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Tuesday 21 August 2012
LED TV penetration rate expected to reach 70%
The penetration rate for LED TVs is expected to reach 70% in 2012 as direct-type models are increasingly dropping in price.
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Taiwan July export order value down on month, year
Taiwan received export orders worth US$35.94 billion in total in July 2012, decreasing by 1.2% on month and by 4.4% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic...
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Supply volume of 7.85-inch iPad to reach 4 million units starting in September
Supply volume of Apple's 7.85-inch iPad is estimated to reach four million units per month starting in September in order to prepare for demand from year-end holidays, according to...
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Acer, HP consider to take back chassis purchase authority
Acer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are considering to retrieve their chassis purchase authority from notebook ODMs in hoping to effectively control their production capacity and quality,...
Tuesday 21 August 2012
China TV vendors to release ultra large and high definition TVs
China-based TV vendors Konka and Skyworth are both planning to release 84-inch sized ultra-high 4Kx2K definition TVs within the next month in hope to bump up TV sales during the October...
Tuesday 21 August 2012
TV competition intensifies as vendors plan to release large-sized TVs at low prices
Competition in the TV industry is expected to increase in the second half of 2012, as Asia-based TV makers are planning to put out large-sized TVs ranging from US$1,000-1,300, said...
Monday 20 August 2012
Shuttle announces on-year growth in July revenues
Taiwan-based PC brand vendor Shuttle has announced consolidated revenues of NT$1.31 billion (US$43.66 million) for July, down 2.8% on month, but up 57.7% on year with combined consolidated...
Monday 20 August 2012
Taiwan makers competing for orders for digital cameras with large optical zoom ranges
Taiwan-based digital camera ODM/OEMs have faced decreasing orders due to shrinking global demand due to competition from smartphones, and therefore are in competition for orders for...
Monday 20 August 2012
Mobile workstation to help produce a clearer vision of disaster sites - Seamless integration of information and communication can be deployed quickly to help make effective decisions
Global climate changes and over-exploitation of forests has caused natural disasters to continue to occur. Hurricane Katrina in the US; volcanic eruptions in Iceland; Tsunamis and...
Monday 20 August 2012
Chongqing aims to attract investment from 800 Taiwan notebook component makers at end of 2012
The government of Chongqing City, western China, has developed the Chongqing Taiwan-investment Industrial Park specifically for Taiwan-based notebook component makers to set up factories...
Monday 20 August 2012
Altek expects nearly 10% drop in 3Q12 revenues
Altek expects its consolidated revenues for the third quarter of 2012 to slip nearly 10% on quarter due to stopping shipments of digital cameras to Eastman Kodak and decreased shipments...
Monday 20 August 2012
Acer announces 2Q12 preliminary financial results
Acer has announced the preliminary financial results for the second quarter of 2012. Consolidated revenues were NT$110.6 billion (US$3.7 billion), down 2.2% on quarter, but up 8.3%...
Friday 17 August 2012
Software players start taking leadership in product development
Software players are gradually taking over the leadership in the development of IT products, and hardware performance is no longer the key to driver of new trends, according to sources...
Friday 17 August 2012
Asia-Pacific-based OEMs dominate chip spending growth on home turf, says IHS
On a worldwide basis Apple and other multinational OEMs may be the leading semiconductor purchasers in 2012, but within the all-important Asia-Pacific region it is the locally based...
Friday 17 August 2012
High growth in IT spending in China will fuel adoption of new technologies in 2012 and beyond, says Gartner
Healthy growth in information technology (IT) spending in China will stimulate adoption of technologies including desktop and server virtualization, software as a service (SaaS) and...