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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 promote...
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 those...
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...
Monday 22 April 2013
Compal lands orders for 10-inch tablet from Acer
Compal Electronics has obtained orders for an inexpensive 10-inch tablet model from Acer, with shipments to begin in August 2013, according to sources with the Taiwan-based supply...
Friday 19 April 2013
China market: Apple shares over 71% of 4Q12 consumer tablet sales, says Analysys
Apple occupied 71.6% of consumer tablets sold in the China market during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to China-based Analysys International.
Friday 19 April 2013
Intel promotes Android convertible notebooks, say vendors
Viewing that Windows 8 has been unable to stimulate global demand for notebooks, and global sales of Android tablets have been increasing, Intel has begun to promote Android tablet-convertible...
Friday 19 April 2013
Windows 8 expected to trigger global growth in touch-enabled notebooks, says DisplaySearch
The penetration of touch screens in notebooks was under 3% in 2012, but is expected to grow to more than 12% in 2013. This compares to touch-screen penetration of 77% in mobile phones...
Friday 19 April 2013
Mobile devices, SSDs propelling NAND flash sales in 2013, says IC Insights
Increasing HD video content, social networking, shared data via the cloud, low power consumption and instant-on features continue to drive growth of devices that use NAND flash memory...
Friday 19 April 2013
iPad mini shipments expected to fall to 10-12 million units in 2Q13, say Taiwan makers
Shipments of iPad mini, mainly due to competition from several 7- to 8-inch tablets, are expected to drop from 13-15 million units in the first quarter of 2013 to 10-12 million units...