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Wednesday 30 October 2013
iPad mini with Retina display may see shortages due to limited supplies of Sharp panels, say sources
The availability of the iPad mini with Retina display may not be enough to meet market demand because Sharp's supply of 7.9-inch Retina display panels based on its Oxide TFT process...
Wednesday 30 October 2013
SK Hynix develops 6Gb LPDDR3 for mobile devices
SK Hynix has developed 6-gigabit (6Gb) low-power DDR3 (LPDDR3) using 20nm-class process technology. The new mobile memory solution is designed for premium mobile devices, according...
Tuesday 29 October 2013
IC distributor Edom cautious about 4Q13
Taiwan-based IC distributor Edom Technology has expressed caution about its performance in the fourth quarter of 2013, after posting brisk results for the third quarter.
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Digitimes Research: Non-iPad tablets account for over 50% of global shipments in 3Q13
In the third quarter of 2013, global tablet shipments reached 35.68 million units, up 15.3% sequentially and 34.6% on year, driven mainly by non-iPad tablet shipments, which reached...
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Taiwan International Smart Green City Summit commences November 1, 2013
The 2013 Taiwan International Smart Green City Summit, an event from the Taiwan International Smart Green City Expo hosted by Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of...
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Apple revenues up, net profit down in fiscal 4Q13
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter ended September 28, 2013. The company posted quarterly revenues of US$37.5 billion and quarterly net profit...
Tuesday 29 October 2013
China Telecom nets over CNY14.7 billion for January-September
China Telecom has its released financial report for January-September 2013, recording net profit of CNY14.714 billion (US$2.39 billion), which grew 17.1% on year, according to China-based...
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Taiwan 4G auction: Prices keep rising
An ongoing auction for 4G mobile communication services licenses in Taiwan has seen the total of the highest temporary prices rise to NT$115.255 billion (US$3.91 billion), 221.04%...
Monday 28 October 2013
IPC maker PEC achieves positive profits for the first-three quarters of 2013
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) maker PEC achieved consolidated revenues of NT$1.29 billion (US$43.9 million) for the first three quarters of 2013, an average gross margin of 18.88%,...
Monday 28 October 2013
Radiant Opto-Electronics expected to benefit from iPad Air, iPad mini-with Retina display
Radiant Opto-Electronics is expected to see consolidated revenues for October rise about 20% on month to nearly NT$6 billion (US$203 million) due to backlight unit orders for use...
Monday 28 October 2013
Combined smartphone and tablet factory revenues to exceed entire consumer electronics market in 2013, says IHS
In a dramatic sign of how consumer tastes have shifted to new, more exciting wireless products, global factory revenues for smartphones and tablets in 2013 will rise to become larger...
Monday 28 October 2013
Taiwan 3Q13 international Internet bandwidth rises to over 1Tbps, says TWNIC
Taiwan's direct Internet connections with 17 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached a total bandwidth of 1.167Tbps as of the end of the third quarter of 2013, increasing...
Monday 28 October 2013
Brazilian media visits EverFocus production center
In early October, Taiwan External Trade Development Council, TAITRA invited Brazilian mainstream TV channel "Band" and the chief editor Victor Hugo Piiroja of the largest...
Monday 28 October 2013
India-based Micromax shipping smartphones to Europe
India-based handset vendor Micromax has begun shipping its smartphones to Russia with plans to enter into other markets in Europe in 2014, according to sources in Taiwan's handset...
Monday 28 October 2013
PC brand vendors release new Windows 8.1 products
Asustek Computer recently released its Transformer Book T100 2-in-1 device featuring Windows 8.1 and Intel Bay Trail-T processor, priced at US$349 for a 32GB model and US$399 for...