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Wednesday 15 August 2012
China turns out over 621 million handsets in January-July
Makers in China produced 621.021 million handsets in total during January-July 2012, growing 3.4% on year, according to statistics published on August 15 by the Ministry of Industry...
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Apple and Samsung remain top consumer and mobile MEMS buyers, IHS finds
Apple and Samsung Electronics remained the two largest buyers of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices for consumer and mobile applications in 2011, according to IHS iSuppl...
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Acer ranks first in 2Q12 notebook shipments, says Gartner
Acer topped the notebook market shipping 7.567 million units in the global market during the second quarter of 2012, according to Gartner.
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Taiwan TV vendors continue to benefit from energy subsidies
Taiwan-based TV vendors Teco and Sampo have reported increased LCD TV sales in July and will continue to see increases throughout August due to energy-saving subsidies issued by the...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Global flat panel TV shipments return to growth in 2Q12; Samsung stays on top of LCD market, says IHS
Following a 30% drop during the first three months of 2012, worldwide shipments of flat panel televisions returned to growth in the second quarter, according to HIS. Worldwide shipments...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Cybermart to remodel chain stores in China
Cybermart Worldwide, a Foxconn Group company which operate the 3C retail chain Cybermart in China, has been remodeling 34 existing outlets around the country into store complexes that...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Huawei flagship TD-SCDMA smartphone uses Spreadtrum solution
Spreadtrum Communications has announced that its baseband modem, the SC8803G, is shipping in Huawei's flagship TD-SCDMA smartphone. Developed for China Mobile's network, the Huawei...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Ability and Altek to see DSC shipments drop in 3Q12
Taiwan-based digital still camera (DSC) makers Ability Enterprise and Altek are both expected to see a shipment drop in the third quarter of 2012, affected by demand being replaced...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
China market: HTC-like device sold for less than CNY1,000
A number of smartphones resembling HTC handsets have been developed by China's white-box handset makers and are being priced at as low as less than CNY1,000 (US$157), according to...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
HP to outsource more than 50% of 2013 orders to Quanta
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has just recently finished its request for quotation (RFQ) for 2013 notebook orders with Quanta Computer landing more than 50% of the orders, up from only 40%...
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Asustek to release component purchasing authority to notebook ODMs
Asustek Computer, which used to handle most component purchasing itself, is currently considering to release the authority to its upstream ODM partners such as Quanta Computer and...
Monday 13 August 2012
AKM leads magnetic sensor market on strong sales to handset and tablet makers, says IHS iSuppli
Propelled by strong sales to tablet and cellphone manufacturers, Asahi Kasei Microsystems of Japan led the semiconductor magnetic sensor market for the third year in a row in 2011,...
Monday 13 August 2012
Acer sees drop in July revenues
Acer had non-consolidated revenues of NT$22.657 billion (US$756 million) for July decreasing by 43.00% on month and by 26.15% on year and those for January-July slipped by 5.52% on...
Friday 10 August 2012
Taiwan market: kbro aims to digitize 25% of cable TV users by end of 2012
kbro, a major MSO (multi-system operator of cable TV services) in Taiwan, has 216,000 subscribers to its digital cable TV service, accounting for about 20% of all subscribers, and...
Friday 10 August 2012
Adlink posts 1H12 net EPS of NT$0.68
Industrial PC maker Adlink Technology recorded consolidated revenues of NT$2.776 billion (US$94.1 million), net profits of NT$107 million and net EPS of NT$0.68 for the first half...