DRAM makers hold 1-2 months of wafer inventory

Mar 16, 15:39

DRAM chipmakers currently have one to two months of wafer inventory, industry sources estimate, adding that there should be no interruptions in their supplies between March and April...

Japan earthquake: Toshiba closes down CIS plant; may result in further tightening of supply

Mar 15, 11:51

Toshiba has closed down its plant that produces logic ICs and CMOS image sensors (CIS), including those for handsets, in Iwate, Japan because of the power failure caused by the March...

Japan earthquake: NAND flash supply to tighten

Mar 14, 16:28

Market observers have predicted that NAND flash memory, which is widely used in smartphones, tablets and other digital consumer electronics, will be in tight supply due to supply...

Inventec sees drop in February revenues

Mar 8, 02:10

Taiwan-based notebook maker Inventec has announced revenues of NT$23 billion (US$783.78 million) for February, down 16% on month and 17.7% on year due to its clients were conservative...

Surging demand changes small- to medium-size panel industry

Mar 2, 01:35

Amid the surging demand for smartphones and other applications for small- to medium-size panels, the overall small- to medium-size industry is changing with NEC to turn wholly owned...

Toshiba, Sony enter agreement for facility transfer

Mar 1, 12:23

Toshiba, Sony and Sony Semiconductor Kyushu (SCK) have executed definitive agreements based on the non-binding MOU signed earlier between Toshiba and Sony for the transfer from Toshiba...

PTI and Walton to see strong orders in 2Q11, says paper

Newswatch - Mar 1, 11:56

Memory-IC packaging and testing houses Powertech Technology (PTI) and Walton Advanced Engineering are expected to see substantial gains in orders in the second quarter of 2011, thanks...

Taiwan market: Toshiba launches in-house made notebooks

Feb 24, 16:43

Taiwan-based Grainew, the distributor of Toshiba in Taiwan, has recently announced several new in-house made notebooks under its R830, R840 and R850 series that feature panel sizes...

Inventec expected to have notebook shipments of 4 million units in 1Q11

Feb 24, 02:05

Taiwan-based notebook maker Inventec is expected to ship about four million notebooks in the first quarter of 2011 with half of the volume enterprise notebooks from Hewlett-Packard...

Taiwan market: Dual-core Atom netbook prices drop to around NT$10,000

Feb 21, 16:29

Prices for Intel dual-core Atom CPU-based netbooks in Taiwan have recently dropped to around NT$10,000 (US$341) in order to separate the devices from tablet PCs in terms of price,...

Samsung places about 1-1.5 million Tegra 2 orders for new Galaxy Tab

Feb 15, 02:10

Korea-based brand vendor Samsung Electronics has placed orders to Nvidia for about 1-1.5 million Tegra 2 processors and will be used for its new 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet PC,...

Pegatron to see strong 2011

Jan 25, 01:45

Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is confident about its sales performance in 2011 thanks to the CDMA-based and the new-generation iPhone orders, which should total...

Big vendors become even bigger in netbook market

Jan 25, 01:35

First-tier netbook players such as Acer, Samsung Electronics, Asustek Computer, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Toshiba are expected to become even bigger as second-tier players are gradually...

Kingston reportedly to buy stake in SSD controller firm JMicron

Jan 24, 11:32

Memory module supplier Kingston Technology will likely subscribe to a private placement of JMicron Technology, which specializes in controller chips for solid-state drives (SSD),...

Netbooks to maintain shipments above 30 million in 2011

Jan 20, 01:15

The netbook market is expected to maintain shipments of about 30 million units in 2011 with the top-three vendors to ship about six million units each, according to sources from notebook...

Chongqing aims to be largest notebook production base with shipments of 100 million units in 2013, says mayor

Jan 19, 01:40

The government of Chongqing City, western China, has successfully created a large notebook production in the city with Hewlett-Packard (HP), Foxconn, Quanta Computer and Inventec...

Notebook vendors show no interest in Oak Trail

Jan 13, 01:30

Because Acer and Asustek Computer have both shown their unwillingness to launch Oak Trail-based tablet PCs, Intel has recently been aggressively trying to persuade these vendors with...

