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Thursday 5 July 2012
China labor shortage may drag down notebook shipment performance in peak season
With China's labor shortage issues seriously impacting notebook makers' shipment performance in June, notebook makers are concerned that the problem will only become more serious as...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Microsoft new Windows 8 promotion unlikely to boost PC demand
After announcing its Windows 8 upgrade plan for newly purchased Windows 7-based PCs in early June, Microsoft recently announced a new upgrade plan allowing consumers to spend US$39.99...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Capella to benefit from Intel plans to make ambient-light sensors a standard IC part for Haswell ultrabooks, says paper
Intel is expected to include ambient-light sensors as standardized IC parts for third-generation, Haswell-based ultrabooks, which will benefit Taiwan-based IC design house Capella...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
IC design houses reducing production of TV chips for 3Q12, say sources
Taiwan-based IC design houses, including MediaTek and MStar Semiconductor, have become more conservative about shipments of TV chips in third-quarter 2012, and therefore have decreased...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
TV growth in Taiwan this summer largely due to energy efficiency subsidies
Increasing TV sales in Taiwan are due to price drops for 32-inch LED TVs along with energy subsidies being issued by the government and not because of the recent switch over to digital...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Taiwan market: Fujitsu launches first ultrabook
Fujitsu on July 3 unveiled UH572, its first ultrabook equipped with Core i5-3317U processor, 13.3-inch screen, hybrid storage device and weighing 1.6kg, for launch in the Taiwan market...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Microsoft OEM head change related to Surface, say Taiwan makers
Microsoft has announced the replacement of Steven Guggenheimer with Nick Parker, originally vice president of OEM Sales and Marketing, for the position of corporate vice president...
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Commentary: Google hardware thrust to marginalize brand vendors
The launch of Nexus 7, Nexus Q and Google Glass shows the growing ambition of Google to create its own hardware devices. Google's latest move, either for establishing new benchmarks...
Tuesday 3 July 2012
TECA to develop technology that will drop smart TV gesture recognition sensor costs
Using Taiwan-made dual lens cameras for gesture recognition sensors in smart TVs will reduce smart TV sensor costs by 50% as well as catch finer detailed body movements, according...
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Japan TV makers to put out new high-end smart TVs this year
Japan TV makers will be putting out new high-end smart TVs that will have advanced voice control and gesture recognition features by the end of the year, according to industry sour...
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Asustek achieving 2012 target shipments of 3.0 million tablet PCs hinging on sales performance of Nexus 7
As Taiwan-based vendor Asustek Computer in early 2012 set a target shipment goal of 3.0 million tablet PCs for 2012 and shipped 1.4 million units in the first half of 2012, whether...
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Supply chain reportedly to start volume shipping products for new iMac in July
Apple's supply chain reportedly will start supplying components for the mass production of Apple's upcoming new iMac all-in-one PC in July with the device's official launch possibly...
Tuesday 3 July 2012
China white-box tablets expected to see fewer shipments than forecast
China's 7-inch and 10-inch white-box tablet shipments are expected to reach only 16-17 million units in 2012, not matching market watchers' original forecast of at least 20 million...
Monday 2 July 2012
Global PC shipments to decline 0.4% in 2012, says paper
Worldwide PC shipments will total 363 million in 2012, a decline of 1.5 million units or 0.4% from 365 million shipped in 2011, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted...
Monday 2 July 2012
High resolution displays for notebooks, tablet PCs becoming tight, say sources
The supply of high resolution displays has been falling short of demand recently, since more and more notebook and tablet vendors have followed Apple to adopt high resolution panels...