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Digitimes Research: Taiwan sees decreased 1Q15 digital camera shipments

Betty Shyu, DIGITIMES Research, Taipei

Taiwan-based ODMs shipped a total of 2.3 million digital cameras in the first quarter of 2015, decreasing 42.4% on quarter and 13.6% on year, according to Digitimes Research.

16-megapixel CMOS models accounted for 42.9% of shipments, 16-megapixel CCD 26.7%, 20-megapixel CCD 17.5%, 18-megapixel CMOS 5% and 20-megapixel CMOS ones 4.4%, Digitimes Research indicated.

Nikon was the largest client accounting for 45.9% of shipments, followed by Sony with 17.6%, Fujifilm 13%, Casio 8.8%, Olympus 3.9%, Panasonic 2.9% and Samsung Electronics with 2.4%.

Ability Enterprise was the largest ODM accounting for 71.7% of shipments, Altek 22.2%, Foxconn Electronics 3.9% and Asia Optical 2.2%.