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Friday 1 June 2012
Novaled develops new air-stable n-dopant and ETL materials for OLED
Novaled, which develops technologies and materials that enhance the performance of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and other organic electronics, has announced a new class of...
Thursday 31 May 2012
China market: Lenovo launches Intel smartphone
Intel and Lenovo have jointly announced the general availability of the Lenovo LePhone K800 in China, Lenovo's first smartphone with Intel Inside. The LePhone K800 will be available...
Thursday 31 May 2012
Radiant BLU shipments for iPads likely to reduce in 2H12, say sources
BLU maker Radiant Opto-Electronics is expected to see its shipments of BLUs for Apple's iPads affected significantly in the second half of 2012 when LG Display and Sharp are likely...
Thursday 31 May 2012
Wistron drops 2Q12 notebook shipment forecast
Wistron has reduced its notebook shipment forecast for the second quarter from a growth of 0-5% sequentially to staying flat and or even a slight drop.
Thursday 31 May 2012
Apple may have difficulty establishing assembly lines in the US in the short term
Although Apple CEO Tim Cooks recently commented that he hoped more of Apple's production lines can move back to the US in the future, sources from the upstream supply chain pointed...
Thursday 31 May 2012
Asustek, HTC back off from new Chromebook
Although Google recently unveiled its second-generation Chromebook device, jointly developed with Samsung Electronics, Asustek Computer and High Tech Computer (HTC), seeing Acer and...
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Taiwan digital cameras – 1Q 2012
Taiwan shipped 10.95 million digital cameras in the first quarter of 2012, down 9.8% on quarter and 11.8% on year.
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Broadcom, Panasonic, Qualcomm Atheros, Intel and Wilocity to lead panel discussion at Computex WiGig Executive Summit
The Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance is set to host an executive summit on June 5 in Taipei as part of COMPUTEX, the world's leading ICT procurement platform. The summit is being...
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Pico projector market to grow significantly in 2012, say industry sources
The micro and pocket projector market size in 2012 is likely to grow to four million units from two million units in 2011, according to industry sources. Vivitek, a Taiwan-based vendor...
Wednesday 30 May 2012
LED industry predicts revenue growth for 2Q12
Downstream LED packaging houses have been operating with capacity utilization rates of 70-80%. In particular, Unity Opto indicated order visibility is clear through June and predicted...
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Notebook shipments in Brazil to grow over 50% in 2H12
Shipments of notebooks in the Brazil market in the second half of 2012 are expected to increase more than 50% on year, according to Taiwan-based PC vendors.
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Camera design for ultrabooks helps maintain webcam ASPs
As ultrabooks require built-in camera modules be reduced to 2.0-3.0mm which is lower than 4.0-5.0mm specified for regular notebooks, this prevents ASPs for webcams from falling in...
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Samsung, Hynix scaling up capacity for LPDDR DRAM
Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor have both ramped up LPDDR2 DRAM chips using 30nm-class process technologies, and delivered samples of LPDDR3 products with mass production...
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Rumblings of tight Intel Pineview supply in IPC supply chain
Intel's Atom D525 (Pineview) processor, which has been adopted in industrial PC (IPC) products such as point of sales (POS), digital signage, gambling machines and industrial automation...
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Notebook ODMs starting to reduce component orders for June
Taiwan-based notebook ODMs, although still maintaining their shipment forecast for the second quarter, have recently started decreasing their orders to upstream component makers and...