Bloomberg is reporting that the strength of the US dollar improved on July 2 after a Chinese government official voiced support for a stable dollar and said he "was not aware" of any plans to discuss a new global currency at the upcoming G8 meeting.

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 order books improved, after a period of contraction that lasted eight months, CLSA stated.

Back in May we published a commentary raising concerns about the Atom CPU inventory situation among Taiwan's notebook vendors, following reports that Intel was cracking down on chip dumping in the China market.

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 were focusing on free-to-air solutions (DVB-T) as opposed to solutions targeting the subscription-based DVB-H standard, despite the latter being the technology standard developed specifically for digital mobile...

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. "You have to remember, at that time there really was no established market for GPS devices," explained Chadha...