Orise looks to strong sales in 2013 on growing shipments of WVGA driver chips

Dec 26, 21:32

LCD driver IC vendor Orise Technology is expected to see its revenues rally by 40% in 2013 buoyed by increasing shipments of high-margin WVGA driver chips to smartphone makers in...

Apple reportedly to move Mac mini production line to the US

Dec 26, 21:22

Apple is reportedly set to move its Mac mini production lines back to the US with Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to be responsible of handling establishment, according...

Lenovo, HP January 2013 notebook shipments expected to be higher than Acer, Asustek

Dec 26, 15:38

Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are expected to see better shipment performance than Acer and Asustek Computer in January 2013 mainly because Lenovo will see strong demand in China...

Digitimes Research: Global touch screen shipments expected to reach 1.75 billion in 2013

Dec 21, 12:22

Global touch screen shipments are expected to reach 1.75 billion in 2013, up 17.2% on year. Of the shipments, approximately 1.28 billion or 73% are estimated to be for handsets, which...

COB product shipments to show significant on-year growth in 2012, says Lextar

Dec 20, 14:28

Lextar, a LED subsidiary of AU Optronics (AUO), has announced its merger with Wellypower, another AUO subsidiary. Lextar noted that demand for high-power chip-on-board (COB) products...

Compal, Inventec to increase notebook shipments from inland China in 2013

Dec 19, 22:08

Facing strong pressure from rising labor costs in China, notebook ODMs will accelerate their pace in shifting production to inland China in 2013 with Compal set to move all its notebook...

AUO expected to see 10% on-year increase in TV panel shipments in 2013

Dec 19, 20:44

AU Optronics (AUO) is expected to see a 10% on-year increase in TV panel shipments by the end of 2013 due to increased orders from Samsung Electronics and Sony, according to industry...

Apple iPad mini shipments may reach 12 million units by the end of 2012

Dec 19, 20:42

Apple has recently increased its iPad mini orders from eight million units to 10 million due to strong sales worldwide, and the volume may reach 12 million units in total, according...

HTC 1Q13 smartphone shipments to grow slower than expected, say sources

Dec 18, 22:05

Affected by the launch of iPhone 5 and rapidly declining smartphone prices in China, HTC reportedly has revamped its product roadmap for 2013 and is expected to see its smartphone...

November global TV panel shipments hit record, says WitsView

Dec 14, 14:40

There were 22.09 million LCD TV panels shipped globally in November, the highest monthly level on record, according to statistics by WitsView under Taiwan-based TrendForce.

Asustek, Gigabyte expect 2013 motherboard shipments to slip, be flat

Dec 13, 18:56

Asustek Computer expects motherboard shipments in 2013 to decrease by 2.3% from 2012 to 21.5 million units, while fellow maker Gigabyte Technology expects 2013 shipments to be the...

Acer pushing tablet shipments

Dec 12, 22:07

Acer originally believed that tablets would soon lose their attractiveness to consumers helping notebooks to regain their influence; however as market watchers and IT players mostly...

Taiwan market: Server shipments up in 3Q12, says IDC

Dec 12, 13:45

There were 18,949 servers shipped in the Taiwan market during the third quarter of 2012, increasing 9% on month and 6% on year, while the corresponding shipment value of US$83.5 million...

LCD TV shipments in China expected to reach 43 million units in 2013

Dec 11, 21:16

LCD TV shipments in China are expected to reach 43 million units in 2013, with 46-inch units to account for 30%, according to market observers.

Third-generation ultrabooks may be able to achieve 40% of notebook shipments, say players

Dec 11, 15:18

As Intel failed to achieve its goal of having ultrabooks account for 40% of total notebook shipments with its Ivy Bridge platform, and the proportion only reached about 10%, sources...

Asustek achieves record November revenues; Pegatron, ASRock see growth

Dec 10, 22:32

Asustek Computer has announced revenues of NT$39.64 billion (US$1.36 billion) for November, a new monthly record with growths of 11.5% on month and 32.7% on year, while the company's...

