlikely to launch in 2011, say sources

May 18, 01:30

Apple is unlikely to launch LTE-enabled iPhone 4S smartphones in 2011 as originally planned due to problems concerning yield rates of LTE chips offered by Qualcomm, according to industry...

Apple lowers 2Q11 iPhone 4 shipment volume, say Taiwan makers

May 18, 01:10

Due to an inventory volume of 1.5-2 million units of iPhone 4 and the launch of iPhone 4S planned as early as September 2011, Apple has lowered its expected shipment volume of iPhone...

Supply chain may not be able to satisfy demand from Apple

May 12, 01:05

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reportedly facing a shortage of both labor and materials at its plants...

Motherboard players see mixed result in April

May 10, 01:25

Taiwan-based motherboard players including Asustek Computer, Pegatron Technology, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) have reported mixed result for their April...

Pegatron sees net losses in 1Q11

Apr 28, 01:20

Pegatron Technology has announced net losses of NT$559 million (US$19.38 million) for the first quarter of 2011 with EPS of negative NT$0.25 and gross margin of only 1.8%, all historical...

China Telecom awaits SIM card CDMA iPhone 4, says APT executive

Mar 10, 10:34

With the introduction of the CDMA iPhone 4, industry observers had expected China Telecom to become China's second telecom company to carry the Apple smartphone, but no official launch...

STMicro and TriQuint capitalize on iPhone and iPad MEMS design wins in 2010, says iSuppli

Feb 8, 12:26

Capitalizing on their design wins in Apple's iPhone 4 and iPad, semiconductor suppliers STMicroelectronics and TriQuint in 2010 achieved industry-leading growth in the global market...

MEMS market enters new growth cycle as iPhone 4 spurs demand, says iSuppi

Jan 27, 10:41

With the iPhone 4 paving the way, global demand for microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices in cell phones will rise robustly during the coming years, helping the total MEMS...

Genius Electronic turns profitable in 2010

Jan 26, 12:08

Optical lens modules maker Genius Electronic Optical has reported net profit of NT$443.2 million (US$13.5 million), or NT$5.68 per share for 2010, swinging to profits after continued...

White-box handset makers profiting CNY200 per knock-off iPhone 4

Jan 20, 16:01

Knock-off Apple iPhone 4 generates CNY200 (US$30.37) in per unit profit, according to a China Business News report.

CDMA iPhone to contribute strong sales to Foxconn and Pegatron in 2011

Jan 13, 01:15

Apple's CDMA iPhone orders could contribute about NT$1.9-2.1 billion (US$65.39-72.28 million) to each of its assembly partners, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and...

iPhone 4 turns up the volume for innovative MEMS microphone technology, says iSuppli

Dec 15, 11:39

Highlighted by their adoption in Apple's iPhone 4, microelectromechanical system (MEMS) microphones are set to achieve a more than 50% increase in shipments in 2010 and a fourfold...

China market: China Unicom to SIM-lock iPhone 4

Dec 7, 15:19

China Unicom, currently the only sales agent of iPhone 4 in the China market, plans to lock iPhone 4s to its SIM cards in a bid to prevent contract-bundled purchasers' reselling iPhone...

Largan November revenues hit record on strong smartphone lens module shipments

Dec 6, 09:42

Taiwan-based optical lens kit maker Largan Precision has reported unaudited consolidated revenues of NT$1.289 billion (US$42.0 million) for November, a new record for the sixth consecutive...

Genius Electronic October revenues hit record for fourth time straight

Nov 10, 01:30

Optical lens module maker Genius Electronic Optical generated historically highest consolidated revenues of NT$716 million (US$23.1 million) in October 2010 for the fourth time in...

Pegatron to begin volume production of CDMA iPhone 4 in November

Sep 24, 01:25

Pegatron Technology is expected to begin volume production of a CDMA-version iPhone 4 in November with total shipments likely to reach 3-4 million units in the first three months,...

Taiwan market: Carriers kick iPhone 4 sales

Sep 17, 11:18

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) have started selling iPhone 4 in the Taiwan market.

Taiwan market: Carriers CHT, FET and TWM to launch iPhone 4 on September 17

Sep 13, 13:45

Taiwan-based telecom carriers Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) and Taiwan Mobile (TWM) reportedly will begin selling Apple's iPhone 4 on September 17,...

Taiwan market: iPhone 4 to be launched in mid-September

Sep 6, 11:18

The Apple iPhone 4 is expected to be introduced in Taiwan around September 15, 2010, which is also the smartphone's official launch date in the China market, according to sources...

Taiwan market: HTC grabs almost 5% market share in July

Aug 25, 11:08

HTC's share of the Taiwan handset market in July reached a historical high at 4.9% by volume versus Apple's 2.3%, according to sources from Taiwan's handset distribution channel.

Kickback scandal will not affect OEM cooperation with Apple, says Pegatron

Aug 17, 14:08

Taiwan-based Pegatron Technology, in response to a Financial Times report that Kaedar Electronics, its wholly owned China-based maker of plastic components, was involved...

Genius Electronic sees increasing shipments of iPhone 4 lens modules

Aug 13, 11:58

Genius Electronic Optical, a Taiwan-based maker of optical lenses, saw shipments of 5-megapixel lens modules and VGA lens modules both used in iPhone 4 increase to account for 10%...

Apple to challenge top chip buyer in 2012, says iSuppli

Jul 22, 10:28

The phenomenal success of the iPad and iPhone is expected to make Apple the world's second-largest OEM semiconductor buyer in 2011, potentially positioning the company to become the...

Chip foundries and backend firms to operate under tight schedules in 3Q10

Jul 13, 16:14

Taiwan-based wafer foundries and IC packaging and testing houses, which have seen their in-house capacity fall short of customer demand since early 2010, will continue to operate...