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Tuesday 24 April 2012
Newmax aggressively striving for notebook camera orders
Taiwan-based optical lens maker Newmax Technology is aggressive trying to land high quality optical lens orders from ultrabook and notebook players, according to sources from upstream...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
China market: 3.7 million LCD TVs expected to be sold during early May holidays
In the China market, local and international vendors are expected to offer price incentives to promote sales of LCD TVs during the forthcoming holidays beginning May 1 which are a...
Monday 23 April 2012
Commentary: US protectionism on domestic solar industry may backfire
The US government has been taking up anti-dumping and anti-tariff investigations against China-based solar firms. According to LA Times, the US government recently announced the import...
Monday 23 April 2012
3D TV growth momentum to slip in 2012, say sources
Although the global market for 3D TVs is expected to continue to expand in 2012, the growth momentum will slow down in the year as most top-tier brand vendors are shifting more focus...
Monday 23 April 2012
Applied Materials, Samsung may cooperate in Xi'an
US-based semiconductor equipment firm Applied Materials recently held a solar forum in Xi'an, China. The firm has set up a global R&D center in the city. South Korea-based Samsung...
Monday 23 April 2012
Impact of fire at GCE China factory controllable, say Taiwan makers
A fire hitting one of Taiwan-based Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE)'s factories in Changshu, eastern China has caused worries about short supply of notebook PCBs. But Taiwan-based PC...
Friday 20 April 2012
New business model and strategies in China's smartphone market - Another kind of Android
Android's open strategy and rapid progress has resulted in the emergence of a wide variety of Android iterations. On the hardware front, there are both Google-certified phones and...
Friday 20 April 2012
Electronics & Information Fair, Hangzhou opens
The 2012 Electronics & Information Fair, Hangzhou is taking place in Hangzhou City, eastern China, during April 19-22.
Friday 20 April 2012
China Mobile to operate FDD LTE in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong branch of China Mobile on April 19 announced that the mobile telecom carrier will launch FDD LTE mobile communication services with a maximum data download speed of...
Friday 20 April 2012
Applied Materials holds solar technology innovation summit conference in China
Applied Materials' Solar Technology Center in Xi'an, western China, will hold a solar technology innovation summit on April 20, according to the company. The center is an R&D...
Friday 20 April 2012
China market: Huawei Device aims to sell 20 million smartphones in 2012, says report
Huawei Device has launched a high-end smartphone, the Ascend P1, for contract-free sale at CNY2,999 (US$476) in the China market and aims to sell 30 million handsets, of which 20...
Friday 20 April 2012
Fire breaks out at GCE PCB plant in China
Taiwan-based PCB maker Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) has halted production at one of its Changshu, China factories after a fire broke out at the facility in the early hours of April...
Thursday 19 April 2012
Factories moving further into inland China poses a challenge for distributors, says Avnet
Taiwan-based firms have been moving factories further into mid-west China, posing a challenge for IC distributors as the local logistics network will need to stay efficient and flexible...
Thursday 19 April 2012
China-based touch panel makers expanding capacities
China-based touch panel makers are following their rivals in Taiwan in ramping up their production and aggressively expanding capacity – a development which may trigger an oversupply...
Thursday 19 April 2012
China PC market to enjoy healthy 13% growth in 2012, says IHS
Driven by the rise of ultrabooks, the release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the arrival of Intel's Ivy Bridge microprocessor, China's PC market in 2012 will expand...