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Wednesday 8 February 2012
Taiwan market: Sony unveils dual-screen tablet PC
Sony on February 7 unveiled Tablet P, a tablet PC featuring dual 5.5-inch touch screens, Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor, a 300,000-pixel front camera and a 5-megapixel rear camera,...
Thursday 2 February 2012
Notebook shipments expected to rise significantly in 2H12
Notebook shipments, benefiting from the recovery of hard drive shortages and launch of Windows 8 in the third quarter, are expected to rise significantly in the second half, compared...
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Asustek expected to suffer 20% on-quarter decline in 1Q12 revenues
Asustek Computer is expected to see on-quarter revenues drop of 20% in the first quarter of 2012 with the amount drop to only NT$80 billion (US$2.67 billion) from about NT$100 billion...
Thursday 5 January 2012
Asustek going Android, Acer eyeing Windows 8 for tablet PC market
Acer, after refuting rumors about plans to phase out of the tablet PC and smartphone markets, has adjusted strategies for its tablet PC business and will focus on a Windows-based...
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Digitimes Research: Traditional PC applications to be advantage of Windows 8 tablet
Judging from the architecture of the Windows 8 revealed at BUILD 2011, Digitimes Research believes that Microsoft, in the face of the competition from smartphones and tablet PCs -...
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Tablet PCs to dominate touch-controlled device market in 2012
Buoyed by the release of Android 4.0 and Windows 8 operating systems, tablet PCs will dominate the touch-controlled device market in 2012 with models below 10.1-inch sizes accounting...
Thursday 22 December 2011
Monitors with touch features to spur replacement demand in 3Q12, say sources
Global demand for LCD monitors is expected to remain weak in the first quarter of 2012 before steering a turnaround in the third quarter along with the release of Windows 8 operating...
Tuesday 20 December 2011
CES 2012 may not help pump up demand
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012, which will be hosted from January 10-13 in 2012, may not help pump up consumer demand afterward as there are not expected to be many new...
Thursday 15 December 2011
Market share of non-Apple tablet PCs to surge in 2012, says Nvidia CEO
Although non-Apple tablet PCs are only expected to account for 30% of the worldwide tablet PC market, Nvidia CEO Huang Jen-hsun pointed out that after hardware and software platforms'...
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Ultrabook demand to trigger birth of thinner CCMs in 2012
The thickness of compact camera modules (CCM), to satisfy demand of ultrabooks have a thickness of only 0.7- to 0.8-inch, is expected to shrink down from a standard size of 3-4mm...
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Notebook supply chain expects to see improving gross margins for 2012
Players in the notebook upstream supply chain expect their gross margin in 2012 to improve as notebook brand vendors are turning their focuses to ultrabooks, which have better profitability...
Thursday 8 December 2011
Notebooks expected to fully adopt HD quality webcams in 2H12
Notebook players are expected to fully adopt high definition (HD) quality webcams into their notebook models in the second half of 2012 as Microsoft launches its Windows 8 and should...
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Ultrabooks to have touch features, say sources
Notebook makers plan to employ touch panels for ultrabooks to accommodate new features in Windows 8 so as to regain market share eaten out by tablet PCs, according to industry sour...
Monday 5 December 2011
BIOS player Phoenix Technologies launching new solution for Windows 8
BIOS player Phoenix Technologies has recently announced its latest Phoenix SCT 2.2 solution to assist its PC partners to develop systems based on Windows 8, according to the compan...
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Windows-on-ARM platform to join notebook competition in June 2013
Windows on ARM (WoA), a combination of Windows 8 and ARM-based processors, is expected to make an official appearance at the end of 2012 and will try to compete in the notebook market...