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Wednesday 29 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Japan online video market to grow significantly starting 2H15
Japan's online video market is expected to grow significantly starting the second half of 2015 when Netflix begins to offer its services, NTT DoCoMo launches its dTV Terminal program...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Taiwan market: Taiwan Star Cellular aims at 500,000 4G users for end of 2015
Taiwan Star Cellular aims to increase the number of its 4G mobile communication subscribers from 200,000-250,000 currently to 500,000 at the end of 2015, according to company president...
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Taiwan market: Xiaomi to launch Mi 4i in May
Xiaomi Technology plans to launch its new smartphone, the Xiaomi Mi 4i, in the Taiwan market on May 7, with its global vice president Hugo Barra presiding over the product event.
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Taiwan market: TWM cooperates with Brightstar to collect 2nd-hand smartphones
Taiwan Mobile (TWM) on April 28 announced an exclusive cooperation agreement with Brightstar, a global distributor of mobile devices and a subsidiary of Japan-based SoftBank, to collect...
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Taiwan IC design industry output value to rise 14.3% in 2Q15
The production value of Taiwan's IC design industry is forecast to rise 14.3% sequentially to NT$140.07 billion (US$4.58 billion) in the second quarter of 2015, buoyed mainly by a...
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Taiwan LCD monitors – 1Q 2015
Taiwan makers' first-quarter 2015 LCD monitor shipments dropped below 20 million units for the first time in almost a decade, as demand continued to be weak.
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Taiwan market: Samsung unveils entry-level tablet Galaxy Tab A
Samsung Electronics has unveiled Galaxy Tab A, an entry-level tablet with an S Pen touch pen, for launch in the Taiwan market in early May.
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Solar firms cooperate to develop PERC mono-like cells
Some system, wafer and cell makers from the US, Taiwan and China have been working together to develop PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) mono-like solar cells carrying significantly...
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Taiwan digital cameras – 1Q 2015
DSCs continue to be cannibalized by smartphones with increasingly better camera functions. Taiwan's DSC makers saw a short-lived rebound in shipments in fourth-quarter 2014, but slipped...
Monday 27 April 2015
Over 60 million iPhone 6s to be shipped in 2Q15, say Taiwan makers
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus shipments in the second quarter of 2015 are expected to exceed 60 million units, more than the originally expected 50 million units, according to Taiwan-based...
Monday 27 April 2015
Global handset demand likely to disappoint in 2015, say Taiwan IC design houses
The global handset market could register flat growth in 2015, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses, adding that they have seen customer orders pick up at a slow pa...
Monday 27 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers small- to medium-size panels drop over 19% in 1Q15
Taiwan makers' shipments of small- to medium-size panels dropped 19.1% on quarter in the first quarter of 2015 to 288 million units and are expected to grow 12.7% on quarter in the...
Monday 27 April 2015
Seagate and EverFocus safeguards 400 Taiwanese brand optical shops in Taiwan
Taiwanese brand Optical shops, one of the major professional optometry service providers in Taiwan, has recently deployed EverFocus eZ.IP solution, including enterprise-level CMS...
Monday 27 April 2015
AMD to launch Godavari APUs at end of May, say Taiwan makers
AMD will launch Godavari series APUs at the end of May to compete with Intel's Broadwell and Skylake platforms, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.
Friday 24 April 2015
Taiwan notebook shipments down 16% sequentially in 1Q15, says MIC
Taiwan makers shipped about 31.62 million notebooks in the first quarter of 2015, decreasing 16% from a quarter earlier, the government-backed MIC (Market Intelligence and Consulting...