88 news items tagged Computex 2002
Quanta to continue sharing Acer notebook orders
Friday 7 June 2002Acer has again decided to include Quanta Computer as a contract notebook manufacturer along with Wistron and Compal Electronics. Quanta reportedly will begin small shipments to Acer...
Winbond showing TV-out-enabled DSPs
Friday 7 June 2002Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics is showcasing two new DSC (digital still camera)-use DSPs (digital signal processors) at Computex Taipei. The products are three-mode designs, meaning...
VIA announces growing support for EPIA Mini-ITX board
Friday 7 June 2002Since it was launched at CeBIT Hannover, the Mini-ITX format has been adopted by a growing number of chassis manufacturers, with Morex Information Ent., G-Alantic Enterprise, Yeong...
Backgrounder: Image sensors
Friday 7 June 2002Image sensors function much like a human eye, absorbing and converting light from the environment around us into digital signals, assembling the images, processing, storing, and sending...
Mitac’s new Pocket PC 2002-based Mio 528
Friday 7 June 2002The popularity of PDAs (personal digital assistants) has grown significantly over the past few years with increasing convenience and improving functionality. When first on the market,...
AnandTech editor on Computex
Friday 7 June 2002In a quick breakfast meeting on Wednesday, June 7, AnandTech editor in chief and CEO Anand Lal Shimpi and senior hardware editor Matthew Witheiler were obviously very happy to be...
Full spectrum of companies push WLAN products
Thursday 6 June 2002At Computex Taipei, Taiwanese electronics companies are rolling out products to support WLAN (wireless local area network) technology for motherboards, memory modules and network...
Z-Com’s wireless LAN card and AP take top prize
Thursday 6 June 2002Nikkei Byte and Nikkei WinPC selected Z-Com’s XV-5300/5800 wireless LAN card and access point (AP), which support IEEE 802.11a/b, for its overall “Best of Computex Taipei...
2002 outlook conservative
Thursday 6 June 2002Despite seeing total industry shipments suffer a nearly 5% decline amid the economic slowdown, Taiwanese motherboard companies managed to turn in a rather good performance in 2001...
Barebones help Shuttle and Jetway
Thursday 6 June 2002Following their first-tier counterparts, second-tier motherboard makers have tried to improve their business performance by diversifying their operations. Currently, Shuttle and Jetway...
Move to OEM inevitable
Thursday 6 June 2002The clone market once provided a great platform for Taiwan’s burgeoning motherboard production and helped the manufacturers to grow significantly over the years. However, now...
MIC: 2Q shipments to drop 15%
Thursday 6 June 2002Taiwanese manufacturers will ship only 18.41 million motherboards in the second quarter, down 15% from 21.66 million units in the first quarter, the Market Intelligence Center (MIC)...
Competition for 2nd-tier orders
Thursday 6 June 2002The attempt by Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) to launch an OEM service for second-tier motherboard makers marks not only the company’s...
Top four take 50%
Thursday 6 June 2002Compared to their projections at the end of 2001, first-tier motherboard companies’ latest 2002 shipment forecasts appear more conservative, with the exception of Asustek Computer...
Varied growth prospects
Thursday 6 June 2002In 2001, Taiwan’s optical storage drive industry saw production fall for the first time, by 12.5% in volume and 8.6% in value, snapping years of rapid growth.
Japanese LCD niches
Thursday 6 June 2002Japanese LCD producers have been preparing for the much-intensified competition in the global flat panel display market. While gradually phasing out large-size a-Si (amorphous silicon)...
Xbox DVD prices may fall 30%
Thursday 6 June 2002Taiwanese DVD player makers are eyeing outsourcing opportunities as Microsoft is planning the launch of second-generation Xbox game consoles this summer. The new game machine’s...
China and Taiwan push new DVD disc format
Thursday 6 June 2002In a move to skirt licensing fees charged by DVD technology owners, 19 Taiwanese DVD manufacturers are in talks with counterparts in China to create a new disc format called EVD (enhanced...
June CD-R prices rise
Thursday 6 June 2002Taiwan’s optical disc manufacturers are rolling out long-anticipated price increases in CD-R discs. Per-unit contract prices of blank discs for June are up by roughly US$0.02...
Lite-On IT partners for DVD pick-up heads
Thursday 6 June 2002Lite-On IT is planning to inject more capital into its optical drive distribution joint venture with JVC to finance pick-up head (PUH) production in China. The plant, to be located...
Weakening in 2Q
Thursday 6 June 2002With demand coming in weaker than expected, optical drive manufacturers are turning bearish on the outlook for their performance in the current quarter. They said sales are likely...
LSI first with Ultra320 PCI SCSI RAID
Thursday 6 June 2002LSI Logic announced on June 3 that it has begun shipping production samples of the market’s first PCI SCSI RAID storage adapters with Ultra320 support.
ASPs and margins will decline
Thursday 6 June 2002Although several high-end motherboard products, such as those supporting DDR333 or 533MHz FSB (front-side bus) standards, are set to hit the market this year, manufacturers said that...
New war in barebones
Thursday 6 June 2002After the OEM business, competition among motherboard makers is now expected to extend to the barebone systems market in 2002. Companies that started operations last year such as...
Stepping into wireless
Thursday 6 June 2002Following graphics cards and barebone systems, wireless communications products have now entered the spotlight in the first-tier motherboard makers’ diversification stage.