Last update: Monday 6 May 2013 [102 news items]
Digital camera makers Ability and Altek post high revenues for October
Nov 9, 10:17
Ability Enterprise and Altek, two of the top-three Taiwan-based digital camera makers, have released unaudited revenues for October, with the former hitting a record for the second...
Altek aims at 25% on-quarter growth in 4Q09 revenues
Oct 30, 12:13
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek, due to additional orders from existing clients, expects consolidated revenues for the forth quarter of 2009 will rise 25% sequentially to...
Taiwan makers ship over 18 million digital cameras in 3Q09, says Digitimes Research
Oct 27, 11:54
Taiwan-based digital camera makers shipped 18.37 million units in the third quarter of 2009, a rise of 103.2% on quarter and 27.1% on year, according to Digitimes Research. However,...
Taiwan-based maker Altek sees September 2009 revenues up over 46% on month
Stockwatch - Oct 8, 16:21
Digital camera ODM Altek has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.745 billion (US$114 million) for September 2009, increasing by 46.25% on month but decreasing 5.52% on year. The...
Altek, Ability Enterprise may receive Fujifilm DSC orders for India
Oct 5, 11:21
Japan-based vendor Fujifilm, which is beefing up sales promotion of its digital cameras in India to hike its market share from the present 5% to 15% as soon as possible, may release...
Altek cuts into car electronics market
Sep 17, 11:06
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek has begun to supply an in-house developed car electronic device, Eagle View System, for use in Luxgen 7 MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) made by...
Digital camera makers Ability and Altek report 2009 revenue highs in August
Sep 8, 11:16
Ability Enterprise and Altek, two of the three largest Taiwan-based digital camera makers, on September 7 reported unaudited consolidated revenues of NT$3.516 billion (US$107 million)...
Altek expects record shipments of digital cameras in September
Aug 12, 10:38
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek began shipments to new client Fujifilm in July and expects its total monthly shipment volume to increase to a record of three million units...
Altek July revenues up on month
Aug 5, 09:50
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek has reported consolidated revenues for July 2009 of NT$1.65 billion (US$50.5 million), an increase of 37% from June.
Digital camera makers Ability Enterprise, Altek expected to obtain additional orders from Fujifilm
Jul 28, 10:38
Fujifilm has increased its fiscal 2009 (April 2009-March 2010) sales target from 8.3 million units originally to at least 9.0 million due to a better than expected sales performance,...
Taiwan-based Altek debuts own-brand cameraphone in China
Jul 24, 15:52
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek unveiled the T8680, its first own-brand cameraphone model at a cross-strait forum on the optics industry held in Beijing, China, on July 23,...
DSC maker Altek to sell own-brand handsets in China market
Jun 19, 10:30
Taiwan-based digital still camera (DSC) maker Altek has stepped into development and production of handsets and will debut own-brand handsets featuring 5-megapixel or more cameras...
Altek, Ability Enterprise expected to benefit from Fujifilm bid in India digital camera market
Jun 12, 11:39
Japan-based digital camera vendor Fujifilm plans to boost its market share in India from the current 3% to 15% in three years, and thus is expected to release more ODM orders to Ability...
Altek ranked as top digital camera maker in 2008
Jun 12, 10:55
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Altek ranked as the world's number one ODM digital camera maker with shipments of 13.17 million accounting for a 22.9% share in 2008, the company...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek, Asia Optical see May revenues down on year
Jun 8, 16:04
Altek and Asia Optical, two Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, have reported consolidated revenues for May, suffering decreases of 51.4% and 35.2%, respectively, on ye...
Altek lands digital camera orders from Fujifilm
May 4, 11:33
Altek, one of the three largest Taiwan-based makers of digital cameras, has secured orders from Japan-based vendor Fujifilm, with shipments to begin in the third quarter of 2009,...
Taiwan digital camera maker Altek sees drop in February revenues
Stockwatch - Mar 6, 10:32
Altek, a top-three Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on March 5 reported revenues of NT$1.156 billion (US$340 million) for February 2009, a drop of 22.89% on month and...
