Digitimes Insight: SEH plant suspension may hit global wafer supply chain

Mar 14, 15:52

While the massive tremor that ravaged the northeastern part of Japan did not cause damage to Japan's major production sites for DRAM and flash memory products, it may disrupt the...

Digitimes Insight: WD buys HGST to increase HDD market share

Mar 11, 10:42

Japan-based Hitachi on March 7 announced that it has sold subsidiary Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a top three hard disk drive (HDD) maker globally, to Western Digital...

Digitimes Insight: Japan and Korea TV makers active in OLED development

Mar 11, 10:29

Sony in February announced 24.5-inch and 16.5-inch OLED display monitors priced at JPY2.42 million (about US$30,000) and JPY1.31 million, respectively. Their targets are professional...

Digitimes Insight: Sony Ericsson posts 4 straight profitable quarters

Mar 9, 10:49

Sony Ericsson saw revenues in the fourth quarter of 2010 fall 4.7% sequentially to EUR1.53 billion (US$2.12 billion). Revenues for 2010 came to EUR6.29 billion versus EUR6.79 billion...

Digitimes Insight: Apple aims for 70% global tablet PC market share

Mar 8, 01:00

Tablet PCs were the main attractions at this year's CES and MWC. Though smartphone and computer vendors introduced their latest tablet PC at the exhibitions, Apple, the company that...

Digitimes Insight: Samsung LED expects LED lighting to account for 25% of 2011 revenues

Mar 4, 11:04

Founded in April 2009, Samsung LED has become Samsung Electronics' main LED supplier in LED TV backlight applications. Samsung LED is aggressively expanding its MOCVD capacity and...

Digitimes Insight: NFC and mobile payment to spearhead M2M development

Mar 3, 12:37

During a February 14 Mobile World Congress (MWC) press event, ST-Ericsson CEO Gilles Delfassy indicated that Internet devices will increase to 50 billion units. This means that in...

Digitimes Insight: South Korea makers bet heavily on AMOLED technology

Mar 3, 12:22

Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) is a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDI. It was the main reason why Samsung's LCD business was able to remain profitable in the...

TSMC might consider 18-inch fab rather than another 12-inch

Dec 16, 14:34

Instead of building a fourth 12-inch (300mm) fab, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) might prefer to have its first 18-inch (450mm) production fab to be called "Fab...

Femtocell expanding into enterprise market, supply chain changing

Dec 3, 14:33

With T-Mobile's launch of Femtocell services targeting enterprises in Britain, Femtocell is now not only a service for the consumer and household market. Along with the expansion...

Desperate crowds fill Windows Live Messenger forums with complaints

Oct 1, 17:01

Following a Digitimes report on September 28 that Taiwan consumers are seeing their Windows Live Messenger accounts...

Taiwan market: Windows Live Messenger blocking users from connecting

Sep 28, 13:43

Several consumers in Taiwan, on a Chinese-language-based online discussion forum, claim that they have seen issues regarding the connection of their Windows Live Messenger as they...

MSI announces new 14-inch notebook

Sep 17, 15:57

Micro-Star International (MSI) has recently rolled out the CX413, the latest member of its Classic series of notebooks. The 14-inch CX413 comes packed with AMD's all-new Vision (Danube)...

Foxconn said nothing, says Foxconn

Sep 8, 09:55

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has refuted media reports stating company chairman Terry Gou said Foxconn has revised down its mid- to long-term annual revenue growth...

Rumors about OLED iPad resurface

Jul 13, 13:54

Apple reportedly plans to launch its second-generation iPad, using 5.6-inch and 7-inch OLED panels, as soon as in the fourth quarter of 2010 with Compal Electronics having a chance...

Disgruntled China PC player takes aim at Intel

Jul 9, 17:36

Local China-based PC player Hedy recently took to the media to voice its displeasure with Intel and make allegation of misuse of the chip giant's market development fund (MDF) in...

Commentary: WPG-Yosun merger a win-win deal

Mar 22, 16:20

WPG Holdings and Yosun Industrial, Asia's largest and second largest IC distributors, announced their merger at a right time, which is expected to consolidate operations of both companies...

Asustek motherboards choking on rusty components

Jan 22, 17:10

SemiAccurate appears to have uncovered reports of a potentially serious issue with certain...

More on Nokia shifting power amplifier orders to Skyworks

Jan 21, 18:08

A source close to Nokia has challenged parts of a recent Digitimes report that Skyworks will be the beneficiary of...

Apple iSlate rumors go perhaps a step too far with talk of AMD GPU inside

Jan 20, 16:05

There has been no shortage of rumors and speculation surrounding Apple's upcoming tablet PC (which for want of a better name will be referred to as the iSlate for the rest of this...

Microsoft sees Taiwan as key cloud computing development center

Nov 6, 17:05

One key reason that is seldom discussed as to why Microsoft has been able to enjoy continued successful with its Windows operating system in the PC and mobile device market is that...

Micron talks Windows 7 impact

Oct 23, 15:14

Micron Technology has posted a Q&A blog post discussing the impact the company expects Windows 7 to have on the memory industry. Matthias Buchner, director of segment marketing...

AUO announces carbon footprint verification on 32-inch LCD TV

Sep 23, 16:27

AU Optronics today announced it has completed the carbon footprint verification on its 32-inch LCD TV set according to international carbon footprint standard PAS2050: 2008. Succeeded...

AUO added to 2009 Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index

Newswatch - Sep 11, 14:06

AU Optronics (AUO) has announced that it has been selected as a constituent stock on the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia/Pacific Index (DJSI Asia/Pacific), making it the only pure TFT-LCD...

Acer is quick to reiterate launch of dual-OS netbooks in September

Aug 3, 17:14

Acer last week acted quickly to reiterate that it will launch its first dual-OS netbook with both Windows XP and Android in September 2009 as scheduled, following claims by industry...

Questions remain as Foxconn reportedly reaches settlement with family of dead engineer

Jul 24, 15:43

Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is said to have reached a preliminary agreement with the family of an engineer who is believed to have killed himself after losing a prototype...

Acer Shih needs to stop worrying about management problems at Dell and start looking a bit closer to home

Jul 8, 15:38

Stan Shih, founder of Acer, has waded in with his opinion on the recent pair of pricing mix-ups by Dell Taiwan laying...

China not aware of its own call for a new global currency

Jul 2, 16:55

Bloomberg is reporting that the strength of the US dollar improved on July 2 after...

China manufacturing shows signs of life, but only slightly

Jul 1, 12:27

June marked the third consecutive month that production levels increased for manufacturers in China, according to brokerage firm CLSA. It was also the third consecutive month that...

Are Asustek and Intel falling out over gray market Atoms?

Jun 26, 11:46

Back in May we published a commentary raising concerns about the Atom CPU inventory situation among Taiwan's notebook...

Commentary: Free-to-air was the theme of mobile TV during Computex

Jun 23, 16:46

Looking back at the product offerings at the recently concluded Computex Taipei 2009, you couldn't help notice that companies highlighting mobile DTV solutions based on the DVB standard...

SiRF and extending GPS: It's not only about location

Jun 17, 15:52

Sitting in the Digitimes office last week, GPS IC design house Sirf founder Kanwar Chadha took out an idea book that he had commissioned back in 1995 when Sirf was just getting started...