Last update: Wednesday 3 April 2013 [19 news items]
Spreadtrum launches dual-core solutions for TD-SCDMA and EDGE smartphones
Apr 3, 16:19
Spreadtrum Communications has announced the commercial availability of its dual-core 1.2GHz smartphone chipsets for TD-SCDMA and EDGE smartphones.
Jan 30, 14:25
Samsung Electronics will optimize chipset solutions from Qualcomm, Broadcom and ST-Ericsson to enhance its competitive edge in the entry-level to mid-range smartphone segment so as...
Taiwan PCB production value to edge up less than 3% in 2013
Nov 23, 15:52
The production value of PCBs produced by Taiwan-based companies in Taiwan and China will reach NT$534 billion (US$18.3 billion) in 2013, increasing 2.58% from the previous year, according...
MediaTek November sales drop on EDGE-chip inventory and small-size panel shortage
Nov 22, 20:59
Sales at IC design house MediaTek are set to register a sequential decrease in November, due to pressure to cut EDGE-chip inventories, as well as tight supplies of panels under 4-inch,...
LED light bulb prices edge down in June, says LEDinside
Jul 16, 16:26
Global retail prices of LED light bulbs dropped slightly in June with the ASP of 40W equivalent LED light bulbs falling 4.5% to US$19.9 per unit, while those 60W equivalent bulbs...
Nvidia expected to benefit from new HTC strategy
Feb 9, 01:35
As High Tech Computer (HTC) has adjusted its product strategy and is expected to increase it purchasing of Nvidia Tegra series processors, Nvidia is expected to see its quad-core...
RF transceiver market for mobile devices to reach 1.5 billion by 2015, says Petrov Group (part 2)
Oct 28, 15:36
RF transceivers are critical components of mobile devices including handsets/smartphones and tablet PCs. By 2015, the total RF transceiver market will reach 1.5 billion units while...
Standalone transceiver chips to dominate the smartphone market, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Oct 21, 16:36
Transceivers are essential to the performance of mobile devices. They are designed to detect weak signals at a specific frequency when receiving and to send signals at a specific...
Apple cancels supply schedule of iPad 3 for 2H11
Aug 16, 01:25
US-based tablet PC players Apple has recently canceled its iPad 3 supply schedule for the second half of 2011, forcing other tablet PC brand vendors that are set to launch same-level...
DRAM contract prices continue to edge lower
Aug 12, 01:00
Contract quotes for DRAM chips continued to fall in the first half of August, hitting their lowest level so far in 2011.
Digitimes Insight: DRAM supply bit growth to edge up in 2011
Aug 2, 14:51
Global supply of DRAM is forecast to reach 2.9 billion 1Gb-equivalent chips in 2011, up 51% from 1.92 billion units in 2010, according to Digitimes Research. The anticipated higher...
MediaTek EDGE solutions to see high demand in 3Q11
Jul 4, 12:05
MediaTek is expected to see its revenues grow 15-20% sequentially to NT$24-26 billion (US$833.19-902.62 million) in the third quarter due in part to increased shipments of EDGE solutions,...
AUO, HannStar Display see revenues edge up sequentially in May
Jun 9, 01:35
AU Optronics (AUO) saw its consolidated revenues up 1.3% on month but down 23.3% on year to NT$33.6 billion (US$117.07 million) in May 2011. Fellow company HannStar Display saw its...
Taiwan market: Lenovo launches enterprise notebooks
May 19, 01:20
China-based Lenovo, on May 18, launched its new enterprise-based ThinkPad X, T and Edge series notebooks in Taiwan, while the company pointed out that its new ultra-thin notebook...
Baseband processors still essential, says Petrov Group
May 3, 17:02
With the proliferation of tablets and smartphones application processors are in the limelight, but another group of mobile processors, basebands, deserve attention too, according...
BLU makers Radiant and Coretronic to see revenues edge up in March
Apr 6, 15:44
Backlight unit (BLU) makers Radiant Opto-Electronics and Coretronic are expected to see their revenues swing upward in March 2011, buoyed by shipments to the tablet PC supply chain,...
Standalone application processors are wining in mobility markets, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Mar 8, 15:40
Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...
Taiwan market: Lenovo launches 11.6-inch ThinkPad Edge 11
Nov 9, 02:30
Lenovo has launched its latest 11.6-inch ThinkPad Edge 11 notebook in Taiwan targeting the small- to medium-business market.
HTC and Bharti Airtel jointly launch Touch Diamond in India
May 23, 13:58
High Tech Computer (HTC) has continued its cooperation with India-based telecom service provider Bharti Airtel to jointly market HTC Touch Diamond handsets in the India market, according...
Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
Displays | 21min ago
LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
LED | 31min ago
Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
Displays | 37min ago
IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
Before Going to Press | 39min ago
Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
Before Going to Press | 46min ago
Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
Before Going to Press | 1h 3min ago
Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
Before Going to Press | 1h 3min ago
Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and Sony PS4
Before Going to Press | 1h 4min ago
Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
Before Going to Press | 1h 5min ago
Innolux expects slowdown in TV panel shipments
Before Going to Press | 2h 2min ago
HTC to continue supplying HTC Butterfly after launch of HTC Butterfly S
Before Going to Press | 2h 10min ago
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- Open cell business model is a threat to BLU makers, says Radiant chairman
- Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
- Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Taiwan panel makers see increased orders for 5-inch qHD panels from China telecom operators
- Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
- JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
- MediaTek allocating more resources for development of tablet solutions
- China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
- Tablet IC sales to soar in 2013, says IC Insights
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- DRAM supply shortage to extend through 2015, says Inotera executive
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
- NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
- Analog IC vendors to see orders rebound in 2H13
- Sean Maloney joins SMIC as independent non-executive director
- Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
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- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- 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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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- 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
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- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...
Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- 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...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.