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Thursday 21 November 2013
Chip firms and OEMs to enjoy strong revenue growth as year finishes, says IHS
The semiconductor and electronics OEM industries are set to enjoy significant revenue growth in 2013, partly due to their tight management of inventory levels, according to IHS.
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Pegatron pushing into non-IT industry
Pegatron Technology has been aggressively pushing into non-IT industries and has cooperated with Taiwan-based bookstore Eslite through its sub-brand Pegacasa to launch a series of...
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Windows-based 2-in-1 devices may reduce sales of conventional notebooks
Demand for Windows 8.1-based 2-in-1 devices is starting to pick up, but some channel retailers are concerned that the rising demand may impact consumer demand for conventional note...
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Sony nears breakeven point on PlayStation 4 hardware costs, says IHS
For the past seven years, Sony has offered various revisions of the PlayStation 3 console, many of which were sold at a loss. However, with the new PlayStation 4, Sony has produced...
Wednesday 20 November 2013
LED price plunges for TV backlight applications eases in 4Q13, says TrendForce
LED price plunges for backlight applications will stabilize in the fourth quarter of 2013, with a range of declines between 3-6%, according to TrendForce.
Wednesday 20 November 2013
China-based white-box vendors expected to ship 80-90 million tablets in 2013
China-based white-box vendors are expected to ship 80-90 million tablets in total in 2013, hiking 60-80% on year, and may ship 100 million units in 2014, up 25% on year, according...
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Taiwan PS4 component makers at full capacity
Taiwan-based makers of PlayStation 4 components have fully utilized their production capacities and, in view of better than expected sales in North America and booming pre-orders in...
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Innolux to release new Ultra HD TV panels in 2014
Innolux is expected to release new HCG/WCG Ultra HD TV panels in 2014, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Digitimes Research: Non-Apple brand vendors to ship 105 million tablets in 2014
Global tablet shipments are expected to reach 289 million units in 2014, up 23.6% on year. The growth, however, will be weaker than that for smartphones due to the fact that the tablet...
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Americas region remains leader in industrial chip purchases but emerging countries gain ground, says IHS
Despite years of outsourcing and offshoring, the Americas region continues to lead the world in terms of spending on semiconductors for industrial electronics, although emerging economies...
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Time ripe for development of smart peripherals: Q&A with Arima Communications president Owen Chen
Smartphone ODM Arima Communications has decided to expand its product lines to include tablets, smart accessories and other new products, optimizing its platform development expertise...
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Micron announces development of parallel processing architecture
Micron Technology has unveiled the development of a new computing architecture. The automata processor is an accelerator that leverages the intrinsic parallelism of memory and aims...
Monday 18 November 2013
Clevo sees profit growth from notebook and China shopping mall businesses
Taiwan-based second-tier notebook maker Clevo saw its consolidated revenues grow 6% sequentially to NT$4.4 billion (US$149.49 million) in the third quarter with its net profits dropping...
Monday 18 November 2013
MediaTek to introduce 8-core tablet chip in early 2014
MediaTek is set to introduce an 8-core mobile processor designed for tablets between the end of the first quarter and the beginning of second-quarter 2014, according to industry so...
Monday 18 November 2013
China TV vendors see sales drop in 3Q13
China-based TV vendors saw their sales of LCD TVs drop 6.4% on year to 10.84 million units for a sales value worth CNY$39.4 billion (US$6.46 billion), down 0.5% on year, according...