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Tuesday 10 February 2015
Panel pricing for tablets declines in February while TV applications remain stable, says DisplaySearch
Panel makers are not planning to push production during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, which will take away six work days during the month in both Taiwan and China. This will...
Tuesday 10 February 2015
Worldwide projector shipments up 8% in 2014, says Futuresource
Almost every country witnessed a rise in projector sales in 2014, with volumes for the year up 8% on year to 8.3 million units. The market benefitted from several factors: strong...
Tuesday 10 February 2015
Notebook ODMs see declines in January revenues
Notebook ODMs Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec saw their revenues drop by double-digit percentages on month in January, with their sales likely to continue to decline in February...
Tuesday 10 February 2015
Digitimes Research: Demand for LCD TV panel area in 2015 to grow 11.2% on year
Global demand for LCD TV panels in terms of total area in 2015 is estimated at 126.107 million square meters, increasing on year by 11.2%, according to Digitimes Research.
Monday 9 February 2015
SK Hynix says its 8Gb LPDDR4 being adopted in new flagship smartphone
SK Hynix has announced that its 8-gigabit (8Gb) low-power DDR4 (LPDDR4) memory has been adopted in a brand-new smartphone model. Built using 20nm process technology, the memory works...
Monday 9 February 2015
Asustek sees decline in January revenues
Asustek Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$34.97 billion (US$1.1 billion) for January, down 17.6% on month and 0.34% on year. The company pointed out that the results...
Monday 9 February 2015
Samsung is top LCD TV vendor in 2014, says WitsView
Worldwide LCD TV shipments reached 215.2 million in 2014, increasing 5.4% on year, with Samsung Electronics recording the largest global market share of 22.8%, according to WitsVie...
Monday 9 February 2015
Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments by top vendors and ODMs decline significantly in January
Notebook shipments (excluding detachable models) by the top-five vendors as well as top-three ODMs suffered a sequential decline of 25% and 19%, respectively, in January due to a...
Monday 9 February 2015
Altek revenues down in January
Altek has reported consolidated revenues of NT$962 million (US$30.54 million) for January 2015, representing a 14.29% drop on month and 14.12% drop on year.
Monday 9 February 2015
Pegatron reports increased revenues for January
Pegatron has reported consolidated revenues of NT$118.049 billion (US$3.75 billion) for January 2015, representing a 3.28% increase on month and 28.98% increase on year.
Friday 6 February 2015
Tablet vendors taking new strategies to rekindle sales in 2015
Tablet vendors are adopting measures to revive sales or reduce BOM (bill of materials) costs in 2015 in order to tide over their current difficulties caused by falling unit prices...
Friday 6 February 2015
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD TV shipments in 4Q14 highest since 1Q12
Taiwan makers' LCD TV shipments reached 10.86 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, the first time they broke the 10 million mark since the first quarter of 2012, according to Digitimes...
Thursday 5 February 2015
Apple reportedly to diversify LCD driver IC suppliers
Apple is looking to diversify its LCD driver IC suppliers and move away from its dependence on Synaptics (formerly Renesas SP Drivers; RSP), according to industry sources.
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Taiwan market: Samsung cuts 55-inch Ultra HD TV pricing below US$1,000
Samsung Electronics is holding sales events in Taiwan to promote Ultra HD TVs, with 55-inch units now being sold for just under NT$30,000 (US$1,000), according to local retailers.
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Smartwatches for children a prime target for vendors in China
Smartwatches with GPS tracking and SOS alert functions are being targeted by vendors in China with an emphasis on the children's market.