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Tuesday 23 April 2013
Innolux likely to produce 85-inch Ultra HD TV panels by end of 2013, say sources
Innolux Corporation currently does not have plans to produce 85-inch Ultra HD (3840 by 2160) TV panels but is likely to do so by the end of 2013, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Innolux to mass produce 42-inch Ultra HD TV panels in mid-2013
Innolux Corporation has plans to mass produce 42-inch Ultra HD TV panels sometime in mid-2013, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Automotive and wireless apps help drive pressure sensors to rise to top of MEMS market in 2013, says IHS
Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) pressure sensors will achieve accelerated growth in 2013 and become the leading type of MEMS device, driven by increasing use in automotive and...
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Global FPD TV shipments fall 10% in February, says Displaybank
Global shipments of flat panel display (FPD) TVs amounted to 12.6 million units in February 2013, down from 14 million a year earlier, as demand in China plunged following the Lunar...
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Winbond breaks into Galaxy S4 supply chain
Winbond Electronics reportedly has entered the supply chain for Samsung Electronics' Galaxy 4S with its specialty DRAM and NOR flash chips.
Tuesday 23 April 2013
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG), about the use of MEMS for energy-saving applications. Lightman pointed out opportunities...
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 1Q13 digital camera shipments hit 16-quarter low
Taiwan-based ODMs Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical shipped 57.41 million digital cameras in total during the first quarter of 2013, the lowest quarterly...
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Asustek to push Padfone Infinity in China
Asustek Computer has recently partnered with China Unicom to sell its new Padfone Infinity in China and the company will also host a launch conference later this month (April) to...
Monday 22 April 2013
MediaTek likely to raise shipment target for 2013
MediaTek is expected to revise upward its handset-IC shipment target for 2013, according to industry sources, which judge from China's booming smartphone market.
Monday 22 April 2013
Notebook ODMs to see mixed declines in April shipments
Notebook ODMs are expected to see on-month shipment declines in April with Compal Electronics and Wistron dropping about 10%. Meanwhile, Quanta and Pegatron will only see single-digit...
Monday 22 April 2013
Demand for 64Gb NAND flash chips stays strong
The 64Gb NAND flash memory market segment has been growing, driven by strong demand for smartphones and tablets. Prices for the high-density chips have stayed high to reflect that...
Monday 22 April 2013
Bluetooth IC shipments to nearly double by 2017, says IHS
The market for Bluetooth semiconductors is expected to boom by nearly 100% from 2011 to 2017, with the majority of the growth driven by demand for wireless combination ICs and mobile...
Monday 22 April 2013
Acer preparing for tablet competition in summer
Acer recently shifted forward the launch of its second-generation Iconia B1 tablet from the end of 2013 originally to June and also moved volume production of its 10-inch entry-level...
Monday 22 April 2013
Intel pushing adaptive all-in-one PCs with new components
Intel has begun promoting its adaptive all-in-one PC concept in the upstream supply chain recently, hoping the devices can boost all-in-one PC sales in 2013 to a volume triple of...
Monday 22 April 2013
Taiwan ODM factories in western China unaffected by earthquake
Four Taiwan-based notebook ODMs, Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec, have indicated that their factories in Chongqing and Chengdu, western China, were not affected...