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Thursday 20 August 2009
PS3 price drop may boost Blu-ray Disc demand, says Taiwan disc makers
Sony's upcoming launch of a new PS3 and the latest price cuts for the older version of the games console may help increase the global demand for Blu-ray Disc (BD) movie discs because...
Monday 27 July 2009
Sony PS3 components demand growing significantly
Taiwan OEMs recently have placed significant orders for key Sony PS3 components from IC distributors, with average monthly volume enough for making one million units of the games...
Thursday 2 July 2009
IC designer Prescope to offer handheld game console in 3Q09
Prescope Technologies has stepped into system products and will offer a handheld game console with a 2.7-inch screen and 100 built-in games in the third quarter, targeting China and...
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Taiwan government cooperates with Sony Computer Entertainment to boost console game development
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on June 29 formally announced cooperation with Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) to promote the development of next-generation digital...
Thursday 14 May 2009
Handheld video game player shipments to rise 4.9% in 2009, says iSuppli
The global market for handheld video game systems is set to buck weak conditions in the global consumer electronics market and rise by 4.9% in units and 8.2% in revenues during 2009,...
Wednesday 29 April 2009
China market: Consumer IC design house Generalplus to offer Wii-like solutions
Generalplus Technology, a subsidiary of Sunplus technology, has said it will kick off volume shipments of gaming solutions for Wii-like games consoles to the China market in May or...
Thursday 12 March 2009
AMD ships 50 millionth GPU to Nintendo for Wii
AMD has announced that is has shipped the 50 millionth ATI Hollywood graphics processor for Nintendo's Wii games console.
Tuesday 3 March 2009
Acer clarifies rumors of game console launch
With rumors circulating in China about Acer planning to enter the game console market, executives with the vendor have refuted the rumors, according to a Chinese-language Economic...
Thursday 18 December 2008
Economic recession lowers expectations for crucial system-level chips, says iSuppli
Revenues from global shipments of core silicon ICs-application specific standard products (ASSPs), application specific ICs (ASICs) and programmable logic devices (PLDs)-is set to...
Tuesday 4 November 2008
Taiwan online games market to grow to over NT$12 billion in 2010, says MIC
Total revenues of online gaming services in the Taiwan market will keep increasing to a forecast of NT$12.256 billion (US$373 million) in 2010, according to the Market Intelligence...
Monday 13 October 2008
LCD TV to become largest consumer electronics market by 2012, says iSuppli
Defying challenging economic conditions, the global LCD TV market is expected to continue its rapid growth during the coming years, causing it to become the largest segment of the...
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Sony and Nintendo add new IC substrate suppliers from Taiwan
The appreciating Japanese yen has prompted game console makers, including Sony and Nintendo, to seek secondary IC substrate suppliers from Taiwan. Industry sources indicated that...