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Tuesday 7 May 2013
AUO to produce wide color gamut Ultra HD TV panels in 2Q13
AU Optronics (AUO) has plans to produce volume shipments of Ultra HD TV panels equipped with wide color gamut (WCG) technology for color saturation as high as NTSC 100% in the third...
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Price gap between touch and non-touch notebooks may drop below US$50 in 3Q13
As Acer and Asustek Computer are both aggressively promoting touchscreen notebooks, sources from channel retailers expect the price gap between touchscreen and non-touchscreen notebooks...
Monday 6 May 2013
Touchscreen models to account for 50% of Acer notebook shipments in 2014
Acer is set to raise the shipment proportion of its touchscreen notebooks from 12% of the total volume in the first quarter to 50% by 2014 and 70% by 2015, according to Acer vice president...
Monday 6 May 2013
Samsung to start selling OLED TVs in Korea in June
Samsung Electronics is expected to start selling its 55-inch OLED TVs in South Korea as of June 2013, according to industry sources, adding the company will release the products in...
Monday 6 May 2013
TV panel prices expected to drop US$1-2 through end of 2Q13
TV panel prices are expected to drop about US$1-2 over the next few months due to a TV sales slowdown in the market as a result of the May 1 holiday period in China coming to an end,...
Monday 6 May 2013
CSOT selling 55-inch Ultra HD TV panels at 2.1 times the price of Full HD models
China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) is now selling 55-inch Ultra HD (3840 by 2160) TV panels primarily to China-based TV vendors such as TCL for 2.1 times the price of Full...
Monday 6 May 2013
Acer unveils new ultrabooks, notebooks and tablet
At a press event held in New York, Acer has unveiled its latest mobile products including the Aspire R7, a 15.6-inch notebook; Aspire P3 ultrabook; Iconia A1 7.9-inch tablet; and updated...
Monday 6 May 2013
Sony PS4 may not achieve expected shipments in 2013
Sony's PlayStation (PS) 4 may have trouble achieving shipments of 12-16 million units in 2013 as expected, as the related upstream supply chain has not yet received any shipment instructions...
Monday 6 May 2013
Acer chairman expects 5% on-year growth in 2Q13 notebook shipments
During a recent product launch event in New York, Acer chairman JT Wang said the company has a good chance of seeing a 5% on-year revenue growth in the second quarter.
Monday 6 May 2013
Digitimes Research: Global top-5 notebook brands see over 20% shipment drop in April
Global top-5 notebook brands together suffered a more than 20% on-month shipment drop in April, while top-3 ODMs together had a drop of 14% due to most brand vendors having started...
Monday 6 May 2013
Taiwan April CPI goes up, says DGBAS
Taiwan's April 2013 consumer price index (CPI) of 102.04 (2011 as base year) increased by 0.6% on month and by 1.04% on year, while the corresponding wholesale price index (WPI) of...
Monday 6 May 2013
Altek expects 30% sequential growth in 2Q13 revenues
Taiwan-based digital camera ODM Altek, having seen first-quarter 2013 consolidated revenues drop 18.83% sequentially to NT$4.014 billion (US$134 million), expects consolidated revenues...
Friday 3 May 2013
Taiwan market: Projector shipments down in 1Q13, says IDC
There were 19,452 projectors shipped in the Taiwan market during the first quarter of 2013, decreasing 20.9% on quarter and 24.4% on year, according to IDC Taiwan.
Friday 3 May 2013
Taiwan market: Sony to launch 3 Cyber-shot digital cameras
Sony Taiwan on May 2 unveiled three Cyber-shot series digital camera models, the HX50V for launch in the Taiwan market in mid-June, and the WX300 and TX30 launching in mid-May.
Friday 3 May 2013
Apple and Samsung to ship a combined 110 million tablets in 2013
Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel makers have received surging orders from international tablet vendors and China-based white-box ones, according to Taiwan-based supply chain sources, adding...