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Wednesday 31 July 2019
Samsung sees double-digit tablet PC sales increase in Taiwan
Samsung Electronics and Apple have seen impressive tablet sales in Taiwan, with the former's surging 24% on year in volume and 16% in value so far this year, according to industry...
Wednesday 31 July 2019
Global notebook shipments to drop in 3Q19, 4Q19, says Digitimes Research
Worldwide notebook shipments rose over 20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2019, but volumes in both the third and fourth quarters are expected to experience sequential declines,...
Wednesday 31 July 2019
BLU maker Coretronic expects shipments to pick up in 3Q19
Coretronics expects shipments of its energy-saving products, mainly backlight units (BLU), to climb over 10% sequentially in the third quarter of 2019, buoyed by increasing shipments...
Wednesday 31 July 2019
Apple reports 1% increase in fiscal 3Q19 sales
Apple has reported its fiscal third-quarter 2019 sales reached US$53.8 billion, an increase of 1% from the year-ago level. Net income for the period came to US$10.04 billion, down...
Wednesday 31 July 2019
JCET kicks off 12-inch wafer bumping production in S Korea
Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), the largest China-based IC backend service provider, has announced that volume production is kicking off at its new 12-inch wafer...
Monday 29 July 2019
Highlights of the day: Apple gearing up
Apple is said to be looking to boost its in-house IC design capability in a bid to stay competitive and its moves are...
Monday 29 July 2019
Apple set to release new MacBook Pro with narrow bezel in September
Apple is set to release in September 2019 new MacBook Pro featuring ultra-narrow bezel to accommodate a 16-inch screen, expanded from the original 15-inch one. And Taiwan's ODM Quanta...
Monday 29 July 2019
Taiwan TV shipments record double-digit growth in 2Q19, says Digitimes Research
Taiwan's makers shipped 7.16 million LCD TVs in the second quarter of 2019 increasing 14.4% from the previous quarter, as US-based clients required advanced shipments to avoid their...
Monday 29 July 2019
Global TV panel shipments edge up in 1H19
Global shipments of TV panels totaled 140 million units in the first half of 2019, up 3.6% from a year earlier, driven mostly by capacity ramps by China's plat panel makers, according...
Monday 29 July 2019
Building server-grade gaming products: Q&A with Supermicro senior product managers
Supermicro, a first-tier server vendor worldwide, has been aggressively developing gaming-related products with its experience from the server business. Supermicro is able to offer...
Friday 26 July 2019
AUO gives flat outlook for 3Q19
AU Optronics (AUO) expects its sales for the third quarter of 2019 to remain at the same levels as a quarter earlier because there is uncertainty about demand in the traditional high...
Friday 26 July 2019
Desktop renewals ahead of Windows 7 EOL drive EMEA PC market in 2Q19, says IDC
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 1.1% on year in the second quarter of 2019 and totaled 16.4 million units,...
Friday 26 July 2019
Intel reports 2Q19 financial results
Intel has reported second-quarter 2019 financial results, generating approximately US$7.6 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of US$1.4 billion and used US$3 billion to...
Wednesday 24 July 2019
Advantech invests in HwaCom for smart city cooperation
Advantech has announced it invest NT$266 million (US$8.49 million) to acquire a total of 19.4 million shares of Taiwan-based networking product maker HwaCom Systems at NT$13.70 per...
Wednesday 24 July 2019
Most Taiwan components makers unmotivated about reestablishing local capacity
Taiwan-based components makers are mostly uninterested in reestablishing local production capacity despite server ODMs' wish they did so, as their business scales are not large enough...