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Monday 18 June 2012
Smartphone orders from China unattractive to Taiwan ODMs, say sources
Despite efforts by China-base branded handset vendors to push sales of sub-CNY1,000 (US$157) smartphone models, Taiwan-based handset ODMs are not rushing to snap up orders, according...
Friday 15 June 2012
Government subsidies to increase 32-42-inch LCD TV sales in China and Taiwan
New waves of subsidies in Taiwan and China for energy-efficient products that include TV sets are expected to boost 32-42-inch TV sales, according to industry sources.
Friday 15 June 2012
Acer to consider shareholder interests in executive pay
Acer on June 15, hosted a shareholders meeting and passed its financial report for 2011 with severance pay to former CEO Gianfranco Lanci reaching NT$1.28 billion (US$42.8 million)...
Friday 15 June 2012
IDC increases media tablet forecast
Expectations of strong demand for media tablets in the second half of 2012 has led IDC to increase its forecast for the worldwide market to 107.4 million units for the year, up from...
Friday 15 June 2012
Amazon reportedly may drop 7-inch Kindle Fire price to welcome new models
As Amazon is said to be considering launching new e-book readers and 7-inch tablet PC products at the beginning of the third quarter, the company is expected to have a chance to reduce...
Friday 15 June 2012
Cache is king in solid state drive market, says IHS
Hybrid hard disk drives (HDD) containing a built-in layer of NAND flash memory may offer the advantage of consolidated storage for increasingly popular ultrabooks, but cache solid...
Friday 15 June 2012
Intel to hold ultrabook cost-reduction meeting with Taiwan supply chain makers in July
Intel will hold a conference in July to discuss with Taiwan-based supply chain makers about how to minimize ultrabook production costs, according to the makers.
Thursday 14 June 2012
Synnex Technology focuses 2012 operations on smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks
Synnex Technology International, a Taiwan-based channel distributor, has focused its 2012 operations on fast growing demand for smartphones, tablet PCs and ultrabooks, the company...
Thursday 14 June 2012
China market: Local chipmakers dominate tablet PC chip segment
Despite booming sales of tablet PCs in the China market, Taiwan-based IC vendors have not been able to make significant inroads into the tablet chipset segment in China, according...
Thursday 14 June 2012
Advantech maintains goal of challenging US$1 billion revenues for 2012
Although the IT market had been seriously affected by global economic turmoil, as the situation began turning positive in May, industrial PC (IPC) player Advantech will maintain its...
Thursday 14 June 2012
ISSI taps into analog IC market; provides one-stop service for automotive electronics
Demand for analog ICs in the consumer market has been increasing as the world economy is recovering. In 2012, the analog IC market is estimated to have sales worth US$43.8 billion...
Thursday 14 June 2012
AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek and Texas Instruments unleash the next era of computing innovation
At the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (AFDS), global technology leaders came together to announce the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation. The HSA Foundation...
Thursday 14 June 2012
Acer enters tier-3 to -5 cities in China
Acer, starting 2012, is executing a three-year plan in China to expand its channel bases from tier-1 and -2 cities to tier-3 to -5 cities and is set to open new stores at a rate of...
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Wintel notebook vendors relieved about new MacBooks
Seeing Apple's latest MacBook products only feature upgrades such as Intel's Ivy Bridge processors and Retina display, Wintel-based notebook vendors are relieved and believe that Apple's...
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Tatung unable to turn losses into profits this year, says company president
Tatung president Lin Kuo Wen-yen has said the company's chances of turning around its losses into profit this year are slim due to uncertainties in the global economy expected to occur...