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Wednesday 23 November 2022
PC vendors brace for fierce price-cutting competition
Brand PC vendors are bracing for fierce price-cutting competition as inventories held by their channel distributors remain high, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Rising VCM sales boost Audix gross margin in 3Q22
Taiwan-based Audix saw its gross margin grow to a 40-quarter high of nearly 27% in Q3 2022 from Q2's 18.92%, thanks to strong sales of voice coil motor (VCM) components used in handset...
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Mitac to set up production base in Southeast Asia
Mitac Holdings has disclosed plans to set up manufacturing operations in Southeast Asia in 2023, as part of its efforts to increase production resilience and lower the risk of supply...
Tuesday 22 November 2022
TV sales disappoint during Double 11 shopping festival in China
TV sales during China's Double 11 online shopping festival were lower than expected, with sales volume and value experiencing annual declines, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 November 2022
Inventory corrections for TV-use LED-backlit devices near end
Inventory adjustments of LED backlit devices for TV applications are about to end, while those for PC- and other IT-related applications continue, according to industry sources.
Monday 21 November 2022
PQC market is gaining traction in wake of NIST standards advance
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced several candidate Post-Quantum Cryptographic (PQC) algorithms for standardization this summer, and it is nearing...
Monday 21 November 2022
Global tablet shipments rise over 20% sequentially in 3Q22 driven by Apple orders, says DIGITIMES Research
Global tablet shipments reached 38.4 million units in the third quarter of 2022, slightly better than DIGITIMES Research originally anticipated, driven mainly by increased orders...
Monday 21 November 2022
Qualcomm joins hybrid working trend, using mobile device advantage to expand corporate PC domain
Qualcomm announced a lot of updates regarding the future technology, market outlook, and third-party collaborations for PC applications. In addition, Qualcomm also reiterated that...
Monday 21 November 2022
Automotive software is changing the relationship between automakers and Tier 1s
The relationship between mainstream automakers and Tier 1 suppliers has experienced a subtle change when they entered the future vehicle sector. This is especially true with the shift...
Monday 21 November 2022
India roundup: ISMC Analog reportedly set to acquire bank loan for chip fab
As India faces an ecnomic downturn, shipments of PCs and smartphones declined for the third quarter of 2022. India's semiconductor fab investments is progressing slowly with ISMC...
Friday 18 November 2022
Top-5 notebook brands see shrinking shipments in October, says DIGITIMES Research
The global top-5 notebook brands' combined shipments (not including Apple) went down 13% from a month ago and nearly 40% on year in October due to the slow inventory digestion at...
Friday 18 November 2022
Taiwan chipmakers eyeing metalens opportunities
Taiwan-based III-V semiconductor and optical sensor companies are all gearing up for a boom in demand for metalens-based VR and AR devices from Meta, Sony and other vendors, according...
Friday 18 November 2022
India's PC market declines by double digits, first time in eight quarters
Despite being a high-growth PC market for the past few years, India was not immune to the global PC slowdown and saw PC shipments down by double digits. Vendors are still busy clearing...
Thursday 17 November 2022
India may mandate USB-C port for smartphones and notebooks
The Indian government has agreed to adopt a uniform charging port USB-C for electronics devices to reduce E-waste, which may further impact Apple following a similar move by the EU...
Thursday 17 November 2022
Alltop growing sales of non-notebook products
Connector maker Alltop Technology continues to grow sales from non-notebook industry sectors, such as electric vehicles (EV) and servers, with the proportion of the non-notebook revenue...