The price of image sensors and controller ICs used in notebook cameras in 2009 is likely to drop 3-4% on quarter and 17-18% on year due to increased penetration of notebook cameras,...
Sunnyvale, Calif., September 8, 2009 - InvenSense, Inc., the leading provider of MEMS-based motion processing products for consumer electronics, today announced the new IDG-2000 dual-axis...
Ability Enterprise and Altek, two of the three largest Taiwan-based digital camera makers, on September 7 reported unaudited consolidated revenues of NT$3.516 billion (US$107 million)...
China-based IC designer Vimicro has posted a net loss of US$8.2 million, or US$0.24 diluted loss per ADS for the second quarter of 2009, compared a loss of US$1 million, or US$0.03...
Quanta Computer has invested NT$35.85 million (US$1.09 million) in the private fund raising of Taiwan-based camera lens maker Ability Opto-Electronics Technology to expand its vertical...
The market for image sensors will decline to US$6.4 billion in 2009, a drop of 11% from 2008 and the first decline since 1997, according to Strategies Unlimited. However, the average...
Service & Quality Technology (SQ), a Taiwan-based IC designer specializing in controller chips for digital cameras, plans to introduce new controllers which enable face detection...
Richtek Technology is in talks with camera module makers worldwide for orders of its CMOS image sensor (CIS) controller ICs and is expected to grab market share from Sonix Technology...
Japan-based digital camera vendors Fujifilm, Casio and Sony suffered losses in the second quarter of 2009 (their first quarter of fiscal 2009) while Canon saw profits decrease by...
Fujifilm has increased its fiscal 2009 (April 2009-March 2010) sales target from 8.3 million units originally to at least 9.0 million due to a better than expected sales performance,...
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek unveiled the T8680, its first own-brand cameraphone model at a cross-strait forum on the optics industry held in Beijing, China, on July 23,...
AVY Precision Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of aluminum alloy casings for digital cameras, will expand monthly production capacity at its factory in southern China to 2-2.5 million...
Camera chip maker Syntek Semiconductor expects its business operations to swing to profits in 2009, after three consecutive years of losses, amid demand for white-box DSCs and notebook...
Inventec Multimedia & Telecom, a member of the Inventec group, has started shipping camera modules for notebooks to Toshiba and the company expects its products to also receive...
Ability Enterprise, a Taiwan-based digital camera maker, has reported revenues of NT$2.51 billion (US$77 million) for May, representing a drop of 7.71% on month and a drop of 1.57%...
