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Monday 29 December 2014
China telecom carriers set aggressive 4G smartphone sales goals, says report
China Telecom and China United Network Communications (China Unicom) have been setting up LTE FDD/TD-LTE 4G networks in China, and have set aside budgets of CNY16 billion (US$2.58...
Friday 26 December 2014
ACES taps China automotive connector market
Taiwan-based electronic connector maker ACES Electronics will invest CNY35 million (US$5.65 million) in Nantong Great Electric (NTGEC), a China-based maker of automotive wiring harnesses...
Friday 26 December 2014
Leading China PV makers ready to set up production lines abroad to evade US taxation
First-tier China-based PV module firms have plans to set up overseas production lines to avoid US antitrust taxation, for which the US Department of Commerce is set to review a proposed...
Friday 26 December 2014
CGCC reportedly questions China PV systems quality
A China government-sponsored certification organization has found that about 30% of the country's PV power-generation systems show various problems three years or more after installation,...
Friday 26 December 2014
Compal plans to hike ODM prices by 5-15% to reflect wage hikes in China
Taiwan-based notebook ODM Compal Electronics is negotiating an increase in ODM prices by 5-15% with clients, with the adjustment needed to reflect ongoing wage hikes in China and...
Friday 26 December 2014
Acer unveils smart classrooms in China
Smart classrooms with hardware and software provided by Taiwan-based vendor Acer were unveiled in a primary school in Chongqing, western China, on December 25, with Acer founder Stan...
Wednesday 24 December 2014
Motherboard vendors see opportunity in China tier-4 to -6 cities
Motherboard brand vendors are seeing demand from China's tier-4 to -6 cities growing rapidly and are turning to place their resources into these markets for 2015, according to sources...
Wednesday 24 December 2014
Digitimes Research: China OGS touch panel makers hiking GFF capacity
Viewing that China-based smartphone vendors have begun to adopt more GFF (a glass sheet and two layers of ITO film) touch panels in high-end products than OGS (one glass solution)...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
China vendor Oppo to ship 50 million smartphones in 2015, say sources
China-based handset vendor Oppo is expected to ship up to 50 million smartphones in 2015 compared to 25-30 million units shipped in the previous year. For total shipments in 2015,...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
China software industry posts January-November revenues of nearly CNY3.3 trillion, says MIIT
China's software industry generated total sales revenues of CNY3.299 trillion (US$536 billion) in January-November 2014, growing by 20.1% on year, according to statistics by the Ministry...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
China November mobile phone user base grows to 1.281 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.281 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of November 2014, a total that has grown by 0.34% on month and by 4.72% on year, with...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
Digitimes Research: China to become large predator for IC businesses during 2016-2020
While related policies and regulations chartered to the development of semiconductor industry in China, as defined in the nation's 13th Five-Year Plan for the period from 2016 to...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
MediaTek shipments for 4G smartphones to hike
MediaTek's shipments of 4G LTE chips for 2014 are set to reach 30-40 million units, a China Business News (CBN) report cited Aaron Chang, head of the company's China operations,...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
China government tightens tax incentives, subsidies to enterprises
China's State Council has recently ordered its local governments to fully re-inspect their existing subsidy and tax-cut programs for enterprises and they will also need to receive...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
China market: LeTV aims to ship 3-4 million own-brand LCD TVs in 2015
China-based OTT operator LeTV has sold 1.5 million own-brand LCD TVs in the China market in 2014 and aims to sell 3-4 million units in 2015, according to the company.