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Tuesday 2 August 2011
ODD shipments still facing a crisis in 2H11 as Intel focuses on the ultrabook
Optical disc drive (ODD) shipments are facing a great uncertainty in the future as Intel is aggressive pushing its new ultrabook design, which will not require the adoption of an...
Monday 25 July 2011
Increasing back-to-school demand to boost PC and e-book reader sales
Sales of notebook, desktop and e-book readers, which are targeting education and document processing purposes, will have a chance to see a significant growth in the third quarter...
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Intel to launch new Celeron processors in September
Intel is set to launch several new Celeron processors for both desktops and notebooks in September, and will gradually phase out some existing Celeron models.
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Desktop PC market is expected to achieve 8% shipment growth in 2011
The desktop PC market, benefiting from the rise of tablet PCs, is expected to achieve a growth of 8% on year in terms of shipments in 2011 with motherboard players including Gigabyte...
Thursday 30 June 2011
HP, Acer, Asustek to raise supply proportion from Chongqing in 2H11
Global notebook brand vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer are set to significantly increase their notebook supply proportions from Chongqing, China in the second half of 2011 with...
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Taiwan market: HP to push WebOS-based tablet PC and smartphone in 2H11
First-tier PC brand vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to add its TouchPad tablet PC and smartphone as new products line in the IT market, to help fill in the gap of its cloud computing...
Tuesday 21 June 2011
HP, Acer set eyes on the enterprise PC market
First-tier global PC brand vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer are both placing their focus on the enterprise market in the second half of 2011 with HP recently launching 22 new...
Tuesday 14 June 2011
AMD announces A series APUs for mainstream PCs
AMD has announced the availability of the new high-performance AMD Fusion A series accelerated processing units (APUs) for consumer notebooks and desktops.
Thursday 9 June 2011
Foxconn will not quit notebook manufacturing, says company chairman
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) chairman Terry Guo, at a recent investors meeting, stated that Foxconn...
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Slowing consumer demand reduces PC growth for 2011, to remain growing for long term, says IDC
Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to grow by just 4.2% in 2011, down from a February forecast of 7.1%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. A combination of...
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Apple introduces iCloud
Apple has introduced iCloud, a breakthrough set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and...
Thursday 2 June 2011
Computex 2011: AMD announces solution for tablet PC
AMD, at its press conference at Computex 2011, announced a new 40nm Z series APU codenamed Desna to target the tablet PC market, according to Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and...
Tuesday 31 May 2011
AMD to launch desktop Fusion APU Llano, say Taiwan motherboard makers
AMD will launch Llano, its new desktop-platform quad-core Fusion APU (accelerated processing unit) model, and chipsets A75 and A55 supporting SATA 3 and USB 3.0 in July 2011, with...
Friday 27 May 2011
Global notebook shipments to grow less than 10% in 2011
Global shipments of notebooks are expected to grow less than 10% in 2011 compared to a 12-15% growth projected previously, while desktop shipments are likely to gain 7-8% in the year,...
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Wistron sees on-year growth in April revenues
Taiwan-based notebook maker Wistron has announced consolidated revenues of NT$44.01 billion (US$1.54 billion), down 11.3% on month, but up 10.8% on year, while its notebook shipments...