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Monday 20 January 2014
Synnex Technology automating logistics centers
Taiwan-based IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International has been automating its logistics centers in Australia and China and will set up additional...
Monday 20 January 2014
Rising popularity of LTE phones to buoy Sporton 2014 sales
Taiwan-based Sporton International, which provides mobile device testing and certification services, expects to enjoy another record breaking year in 2014 buoyed by booming demand...
Monday 20 January 2014
Lenovo likely to resume ThinkPad ODM production
Lenovo shifted 60% of the production for its enterprise ThinkPad notebook series from Wistron and other ODMs to LCFC (Hefei) Electronics Technology, its joint venture with Compal...
Monday 20 January 2014
Inventec focusing on hiking gross margin, says chairman
Inventec will focus operations in 2014 on increasing overall gross margins from nearly 5% in 2013 to over 5%, according to company chairman Richard Lee.
Monday 20 January 2014
Quanta Computer aims at 5-10% growth in 2014 notebook shipments
Quanta Computer shipped 43.1 million notebooks in 2013, 2% short of its target, and decreasing 19.9% on year, and aims at a 5-10% increase in 2014 shipments to reach 45-47.4 million,...
Monday 20 January 2014
Acer operating loss continues in 4Q13
Acer has reported a net operating loss of NT$8.218 billion (US$274 million) for the fourth quarter of 2013 mainly due to unsatisfactory sales performance, a loss of NT$1.3 billion...
Friday 17 January 2014
Apple, Samsung expected to ship 80-90 million, 60-70 million tablets in 2014, say sources
Apple and Samsung Electronics will remain as the global top-two tablet vendors in 2014 with expected shipments of 80-90 million and 60-70 million units, respectively, according to...
Friday 17 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan to ship over 34.6 million notebooks in 1Q14
Taiwan-based ODMs/OEMs will ship 34.623 million notebooks for a global market share of 85% during the first quarter of 2014, with shipments decreasing 11.2% on quarter and 4.3% on...
Friday 17 January 2014
China market: Acer launches CNY599 7-inch tablet
Acer has launched the Acer Tab 7, a 7-inch Android 4.2 tablet equipped with 1.5GHz dual-core processor, in the China market for CNY599 (US$99), so far the lowest retail price for...
Friday 17 January 2014
TSMC mobile chip sales to grow more than 35% in 2014, says Morris Chang
TSMC's revenues generated from the mobile device sector are expected to increase more than 35% in 2014, buoyed by the rising popularity of smartphones and tablets, and rising silicon...
Friday 17 January 2014
Ilitek to strengthen offerings for smartphones
LCD driver IC firm ILi Technology (Ilitek) is looking to enhance its offerings for smartphone panels in 2014. In addition to driver ICs for WVGA panels, Ilitek also aims to ramp up...
Friday 17 January 2014
CES signals reboot for AMOLED TV market; panel shipments to reach 10 million by 2018, says IHS
Despite a few false starts, TV vendors remain committed to the success of AMOLED sets, with the new impetus evident at CES 2014 expected to cause shipments to rise to more than 10...
Friday 17 January 2014
Compal Electronics expects 5% growth in 2014 notebook shipments, says president
Compal Electronics shipped 39 million notebooks in 2013, increasing 5.4% on year, and expects shipments in 2014 to grow 5% sequentially, company president Ray Chen said on January...
Thursday 16 January 2014
DRAM contract prices fall in 1H January, says DRAMeXchange
Contract prices for DRAM memory have started to fall as tight supply is gradually easing, according to DRAMeXchange.
Thursday 16 January 2014
Compal president denies Lenovo planning to buy stake in joint venture
Taiwan-based supply chain makers have claimed that Lenovo plans to acquire Compal Electronics' 49% stake in their joint venture LCFC (Hefei) Electronics Technology. But Compal president...