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Friday 13 June 2014
LG likely to ship 15-16 smartphones in 2Q14, say Taiwan sources
LG Electronics is expected to see its smartphone shipments grow 20-30% sequentially to 15-16 million units in the second quarter of 2014, buoyed by the brisk sales of its latest flagship...
Friday 13 June 2014
Intel prepared for emerging industries, says company president Renee James
Intel president Renee James, during a recent interview, told Digitimes that the company and its partners in Taiwan are committed to developing smart devices with integrated designs...
Friday 13 June 2014
Taiwan market: HTC launches HTC One mini 2 smartphone
HTC has launched its HTC One mini 2 in the Taiwan market with a suggested retail price of NT$13,900 (US$463), targeting the mid-range 4G segment.
Thursday 12 June 2014
FET aims at 6% revenue proportion for value-added services in 3 years
Taiwan-based Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) aims to increase the proportion of revenues from mobile value-added services, mainly content and e-commerce, to 6% and its share...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
IPC makers looking to move production back to Taiwan
Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) makers have started considering moving their production lines back to Taiwan as China's increasing labor costs have started creating pressure on the...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
MediaTek begins volume production of Aster solutions for wearable devices
MediaTek will begin commercial production of Aster, its SoC solution for wearable devices, in June with initial shipments to reach two million units a month, according to industry...
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Seiko Epson executive expects robot market scale to rise strongly in the future
Japan-based Seiko Epson, a major player in the worldwide 4-axis robot arm market, expects the global Scara robot and 6-axis robot markets will together have a scale of US$790 million...
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...