Hot on the heals of Inventec subsidiary Kojinsha (KJS) who recently launched 7- and 8.9-inch mini-notebooks based on Intel's low-power consumption Atom Z5x0 (Silverthorne) CPUs, rather than the N270 (Diamondville) found in most netbooks, Dell Japan is planning to launch the Inspiron Mini 12 on October 29 featuring a 12.1-inch LCD panel and either the Atom Z520 or Z530 processors.
With Qisda and AU Optronics (AUO) announcing a joint venture for LCD TV assembly in September, Qisda has now stated that all aspects of its LCD TV OEM business will be transferred to the new venture and Qisda will exit from the LCD TV business.
AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics card priced at less than US$150. Like all ATI Radeon HD 4800 series products, the new offering delivers excellent game performance and HD multimedia capabilities, as well as support for DirectX 10.1 games, highlighted the company.
Samsung Electronics recently unveiled the Q1 digital media player for immediate launch in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$3,990 (US$122) for a 4GB model and NT$4,990 for an 8GB model.
Sony is planning to launch four new series of Vaio PCs in Taiwan on December 24 this year. Sony Taiwan expects its Vaio series PCs to maintain a market share of 10% in 2008 in Taiwan, however the company is conservative about fourth-quarter demand.
Samsung Electronics America has announced its entrance in the US notebook market with a product lineup including notebooks in four categories – premium thin and light, all purpose, business, and desktop replacement, and the netbook segment.
Silicon Motion Technology and MegaChips have jointly developed what they claim to be the world's smallest and lowest power consumption ISDB-T mobile TV tuner-demodulator SoC.
eMachines has introduced the new compact EL1200 desktop series PCs which are 40% smaller and 55% lighter than eMachines' smallest tower PC and start at less than US$300.
Super Talent is targeting the Asustek Eee PC upgrade market with its new line of mini PCI Express SSDs, available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities. The company indicated that the devices were designed explicitly for the Eee PC, which comes standard with a maximum 20GB of storage.
