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Wednesday 8 April 2020
Highlights of the day: Samsung reportedly to source LCD TV panels from Sharp, again
Sharp has not supplied LCD TV panels to Samsung since 2017 following Foxconn's takeover of the Japanese firm. But that is expected to change soon, as Samsung's in-house LCD panel...
Wednesday 8 April 2020
Notebook component suppliers report brisk March results
Notebook component suppliers including battery pack maker Simplo Technology and cooling module firm Taisol Electronics have reported impressive revenue results for March 2020, thanks...
Wednesday 8 April 2020
Intel to launch new-gen desktop processors at end of April
Intel is set to introduce its 10th-generation Comet Lake-S desktop processors and 400 series chipsets at the end of April, according to sources at motherboard makers, who expect improvements...
Wednesday 8 April 2020
Samsung reportedly to resume purchasing LCD TV panels from Sharp
Samsung Electronics reportedly will resume the purchases of LCD TV panels from Sharp as its panel production arm Samsung Display is accelerating its move to close all of its LCD lines...
Tuesday 7 April 2020
IT product distributor Weblink to report strong sales for 1Q19
Taiwan-based Weblink International, an electronics products distribution arm of Acer, is likely to report a double-digit revenue growth for the first quarter of 2020, bolstered by...
Tuesday 7 April 2020
Highlights of the day: Concerns about NAND flash market
Concerns about the NAND flash market outlook in second-half 2020 have been triggered by Samsung's reported move of striving to cut its SSD...
Tuesday 7 April 2020
Nintendo ramping up orders for Switch
Nintendo is ramping up orders for its Switch devices as demand for the gaming consoles have been rising amid increasing stay-at-home activities in the wake of coronavirus pandemic,...
Monday 6 April 2020
Gigabyte, ASRock turn to servers for growth
Because of weakening global demand for motherboards and graphics cards, Taiwan-based Gigabyte Technology and ASRock are striving for server motherboard orders from cloud computing...
Monday 6 April 2020
Beyond ruggedized IPCs: Q&A with Getac chairman James Hwang
Taiwan-based ruggedized industrial PC (IPC) maker Getac has been transforming its business and is adopting a business model of a system integrator (SI) to expand its solutions with...
Wednesday 1 April 2020
Ennoconn expects revenues to grow
Taiwan-based IPC maker Ennoconn, which has seen its capacity in China recover to regular levels since mid March, expects its revenues to see a mild sequential slip in first-quarter...
Wednesday 1 April 2020
PCB maker Dynamic swings to profit in 2019, cautious about 2H20
PCB maker Dynamic Electronics managed to swing to profitability in 2019 and expects stable shipment growth in the first half of 2020 but remains cautious about its revenue prospects...
Wednesday 1 April 2020
Zhen Ding stepping up PCB R&D, capacity expansion
Taiwan-based PCB maker Zhen Ding Technology saw its net profit for 2019 rise 7.5% on year to hit a record high of NT$12.402 billion (US$409.78 million) on total revenues of NT$120.068...
Wednesday 1 April 2020
Mitac Digital to set up R&D facility in Taiwan
Car-use camera and GPS navigation device maker Mitac Digital Technology will invest NT$1.5 billion (US$49.5 million) to set up a factory focusing on R&D of automotive electronics,...
Wednesday 1 April 2020
HTC expands VR theme park biz to Saudi Arabia
HTC will team up with Extra, a leading distributor of consumer electronics products in Saudi Arabia, to build a VR-based theme park-like center, dubbed Xtra Life, in Al Khbor, according...
Tuesday 31 March 2020
Highlights of the day: Notebook ODMs to see robust 2Q20
Stay-at-home needs triggered by the coronavirus-imposed lockdowns in many parts of the world have boosted demand for enterprise and educational notebooks and tablets. Taiwan-based...