CES 2011: Smart TVs, 3D TVs and tablet PCs to be the spotlights

Jan 6, 01:20

Samsung Electronics and Sony are both preparing to promote their smart TV businesses at CES 2011, which will start on January 5. Samsung is displaying its smart TV advertisement on...

NAND flash contract prices flat in 2H December

Dec 29, 01:25

Late December 2010 contract prices for most MLC NAND flash chips have remained flat with mainstream 16Gb and 32Gb parts quoted at US$3-3.50 and US$4-5, respectively, according to...

Taiwan market: Netbook price dropping to a new low

Dec 28, 01:30

Strong tablet PC demand continues to impact netbook market and several brand vendors in Taiwan have dropped their netbook price further to attract consumers.

Kingston co-founder reportedly buys Phison shares released by Toshiba

Dec 27, 15:04

David Sun, co-founder of the world's top DRAM module maker Kingston Technology, personally has taken up a portion of Phison Electronics shares released by Toshiba for NT$600-700 million...

Toshiba disposes of Phison shares

Dec 21, 02:15

Toshiba has disposed of six million shares of Phison Electronics, its supplier of controllers for flash memory cards. Toshiba's stake in Phison is therefore reduced to 11.99% from...

Toshiba to reinforce sales and marketing in China

Dec 16, 16:16

Toshiba has announced that the company will aim for sales of two million LCD TVs in the China market in the fiscal year of 2011 ended March 2012 - four times its current target for...

NAND flash contract prices to rise through 1Q11

Dec 16, 01:45

Early December contract prices for multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory have grown, with 32Gb chips enjoying the largest rise at 5-11%, according to industry sources citing latest...

Toshiba denies rumor Apple will invest in mobile display subsidiary

Dec 15, 01:50

Toshiba has denied rumors that Apple will invest in the new production plant of its small- to medium-size panel subsidiary, Toshiba Mobile Display (TMD).

Nvidia seeing popularity grow in tablet PC market

Dec 14, 02:00

Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform has recently become a new spotlight in the tablet PC market as most of the tablet PC vendors including Acer, Asustek Computer, Toshiba and Samsung Electronics...

NAND flash spot prices up after Toshiba power outage

Dec 13, 10:32

Toshiba's NAND flash production was disrupted for two days following a power outage on December 8, with the incident driving up spot prices by 3-4% to US$4.26 for 16Gb chips and US$5.18...

Toshiba to launch 3 new tablet PCs in 1Q11

Dec 7, 01:05

Toshiba is aiming to launch three new tablet PCs in the first quarter of 2011 and has outsourced their production to its Taiwan-based partners Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics...

Branded notebook vendors to launch Oak Trail-based tablet PCs in 1Q11

Dec 3, 01:05

Backed by promotional campaigns waged by Intel, branded notebook vendors, including Asustek Computer, Acer, Dell, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba, all are expected to launch Oak Trail-based...

SSD supplier InnoDisk gains order for POS computers

Nov 30, 01:30

Taiwan-based InnoDisk, which in-house develops and produces flash storage devices for industrial applications and embedded systems, has cut into the supply chain of Toshiba's POS...

Notebook industry outlook for 2011

Oct 26, 16:17

Global notebook brand vendors have recently finished their order distributions for 2011 with total volumes surpassing 200 million units, while Taiwan-based makers have landed more...

Toshiba raises profit guidance for fiscal 1H10

Oct 22, 15:03

Toshiba has announced upward revisions to its profit guidance for the first half of its fisccal 2010, thanks to strong earnings in the semiconductor business, notably NAND flash memory...

Toshiba to outsource LCD TVs to China-based Konka

Oct 18, 14:14

Toshiba plans to increase its LCD TV outsourcing to 10 million units in 2011 and is reportedly to outsource 700,000 LCD TVs to China-based TV maker Konka for the Middle East and South...

Consumer electronics IC suppliers face cost challenges, says iSuppli

Oct 15, 11:56

The consumer electronics market continues to hold tremendous growth potential as it rebounds from the recession, but semiconductor vendors operating in this fragmented space will...

Samsung could surpass Toshiba in hard drive shipments

Oct 14, 01:30

Benefiting from its strategy of adopting own-brand hard drives in its own-brand IT products such as notebooks, Samsung Electronics hard drive shipments have a chance to surpass those...