
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 [4 news items]
Wistron seeking acquisition targets
Jan 31, 01:30
Wistron, after raising US$180 million in euro-convertible bonds (ECB) and building a US$100 million greenshoe fund, is seeking acquisition targets for vertical integration and is...
Acer to go into attack mode in 2012
Jan 31, 01:05
Acer has already adjusted its strategy from purely defending its position in the market in 2011 to attacking the market in 2012 and the company will push four major product segments...
Acer chairman believes high chance of earning profit in 1Q12
Jan 30, 17:03
Acer chairman JT Wang, at the company's Lunar New Year ceremony, pointed out that the company has a very high chance to earn profits in the first quarter of 2012 after a series of...
Wistron looks to 20% notebook shipment growth in 2012, says paper
Newswatch - Jan 30, 14:25
Wistron expects its shipments of notebooks, servers and hand-held devices to grow 20% on year in 2012, while LCD TV shipments will stay flat for the year, the Chinese-language Economic...
Computex 202: Acer to showcase Windows 8 tablet PCs
IT + CE | 42min ago
Flytech inaugurates factory in northern Taiwan
IT + CE | 1h 58min ago
3D-IC joint development with Elpida continuing, says UMC
Before Going to Press | 8min ago
Tontek to post over 30% sales growth in 2Q12
Before Going to Press | 10min ago
Lowering Sandy Bridge prices expected to boost PC demand in emerging markets, say motherboard makers
Before Going to Press | 37min ago
Young Fast medium-size thin-film touch panels to grow 50% sequentially in 2Q12
Before Going to Press | 42min ago
On-Bright expects 2Q12 sales to rise 50-60%
Before Going to Press | 46min ago
UMC revenues to grow through 3Q12, says CEO
Before Going to Press | 56min ago
Taiwan market: More China-based handset vendors to launch sub-NT$4,000 smartphones in 3Q12
Before Going to Press | 58min ago
High Windows 8 licensing fee makes prices of ultrabook difficult to drop, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 59min ago
Samsung, LG and Huawei mulling plans to ramp up in-house production of LTE solutions
Before Going to Press | 1h 1min ago
AUO to ship AMOLED panels to Sony and HTC in June, say sources
Before Going to Press | 1h 49min ago
TPV sees LCD TV shipments down 32.6% on year in 1Q12
Before Going to Press | 2h ago
China anti-dumping investigation against US, South Korea polysilicon suppliers would hurt local downstream players
Before Going to Press | 2h 15min ago
New MacBook may be launched as early as July, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 2h 19min ago
- LCD driver IC design houses shifting more capacity to high-resolution parts for smartphone segment
- Sony to ship in-cell touch panels for next-generation iPhone, say sources
- Google 7-inch tablet PC to ship in June with initial volume of 600,000 units
- Solar wafer maker GET reports full capacity
- PC shipments may only see slight sequential growth in 2Q12
- UMC holds groundbreaking ceremony for new facilities at 12-inch fab
- Coretonic shifts focus to small- to mid-size BLUs
- Asustek denies lowering notebook shipment targets for 2Q12
- Oslux unveils LED for camera flash
- Computex 2012: ViewSonic to unveil 21.5-inch touch screen monitor
- Uncertainty causes solar firms to expand with caution
- NAND flash prices hope for rebound in 3Q12
- Lenovo FY2011 net profit hikes 73.1%
- Suntech gross profit impacted by US anti-dumping duties
- Trina Solar announces 1Q12 results
- TXC to increase TCXO capacity by 200%
- Taiwan market: HTC recaptures top handset vendor ranking in April
- TXC optimistic about 2Q12 revenues
- TPV steps up LCD TV production
- China market: Energy-saving subsidies expected to boost sales of LCD TVs
- China and Taiwan LED firms sign agreement in Zhengzhou China
- China government focuses on illegal imports of waste materials that carry polysilicon
- LED industry enjoys high capacity utilization rates in 2Q12
- Solar wafer firms inclined to follow solar cell firms to increase quotes
- PTC conservative about 2012 revenue growth
- Releases
- White papers
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- Step into the new era of HD surveillance - GKB to launch ForeSight Surveillance System
- Advantech Makes Testing More Effective, Advancing Intelligent Vehicle Inspection
- Vehicle access control systems
- Glass fiber reinforced plastic chassis fueling ultrabook wave; comparable to metal chassis with high price-performance ratio
- GIGABYTE unveils GeForce GTX 690 graphics cards
- 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
- Fujitsu converts Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications into a wholly owned subsidiary
- NEC reaks the speed barriers of microwave transmission with ultra high modulations
- ATO Solution to launch 256Mb SLC NAND Flash - for the first time in fabless industry
- LSI completes acquisition of SandForce
- NEC develops super-resolution technologies for fine magnification of surveillance camera images
24-May-2012 markets closed
| Last | Change |
| TAIEX (TSE) | 7124.89 | -22.86 | -0.32% |

| TSE electronic | 271.49 | -0.45 | -0.17% |

| GTSM (OTC) | 101.99 | -1.30 | -1.26% |

| OTC electronic | 130.56 | -1.89 | -1.43% |

- Nvidia takes the wraps off Kai, a quad-core reference design tablet that will cost US$199 (May 23) - Uber gizmo
- The Google/Motorola deal is done. What now? (May 23) - Information Week
- AMD hitting the casino floor with embedded R-series (May 22) - Tom's Hardware Guide
- Apple remains most valuable global brand with 19% growth to US$183 billion (May 22) - Apple Insider
- Apple, Samsung CEOs join talks, but patent claims keep coming (May 21) - Los Angeles Times
- HP report to include major job cuts (May 21) - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
- Europe offers to let Google settle potential antitrust case (May 21) - Mercury News
- Qualcomm hires former AMD CTO Demers (May 20) - Tom's Hardware Guide
- Taiwan market: Sony to launch mirrorless single-lens digital camera and 6 Cyber-shot models
- Nvidia introduces new standard for HPC with Kepler-based Tesla GPUs
- New Acer F2 servers support Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 series processors
- Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 670 with Kelper architecture
- Samsung introduces Galaxy S III smartphone

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