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Friday 21 February 2014
While Digitimes is known as a media outlet, the company also includes a business unit that solely focuses on market research. Run independently from the Digitimes news organization, Digitimes Research provides market intelligence...
The 4G opportunity: Q&A with executives from major Taiwan telecom carriers
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, have been awarded frequency band units of 70MHz, 60MHz and 60MHz respectively in...
Focused on mobile storage and peripherals: Q&A with Carry Tech president Taron Chang
Tuesday 4 June 2013
Once chiefly known as an OEM for PC card readers and memory modules, Carry Technology has expanded its product portfolio to include Wi-Fi products and other peripherals for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
Monday 8 April 2013
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset market, Broadcom's mobile solutions have found their way into the supply chains of Samsung Electronis' Galaxy Grand...
The challenge for mobile telecom carriers: Q&A with FET president Yvonne Li
Wednesday 19 December 2012
Along with increasing use of smartphones, competition among mobile telecom carriers is changing and they are faced with a big challenge to transform themselves into total solution suppliers for mobile Internet connectivity,...
Staying focused on mobile MEMS: Q&A with Bosch Sensortec marketing director Leopold Beer
Friday 25 May 2012
Bosch Sensortec has announced what the company claims is the smallest inertial measurement unit (IMU) in the market. The combo solution is designed to meet the requirements of mobile consumer electronics applications with...
Focus on high-volume mobile devices: Q&A with Akustica executives
Wednesday 28 March 2012
MEMS microphone specialist Akustica has announced its new analog MEMS microphone series to show continuous enhancement of its product portfolio. The firm also recognizes this product development as an achievement since...
WiMAX should develop toward dual-mode single frequency band, says Global Mobile chairwoman
Monday 1 August 2011
Chairwoman Rosemary Ho for Global Mobile, one of the six WiMAX operators in Taiwan, has expressed her opinions about how WiMAX will develop under competition from LTE and the company's WiMAX operations in an interview with...
Looking to ride mobile computing wave: Q&A with Kingston co-founder David Sun
Monday 20 June 2011
Kingston Technology's revenues hit a record high of US$6.5 billion for 2010, representing a 58.5% on-year growth. However, high sales do not necessarily mean profits are high as well, company co-founder David Sun pointed...
Broadcom talks about growing opportunities in wireless
Friday 4 June 2010
Michael Hurlston, senior vice president and general manager for the Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit at chip specialist Broadcom recently sat down with Digitimes to share his outlook for the wireless networking...
Korea-based vendors show more interest in Ultra HD TV segment
Displays | 50min ago
Taiflex expects revenues increase in 2Q14
Bits + chips | 2h 39min ago
Acer wins exclusive IT supply contract from Victoria Police, Australia
IT + CE | 3h 51min ago
Largan Precision nets NT$22.36 per share for 1Q14
Before Going to Press | 1h 49min ago
Digitimes Research: Taiwan DSC shipments decrease 30.4% on quarter in 1Q14
Before Going to Press | 1h 49min ago
NFC penetration in smartphones to exceed 50% in 2015, says NXP Semiconductors executive
Before Going to Press | 1h 50min ago
Acer sets internal target shipments of 10 million smartphones, 10 million tablets for 2014
Before Going to Press | 2h 16min ago
Taiwan thermal module makers expanding heat-pipe capacities
Before Going to Press | 2h 34min ago
Taiwan IC design houses see booming orders from China smartphone vendors
Before Going to Press | 2h 56min ago
China-based white-box tablet vendors face increasing competition from international vendors
Before Going to Press | 3h 58min ago
Lenovo to start dual-brand smartphone marketing
Before Going to Press | 3h 59min ago
Tesla seeing short production capacity, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 4h ago
- Digitimes Research: Single-layer multi-touch technology to enter tablet touch panel market
- Huawei has preliminary ideas for 5G mobile, says vice chairman
- Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments drop 30% sequentially in 1Q14
- LCD equipment suppliers to see order visibility improve in 2014
- Taiwan makers expected to hold over 50% Ultra HD TV panel market share in 2014
- Upstream suppliers eye server orders from Lenovo
