Last update: Wednesday 31 October 2012 [31 news items]
Compal announces profit for 3Q12
Oct 31, 22:08
Compal Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$173.03 billion (US$5.92 billion) for the third quarter of 2012, up 4.94% sequentially, with net profit reaching NT$1.63...
Compal/Lenovo joint venture expected to output 3-5 million notebooks in 2013
Sep 4, 01:35
The notebook manufacturing joint venture of Compal Electronics and Lenovo in Hefei, China was reported by local media to enjoy more than 10 million units of notebook production volume...
Wistron, Compal focus on touchscreen technologies
May 8, 01:30
Notebook ODMs Wistron and Compal Electronics are optimistic Windows 8 will bring a new trend for touchscreen control, and the companies have been working aggressively in the touchscreen...
Compal Communication expects to ship 9.6 million handsets in 2012
Jan 5, 01:25
Compal Communication has announced revenues of NT$10.9 billion (US$359.65 million) for the fourth quarter of 2011 with its handset shipments in the quarter reached 1.5 million units...
Compal sees decline in 3Q11 revenues
Nov 1, 10:15
Compal Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$172.81 billion (US$5.77 billion) for the third quarter, down 2% sequentially and 19% on year. The company has recently...

Acer to ship 40,000 notebooks by rail across China and Europe
Sep 22, 01:25
Acer will ship 40,000 notebooks by railroad across Chongqing, China and Duisburg, Germany. The shipments are expected to arrive in Europe in two weeks.
Intel downstream partners request CPU price drop
Sep 20, 01:10
Executives from Intel's PC partners - Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin and Compal Electronics president Ray Chen both have invoked Intel to help drop the Ultrabook price to below US$1,000...
PC players optimistic about re-rise of Wintel
Sep 15, 01:05
PC players are starting to turn optimistic about a return of Wintel as Intel and Microsoft have each hosted global developer conferences to promote the upcoming Ivy Bridge processors...
Gross margins for PC ODMs expected to turn healthy in 2012
Sep 1, 01:10
Gross margins of PC ODM players are expected to return healthy in 2012 as the notebook supply chain has already reached a mutual consensus to refuse low-margin orders in the future,...
Notebook industry may not see peak season effects in 2H11
Jun 23, 01:10
The notebook industry is unlikely to return to its usual seasonal pattern of having shipment proportions of 4:6 for the first and the second halves in 2011 as the US and Europe are...
Computex 2011: Shuriken-panel notebooks make their debut
Jun 1, 01:15
Notebook models with Shuriken ultra-thin panel technology debuted at Computex 2011 with Taiwan-based Compal Electronics and Acer as well as some of Compal's downstream partners such...

Compal successfully raises OEM quotes for 1Q11, says president
Jan 13, 01:35
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen, on January 12, revealed the company recently reached an agreement with its clients and has successfully raised OEM quotes for the first quarter...
Compal to focus on profitability in 2011, says company president
Dec 9, 01:50
Ray Chen, president of notebook maker Compal Electronics, at a meeting of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), expressed his optimism toward the notebook industry in 2011 and noted...
Compal considers supporting Acer with plant in Chengdu, China
Nov 11, 01:30
As Acer recently announced plans to invest in Chongqing, China, Compal Electronics is considering supporting Acer's new site with its recently planned new plant in Chengdu, China,...
EMS providers will create less impact on notebook ODMs in 2011, says Compal president
Nov 11, 01:25
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen, at a forum in Taiwan, pointed out that EMS providers have started showing their weakness over notebook manufacturing and brand vendors have...
Compal to see 3Q10 notebook shipments drop up to 10% on quarter
Sep 2, 16:50
Compal Electronics has reduced its third-quarter 2010 notebook shipment forecast from a growth of 5% originally to a single-digit percentage drop on quarter, according to company...
Compal president pessimistic about non-Apple tablet PC shipments in 2011
Sep 2, 16:46
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen at a company investors conference on September 1, commented that he expects shipments of non-Apple tablet PCs to not exceed 15 million units...

Compal Communications lowers handset shipment targets
Jun 15, 16:17
Handset maker Compal Communications has reduced its 2010 shipment target to 10 million units compared with shipments of 16 million units in 2009, according to company chairman Ray...
Compal expects notebook shipments to increase 5-10% on quarter in 3Q10
Apr 29, 14:35
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen expects the company's notebook shipments in the second quarter to hold level sequentially and will increase 5-10% in the third quarter.
Compal not seeing China labor shortage, says company president
Mar 8, 15:20
Compal Electronics has recently solved its labor shortage problem in China as the company has been hiring aggressively after the Lunar New Year according to Ray Chen, president of...
Compal expects to remain largest notebook maker in 1Q10, says president
Jan 7, 16:04
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen expects the company will remain the largest notebook maker in terms of shipments in the first quarter of 2010 with an annual shipments goal of...
CPT may reshuffle personnel following Compal chairman entry to board
Dec 16, 13:57
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) will reshuffle its personnel on December 18, with Compal representatives to take over some of CPT's executive positions, according to market sources.
TPO president to return to Compal as global COO
Nov 26, 16:06
TPO Displays CEO and president William Chang will return to Compal Electronics as global chief operating officer (COO) after the merger of TPO, Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) and Innolux...

Strong notebook, TV panel demand may cause shortage in 2Q10, says TPO chairman
Nov 26, 12:11
TPO Displays chairman and Compal Electronics president Ray Chen expects possible panel shortage in the second quarter of 2010 amid strong market demand for notebooks and LCD TVs.

Compal increases 4Q09 notebook shipments target, says company president
Nov 25, 15:46
Compal Electronics has internally upward adjusted its projected on-quarter growth in notebook shipments for the fourth quarter of 2009 from 10% to 20%, resulting in an expected 37-38...

Compal notebook shipments to grow more than 20% in 2010, says chairman
Oct 30, 17:08
Compal Electronics has forecast that its notebook shipments in 2010 will grow more than 20% on year, to about 44 million units, from its expected shipments of 36.5 million units for...
Compal expects Toshiba orders to boost netbook shipments to over 1 million units per month
Sep 15, 13:56
Compal Electronics expects netbook orders from Toshiba to boost its monthly notebook shipments to over one million units, according to market sources. Toshiba's orders are estimated...
Compal to maintain notebook shipments guidance for 2Q09 despite component shortages, says president
Jun 5, 12:02
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen has said the company will not change its guidance of a 15-20% sequential increase in notebook shipments for second-quarter 2009, despite component...

Compal expects notebook shipments to grow 15-20% sequentially in 2Q09, says company president
May 8, 15:51
Compal Electronics expects its second-quarter notebook shipments to grow 15-20% to 7.2-7.5 million units from 6.3 million units shipped in the first quarter, company president Ray...
Compal eyeing CULV notebook market for 2H09, says paper
Newswatch - Mar 31, 17:10
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen has pointed out that consumer ultra low voltage-based (CULV-based) ultra-thin notebooks will become a major battlefield for Compal in the second...
Compal Communications lowers handset shipment target for 2008
Jun 16, 11:23
Compal Communications has lowered the target of its handset shipments for 2008 from 60 million units to 48 million units due to slack demand from its main client Motorola, according...
- 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.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.

















