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Wednesday 9 March 2016
Chin-Poon February revenues rise on year
Chin-Poon Industrial has reported consolidated revenues for February 2016 increased around 20% from a year earlier to NT$1.83 billion (US$55.8 million).
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Taiwan market: Lenovo aims at 8% market share for consumer PCs in 2016
Lenovo aims to increase its market share for consumer PCs in the Taiwan market from 4% in 2015 to 8% in 2016, and sets a target growth of over 10% in sales of consumer-use PCs, according...
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Wistron, Inventec see better-than-expected shipments in February
Wistron shipped 1.1 million notebooks, 800,000 desktops, 500,000 monitors, 300,000 LCD TVs and 130,000 servers in February, while fellow maker Inventec shipped 1.25 million IT devices...
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Microsoft producing HoloLens in-house, say Taiwan makers
Microsoft is currently producing its augmented reality (AR) device, HoloLens, at its own factory in the US instead of having Pegatron Technology, its main manufacturing partner in...
Tuesday 8 March 2016
Digitimes Research: Global AIO PC shipments in 2015 dip 5%
There were an estimated 13.307 million AIO (all-in-one) PCs shipped globally in 2015, slipping 5% on year. Shipments in 2016 will reach 12.892 million units, according to Digitimes...
Tuesday 8 March 2016
Synnex February revenues down on month, up on year
IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International on March 8 reported consolidated revenues of NT$20.2 billion (US$605 million) for February 2016, decreasing...
Monday 7 March 2016
Dell increases sourcing of PC component from China
Dell reportedly has significantly increased its desktop component supply from China-based players for 2016 and is planning to increase the supply share to above 70% in 2017, looking...
Monday 7 March 2016
Digitimes Research: US FCC to open up STB market; Korea vendors less interested in 3D TV
Observing the OTT/TV market in February, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed to make the set-top box (STB) market more open, allowing consumer electronics...
Monday 7 March 2016
Huawei MateBook shipments expected to reach 400,000 units in 2016
Huawei's MateBook 2-in-1 is expected to achieve annual shipments of 400,000 units, a lot lower than market watchers' expectations of 1-2 million units as Huawei is mainly pushing...
Friday 4 March 2016
Taiwan market: Epson crosses into wearable market, targeting mainly mid-range and high-end
Optimistic about wearable device demand, Epson established a department specifically to handle healthcare and sport sensor product development in 2013 and later reorganized the department...
Friday 4 March 2016
More than 50 million mobile VR devices to ship by 2020 as virtual reality takes step forward at MWC 2016, says ABI Research
Virtual reality (VR) took a step forward at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016. At the Samsung S7 launch, Mark Zuckerberg spoke of the Oculus/Samsung partnership and the rising popularity...
Friday 4 March 2016
LED makers step into automotive lighting
LED device maker Lite-On Technology, LED lighting maker Laster Tech as well as LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers Epistar and Genesis Photonics have stepped into automotive LED lighting,...
Thursday 3 March 2016
Google Cardboard sales reach 5 million units since launch, says executive
Google has sold close to five million Cardboard virtual reality (VR) devices since its launch in 2014 and apps on the Google Play Store that support the product have surpassed 2,000,...
Thursday 3 March 2016
Tablet supply chain sees weak 1Q16 orders as vendors reduce development
The upstream tablet supply chain is seeing orders from clients continue to shrink, and shipments for the first quarter are expected to be significantly impacted. In addition to brand...
Thursday 3 March 2016
Samsung unveils 3 notebook models in China
Samsung Electronics unveiled three notebooks under its 9 series product line: the 13-inch 900X3L, 15-inch 900X5L and 13-inch 940X3L, at Samsung China Forum in Shanghai, eastern China,...