Sharp Corp. is mulling selling its TV assembly plants in China and Mexico to Taiwanese partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. , Japan's national broadcaster NHK reported Friday.

Radiant Opto-Electronics Corp, a supplier of LCD backlight modules for Apple's iPad tablets, yesterday reported that net profit in the first half of the year grew 26% from the same period last year, bolstered by stronger-than-expected second-quarter earnings.

Samsung Electronics Taiwan Co. Mobile Communications Team General Manager Andy Tu said yesterday that in both May and June the sales of tablet PCs exceeded those of notebooks in Taiwan, an unusual trend that is unlike the majority of the world market. Tu stated that tablet PCs, not notebooks, are the future.

Apple's iPad Mini has been the source of many rumors over the last several weeks. However, in the last couple of days, the device has received far more attention with claims that it'll ship later this year with a design that effectively turns it into a big iPod Touch. According to other reports, the iPad Mini will ship with a 7.85-inch screen and come in at a much lower price than Apple's larger slate.

China-based TFT-LCD manufacturer BOE announced that its 8.5G panel production line in Beijing - the first to be built and put into production by a Mainland Chinese company - reached full capacity in late July.

Steady flow of big orders is keeping busy production lines at AU Optronics Corp. (AUO), the second-largest thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel manufacturer in Taiwan, regardless of size of panels.

Chimei Innolux Corp., the largest thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel manufacturer in Taiwan, is expected to win a 40-50% share of the global market for white-brand tablet PC applications, according to the company.

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp. 2498.TW +5.83%is beefing up its engineering team in China and expanding sales channels to grab a piece of the Chinese market, as the company continues to struggle in the U.S. and Europe amid tough competition from Apple Inc. AAPL +1.32%and Samsung Electronics Co.

Microsoft has named the first wave of manufacturers signed up to produce tablets for Windows RT, its first operating system designed for processor based on designs by the British company ARM, which dominates mobile computing.

On Monday, Samsung said in a post to Twitter that buyers can pick up the Galaxy Note 10.1 at its store in the Westfield Centre in East London from Thursday.

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster and Barclay's Ben Reitzes -- filed notes Wednesday about Apple's (AAPL) much-rumored TV product. No, not the $99 Apple TV set-top box the company actually sells, but the full-fledged Apple television set that Munster has been talking up since at least August 2009.

The Kindle Fire has been a big success stateside, though it sadly hasn't yet made it to the UK. However, there is plenty of speculation and rumour about what the Kindle Fire 2 could bring to the party - and whether it will be available in the UK as well as the US. With Google's Nexus 7 now launching, the new Amazon tablet needs to push things on a step.

E Ink and LCD technologies has signed a definitive agreement to buy shares of SiPix Technology and its wholly owned subsidiary SiPix Imaging, the maker of electronic paper displays. Established in 1999, SiPix, based in California and Taiwan, makes micro?？up technology based electrophoretic displays.

E Ink Holdings Inc (?？云蝘？?) said yesterday it expected revenue to expand further in the second half of this year from the first half.

Sampo Corporation, Sanyo Electronic (Taiwan) Co., Ltd, and E-Life Mall Corporation, distributors of home appliances in Taiwan, saw booming revenues in July, attributing the feat to hot sales of energy-saving air conditioners and liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs.

To meet upcoming strong demand from ultrabook PCs for touch panels, Wintek Corp., a major display panel manufacturer in Taiwan, recently announced a capacity-expansion project for this year.

According to WitsView, the panel research division of TrendForce, large-sized panel shipments in 2Q12 amounted to 188 million units with QoQ and YoY increase of 10.2% and 4.5% respectively.

TPK Holding Co. (3673), a maker of touch- screen panels, surged to the highest level in more than five months in Taipei trading after second-quarter profit beat analysts' estimates.

Cree Inc., a maker of light-emitting diode, or LED, products, said Tuesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter net income fell 49% because of higher expenses, but revenue grew and adjusted earnings topped Wall Street's expectations.

In the presence of high-ranking representatives of the Jiangsu province, OSRAM AG laid the foundation of its new plant in the Chinese city of Wuxi.

E Ink Holdings (EIH) chairman Liu Cheng announced the signing of a licensing agreement that will allow Sharp to use the fringe field switching (FFS) LCD technology developed by EIH's Korean subsidiary Hydis. The agreement has a duration of 10 years, and is retroactive to April 1 of this year.

SiPix may pride itself as the world leader in electronic paper and display innovation, though from now onwards, it will have to flaunt its status from under the aegis of rival E Ink Holdings.

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of nineteen newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. One of the patents that stood out from the crowd this morning relates to a high refresh rate LCD called FFS that Apple clearly states is suited for a TV.

E Ink Holdings (EIH) chairman Liu Cheng announced the signing of a licensing agreement that will allow Sharp to use the fringe field switching (FFS) LCD technology developed by EIH's Korean subsidiary Hydis. The agreement has a duration of 10 years, and is retroactive to April 1 of this year.

Chinese smartphone manufacturers, not international vendors, are driving growth in the domestic market, resulting in China becoming the top single country market with 27 percent of the 158 million global smartphone shipments in the second quarter of 2012.

"Shipments will start in August," Sharp's new president, Takashi Okuda, said at a press briefing in Tokyo on Thursday after the company released its latest quarterly earnings.

The future of TV, movies and home entertainment feels like it's changing by the day, thanks to the impact of the digital revolution. Netflix is the top dog thanks to its $8 subscription streaming service, but your viewing choices are severely limited. For a la carte, pay-as-you-go services, Apple's iTunes has been the default choice for many when it comes to buying, renting, and viewing videos.

E-readers have been around long enough now that the novelty has largely worn off. To be sure, we still get the occasional article or blog post celebrating the smell of "real books" and denouncing the disembodied fakery of text on a screen, but not nearly as many as in recent years. E-readers are simply part of the reading landscape now -- the first Kindle was released almost five years ago -- and it's time for a midterm progress report. How is the technology developing? What has been accomplished and what remains to be done?

The term "smart TV" was first used by Samsung back in 2011 and has been widely adopted by other TV manufacturers.

LG Electronics is adding 3D-enabled gaming to its smart TVs with the arrival of five titles in its app store, the company said on Sunday.

While electronics giant Foxconn Technology Group is thinking of coming to Indonesia for the country's inexpensive workforce, analysts say it will also have to consider the country's outdated infrastructure before it starts making iPads and other gadgets here.

We all know about Apple's iPad. Certain heavily marketed Android-based tablets like Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire are moving towards household-name status as well.