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Friday 25 May 2012
China market: 4 local vendors amid top-5 in 3G smartphone market in April
In the China market, Samsung Electronics recorded the largest market share of 22.75% for 3G smartphones in April 2012, followed by four China-based vendors -- Coolpad with 11.17%,...
Wednesday 9 May 2012
MediaTek looks to ship 75 million 3G solutions in 2012
MediaTek is expected to ship 75 million 3G handset solutions in 2012, a 50% increase from 50 million units it projected earlier, according to industry sources.
Thursday 22 March 2012
Coolpad ships over 10 million 3G smartphones in 2011
Coolpad, a China-based handset vendor, shipped 10.75 million 3G smartphones in 2011, hiking 113% from 2010, according to Coolpad's mother company China Wireless Technologies.
Wednesday 21 March 2012
China Telecom sees 3G user base nearly triple in 2011
China Telecom, the only CDMA2000 mobile telecom carrier in China, had 36.29 million 3G subscribers as of the end of 2011, hiking 195.3% from a year ago and accounting for 28.5% of...
Wednesday 7 March 2012
MediaTek March revenues to rise over 30%
MediaTek has enjoyed a ramp-up in orders for smartphone chips from its China-based clients since end-February, according to industry sources. The IC design house is expected to see...
Monday 20 February 2012
MediaTek reiterates 3G chip shipment goal for 2012
MediaTek is maintaining its goal of shipping 50 million 3G handset chips in 2012, and could potentially exceed the targeted number, according to the IC design house.
Monday 13 February 2012
IC distributors see sales bottom in 1Q12
Taiwan-based IC distributors including WPG Holdings and WT Microelectronics all expect sales to hit the lowest quarterly level for 2012 in the first quarter, and register sequential...
Thursday 9 February 2012
Vendors to adopt LTE/3G seamless connectivity chips for dual-mode smartphones
Chip design houses including Qualcomm have adopted CSFB (circuit-switch fallback) and SRVCC (single radio voice call continuity) technologies to develop single chips which enable...
Saturday 4 February 2012
MediaTek sees 10-15% sequential drop in 1Q12 sales
IC design house MediaTek expects its consolidated revenues to decrease 10-15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012 with gross margin slipping to 42-44% from 44.2% in the fourth...
Wednesday 1 February 2012
China market: Chip demand for 2.5G/2.75G handsets falling
Demand for 2.5G and 2.75G handset solutions is falling in China due to growth in the penetration rates for 3G and smartphones in the region, according to sources at white-box handset...
Wednesday 18 January 2012
TSMC seeing 3G chip orders boom, sources say
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has seen orders from the wireless communications sector boom recently, according to industry sources, adding that the contract chipmaker...
Wednesday 18 January 2012
China Telecom to procure 45 million 3G smartphones in 2012
China Telecom, the only CDMA2000 mobile telecom carrier in China, will procure 45 million 3G smartphones, of which most will be for sale at CNY700-2,000 (US$111-316), in 2012, according...
Monday 5 December 2011
Taiwan market: Vibo to invest NT$2 billion to expand 3G in 2012
Vibo Telecom will invest NT$2 billion (US$66.4 million) to expand its 3G network in Taiwan to 7,000 base stations in 2012, according to company chairman Rock Hsu.
Thursday 24 November 2011
Taiwan market: Vibo expanding 3G network
Taiwan-based Vibo Telecom will add 650 base stations to its 3G network of more than 5,000 by the end of 2011 and set up 500 more in first-quarter 2011, according to the telecom carrier's...
Friday 11 November 2011
LTE and 3G driving 30% growth in APAC mobile Internet infrastructure market, says Synergy Research
One of the fastest growing technology markets is networking equipment to support mobile Internet access. The second quarter of 2011 saw mobile Internet infrastructure revenues pass...