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Friday 27 April 2012
Intel seeks help from supply chain in response to changes in Acer ultrabook plans
As Acer has announced plans to reduce the proportion of ultrabooks in its total notebook shipments from 25-30% to 12-20% for 2012, Intel has already begun to seek help from the upstream...
Friday 27 April 2012
Acer to reenter world top-3 PC vendor rankings, says chairman
Acer saw its business operations significantly improve in the first quarter of 2012 and expects continued improvement quarter by quarter through the year. As a result the company...
Thursday 26 April 2012
High-end TV sales bring turnaround for LG
LG Electronics has reported US$215 million in net profits during the first quarter and estimates that its second quarter total revenue will be US$10.75 billion with operating profits...
Thursday 26 April 2012
Senao 1Q12 revenues, profit hit records
Senao International, a retail chain of handsets and other 3C electronics in Taiwan, has reported first-quarter 2012 revenues and net profits both hit records.
Thursday 26 April 2012
CMI to hit 1 million 39-inch TV panel milestone in May or June
Chimei Innolux (CMI) is expected to see its shipments of 39-inch TV panels hit the one-million mark in May or June. Monthly shipments of 50-inch TV panels are estimated to each 300,000...
Thursday 26 April 2012
Acer, Inventec announce results for 1Q12
Acer and Inventec have hosted investor meeting and announced their latest performance in the first quarter.
Thursday 26 April 2012
Notebook vendors to push ultra-like notebook models
The high prices of second-generation ultrabooks which are set to appear in early June of around US$1,000 are unlikely to help them win-over consumers; therefore, notebook vendors...
Thursday 26 April 2012
MSI launches Ivy Bridge-based gaming notebook
Micro-Star International (MSI) has shifted its focus from consumer notebooks to gaming models, and on April 24 launched a new model equipped with Ivy Bridge Core i7-3610M processor...
Wednesday 25 April 2012
PC vendors launch products with new Ivy Bridge processors
PC brand vendors have been aggressively unveiling their latest notebook products featuring Intel's third-generation Ivy Bridge-based Core processors, including Hewlett-Packard's (HP's)...
Wednesday 25 April 2012
Inventec to deal out 2011 dividend of NT$0.65
Inventec, a Taiwan-based maker of notebooks and servers, will distribute a dividend per share of NT$0.65 - NT$0.30 in cash and NT$0.35 in stock - for 2011 operation, according to...
Wednesday 25 April 2012
HTC to deal 2011 dividend of NT$40
Taiwan-based smartphone vendor HTC on April 24 decided to distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$40 for 2011 operation, accounting for 54.56% of the corresponding net earnings...
Wednesday 25 April 2012
HTC suffers sequential downturn in 1Q12
HTC saw its business operations slip significantly in the first quarter of 2012, a sequential decrease for the second consecutive time, according to the company's financial report.
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Taiwan LCD TV shipments down in 1Q12
Taiwan-based makers shipped 8.704 million LCD TVs in the first quarter of 2012, slipping by 24.4% on quarter and by 20.0% on year, according to Digitimes Research.
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Sony reportedly to use Samsung OLED TV panels
Sony plans to use OLED panels made by Samsung Electronics for its Bravia flat panel TV series as of early 2013, which will pose challenges for Taiwanese firms, according to industry...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Shuttle sees great future in educational tablet PC market: Q&A with Yang Zi-yi, vice president of Shuttle education product development center
As iPad is expected to account for close to 60% of the global tablet PC market, while Apple has also launched iBook 2 and iBook Author to compete in the educational market, bringing...