Passive component maker Cyntec has reported consolidated sales of NT$4.28 billion (US$122.71 million) for 2008, up 18.2% on year with 29.9% gross margin. The company expects to see...

Compal Electronics expects notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2009 to hold level on year at 5.8-6.2 million units, while shipments in the second quarter will grow 15% sequentially,...

LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy (FOREPI) has reported revenues of NT$203.16 million (US$5.83 million) for the fourth quarter of 2008, down 49.64% on quarter and down 51.47% on year,...

Gigabyte Technology has revealed more details about the three 10.1-inch netbooks – the Touch Note T1028, Booktop M1022, and Thin Note S1024 – that it plans to showcase...

Global shipments of 8.9-inch-and-larger LCD panels reached 22.23 million units in January, down by 16.9% sequentially and down 33.5% on year, according to research firm WitsView.

Kinpo-Compal Group chairman Rock Hsu is optimistic that the group's 2009 revenues will continue to climb and will break US$25 billion. Within the group, Compal Electronics will be...

LCD module (LCM) specialist Star World Technology expects shipments to hit the bottom in the first quarter of this year due to generally weak demand in the small- to medium-size panel...

Intel plans to launch two new ultra low voltage (ULV) CPUs by the end of March this year mainly targeting the company's consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) platform for ultra-thin notebook...

With netbook players planning to launch 11.6-inch models later this year, LCD panel makers are gearing up for production of related LCD panels in the third quarter utilizing 5G plants,...

Netbook vendors are dropping prices of their 8.9-inch netbooks models to clear inventory, and solid state drive-based (SSD-based) models are seeing the sharpest drops, according to...

Gigabyte Technology has recently confirmed that it will attend CeBIT 2009 where it will showcase new 10-inch netbooks, which are scheduled to launch in the second quarter of this...

Dell has launched the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook that it says adds keyboard comfort to the Inspiron Mini family.

Power Quotient International (PQI) swung to profit in January 2009, but the memory-module maker suffered losses for the second straight year in 2008.

Asustek Computer will completely phase out its 8.9-inch Eee PC netbooks in 2009 since 10-inch models are becoming the mainstream specification in the market, according to Benson Lin,...

The global netbook market reached a scale of 14 million units in 2008, and with shipments continuing to rise, the scale will reach 25-30 million units in 2009, and 40-45 million units...