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Wednesday 14 March 2012
Primax may expand camera module capacity in 2H12
Taiwan-based maker Primax Electronics, in view of growing shipments of camera modules used in iPhone, iPad and smartphones offered by HTC and Nokia, expanded its monthly production...
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Lelon lands new order for car electronics
Lelon Electronics' aluminum electrolytic capacitors reportedly have been verified by Japan-based car electronics vendors - a milestone for the Taiwan-based company to break into...
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Taiwan DSC makers aggressive striving for MILC orders
Taiwan digital still camera (DSC) makers, seeing first-tier camera brand vendors have all started entering the development stage for their new machines for 2013, are aggressively...
Tuesday 6 March 2012
Largan Precision sees 50% of camera lens shipments being 8-megapixel models
Largan Precision in February has about 50% of its camera lens shipments being 8-megapixel models with 5-megapixel models accounting for about 20% and models with smaller resolutions...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Taiwan market: First-tier vendors dominating entry-level DSC market
As sales of digital still camera (DSC) priced below NT$6,000 (US$203), continued to rise rapidly in 2011 in Taiwan, first-tier vendors Sony and Canon have been aggressive launching...
Friday 10 February 2012
Kodak to phase out camera business
Eastman Kodak, which filed for bankruptcy in January 2012, has announced plans to phase out its dedicated capture devices business, which includes digital cameras, pocket video cameras...
Friday 10 February 2012
Largan expects shipments of phone camera lens modules to begin to rise in 2Q12
Largan Precision expects its shipments of lens modules for phone cameras to increase beginning the second quarter of 2012 due to clients developing new handset models, according to...
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 4Q11 digital camera shipments decrease
Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical shipped 12.219 million digital cameras in the fourth quarter of 2011, decreasing 21.8% on quarter and...
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Lite-On Technology ramping up camera module capacity
Taiwan-based Lite-On Technology is expanding its monthly capacity of CCMs (compact camera modules) from 15-16 million units in second-half 2011 to 20 million units in 2012, according...
Thursday 5 January 2012
Taiwan market: Leica launches digital camera V-Lux 3
Leica Camera AG has launched its digital camera V-Lux 3 in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$33,500 (US$1,109), according to its Taiwan sales agent Schmidt Marketing...
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Panasonic to release more camera orders to Taiwan in 2012-2013
Japan-based vendor Panasonic, in order to minimize production cost, began placing orders for its Lumix digital cameras with Taiwan-based makers Ability Enterprise and Foxconn Electronics...
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Taiwan camera makers expect Kodak orders to decrease
Taiwan-based ODM makers of digital still cameras for Eastman Kodak, viewing that Kodak's global market share is decreasing due to increasing competition from Japan-based vendors such...
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Ultrabook demand to trigger birth of thinner CCMs in 2012
The thickness of compact camera modules (CCM), to satisfy demand of ultrabooks have a thickness of only 0.7- to 0.8-inch, is expected to shrink down from a standard size of 3-4mm...
Thursday 8 December 2011
Notebooks expected to fully adopt HD quality webcams in 2H12
Notebook players are expected to fully adopt high definition (HD) quality webcams into their notebook models in the second half of 2012 as Microsoft launches its Windows 8 and should...
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Smartphone component makers penetrate ultrabook supply chain
Smartphone component makers including Primax Electronics and Merry Electronics have recently cut into ultrabook supply chain as ultrabook's requirement of featuring 0.7-0.8-inch thickness...