
LCD monitor overview - Jun 2006
Last update: Tuesday 26 September 2006
Global PC monitor shipments totaled 135.59 million units in 2005, up 12.35% from 120.7 million units in 2004, according to an iSuppli report released at the end of 2005. The LCD monitor...
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Table of contentsChart 1: Global PC monitor shipments, 2001-2005 (million units)
Table 1: LCD monitor shipments breakdown by screen size, 2005
Chart 3: Global LCD monitor shipments by screen size, 2003-2006 (k units)
Chart 4: LCD monitor ASPs (average selling prices), 2004-2006 (US$)
Chart 5: LCD monitor ASPs (average selling prices), 2004-2006 (US$)
Chart 6: Taiwan's share of worldwide LCD monitors, 4Q04-1Q06
Chart 7: Taiwan LCD monitor shipments by production mode, 2001-2005
Table 3: Top six global LCD monitor makers (manufacturers), 2005
Table 5: Non-top-six OEM/ODM customers of Taiwan-based LCD monitor makers, 2005
Table 6: Major Taiwan LCD monitor makers, 2005 LCD monitor monthly sales* (NT$ million)
Table 7: Major Taiwan-based LCD monitor makers, shipments 2005-2006 (million units)
Chart 8: Taiwan LCD monitor makers: Shipments, 2005-2006 (million units)
Chart 9: Global PC monitor shipments forecast in 2006 (k units)

Taiwan handset overview for 2005 - Jun 2006
Last update: Wednesday 2 August 2006
Worldwide mobile phone shipments totaled 825.5 million units in 2005, up 16.7% from 707.3 million in 2004, according to International Data Corporation's (IDC's) Worldwide...
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Table of contentsTable 1: Shipments and market share of top-five global handset vendors (million units)
Chart 1: Taiwan handset shipments (million units), 2002-2005
Chart 2: Taiwan’s share of global handset shipments, 2002-2005
Chart 6: Taiwan handset shipment share by price point, 1Q05-2Q06
Chart 8: Shipment proportion of top-3 Taiwan hanset makers, 1Q05-1Q06
Chart 9: Transmission technology of Taiwan's handset shipments, 2003-2005
Chart 10: Taiwan handset shipments by handset type, 2003-2005
Chart 11: Taiwan handset shipment breakdown by main display colors, 2003-2005
Chart 12: Taiwan handset shipment breakdown by camera resolution, 2004-2005
Chart 13: Siemens AG's global handset market share, 2003-2005
Table 3: Strategic targets for Taiwan handset makers in 2006
Chart 14: Global market forecast for 2/2.5G and 3G handset shipments, 2004-2009
Chart 15: Worldwide converged mobile device shipment share by OS, 2004-2009
Table 6: Worldwide converged mobile device shipment forecast by OS (k units)
Chart 16: Taiwan smartphone/PDA phone shipments by OS, 1Q03-4Q05
Chart 17: Smartphone/PDA phone shipments from Taiwan-based manufacturers, 1Q04-4Q05
Table 8: Shipments of Taiwan-based GPS-enabled
handheld device specialists (k units)Table 9: Net income of Taiwan handset component suppliers by industry

Handset vendor descriptions - Jun 2006
Last update: Thursday 27 July 2006
The leading handheld device manufacturers in Taiwan come from many areas of the IT industry.
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Table of contentsTable 1: Net income of leading Taiwan-based handheld device manufacturers (NT$m)
Table 2: Quarterly shipments of Taiwan-based handset makers (k units)
Table 4: New models by own-brand handset makers in Taiwan, 2004
Table 12: Compal Communications, handset models launched from 1999-2004
Table 18: Summary of HTC Universal 3G PDA phone launch worldwide
Chart 1: Revenue for Mitac's digital portable division (NT$m)
Chart 2: Revenue contribution of Mitac's digital portable division

Front projector overview - Jun 2006
Last update: Thursday 27 July 2006
Global front projector shipments rose 17% to more than 4.1 million units in 2005 and the industry finished the year on a strong note – shipments in the fourth quarter reached...
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Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
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Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...

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