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Wednesday 10 June 2015
Foxconn adjusts organization of iPad group in China in preparation for wearable device orders
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), in view of decreasing demand for iPads, has adjusted the organization of the iPad business group under its subsidiary in Shenzhen,...
Wednesday 10 June 2015
Taiwan market: Tablet sales to reach 1.2 million units in 2015; Huawei to launch MediaPad X2
Sales of tablets in the Taiwan markets are expected to decline 14% on year to 1.2 million units in 2015 due to dwindling demand and impact from the rising popularity of large-size...
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Zoom Storage looking to become media library for mobile device users
Zoom Storage is a hybrid powerbank and wireless storage solution developed for Android, Windows and iOS smartphones and tablets in 2,000mAh wallet size and 8,000mAh traveler's editions...
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Coretronic ships 6.75 million BLUs in May
Coretronic shipped 6.75 million backlight units (BLUs) and 91,200 DLP projectors in May, growing 3% and 12% respectively on month, according to the company.
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Saturation in China market expected to affect global LCD TV shipments in 2015, says WitsView
Global LCD TV shipments for 2015 are expected to reach 223.4 million in 2015, according to WitsView. The firm outlined a number of factors influencing the figures. Firstly, the depreciation...
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Digitimes Research: Global top-5 notebook vendors and top-3 ODMs perform weaker than expected in May
The global top-five notebook brand vendors together achieved an on-month shipment growth of 14%, but an on-year drop of 15%, while the top-three ODMs together had 5% on-month growth,...
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Inventec revenues down in May
Inventec has reported consolidated revenues of NT$28.455 billion (US$914.22 million) for May 2015, representing a 8.31% drop on month and 18.1% drop on year.
Tuesday 9 June 2015
4K TV shipments grow 400% in 1Q15, with penetration estimated at 20% for 2015
Ultra HD (4K) LCD TV shipments grew nearly 400% on year to reach 4.7 million units worldwide in the first quarter of 2015. Volume barely dropped from the seasonally strong fourth...
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Gaming notebook market to see over 10 new models in 2H15
Competition in the gaming notebook market is expected to grow fiercer in the second half as vendors including Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell and Micro-Star International (MSI) are all...
Tuesday 9 June 2015
PC inventory issues growing serious in Europe; retailers boycotting vendors dumping inventory
First-tier PC vendors reportedly are seeing serious inventory issues in Europe and may try to digest stocks by offering price cuts. At the same time, some channel retailers are reacting...
Tuesday 9 June 2015
Cadence, TSMC collaborate on IoT IP subsystem
Cadence Design Systems has announced that it is collaborating with TSMC on the development of an Internet of Things (IoT) IP subsystem demonstration platform for TSMC's ultra-low...
Monday 8 June 2015
Wistron sees notebook shipments decline in May; expects sequential drop in 2Q15 shipments
Wistron shipped 1.3 million notebooks in May, down 7.14% from 1.4 million units in April and the company currently expects the volume in the second quarter to suffer a sequential...
Monday 8 June 2015
Altek sees May revenues drop
Altek has reported consolidated revenues of NT$965 million (US$31.03 million) for May 2015, representing a 12.56% drop on month and 44.71% drop on year.
Monday 8 June 2015
Wistron revenues rise on year in May
Wistron has reported consolidated revenues of NT$44.879 billion (US$1.44 billion) for May 2015, representing a 4.5% drop on month and 2.39% increase on year.
Monday 8 June 2015
Asustek lands China education procurement orders for desktops, says paper
Asustek Computer has landed three education procurement orders from China for its Asus Pro series desktop products and the vendor is expected to ship 800,000 enterprise desktops worldwide...