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Tuesday 12 March 2013
Quanta February notebook shipments down 12.1% sequentially
Quanta Computer shipped 2.9 million notebooks in February, decreasing 12.1% sequentially, according to the company. Notebook shipments for the first two months of 2013 reached 6.2...
Monday 11 March 2013
Asustek, Acer aim at shipping 1-1.5 million smartphones in 2013
Asustek Computer and Acer have recently unveiled their latest products for the smartphone industry with Asustek expecting its shipments to reach one million units and Acer 1.5 million...
Monday 11 March 2013
Acer to adopt recycled materials in products
Acer will cooperate with Wistron to adopt recycled materials such as plastic into their products and the company also plans to cut its carbon emissions by 30% by 2015 and 60% by 20...
Monday 11 March 2013
Panel makers expected to ramp up TV panel production by the end of 1Q13
Panel makers in Asia are expected to increase their utilization rates for LCD TV panels in the second half of March 2013 in order to meet expected demand for the second quarter of...
Monday 11 March 2013
Ability Enterprise expects 2013 digital camera shipments to drop by 15-20%
Ability Enterprise's digital camera shipments in 2012 decreased by 25% from 2011 and expects 2013 shipments to drop 15-20% from 2012 due to increasing competition from mobile terminal...
Monday 11 March 2013
Compal, Wistron, Inventec see February revenues decrease
Taiwan-based notebook ODMs Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec saw February consolidated revenues of NT$45.286 billion (US$1.52 billion), down 20.80% on month and 22.24% on year,...
Friday 8 March 2013
What will it take to keep the TV industry alive?
Some market observers speculate TVs are increasingly becoming a thing of the past, as the use of devices such as tablets, smartphones computers and even Full HD projectors are becoming...
Friday 8 March 2013
Synnex Technology sees February revenues decrease
Taiwan-based IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International on March 7 reported consolidated revenues of NT$19.31 billion (US$650 million) for February,...
Friday 8 March 2013
Taiwan market: Asustek launches touchscreen Transformer AIO series
Asustek Computer on March 7 unveiled the Transformer AIO, a tablet which can be docked into a pad to become an all-in-one (AIO) PC, for launch in the Taiwan market. The AIO pad features...
Friday 8 March 2013
Digitimes Research: Financial woes at Sharp to give Samsung extended reach in the TV market
Samsung Electronics' recent investment of US$110 million in Japan-based Sharp can be seen from a number of angles, most notably Sharp's dire need to salvage itself from the brink...
Friday 8 March 2013
HP, Acer, Asustek to ship 2.0, 1.7, 1.1 million notebooks in March, say Taiwan makers
Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer and Asustek Computer will ship two million, 1.7 million and 1.1 million notebooks in March, growing over 27%, nearly 20% and 17-18%, respectively, according...
Thursday 7 March 2013
China-based Colorful cooperates with Chaintech to launch tablets
Colorful Technology and Development, the largest China-based graphics card vendor, has cooperated with Taiwan-based ODM Chaintech Technology to launch tablets in the first quarter...
Thursday 7 March 2013
Digitimes Research: Notebook brand vendors and ODMs see shipments drop in February
Due to fewer working days in February and persistently weak demand in the notebook market, the top-3 notebook ODMs saw their combined shipments for the month drop 18% sequentially...
Thursday 7 March 2013
Apple iPad and iPad mini shipments may be affected by lack of touch screen sensors
Japan-based Nissha Printing, Apple's main supplier of thin-film touch sensors for the iPad mini, may not be able to supply enough of the sensors for Apple's next-generation iPad and...
Thursday 7 March 2013
Touchscreen notebooks to enjoy at least 10% price cut after Windows 8 discount
Touchscreen notebook prices are expected to drop at least 10% when the recently reported Windows 8 licensing fee discounts provided by Microsoft go into effect, while some entry-level...