Altek expects Japan-based digital camera vendors to increase outsourcing to Taiwan
Feb 13, 15:57
Japan-based international vendors of digital cameras, under pressure to minimize production cost as Japanese yen climbs against the US dollar, are expected to release more ODM/OEM...
DSC and lens kit makers suffer revenue drops in January
Feb 9, 10:21
Altek, Ability Enterprise and Asia Optical, three of four main Taiwan-based makers of digital cameras, as well as Largan Precision, a Taiwan-based maker of optical lens kits, have...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise suffer drops in December revenues
Jan 8, 13:48
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two major Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on January 7 reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.619 billion (US$48.9 million) and revenues...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise see November revenues down
Dec 10, 15:23
Taiwan-based digital camera ODM/OEMs, Altek and Ability Enterprise, on December 9 reported revenues figures for November 2008 at NT$2.524 billion (US$75.45 million) and NT$2.836 billion...
Taiwan digital camera makers may share 60% of 2009 global shipments, paper says
Newswatch - Dec 3, 11:37
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras are expected to ship 70 million units in 2009, possibly accounting for 60% of the global total, according to the Chinese-language newspaper...
Top-three Taiwan digital camera OEMs benefit as vendors look to increase production efficiency
Nov 27, 16:56
As inexpensive digital cameras have been selling well worldwide, vendors have put more emphasis on ODM/OEM makers' economies of scale in an attempt to minimize production costs, according...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability suffer drops in October revenues
Nov 10, 14:48
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise recently reported revenues for October 2008, with respective figures slipping on month and on year.
Taiwan digital camera maker Altek sees handsome profits in 3Q
Oct 24, 12:04
Altek, a Taiwan-based ODM/OEM maker of digital cameras, had net profits of NT$767 million for the third quarter of 2008, representing an increase of 105.8% on quarter and by 51.9%...
Largan hits record consolidated revenues, Altek sees large growth on month in September
Stockwatch - Oct 6, 11:08
Largan Precision, a Taiwan-based maker of optical lens kits, and Altek, one of the top-four Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on October 3 reported their financial results...
Ability Enterprise and Altek see August consolidated revenues up from July
Sep 8, 11:23
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera makers, Ability Enterprise and Altek, on September 5 reported consolidated revenues for August 2008, respectively hiking by 42.2% and 29.9% on...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek and Ability Enterprise see drop in gross margins
Aug 25, 11:29
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two of the top four Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on August 22 released their financial reports for the first half of 2008, with Altek...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek, Ability Enterprise see July consolidated revenues up on year
Aug 11, 11:39
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two of the top three Taiwan-based ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, on August 8 reported self-estimated consolidated revenues for July 2008, recording...
Altek enjoys large profit growth in 2Q08, optimistic about 3Q08
Aug 6, 01:20
Taiwan-based ODM/OEM digital camera Altek has reported a gross operating profit of NT$924 million (US$30 million) and net operating profit of NT$495 million for the second quarter...
Taiwan digital camera makers Altek, Ability Enterprise differ in June revenue performance
Jul 8, 11:08
Altek and Ability Enterprise, two of the top four Taiwan-based makers of digital cameras, on July 7 reported consolidated revenues for June 2008, with Altek seeing growth on month...
Taiwan digital camera players see mixed May
Jun 10, 12:20
Altek, Ability Enterprise and Asia Optical, three of the top four Taiwan ODM/OEM makers of digital cameras, as well as Largan Precision and Kinko Optical, two leading Taiwan-based...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- GIGABYTE Launches the BRIX Ultra Compact PC Kit
- AEWIN Introduces Newest Multiplayer Gaming System SGA-5010
- Carry Technology Highlights Thunderbolt and Wi-Fi Card Reader Series
- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
- EverFocus launches ECOR960 X1 16CH with better image quality and more affordable price
- 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
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
- Chilisin sunken-type molded power inductor for MXM Graphic application
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- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN

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