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Wednesday 8 December 2010
Worldwide sales of connected e-readers on track to reach 6.6 million units in 2010, says Gartner
Worldwide connected e-reader sales to end users are forecast to total 6.6 million units in 2010, up 79.8% from 2009 sales of 3.6 million units, according to research firm Gartner...
Friday 3 December 2010
Non-smartphone handset shipments to fall 5% in 2011, says Digitimes Research
Worldwide handset shipments in 2011 (excluding smartphones) will fall 5% to 1.14 billion units from 1.173 billion units in 2010, according to Digitimes Research senior analysts Roger...
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Worldwide PC shipments to grow 14% in 2010, says Gartner
Worldwide PC shipments are on pace to total 352.4 million units in 2010, a 14.3% increase from 2009, according to the latest preliminary forecast by Gartner. These projections are...
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Asustek concerned that tablet PCs may delay notebook market share plans
As the tablet PC segment has become the hottest topic in the IT market and might even damage the traditional PC market, Asustek Computer is concerned that strong tablet PC sales may...
Friday 19 November 2010
RIM PlayBook in North America market in 1Q11, worldwide in 2Q11
Research in Motion (RIM) is scheduled to introduce its tablet PC, the PlayBook, in the North America market in the first quarter of 2011 and then worldwide in the second quarter,...
Wednesday 17 November 2010
BOE 6G plant to start mass production on November 17
China-based BOE Technology is expected to start mass production at its 6G plant on November 17, based on China media reports, and the company plans to continue capacity expansion...
Friday 12 November 2010
BenQ Materials aims to become top-3 worldwide supplier of polarizers
Taiwan-based polarizer maker BenQ Materials aims to become a top-three supplier worldwide and is actively expanding its capacity including purchasing two production lines and renting...
Thursday 11 November 2010
Worldwide processor shipments and revenues rise modestly in 3Q10, says IDC
Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments and revenues in the third calendar quarter of 2010 increased 2.1% and 2.5%, respectively, compared to the second quarter, according to the latest...
Wednesday 10 November 2010
All-in-one PC shipments to reach 14 million units worldwide in 2011, says Digitimes Research
Despite weak consumer demand, all-in-one PC shipments are expected to reach 10.5 million units in 2010, up 53.3% on year, as the product has its own uniqueness plus the average price...
Friday 5 November 2010
Worldwide smartphone market grows 89.5% on year in 3Q10, says IDC
The worldwide smartphone market reached a new milestone during the third quarter of 2010, with the leading vendors posting double- or even triple-digit on-year growth, according to...
Tuesday 2 November 2010
Lenovo ships 5.46 million notebooks in 3Q10
China-based notebook vendor Lenovo shipped 5.46 million notebooks worldwide in the third quarter of 2010, making it the fourth largest vendor in the quarter and only 600,000 units...
Friday 29 October 2010
Nvidia claims Tesla GPUs power the fastest supercomputer
Tianhe-1A, a new supercomputer revealed at HPC 2010 China, has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest system...
Thursday 14 October 2010
Worldwide PC shipments grow 7.6% in 3Q10, says Gartner
Worldwide PC shipments surpassed 88.3 million units in the third quarter of 2010, a 7.6% increase from the third quarter of 2009, according to preliminary results by Gartner. These...
Wednesday 6 October 2010
China to account for more than half of global solar cell capacity expansion in 2010
Solar cell makers in China are expected to place manufacturing equipment orders worth 10GWp in capacity in 2010, according to equipment vendors. To put the figure into perspective,...
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Inventec, Flextronics reportedly considering merger, but both companies refute rumor
Both Inventec and Flextronics have refuted market rumors that the two are in talks for a merger stating that the rumors are purely market speculation.