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Wednesday 11 June 2014
Pegatron suffers 9% on-month revenue drop in May
Pegatron Technology saw its consolidated revenues for May drop 9.09% on month and 8.55% on year to reach NT$65.89 billion (US$2.2 billion), with combined consolidated revenues from...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Acer sees on-year decline in May revenues
Acer on June 10 reported consolidated revenues of NT$25.55 billion (US$847 million) for May, hiking 32.69% on month, but slipping 2.91% on year, and NT$121.53 billion for January-May,...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Wearable devices such as iWatch to spur sapphire market demand in 2015, says LEDinside
Apple's reported iWatch, which is expected to be released in late 2014, will use sapphire watch covers, according to research firm LEDinside. If iWatch sales reach market estimations...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Taiwan market: Sony Mobile to begin marketing Xperia Z2a, Xperia T3 4G smartphones in July
Sony Mobile Communications has unveiled its latest 4G smartphones, the Xperia Z2a and Xperia T3, in the Taiwan market, aiming to catch up with rival vendors Samsung Electronics and...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Chunghwa Telecom nets NT$2.22 per share for January-May
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has reported net profit of NT$3.39 billion (US$112 million) for May 2014, resulting in net EPS of NT$2.22 for January-May.
Tuesday 10 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Apple, Samsung remain top-2 smartphone vendors in 1Q14; Xiaomi, Coolpad enter top-5
In the first quarter of 2014, Samsung Electronics and Apple together continued to account for almost half of the global smartphone market with LG Electronics staying in third position,...
Tuesday 10 June 2014
Network security sustains growth momentum in 1Q14, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, the security appliance market continues to see positive momentum. In the first quarter of 2014, worldwide factory...
Tuesday 10 June 2014
China market: China Mobile launches first own-brand 4G smartphone M811
China Mobile has launched M811, its first own-brand 4G smartphone, for sale in the China market at a contract-free retail price of CNY999 (US$160), according to China-based tec...
Monday 9 June 2014
White-box server players gaining support from first-tier component suppliers
Upstream component suppliers such as Intel and hard disc drive (HDD) makers, have started providing support to white-box server players such as Taiwan-based ODMs and the strategy...
Monday 9 June 2014
Synnex Technology sees decreased May revenues
IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International has reported consolidated revenues of NT$25.9 billion (US$859 million) for May, dropping 6.2% sequentially...
Friday 6 June 2014
Quanta, Wistron pushing new business measures to prolong competitiveness
Quanta Computer's white-box server subsidiary is planning to establish new branches in Hangzhou and Shenzhen, China to tighten its partnerships with China-based Internet players Alibaba...
Friday 6 June 2014
Acer to integrate MediaTek LinkIt in BYOC for wearable and IoT
Acer chairman Stan Shih at a cloud computing and Internet of thing (IoT) conference during Computex announced cooperation with MediaTek to bundle MediaTek's LinkIt IoT platform into...
Friday 6 June 2014
Taiwan ODMs focusing on integrated server, storage, switch solutions
Taiwan-based server ODMs are pushing aggressively into storage and switch businesses to enhance their profitability as solutions that integrate server, storage and switch, will become...
Friday 6 June 2014
Computex 2014: Microsoft, Google showcasing expanded supply chain in Taiwan
Microsoft and Google are showcasing their efforts to expand the supply chain ecosystems for their Windows Phone 8 smartphones and Chromebook notebooks in Taiwan at Computex 2014.
Friday 6 June 2014
Trends in mobile computing technologies and component packaging
2.5D interposer packaging technologies are being used in products ranging from Intel's Haswell/Broadwell processors to AMD's mobile high-performance GPU chips. DDR4, which is about...