Last update: Tuesday 13 November 2012 [19 news items]
ASMedia shipments of USB 3.0 flash device controllers to boom, says president
Nov 13, 13:36
Strong demand for USB 3.0- and Thunderbolt-compatible peripherals will buoy ASMedia Technology's shipments of USB device controllers in 2013, according to company president Lin Che-wei...
Taiwan market: Toshiba launches slim portable external HDD
Sep 28, 15:44
Toshiba Digital Media Network Taiwan, Toshiba Storage Products' subsidiary responsible for marketing in Taiwan, China and Southeast Asia, on September 27 unveiled Canvio Slim, a super-slim...
Adata posts 15% sales drop in August
Sep 7, 01:40
Adata Technology has reported an about 15% sequential decrease in revenues for August 2012. The memory module maker revealed that sales of its standard module products declined substantially,...
Taiwan market: Seagate launches external HDD Backup Plus
Jun 27, 13:52
Seagate Technology on June 26 unveiled Backup Plus, a series of external hard disk drives (HDD) equipped with Seagate Dashboard software which supports one-click local backup and...
Firms raise external HDD prices
Oct 26, 15:17
Companies have recently raised prices for their external hard drives by 10-20%, amid speculation that recent flooding in Thailand might cause tight supply for HDDs and related components,...
Prices for 2.5-inch HDDs rise by 5-10% due to Thailand flooding
Oct 21, 16:42
The serious flooding in Thailand has forced hard disk drive (HDD) assembly and HDD component factories in the area to stop production and consequently a global shortage of HDDs is...
Taiwan memory module firms expanding portable HDD lines
Jul 20, 16:41
The market for external HDDs is expected to boom buoyed by the growing popularity of mobile computers such as thin and lightweight notebooks, and tablet PCs. Taiwan-based memory module...
Adata posts 9% sales drop in January
Feb 10, 01:00
Memory module maker Adata Technology has announced that revenues for January 2011 slid 8.8% sequentially to NT$2.8 billion (US$97 million). Revenues were down 24.1% compared to the...
Adata lowering proportion of DRAM-module sales
Dec 6, 11:47
Adata Technology has moved to lower the DRAM-module portion of its revenues in order to respond to continued chip price falls, while putting a greater emphasis on non-DRAM products...
Taiwan market: Hitachi GST aims for 16% share in mobile hard drive market by end of 2010
Apr 15, 16:49
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) on April 14 unveiled its external hard disk drives (HDDs) for launch in the Taiwan market, including the portable X Mobile Drive...
Supreme to see 30% on-year growth in 2010
Dec 17, 16:57
IC distributor Supreme Electronics is expected to see consolidated revenues top NT$40 billion (US$1.24 billion) in 2010, up 30% on year, due to growing demand for NAND flash, external...
Taiwan IC distributor Aeco Technology to offer LucidPort USB 3.0 chips
Sep 23, 15:32
Taiwan-based IC distributor Aeco Technology will begin to supply USB 3.0 chips developed by US-based LucidPort Technology and manufactured at Japan-based NEC's fabs in October 2009,...
Global storage market shrinks in 1Q09, says Gartner
Jun 8, 11:29
Revenues for the external controller-based disk storage market worldwide totaled US$3.8 billion in the first quarter of 2009, an 11.1% decline from the same period in 2008, according...
Toshiba to launch new portable 500GB external 2.5-inch HDD in February
Jan 8, 14:45
Toshiba will launch its new portable 500GB external 2.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the R500E03D, in its main markets around the world in February 2009, according to Toshiba's manufacturing...
Taiwan market: Fierce competition for 2.5-inch external HDDs may lead to price war
Nov 21, 17:05
In the Taiwan market, growing demand for 2.5-inch external hard disk drives (HDDs) due to increasing use of portable consumer electronics has attracted many new vendors since the...
Taiwan market: Seagate launches FreeAgent series external hard drives
Sep 22, 11:40
Seagate Technology on September 19 announced the launch of its new FreeAgent series external hard disk drives, consisting of 2.5-inch FreeAgent GO for mobile use as well as the 3.5-inch...
Taiwan market: Buffalo unveils 3.5-inch external hard drive series
Aug 21, 15:30
Japan-based Buffalo, on August 20, debuted the HD-CEU2, its series of 3.5-inch external hard disk drives, which will launch in the Taiwan market in late August 2008, according to...
Taiwan market: Toshiba to launch 2.5-inch external hard drives
Jul 31, 16:03
Toshiba has unveiled Toshiba iSense, a 2.5-inch external HDD series with storage capacities of 160GB, 250GB and 320GB, which will launch in the Taiwan market this month, according...
Taiwan market: Sales of external HDDs booming
Jul 22, 14:38
In the Taiwan market, sales volumes of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch external HDDs have increasing significantly from a year earlier mainly because of fast growing demand for recording digital...
Samsung Electronics has announced its new 2.5-inch external hard disk drive (HDD), the S2 Portable 3.0. The new Samsung external HDD features an on-board SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface...
Photo: Company, Aug 26.
Samsung adds 2TB capacity to external HDD line
Samsung Electronics has announced the STORY Station Plus, its new line-up of 3.5-inch external hard drives featuring an external serial ATA (eSATA) interface. The drives operate at...
Photo: Company, Nov 26.
A-Data external hard drives for mini-notebooks
A-Data has launched the CH91, a 2.5-inch external hard disk drive with capacity up to 500GB for mini-notebook applications.
Photo: Company, Apr 14.
Transcend announces addition to StoreJet portable hard drive line
Transcend Information has announced a new addition to its line of StoreJet portable hard drives. The new StoreJet 25M-R is available now in 250GB and 320GB capacities.
Photo: Company, Mar 5.
Transcend launches 2.5-inch portable hard drive
Transcend Information has announced its new 2.5-inch portable hard drive, the StoreJet 25F. Measuring 113.8mm long by 80.9mm wide and 15.9mm thick, the StoreJet 25F hold up to 500GB...
Photo: Company, Jan 22.
- 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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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
Photo: Company, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...
Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- 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...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.