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Thursday 25 February 2010
TOA Lighting announces profit for 2009
TOA Lighting, a brand vendor under Taiwan-based lighting equipment supplier China Electric, has announced consolidated revenues of NT$4.24 billion (US$132.26 million) for 2009 with...
Thursday 25 February 2010
Worldwide server market decline softened by improved 4Q09 performance, says Gartner
Worldwide server shipments in the fourth quarter of 2009 grew 4.5% on year, while revenues fell 3.2%, according to Gartner.
Thursday 25 February 2010
China's software revenues up 25.6% in 2009, MIIT
China's software industry generated revenues of 951.30 billion yuan (US$139.2 billion) in 2009, growing 25.6% from 2008, according to China's Ministry of Industry and Information...
Thursday 25 February 2010
Worldwide handset sales grow 8% in 4Q09; flat in 2009, says Gartner
Worldwide handset sales to end users totaled 1.211 billion units in 2009, a 0.9% decline from 2008, according to Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the market registered a single-digit...
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Acer faces challenge to keep netbook market lead in 2010
Acer was the largest netbook vendor globally in 2009; however, as it will face increasing competition from Asustek Computer, Samsung Electronics and Hewlett-Packard (HP), the company...
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Silicon wafer shipments bounce back in 2H09, says SEMI
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments decreased by 18% in 2009 when compared to 2008 area shipments, according to SEMI. The slide indicates improvement compared with the first half...
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Taiwan science parks see 2009 total revenues down almost 14% on year
Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) and Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), the three science parks developed and operated by the government in Taiwan,...
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Tripod expects 5-10% revenue decline in 1Q10
PCB maker Tripod Technology has estimated a 5-10% revenue decline for the first quarter of 2010, defying seasonal patterns. The company said orders for optoelectronics PCBs, notebook...
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Unitech expects handset PCB orders to recover in March
Unitech Printed Circuit Board has seen order momentum of handset PCBs slow down for the first quarter but expects demand to recover in March. Additionally, the company said orders...
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Vizio takes lead in US LCD TV market in 2009, Samsung holds flat-panel top spot, says iSuppli
US-based Vizio became the leading LCD TV brand in the United States in 2009 as its shipments increased 92.1% on year to 5.9 million units in 2009 from 3.1 million in 2008, while Samsung...
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Global TV shipments reach 211 million units in 2009, says DisplaySearch
Global TV shipments increased 2% sequentially to 211 million units in 2009, according to DisplaySearch. The fourth quarter of 2009 showed even stronger on-year shipment growth: global...
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Wintek suffers net loss of nearly NT$2.6 billion in 2009
Small- to medium-size LCD panel maker Wintek has reported unaudited consolidated revenues of NT$27.399 billion (US$835 million), gross operating loss of NT$38.0 million, net operating...
Friday 12 February 2010
Analog IC vendor GMT posts net profits of NT$674 million in 2009
Analog IC vendor Global Mixed-code Technology (GMT) has posted net profits of NT$674 million (US$21.02 million) for 2009, translating into an EPS of NT$7.86.
Friday 12 February 2010
Asia Optical suffers net loss in 2009
Lens kit maker Asia Optical has reported a net loss of NT$450 million (US$13.7 million) and net loss per share of NT$1.76 for 2009.
Thursday 11 February 2010
AUO BLU subsidiaries to merge in September
The board of directors of backlight unit (BLU) makers Forhouse and Taiwan Nano Electro-Optical Technology, subsidiaries of AU Optronics (AUO), have decided to merge the two companies...
CHT
Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research