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Friday 24 April 2015
Acer showcases range of new products in New York
Acer has unveiled more than 40 new products, including smart bracelets, smartphones, tablets, PCs, projectors and cloud application products at a product presentation held in New...
Friday 24 April 2015
Acer re-launches Predator gaming notebook lineup
Acer has resumed its gaming notebook business line and re-launched a series of products under its Predator-sub-brand.
Thursday 23 April 2015
Intel to help vendors launch inexpensive tablets, say Taiwan makers
Intel will offer new RDAs (reference designs for Android) in the second half of 2015 to help partnering vendors, including China-based white-box ones, launch inexpensive 7-, 8- and...
Thursday 23 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Taiwan sees decreased 1Q15 LCD monitor shipments
Taiwan-based ODMs shipped 18.799 million LCD monitors worth US$2.155 billion in the first quarter of 2015, with the shipment volume dropping 15.5% on quarter and 6.5% on year. Shipment...
Thursday 23 April 2015
Supply chains prepping for increase in 2-in-1 tablet orders from China
Supply chains are prepping for an increase in orders for 2-in-1 tablets from China, according to industry sources.
Thursday 23 April 2015
Posiflex wins Red Dot Award: Product design 2015
Posiflex has once again been recognized by the prestigious Red Dot Award for the innovative product design with its latest mobile POS, the MT-4008W. It is an 8" tablet complemented...
Wednesday 22 April 2015
Sony adjusts its performance outlook
Sony has adjusted its sales and operating revenues expectations for its fiscal year from April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2015 to JPY8.2 trillion (US$68.62 billion) from a previous projected...
Wednesday 22 April 2015
TV panel inventory piling up in 2Q15, says WitsView
In the first quarter of 2015, TV panel shipments dropped 1% compared with the previous quarter, while TV set shipments plummeted 26% quarterly due to seasonality. This means that...
Wednesday 22 April 2015
IoT to drive semiconductor growth, says TSMC co-CEO
Internet of Things (IoT) will be the semiconductor industry's next growth driver, spurring demand for chip components for use in applications particularly automotive, medical/healthcare...
Tuesday 21 April 2015
32-inch TV panel pricing expected to drop US$2-3 during late April, says WitsView
Pricing for 32-inch TV panels is expected to drop US$2-3 during the end of April largely due to an oversupply of the technology. Panels sized 48-, 49-, and 55-inch have also declined...
Tuesday 21 April 2015
Acer founder to pass down shareholding to eldest son, hoping to bring added value to company
Commenting on his successor, Acer founder Stan Shih pointed out that his eldest son Maverick Shih, president of Acer's Build Your Own Cloud (BYOC) business, will inherit his shareholding...
Monday 20 April 2015
China top-6 vendors see TV shipments to markets abroad increase 16% in 1Q15
The top six major LCD TV vendors in China saw accumulative shipments to markets outside China grow 16% on year in the first quarter of 2015, with approximately 30% of the amount going...
Monday 20 April 2015
3.75 billion Wi-Fi connected devices will be shipped worldwide by 2019, says MIC
Driven by flourishing demand for smartphones and IoT (Internet of Things), global shipment volume of Wi-Fi connected devices reached around 2.27 billion units in 2014, up 18% on year,...
Thursday 16 April 2015
Digitimes Research: Taiwan sees decreased 1Q15 digital camera shipments
Taiwan-based ODMs shipped a total of 2.3 million digital cameras in the first quarter of 2015, decreasing 42.4% on quarter and 13.6% on year, according to Digitimes Research.
Thursday 16 April 2015
PC ODMs expect to obtain orders at losses in 2H15
As vendors are conservative about global PC demand and have launched more inexpensive models, they will select ODMs with the lowest quotes to maintain thin profitability in the second...