Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 had been held from February 27 to March 1 with many smartphone and related players unveiled their latest technologies and products.
Last update: Friday 2 March 2012
Many international solar firms are showcasing new products in Japan PV Expo 2012
Last update: Friday 2 March 2012
LED industry is enjoying the return of demand in first-quarter 2012
Last update: Thursday 1 March 2012
Germany drops bomb on solar industry
Germany government shocked the solar industry with higher-than-expected incentives cuts
Last update: Wednesday 29 February 2012
Trouble with Lenovo-Compal joint venture
Although Lenovo and Compal Electronics are together establishing a joint venture in China, but their upstream partners are less willing to follow in to make investments.
Last update: Friday 24 February 2012
Closer ties among non-Korean DRAM makers
Micron Technology has decided to purchase additional stake in Inotera Memories making it the largest shareholder of the Taiwan-based DRAM firm. The announcement came amid recent speculation that Micron and Elpida Memory...
Last update: Thursday 23 February 2012
Component makers rejoice with ultrabook appearance
With notebook vendors are aggressive pushing ultrabooks, related upstream component makers are enjoying growth in both shipments and profit.
Last update: Thursday 23 February 2012
Samsung revamping FPD strategy
Samsung has taken steps to overhaul its money-losing LCD business.
Last update: Tuesday 21 February 2012
Spending on LTE infrastructure construction is growing rapidly.
Last update: Tuesday 21 February 2012
China solar firms versus the West
China-based solar firms have been striking back against the West while hoping to increase market share
Last update: Thursday 16 February 2012
Elpida Memory, which is struggling to repay its debts due by early April, has issued a statement disclosing uncertainty about the company's ability to continue its operations as talks with Japan's trade ministry, state-owned...
Last update: Thursday 16 February 2012
Corning has made several key announcements since the beginning of 2012, including a partnership with Samsung Mobile Display for the OLED market.
Last update: Thursday 16 February 2012
AMD pushes into 28nm GPU generation
AMD has recently launched its latest Radeon HD 6700 series GPUs and is set to launch its higher-end 6800 series short after
Last update: Thursday 16 February 2012
Acer has announced its revenue performance for the fourth quarter of 2011 and has turned profit after two consecutive quarters of losses.
Last update: Thursday 16 February 2012
Digitimes comment on the solar market
Digitimes provide many insights to the solar market
Last update: Thursday 16 February 2012
As notebook brand vendors are ready to release their second-generation ultrabooks with Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge platform, vendors are preparing to cut their existing ultrabook prices to digest inventories
Last update: Tuesday 14 February 2012
LCD panel makers suffered heavy losses in 2011, and they are anxious to return to profits.
Last update: Tuesday 14 February 2012
Winbond eyeing NAND flash market
Winbond Electronics has revealed plans to venture into the manufacture of NAND flash memory, joining fellow Taiwan-based memory makers Powerchip Technology and Macronix International.
Last update: Monday 13 February 2012
HP has recently announced its latest ultrabook products and plan to establish an all-service center in Taiwan for better assistance of Taiwan's retail channel
Last update: Friday 10 February 2012
Japan LED lighting market booming
Japan's LED lighting market continues to boom
Last update: Thursday 9 February 2012
Notebook ODM performance in January
Notebook ODMs such as Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec have announced their result for January
Last update: Thursday 9 February 2012
HTC is revising its strategies in the face of fierce competition in the smartphone market.
Last update: Thursday 9 February 2012
January revenue reports of Taiwan-based solar firms
Taiwan-based solar firms reported mixed January results
Last update: Thursday 9 February 2012
Mixed expectations for LED in 2012
The LED industry has expressed different expectations of the market in 2012
Last update: Wednesday 8 February 2012
MediaTek's sales are declining as a result of a continued slowndown in feature phone demand.
Last update: Monday 6 February 2012
Governments around the world are cutting or eliminating solar incentives.
Last update: Saturday 4 February 2012
Topics of China labor shortage issues rise again
After the Lunar New Year holidays, labor shortage issues have become the hottest topic among the IT industy with Chongqing City government of China even hosted a conference in Taiwan to comfort the concerns.
Last update: Friday 3 February 2012
Solar news about and from China
China continues to dominate in solar news.
Last update: Thursday 2 February 2012
Solar firms hope to increase prices due to the recent return of demand
Last update: Wednesday 1 February 2012
Lunar New Year speeches of Taiwan notebook company executives
After the Lunar New Year holidays, executives of Taiwan-based notebook players commented about their goal for the 2012
Last update: Tuesday 31 January 2012
The solar market from the view of Digitimes
Digitimes has specific views on the solar market.
Last update: Friday 20 January 2012
Chairmen from Taiwan-based LED firms have been quite positive about 2012
Last update: Friday 20 January 2012
Expand visions with large-size TVs
TV firms are betting on large-size TVs to save the market.
Last update: Thursday 19 January 2012
Pros and cons of rapid solar growth in Germany
Germany's 2011 solar PV installations of 7.5GW might induce additional cuts to incentives
Last update: Monday 16 January 2012
Despite the gloomy condition of the solar industry, installations in 2011 continues to demonstrate growth.
Last update: Thursday 12 January 2012
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- 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
- 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
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
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- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
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- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
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- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
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