Last update: Thursday 30 May 2013 [270 news items]
Taiwan market: LCD monitor sales drop 10-15% on month in May
May 31, 01:30
Sales of LCD monitors in the Taiwan market declined 10-15% sequentially in May, with 22-inch models remaining the mainstream in the segment, according to data compiled by retail ch...
TPV takes a 35.1% share of global LCD monitor shipments in 1Q12
May 29, 01:10
TPV Technology recently announced it shipped 13.7 million LCD monitors for a leading global share of 35.1% in the first quarter of 2012, followed by Samsung Electronics with 6.0 million...

Computex 2012: ViewSonic to unveil 21.5-inch touch screen monitor
May 24, 15:49
ViewSonic plans to unveil a 21.5-inch LED-backlight monitor with optical touch screen during Computex Taipei 2012 with volume shipments slated for September targeting the business...

Direct LED backlighting speeding up end of CCFL says DisplaySearch
May 10, 17:04
Low-cost direct LED-backlit LCD TVs were introduced to the market last March. Samsung Electronics launched its first direct LED-backlit TVs, the EH series, in the US, and LG Electronics...
LCD monitor shipments to see 6.5% increase in 2Q12
Apr 30, 16:45
Taiwan LCD monitor OEMs are estimated to see 6.5% growth in second-quarter shipments amongst increasing demand for desktop PCs, according to industry sources.
LCD monitor sales expected to drop in 2Q12
Apr 20, 15:08
LCD monitor sales are expected to drop 10-20% from the first quarter amongst an expected slow second quarter in Europe, according to brand vendors.
Samsung is global number one LED monitor vendor, report says
Apr 10, 16:26
Samsung Electronics has become the world's top seller of LED-backlit LCD monitors, according to a Korean news report.
Second-tier LCD monitor OEMs facing increasing challenges in 2012, say sources
Apr 3, 01:00
Second-tier LCD monitor OEMs will face increasing challenges in terms of shipments in 2012, as the top-2 OEMs - TPV Technology and Foxconn Electronics - combined are expected to take...
Global LCD monitor shipments to grow 4-6% in 2Q12, says WitsView
Mar 28, 12:30
Global shipments of LCD monitors are estimated to show a 4-6% growth in the second quarter of 2012, due in part to a pick-up in the capacity utilization rates of manufacturing facilities...
Asustek to ship 1 million monitors in 1Q12
Mar 7, 14:08
Asustek Computer expects its shipments of LCD monitors to reach one million units in the first quarter of 2012, equaling the amount it shipped in the previous quarter.
LCD monitor shipments to fall 3-5% in 1Q12, says WitsView
Feb 13, 14:54
LCD monitor shipments from the top-10 brand vendors and system integrators (Sis) both experienced declines in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to WitsView. Brand shipments fell...
LCD monitor sales to remain sluggish in Europe in 2012, say sources
Feb 8, 14:56
Sales of LCD monitors in Europe are expected to remain sluggish in 2012 after suffering a slump a year earlier as consumer demand has been weakened by the prolonged debt crisis in...
Taiwan market: February LCD monitor sales to grow 10% sequentially
Feb 7, 14:41
Branded LCD vendors in Taiwan including Asustek Computer, Chimei, BenQ and ViewSonic will offer incentives to promote sales to students in the local market upon the beginning of the...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD monitor shipments decline in 4Q11
Feb 2, 01:25
Shipments of LCD monitors by Taiwan makers totaled 27.46 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, down 5.7% sequentially and 13.1% on year, according to data compiled by Digitimes...
Intel Thunderbolt to be more widely available in April
Dec 27, 01:40
Intel has recently notified its partners that the company will fully release its Thunderbolt technology in April of 2012 with several first-tier PC players already preparing to launch...

Taiwan ODMs facing pressure from Lenovo
Dec 22, 01:15
Taiwan-based ODMs are expected to face significant pressure from Lenovo's plan of establishing production bases in Japan and South America, according to sources from the upstream...
Asustek 2011 LCD monitor shipments lower than target
Dec 20, 14:05
Asustek Computer is expected to ship 3.8 million LCD monitors in 2011, lower than the four million units projected earlier in the year, according to an estimate of industry sources...
TPV, Foxconn competing for OEM monitor orders, say sources
Dec 15, 15:52
TPV Technology and Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) are competing eagerly for OEM LCD monitor orders, as growth of the global monitor market is expected to subside...
Global monitor shipments decline in October, says WitsView
Nov 29, 13:57
Global shipments of LCD monitors continued to show a decrease in October with shipments from top-10 brand vendors shedding 5.2% on month and those from OEM makers slipping 8.8% during...
Monitor vendor Chimei to diversify product lines
Nov 24, 12:32
Branded LCD TV/monitor vendor Chimei has expanded its product lines to include LED lighting and Blu-ray players, and is evaluating the possibility of also venturing into healthcare...
Price gap between LED-backlit and CCFL-backlit monitors begins to widen again
Nov 22, 01:15
Beginning from second quarter 2011, the price of models below 22-inch almost have no difference while the price gap of models above 24-inch has narrowed to 5%. However, the market...

