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Monday 14 April 2014
Taiwan battery module makers eye orders from China 4G base stations
Taiwan-based battery module makers are looking to enter the supply chain of China's telecom carriers for backup battery orders for their 4G base stations. However, since the China...
Monday 14 April 2014
Touch panel makers see increased orders from China tablet and smartphone vendors
Touch panel makers are seeing increased shipments due to orders from China-based tablet and smartphone vendors, according to industry sources.
Monday 14 April 2014
Intel aggressively promoting tablet CPUs in China
Intel has resorted to an aggressive pricing strategy to promote sales of its tablet-use processors, particularly in China, a move which apparently will take on Qualcomm and MediaTek,...
Monday 14 April 2014
AUO president urges China to reconsider LCD high tariff policy, report says
AU Optronics (AUO) president Paul Peng has urged the China government to take a cautious approach towards raising tariffs on LCD panel imports, describing such taxes as a double-edged...
Monday 14 April 2014
Some China polysilicon makers poised to expand capacities
Viewing that polysilicon spot market prices in the China market rose to US$25/kg in the first quarter of 2014, some China-based makers are preparing to expand production capacities...
Monday 14 April 2014
China market: Apple dominates 4G smartphones sales in January-February 2014, says Sino Market Research
Apple had a dominant market share of 58.7% for 4G smartphones sold in the China market in January-February 2014, followed by Samsung Electronics with 26.4%, Coolpad 9.4%, K-Touch...
Friday 11 April 2014
Some China PCB makers pose threat to Taiwan makers
Some China-based PCB makers, including Founder Technology, Guangdong Goworld and Taigerbuilder Circuit (Suzhou), have entered the supply chains of Apple, Acer and HTC, becoming competitors...
Friday 11 April 2014
O-Film, Synaptics to develop fingerprint recognition technology for China smartphone vendors
China-based touch panel maker O-Film will reportedly team up with interface solutions provider Synaptics to develop fingerprint recognition features for smartphone vendors in China,...
Tuesday 8 April 2014
Digitimes Research: China makers gear up for high-resolution small- to medium-size panel production
With most of the China-based panel makers aggressively eyeing the high-resolution small- to medium-size panel market but lacking experience, Digitimes Research believes that in 2014,...
Tuesday 8 April 2014
China smartphone AP shipments – 4Q 2013
Global smartphone AP suppliers will see their shipments to China grow only 13.5% on year and drop 3.1% on quarter in the first quarter of 2014. The largest supplier MediaTek is seeing...
Tuesday 8 April 2014
China smartphone and industry – 4Q 2013
China first-tier smartphone players - Lenovo, Huawei, CoolPad and ZTE - started releasing new smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2013 because their entry-level model inventories,...
Tuesday 8 April 2014
Digitimes Research: LED bulb prices in China fall in March
March average retail price for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescent ones) in the China market slipped 11.0% sequentially to CNY33.9 (US$5.5), while 9W models (equivalent...
Monday 7 April 2014
Microsoft and MediaTek rumored to be looking to push Windows tablets in the China white-box tablet market
Microsoft reportedly has been aggressively trying to persuade MediaTek to push Windows-based tablets in China's white-box market and with the software giant's announcement of offering...
Monday 7 April 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan ODMs losing out as PC brand vendors turn to China supply chain for tablets
Among global top-7 PC brand vendors, only Apple (sixth place) still outsources its tablet orders mainly to Taiwan-based EMS providers and ODMs, while the rest - Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard...
Monday 7 April 2014
Taiwan becomes largest source of China electronics imports in 2013, says MOEA
China imported electronic devices and components worth US$307.04 billion in total in 2013 and Taiwan-based makers together accounted for 27.3%, making Taiwan become the largest source...