- Flexible AC transmission systems to surpass US$5 billion in annual revenues worldwide by 2022, says firm
- LG Display reports 1Q14 results
- Demand for TV, STB and LED driver ICs picking up
- Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments drop 5.5% on year in 1Q14; HP, Asustek, Apple enjoy growth
- Taiwan market: Ambit 4G infrastructure plan raises security concern over Huawei equipment
- Giga Solar to deal out 2013 dividend per share of NT$8.00
- Yingli Green Energy expects to turn profitable in 2Q14
- China market: Tesla plans to deploy PV-based power charging network
- DRAM chip supply to fall short of demand in 3Q14, say Kingston and Nanya
- Taiwan market: China solar-grade wafer makers competing with local makers
- Taiwan market: HTC unveils Desire 816, Desire 610 4G smartphones
- Global chip revenues rise in 2013, reversing loss from earlier year; memory and wireless lead the way, says IHS
- Taiwan market: 40% of LCD TVs sold in 2014 expected to be large-size, Ultra HD, says LG
- Jeng Shiang performance down in 1Q14; expected to increase 40% in 2Q14
- Taiwan March manufacturing production index up, says MOEA
- Taiwan market: Competition in 4G LTE smartphone segment heating up
- Panel supply chain expects performance to increase in 2Q14
- UMC 28nm yield rates improving
- Commentary: Innovations needed to keep panel industry moving forward
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- Microsoft reportedly plans to rename Nokia (Apr 20) - CNET
- Equity interests in Wuxi Suntech and its subsidiary purported to be transferred to third party (Apr 10) - Company release
- HTC said to hire ormer Samsung US marketing executive (Apr 18) - Bloomberg
- Kyocera's solar-powered recharging station for electric vehicles installed at Shintec Hozumi for disaster prevention (Apr 14) - Company release
- China's economy grows 7.4% in 1Q14, better than forecast (Apr 16) - BBC News
- US retail sales see biggest gain in 18 months (Apr 14) - BBC News
- Samsung sees Google changing Apple trial (Apr 13) - The Korea Times
- Tests confirm Heartbleed bug can expose server's private key (Apr 14) - PC World
- Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments drop 5.5% on year in 1Q14; HP, Asustek, Apple enjoy growth
- Digitimes Research: Single-layer multi-touch technology to enter tablet touch panel market
- Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments drop 30% sequentially in 1Q14
- Digitimes Research: Microsoft facing difficulties in 3 major segments
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- Vecow debuts ABP-2000A series with 4 GbE LAN and Intel Quad-Core Atom E3845 for IOT, Big Data, Cloud Computing applications
- Clientron introduces its brand new AIO POS terminal - Mia550
- Three new GKB SDI cameras to strengthen HD-SDI portfolio
- Software AG releases Intelligent Business Operations to handle next generation smart data applications
- Apotop i-Selfie brings you an innovative wireless Selfie snapshot experience
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- Digitimes Research: Single-layer multi-touch technology to enter tablet touch panel market
- Windows tablets gaining traction in Japan
- Digitimes Research: ITO film price drop to slow metal mesh penetration in mid-size touch applications
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan ODMs losing out as PC brand vendors turn to China supply chain for tablets
- Digitimes Research: Over 50% white-box tablets to come with phone functions in 2H14; MediaTek to benefit most
Consolidation to continue in the MEMS microphone industry: Q&A with Akustica CEO Horst Muenzel
More and more players have made inroads into the MEMS microphone industry to cash in on the rising...
The security solutions market is an increasingly important market as the IT industry develops and security...
A win-win situation for Toshiba and OCZ: Q&A with Alex Mei, CMO of OCZ Storage Solutions
As part of Toshiba, OCZ Storage Solutions is able to leverage Toshiba's NAND and combine it with its...
While Digitimes is known as a media outlet, the company also includes a business unit that solely focuses...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2014 global high brightness LED market, trends and shipment forecast
For the global LED lighting market, the market size will reach US$25.82 billion in 2014 or a market penetration rate of 23.4%. This is attributable to exponential shipment growth for light bulbs, tubes, and directional lamps.
- Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015
This Special Report provides forecasts through 2015 for Greater China touch panel shipments with breakdowns based on technology (glass, film, resistive), application (smartphone, NB and tablet) and by firm.