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Monday 3 September 2012
China market: 293,000 e-book readers sold in 2Q12
There were 293,000 e-book readers sold in the China market during the second quarter of 2012, increasing by 3.9% on quarter but decreasing by 5.8% on year, according to consulting...
Monday 3 September 2012
Compal lowers 2012 notebook target shipments
Taiwan-based ODM Compal Electronics has downward adjusted its 2012 target notebook shipments from 47 million units, to around the same level as the 40.5 million units shipped in 2011...
Friday 31 August 2012
Foxconn denies rumored issues concerning Sharp cooperation
Terry Guo, chairman of Foxconn Electronics, failed to attend a scheduled press conference in Japan on August 30 to announce details of its investment in Sharp, sparking rumors that...
Friday 31 August 2012
Asia Pacific PC shipments declined 2.6% in 2Q12, says Gartner
Asia Pacific PC shipments totaled 30.3 million units in the second quarter of 2012, a 2.6% decline compared with the same quarter in 2011, according to Gartner. The most notable decline...
Friday 31 August 2012
TV panel prices expected to be stable in 3Q12, say makers
TV panel prices are expected to be relatively stable in the third quarter due to expected peak sales of LCD TVs during China's National Day holidays in early October, according to...
Friday 31 August 2012
October 1 holidays in China to generate 20% on-year growth in TV sales
The October 1 holidays in China will create 20% more TV sales compared with in 2011 due to early promotions and government subsidies, according to sources.
Friday 31 August 2012
Microsoft fails to pacify PC vendors about Surface tablets
To ease the impact created by its WoA Surface tablet PC, Microsoft has been negotiating with brand vendors including Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell since July hoping to pacify them;...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Compal nets NT$0.79 per share in 1H12
Taiwan-based notebook ODM maker Compal Electronics has released its financial report for the first half of 2012, recording consolidated revenues of NT$326.186 billion (US$11.06 billion),...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Flexium looks to rising capacity utilization rate through 4Q12
Flexible PCB manufacturer Flexium Interconnect expects its capacity utilization rate to rebound to 70% in the third quarter and to 90% in the fourth quarter, buoyed by orders from...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Asustek to launch new smartphones in 2Q13
After temporarily stepping out of the handset market in 2011, Asustek Computer president Jerry Shen, at the company's investors conference on August 29, said the company will return...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Samsung unveils new products in Berlin
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a series of cross-platform mobile devices, including the Galaxy Note II, Windows 8/Windows RT tablet PCs and Windows Phone 8 smartphones, in Berlin...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Asustek outlines future plans
Asustek Computer hosted an investors conference on August 29, announcing that the company's sales performance in the second quarter was better than expected and achieved new records...
Thursday 30 August 2012
Touch-IC supplier EETI sales to boom in 2H12
Revenues at Egalax_Empia Technology (EETI) will likely register over 30% sequential growth in the third quarter, and another on-quarter increase in the fourth quarter, market sources...
Wednesday 29 August 2012
Inventec sees large on-year growth in 1H12 profits
Notebook ODM Inventec on August 28 released its financial report for the first half of 2012, with net profits of NT$1.785 billion (US$60.5 million) hiking 153.51% on year.
Wednesday 29 August 2012
Asustek may rank second globally in 4Q12 portable shipments
Asustek Computer is expected to ship more than eight million notebooks, tablet PCs and netbooks in total in the fourth quarter of 2012, ranking second next only to Apple among vendors,...