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Friday 17 February 2017
Display bookings to top US$2 billion in Fiscal 2017 for Applied Materials
Semiconductor equipment provider Applied Materials delivered another strong quarter for its display business, with its first quarter display revenues increasing 66% on year to US$422...
Friday 17 February 2017
HannStar becomes largest small- to medium-size panel maker in Taiwan in 4Q16
HannStar Display enjoyed the spoils of its aggressive capacity expansion in the feature phone panel segment in the fourth quarter of 2016, helping Taiwan's small- to medium-panel...
Friday 17 February 2017
OLED smartphones and the TV pricing connection
One side effect of the expected craze for AMOLED panels in high-end smartphones this year is that LCD TV prices may not drop as quickly as they have in the past.
Friday 17 February 2017
Mentor Graphics announces Veloce Strato platform scales up to 15BG
Mentor Graphics has announced the Veloce Strato emulation platform. The company also claimed it is the only emulation platform on the market with full scalability across both software...
Friday 17 February 2017
MediaTek to lag in 10nm-chip race, says paper
MediaTek may suffer a setback in the ongoing 10nm mobile chip race as the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) has reported that Xiaomi Technology has decided...
Friday 17 February 2017
CHT ties up with NTT, Itochu to develop hardware specifications for SDN/NFV equipment
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has signed an MoU with Japan-based telecom carrier NTT and ICT solution provider Itochu for cooperation to develop common specifications for telecom equipment...
Thursday 16 February 2017
Smart City Summit and Expo 2017 to open on February 21 in Taiwan
The Smart City Summit and Expo 2017 will be hosted from February 21-24 at the Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. The show will host about 200 exhibitors and feature special...
Thursday 16 February 2017
Lenovo quarterly sales down 6% on year
Lenovo has announced results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2016. Quarterly revenues were US$12.2 billion, a 6% decrease year-on-year. Third quarter pre-tax income...
Thursday 16 February 2017
Samsung limps to smartphone gold in 2016
Nearly 1.5 billion smartphones were sold to end users in 2016, an increase of 5% from 2015, according to market research firm Gartner. And despite a sloppy second half of the year,...
Thursday 16 February 2017
FET sees revenues to stay flat in 2017
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) expects its revenues to reach NT$94.359 billion (US$3.069 billion) in 2017, which will be almost flat as compared to NT$94.344 billion recorded...
Thursday 16 February 2017
Asustek expects sequential drop in 1Q17 revenues
Asustek Computer expects first-quarter 2017 revenues from the PC product line to decrease 15-20% on quarter, those from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices to slip 10-15%...
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Notebook shipments get bump in 4Q16
The final quarter of 2016 brought good news to the global notebook industry, as shipments showed an on-year increase for the first time since 2012, according to data from Digitimes...
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Foxconn reaffirms US$5 billion investment in India
Amid concerns Foxconn is reconsidering plans to set up a mobile handset in India, the Taiwan manufacturing firm has reportedly met with ministers from the state of Maharashtra where...
Wednesday 15 February 2017
China market: Combined smartphone shipments of 5 major vendors to surpass 500 million units
China-based vendors Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi and Gionee together are expected to ship a total of 500 million smartphones in 2017, accounting for nearly 90% of China's total smartphone...
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Samsung reportedly earns AMOLED panel orders from Apple
Samsung Display has received AMOLED panel orders from Apple for its upcoming iPhone, according to reports coming out of Korea, reinforcing a recent report from Digitimes that indicated...