Notebook ODMs saw mixed revenue results in November

Dec 10, 22:24

Notebook ODMs saw mixed performances in their November consolidated revenues with Quanta Computer suffering an on-month drop of 13.29% and an on-year drop of 11.16%, while Compal...

Asustek predicts slight decrease in 2013 motherboard shipments

Dec 6, 20:45

Asustek Computer projects that its motherboard shipments in 2013 will decrease from 2012 to 21.5-22 million units due to shrinking motherboard demand on increasing competition from...

Lite-On IT pushes for 3.5-4 million SSD shipments in 2013

Dec 5, 21:22

Optical disc drive maker (ODD) Lite-On IT has been aggressively expanding its solid state drive (SSD) business and expects its annual capacity for 2013 to reach 3.5-4 million units,...

Digitimes Research: Global AIO PC shipments to grow 20% in 2013

Dec 4, 10:51

Global all-in-one (AIO) PC shipments will reach 13.2 million units in 2012, growing by 1.5% from 2011, and will increase by 19.7% to 15.8 million units in 2013, driven by Windows...

Apple stops placing orders to some MacBook Pro component suppliers, say sources in supply chain

Dec 3, 22:12

Apple has recently stopped some of the component orders for its 13-inch MacBook Pro due to the vendor already having high inventory levels for the components. These suppliers have...

Asustek expects strong tablet shipments for 2013

Dec 3, 22:10

Asustek Computer at its global sales meeting (GSM) on December 3, set the annual shipments goals for its three major product lines for 2013 with the notebook shipments expected to...

TPV holds number one spot in LCD monitor OEM shipments

Dec 3, 21:48

TPV is expected to hold the number one spot in LCD monitor OEM shipments by the end of 2012 at 41.2 million units shipped, or a 35.7% global market share, according to market obser...

Notebook vendors gearing up for touchscreen devices

Nov 29, 22:14

Acer, Asustek Computer and Lenovo are gearing up to promote their new touchscreen-based notebooks in 2013. Touchscreen devices are expected to account for 10-15% of overall notebooks...

Taiwan market: Asustek set to sell 150,000 units of PadFone 2 in the next 6 months

Nov 29, 15:35

Asustek Computer has achieved total sales of 25,000-30,000 units of its PadFone 2 in Taiwan since the device's launch I October, and with a white version to be released soon, the...

Quad-core microprocessor notebook shipments set to nearly quadruple in 2016, says IHS

Nov 29, 13:53

Notebooks during the next four years increasingly will adopt quad-core microprocessors, with all types of models bulking up their computing power amid the rising competitive challenge...

Upstream supply chain to push iMac shipments in December

Nov 28, 20:58

As Apple's iMac shipments were reportedly being delayed due to weak yield rates, sources from the upstream supply chain have said that yield issues have improved and related component...

China market: OTT STB shipments in 2012 far short of expectations, say reports

Nov 28, 15:04

There will be an estimated 3-4 million OTT (over-the-top) STBs (set-top boxes) shipped in the China market in 2012, far short of the projected over 10 million units, China-based media...

Consumer IC supplier Weltrend 4Q12 sales to decrease 5-10%

Nov 27, 15:16

Fourth-quarter revenues at Weltrend Semiconductor are expected to register a 5-10% sequential decrease, as shipments of its core products, including display ICs, motor ICs and MCUs...

Largan to receive camera lens orders from Korea-based smartphone brand in 2013

Nov 26, 22:13

Taiwan-based camera lens maker Largan Precision is expected to start supplying high-end camera lens to Korea-based smartphone brand vendor in 2013; however, Largan’s orders...

Notebook ODMs compete aggressively for sporadic orders

Nov 26, 22:00

Although notebook brand vendors have finished most of their order placements for 2013, they are currently still releasing some sporadic orders, accounting for 5-8% of their total...

Arcadyan aims to ship two million IP STBs in 2013

Nov 26, 10:50

Taiwan-based networking/communication device maker Arcadyan Technology aims to ship two million IP STBs (set-top boxes) in 2013, hiking by 66.7% from 2012, according to company president...