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Tuesday 23 August 2011
HP PC spin-off plan may cause fierce PC price competition in 4Q11
Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) plan of spin off its PC business has already caused a great impact to the PC industry and with the company reportedly already started working on plans to...
Tuesday 23 August 2011
Price of sapphire substrates to drop in 4Q11 due to high levels of inventory
Weak demand in the LED market has been causing the price for upstream sapphire substrates to drop continuously. The price of 2-inch sapphire substrates dropped to US$15-17/unit in...
Friday 19 August 2011
Handset vendors reportedly cutting back chipset orders for 4Q11
Some handset solution suppliers have indicated that a number of handset vendors, including Apple and HTC, have scaled down their chipset orders for the fourth quarter as compared...
Thursday 18 August 2011
PTI, Walton look to lower revenues in 4Q11
Memory packaging and testing firms Powertech Technology (PTI) and Walton Advanced Engineering both expect their fourth-quarter revenues to be lower than the levels recorded in the...
Thursday 18 August 2011
LED players bracing for weak year-end shopping
With TV vendors digesting their inventories, demand for large-size LED backlighting products continues to be gloomy. While demand in the past would usually start picking up in September...
Tuesday 16 August 2011
Over expansion may hurt profits of touch sensor makers
Touch sensor suppliers in Taiwan could see lower profitability in third-quarter 2011 as a result of over expansion if there is oversupply, according to the industry sources.
Friday 12 August 2011
Acer, Asustek, Lenovo to launch sub-US$999 ultrabooks in 4Q11, says Intel
Intel has indicated that notebook vendors Acer, Asustek Computer and Lenovo, among others, will roll out ultrabooks with suggested retail prices to be set below US$999 in the fourth...
Monday 8 August 2011
Winbond on track to ramp 46nm in 4Q11
Winbond Electronics is scheduled to ramp production of specialty DRAM (SDRAM) memory using 46nm process technology in the fourth quarter of 2011, company president Tung-Yi Chan said...
Wednesday 3 August 2011
NAND flash outlook still unclear for 4Q11
The NAND flash market outlook for the fourth quarter of 2011 is still under doubt due to a lack of demand visibility, and current oversupply might appear to be more severe because...
Wednesday 6 July 2011
Taiwan makers mixed about DRAM price outlook
Some Taiwan-based PC and memory makers believe that DRAM contract prices will stop falling in mid-August and rebound later in the month, while others are more pessimistic, thinking...
Thursday 30 June 2011
Acer reportedly planning to launch slide tablet PC in 4Q11
Acer reportedly plans to launch a slide tablet PC in the fourth quarter of 2011, targeting the year-end holiday season, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Friday 17 June 2011
2-inch sapphire wafer prices expected to fall to US$20-25 in 3Q11, 18-20 in 4Q11
Quotes for sapphire wafers, for a 2-inch wafer for example, are expected to drop to US$20-25 in the third quarter of 2011 and further to US$18-20 in the fourth quarter, according...
Thursday 2 June 2011
PV book-to-bill forecast to dip sharply below parity before rebounding in 4Q11, says Solarbuzz
In first quarter of 2011, the consolidated PV book-to-bill ratio posted a three-month average of 1.01, according to Solarbuzz. During the second half of 2011, the PV book-to-bill...
Wednesday 30 March 2011
CSOT maintains mass production schedule of 8.5G plant in 4Q11
Despite possible delays in equipment deliveries, China Star OptoELectronics Technology (CSOT), the 8.5G subsidiary of China-based TCL, is in talks with suppliers and trying to reduce...
Friday 18 March 2011
AMD to launch six Llano APUs in 3Q11 and another five in 4Q11
AMD will launch six Llano-series APUs for desktops in third-quarter 2011 and another five models in the fourth, in an apparent effort to take on Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs, according...
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Summary of Tech Supply Chain News!
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