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Tuesday 4 December 2012
Google Taiwan head recommends Taiwan ODMs cooperate with telecom carriers in Southeast Asia for marketing Chromebooks
As sales prices for Chromebooks have fallen to a low level and Chrome browser is increasingly popular in the Southeast Asia market, Taiwan-based ODMs are recommended to directly cooperate...
Tuesday 4 December 2012
Digitimes Research: Global AIO PC shipments to grow 20% in 2013
Global all-in-one (AIO) PC shipments will reach 13.2 million units in 2012, growing by 1.5% from 2011, and will increase by 19.7% to 15.8 million units in 2013, driven by Windows...
Monday 3 December 2012
Epistar obtains more chip orders than expected from Korea for LED TV BLUs
Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar has received more orders than originally expected for LED chips used in backlight units (BLUs) from South Korea-based LCD TV...
Monday 3 December 2012
Asustek expects strong tablet shipments for 2013
Asustek Computer at its global sales meeting (GSM) on December 3, set the annual shipments goals for its three major product lines for 2013 with the notebook shipments expected to...
Monday 3 December 2012
Taiwan market: IT Month 2012 visitor count on pace with 2011 show after first weekend
The IT Month 2012 trade show in Taiwan during the first weekend attracted more than 255,000 visitors, a similar number to that totaled in 2011, according to the host, Taipei Computer...
Monday 3 December 2012
Brand vendors kick-off in-house notebook R&D for high-end models
As notebook brand vendors have recently started up in-house R&D, sources from notebook ODMs expect such a strategy will only be applied for high-end models and should have a limited...
Monday 3 December 2012
Compal lands orders for tablets from Amazon, says paper
Compal Electronics has obtained orders for Amazon's third-generation tablet to be launched in September 2013, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN)...
Monday 3 December 2012
Asustek to offer Taichi at IT Month show in Taiwan
Asustek Computer is set to offer its new dual-touchscreen notebook, Taichi, at the IT Month trade show in Taiwan in December priced at NT$57,900 (US$1,992), higher than the originally...
Monday 3 December 2012
Taiwan market: Canon launches full-frame DSLR camera EOS 6D
Canon on December 1 announced the launch of EOS 6D, a full-frame DSLR camera, in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$62,900 (US$2,156) for body only, and NT$82,900...
Friday 30 November 2012
Cross-Strait Electronics IT Expo opens in Maanshan, China
The Cross-Strait Electronics IT Expo hosted by China's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the Anhui provincial government, and the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers...
Friday 30 November 2012
China January-October handset output over 915 million units, says MIIT
Makers in China turned out 915.618 million handsets in total during January-October 2012, falling 1.9% on year, according to statistics by the Ministry of Industry and Information...
Friday 30 November 2012
Taiwan passive component makers enter supply chain of China brands
Taiwan-based passive component makers including Chilisin Electronics, Polytronics Technology, Thinking Electronic Industrial and TXC reportedly have secured orders from China-based...
Friday 30 November 2012
Taiwan market: BenQ to release 65-inch LCD TV in 1Q13
BenQ will release a 65-inch LCD TV in the first quarter of 2013 and may also release an Ultra HD (3840 by 2160) TV by the end of the year, according to general manager of BenQ's Technology...
Thursday 29 November 2012
Notebook vendors gearing up for touchscreen devices
Acer, Asustek Computer and Lenovo are gearing up to promote their new touchscreen-based notebooks in 2013. Touchscreen devices are expected to account for 10-15% of overall notebooks...
Thursday 29 November 2012
Taiwan market: Asustek set to sell 150,000 units of PadFone 2 in the next 6 months
Asustek Computer has achieved total sales of 25,000-30,000 units of its PadFone 2 in Taiwan since the device's launch I October, and with a white version to be released soon, the...