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Monday 24 August 2009
Feature phones comprise overwhelming majority of handset sales in 2Q09, says NPD Group
According to The NPD Group, feature phones still rule the market, even as smartphone sales continue to increase their share of overall handset sales. Unit-sales of new feature phones...
Monday 24 August 2009
Domintech to introduce accelerometers
Domintech, a subsidiary of Unimicron Technology, plans to introduce its first own-branded accelerometers (g-sensors) by the end of 2009, according to the company.
Monday 24 August 2009
Advansus aims at 2009 EPS of NT$2
Advansus, a Taiwan-based industrial computing DMS joint venture between IPC maker Advantech and Asustek Computer, has set a target EPS of NT$2 for 2009, according to company vice...
Monday 24 August 2009
Taiwan economy improves in 2Q09, says government
Taiwan's GDP slipped by 7.54% on year in the second quarter of 2009, less than the decrease of 10.13% for the first quarter, according to statistics released by the government Directorate...
Friday 21 August 2009
Taiwan market: Small- and medium-size businesses to spend less on IT products in 2009, says MIC
Small- and medium-size companies with 20-199 employees in Taiwan have an average budget of NT$2.46 million (US$74,900) for IT investment in 2009, shrinking by 11.5% from 2008, according...
Friday 21 August 2009
MSI likely to launch AMD Yukon-based notebooks in October 2009
Micro-Star International (MSI) is expected to launch AMD Yukon-based ultra-thin notebooks in October 2009 at the earliest, according to industry sources.
Friday 21 August 2009
China Mobile 3G subscribers top one million in July 2009
The total number of 3G subscribers of China Mobile reached 1.09 million at the end of July 2009, an increase of 129,000 from the previous month, according data released by the largest...
Friday 21 August 2009
Taiwan market: Handset sales up 10% sequentially in July 2009
Sales of handsets in the Taiwan market grew by 10% sequentially in July from 536,700 shipped in June, but were down 3.3% compared to a year earlier, according to data compiled by...
Thursday 20 August 2009
LCD panel component makers Forhouse and Wah Hong post profits for 1H09
LCD panel component makers Forhouse and Wah Hong Industrial both swing back to profitability in the second quarter of 2009, more than offsetting their losses posted in the first quarter,...
Thursday 20 August 2009
Epistar and Formosa Epitaxy land LED orders from Samsung
Taiwan-based LED chipmakers Epistar and Formosa Epitaxy have both recently signed contracts with Korea-based Samsung Electronics to supply LEDs from September 2009 through August...
Thursday 20 August 2009
Garmin-Asus to enter China market by end of 2009; aims to sell one million handsets globally in 2010
Garmin-Asus dual-brand handsets will enter the China market by the end of 2009, targeting retail channel initially before tying up with telecom carriers, according to Benson Lin,...
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Competition for high-growth mobile chip market escalating in 2009, says In-Stat
The battle for the fast-growing mobile semiconductor market will intensify in late 2009 with the introduction of new processors from each camp - ARM and x86, reports In-Stat. Intel...
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Taiwan WLAN shipments to decline in 2009, says Digitimes Research
Despite a sequential gain recorded in the second quarter of this year, shipments of WLAN devices by Taiwan network equipment makers for all of 2009 are likely to decline from the...
Wednesday 19 August 2009
North America chip equipment orders up 62% sequentially in July, says SEMI
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$569.7 million in orders in July 2009 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.06, according...
Tuesday 18 August 2009
Tecom wins more ROADM equipment orders from CHT
Taiwan-based telecom equipment maker Tecom has won its third open bid from Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) for ROADM (reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing) equipment, according to...
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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