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Monday 27 January 2014
Taiwan component makers see orders from Amazon
Component makers expect to see Amazon shift orders back to Taiwan in the first quarter of 2014, according to industry sources.
Monday 27 January 2014
Taiwan market: Senao aims to sell 480,000 tablets in 2014
Senao International sold 426,000 tablets in the Taiwan market for a market share of 25% in 2013 and aims to sell 480,000 units for a market share of 30% in 2014, according to company...
Monday 27 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan ODMs see decreased digital camera shipments in 4Q13
Taiwan-based ODMs Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Asia Optical shipped a total of 3.4 million digital cameras in the fourth quarter...
Friday 24 January 2014
Taiwan market: Fixed-line Internet-access speeds close to advertised levels, says NCC
Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on January 21 released results of a sample survey of fixed-line broadband Internet-access speeds in six metropolitan areas in Taiwan,...
Friday 24 January 2014
North America semiconductor equipment industry posts book-to-bill ratio of 1.02 in December 2013, says SEMI
North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted US$1.38 billion in orders in December 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.02, according...
Friday 24 January 2014
Taiwan solar cell makers plan to hike prices in February
Taiwan-based makers plan to hike quotes for polycrystalline silicon solar cells with energy conversion rates over 17.4% to US$0.41-0.45/W in February 2014 to reflect increases in...
Friday 24 January 2014
Taiwan December manufacturing production index up, says MOEA
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 103.36 for December 2013, increasing 3.02% on month and 5.07% on year, according to statistics released by the...
Thursday 23 January 2014
Orise swings to loss in 4Q13
LCD driver IC firm Orise Technology slid into the red in the fourth quarter of 2013, due to inventory losses resulting from falling product prices particularly prices for WVGA driver...
Thursday 23 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan large-size panel shipments down in 4Q13
Taiwan panel makers' large-size (9-inch and above) shipments in the fourth quarter of 2013 reached 64.3 million, down 0.4% on quarter, according to Digitimes Research.
Thursday 23 January 2014
Canon reduction in overseas production will not affect factories in Taiwan
Japan-based vendor Canon has decided to increase the proportion of total digital camera output produced domestically from 42% in 2013 to over 50% in 2015 through shutting or reducing...
Thursday 23 January 2014
Eversol secures 80MWp PV system projects in Japan
Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon ingot and wafer maker Eversol has landed EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects for installing ground-mounted PV systems...
Thursday 23 January 2014
Taiwan market: Acer launches entry-level smartphone Liquid Z5
Acer has launched its Liquid Z5, a 5-inch entry-level smartphone equipped with MediaTek MT6572 1.3GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM and a 5-megapixel rear camera, in the Taiwan...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Penetration rate of Ultra HD TVs in North America to be at 2% in 2014, says Vizio
The penetration rate of Ultra HD TVs in the North America market in 2014 is expected to be at around 2%, according to Vizio chairman Wang Wei.
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Taiwan ODMs struggle to land mobile device orders from Samsung
While Samsung Electronics are expected to roll out an array of new smartphones and tablets for high-end as well as entry-level segments in 2014, the vendor is quite unlikely to release...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom lands exclusive rights for new media broadcasts of 2014 FIFA World Cup
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has obtained exclusive rights for new media broadcasts of the 2014 FIFA World Cup to take place in Brazil during June 12-July 13 in the Taiwan market and will...