Market research firm iSuppli has lowered its forecasts for global semiconductor and electronic equipment revenues in 2009, due to lingering economic woes and continuing poor visibility...
Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total US$3.2 trillion in 2009, a 6% decline from 2008 spending of US$3.4 trillion, according to Gartner. Continued weak IT spending because of...
Taiwan-based second-tier notebook ODM Mitac Technology generated revenues of NT$1.624 billion (US$49.6 million) in June, the highest monthly level so far in 2009 and rising by 46.6%...
There will be a MEMS pavilion at SEMICON Taiwan 2009 scheduled for September 30-October 2, according to SEMI Taiwan. The government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute...
The consumer electronics (CE) industry will not achieve an annual expansion in 2009, which would signal a true recovery, despite the global CE market returning to sequential revenue...
Worldwide consumer location-based service (LBS) subscribers and revenues are on pace to double in 2009, according to Gartner. Despite an expected 4% decrease in mobile device sales,...
Taiwan's exports in June grew 4.8% sequentially to an eight-month high of US$16.95 billion, although the figures still represented a decline of 30.4% from a year earlier, according...
MediaTek has responded to a media report saying the company lost a tax lawsuit by clarifying that the Taipei High Administrative Court only judged whether a new or old regulation...
LED-backlit monitor penetration rate will only be 3% in 2009 because of LED supply shortage and slower-than-expected drop of LED backlight unit (BLU) cost, according to market sour...
Taiwan-based second-tier motherboard maker ASRock shipped around three million motherboards in the first half of 2009 and expects annual shipments to reach seven million units, according...
Investment bank Morgan Stanley has recently adjusted its global annual PC shipment forecasts for 2009 and 2010, commenting that notebooks will still be the major growth driver for...
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Unity Opto Technology expects revenues in the third quarter to see a double-digit growth sequentially as notebook LED backlight units (BLUs) are becoming...
Demand for notebooks is expected to drop significantly in the third quarter due to consumers waiting for Intel's next-generation Calpella platform to be launched in September, and...
Notebook component makers are optimistic about the business potential of ultra-thin notebooks and expect the products to increase their revenues in the third quarter, according to...