Taiwan monitor market to face slow growth in 2012
Nov 2, 14:12
The monitor market in Taiwan has been moving toward stability. Industry sources indicated shipments in the fourth quarter are likely to be better than in the third, but market conditions...
Chimei slashes LCD monitor shipment target for 2011
Oct 20, 01:10
Branded LCD monitor vendor Chimei has adjusted downward its LCD monitor shipment target for 2011 to 550,000 units, from the 600,000 units projected earlier in the year due to slack...
Taiwan market: Asustek ranks as top monitor vendor with 25-30% share
Oct 13, 01:40
Asustek Computer continued to rank as the top vendor of LCD monitors in the Taiwan market in the first nine months of 2011. Asustek's shipments accounting for a 25-30% share of the...
Branded monitor vendors reluctant to answer RFQs from OEM partners for 2012 orders
Sep 23, 16:53
Most branded LCD monitor vendors have been reluctant to answer RFQs (requests for quotations) for 2012 monitor orders from OEM partners due to conservative views about the industry...
Panel shipments rise in August, but growth unlikely to last long
Sep 15, 15:17
Overall shipments of large-size LCD panels in August 2011 climbed slightly on month. Panels for TVs, monitors, and notebooks all also showed small increases. Demand from emerging...
Samsung reportedly contacted Taiwan OEMs for evaluating notebook outsourcing
Aug 23, 01:10
Korea-based notebook brand vendor Samsung Electronics has reportedly contacted Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Pegatron Technology in August to...
LCD monitor sales in Taiwan likely to decrease 10% in 2011
Aug 3, 01:25
The high penetration rate of LCD monitors and the increasing popularity of low-priced notebooks and tablet PCs are likely to cause annual sales of LCD monitors in Taiwan to decrease...
Gloomy economy takes toll on LCD panel market, says WitsView
Jul 20, 15:37
Total shipments of large-size LCD panels in June 2011 reached 59.53 million units with on-month regression of 2.8% and on-year growth of 8%, according to WitsView.
Taiwan market: Asustek is top monitor vendor in 1H11
Jul 12, 10:41
An estimated 600,000 LCD monitors were shipped in the Taiwan market during the first half of 2011, and Asustek Computer had the largest market share of 23-24% among all vendors, followed...
TPV, CMI unlikely to reach LCD monitor goals for 2011
Jul 11, 11:58
TPV Technology and Chimei Innolux (CMI) will fail to reach their LCD monitor shipment goals for 2011 mainly because of the impact of booming sales of tablet PCs on consumer desktop...
Taiwan market: AOC to launch extra thin LED-backlit monitor in 2H11
Jun 2, 01:45
AOC, an own-brand business of TPV Technology, plans to launch a 23-inch LED-backlit monitor with a thickness of only 0.95cm as well as 23- and 27-inch 3D monitors in the second half...
Taiwan market: Government projects to help resuscitate LCD monitor demand
May 23, 17:03
The size of Taiwan's LCD monitor market was around 400,000 units in first quarter 2011, according to market observers. In comparison with the same period last year, the market contracted...
Digitimes Insight: Taiwan LCD monitor shipments slip 4% in 1Q11
Apr 22, 14:48
Taiwan-based manufacturers shipped a total of 30.42 million LCD monitors in the first quarter of 2011, down 3.7% sequentially, according to latest data collected by Digitimes Resea...

Taiwan market: Acer cuts monitor prices to push sales
Apr 22, 01:20
Acer has slashed the prices of some models of LCD monitors in the Taiwan market – a move which is expected to drive up its revenues growth but is likely to kick off price competition...
- LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
- Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
- Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
- Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and PS4
- Taiwan market: HTC launches HTC Butterfly S and HTC Desire 600
- Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
- Digitimes Research: TSMC expanding in China
- Lite-On Technology to deal out 2012 cash dividend of NT$2.35
- Innolux not to be largely affected by subsidies ending in China, says company president
- Genius Electronic to expand lens capacity by 60%
- AUO likely to turn around performance in 2013, says company chairman
- DRAM market grows up, IHS finds
- Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
- Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
- Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
- Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
- Taiwan market: ViewSonic to launch Full HD projectors by end of 2013
- IDC lowers forecast growth for monitors while average screen size increases
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- PowerByProxi aims to cooperate with Taiwan makers to explore wireless power market
- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- 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
- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row

Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...

Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...

Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...

Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- 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.






















