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Monday 19 August 2013
Notebook ODMs seeking measures to stay competitive in 2014
Notebook ODMs are taking measures to handle the challenges they may face in 2014. In addition to seeking new business opportunities such as wearable devices and cloud computing datacenters,...
Monday 19 August 2013
Sony and Samsung to unveil new smartphones and wearable devices in September
Samsung Electronics and Sony are expected to unveil their latest smartphones and wearable devices prior to Apple's release of new products in September or October, according to market...
Monday 19 August 2013
Lenovo to produce 60% of its notebooks in-house in 2014
Lenovo reportedly will produce 60% of its notebooks in-house in 2014, while outsourcing to Compal Electronics will drop to only 30% of total shipments from the previous 50%, and Wistron's...
Friday 16 August 2013
Samsung intros 3D V-NAND SSD for enterprise applications
Samsung Electronics has introduced a solid state drive (SSD) based on its 3D V-NAND technology. The new SSD, unveiled during a keynote at the Flash Memory Summit 2013 in California,...
Friday 16 August 2013
Samsung announces Curved OLED TV
Samsung Electronics America has announced the availability of its first Curved OLED TV in the US. The KN55S9C is also the first TV to feature MultiView capabilities with Full HD and...
Friday 16 August 2013
Taiwan market: Chunghwa Telecom offers 50-inch Ultra HD TV for contract-bundled sale
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on August 15 announced cooperation with Chimei to offer a 50-inch Ultra HD TV for sale at NT$33,990 (US$1,133) when bundled with a 3-year MOD contract of NT$299...
Friday 16 August 2013
Lenovo strong financial performance concerning Taiwan suppliers
China-based Lenovo has announced strong profit growth of 23% on year for second-quarter 2013, surpassing most market watchers' estimates despite the fact that the notebook market...
Friday 16 August 2013
8-inch tablets expected to impact demand for 10.1-inch models, say Taiwan makers
Samsung Electronics, Acer and Micro-Star International (MSI) have launched 8-inch tablets and Hewlett-Packard (HP), LG Electronics, Lenovo and Asustek Computer are expected to follow...
Friday 16 August 2013
E Ink suffers sharp revenue drop in 2Q13
Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker E Ink Holdings has reported consolidated revenues of NT$2.928 billion (US$98 million) for the second quarter, decreasing 45.56% sequentially and...
Friday 16 August 2013
Innolux to supply high-color-saturation Ultra HD TV panels for China-based vendors
Innolux will supply 65-inch Ultra HD TV panels with high color saturations of 90-100% NTSC as well as 42-inch models for China-based LCD TV vendors, according to Taiwan-based supply...
Thursday 15 August 2013
Clevo plans to float REITs or IPO shares for China-based retail business Buynow
Notebook maker Clevo plans to issue REITs (real estate investment trust) certificates or IPO shares to capitalize the business operation of Buynow, its wholly-owned IT and consumer...
Thursday 15 August 2013
Tsann Kuen, E-Life Mall 1H13 net EPS down on year
Tsann Kuen and E-Life Mall, two IT and consumer electronics retail chains in Taiwan, saw first-half 2013 net EPS of NT$1.60 dropping 38.5% on year, and NT$2.82 down 15.1% respectively,...
Thursday 15 August 2013
More US households use Roku, Apple TV or other streaming video media devices, says Parks Associates
Parks Associates has announced new streaming media and connected TV research showing the number of US broadband households with a streaming video media device, such as a Roku or Apple...
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Asustek to enter the Chromebook market in 4Q13
Asustek Computer plans to enter the Chromebook market as soon as the fourth quarter, hoping to find new demand from the IT market to boost its notebook shipments, according to sources...
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Intel introduces Android-based education tablet reference design
Intel has introduced an education-focused tablet reference design, featuring an Intel Atom processor and the Android operating system. The Intel Education tablet is specifically for...