Last update: Friday 26 April 2013 [203 news items]
Gigabyte aims to see notebook shipments grow 20-50% in 2011, says paper
Newswatch - Jan 20, 16:21
Taiwan-based Gigabyte Technology is targeting to see notebook shipments grow 20-50% on year in 2011 and is set to launch 4-5 new notebooks in February, according to a Chinese-language...
Gigabyte aiming to achieve NT$3 billion from server business, says paper
Newswatch - Jan 14, 15:39
Taiwan-based motherboard maker Gigabyte Technology is aiming to achieve revenues of NT$3 billion (US$103.39 million) from its server business as the company has recently received...
Jan 7, 17:08
Gigabyte Technology has announced a new 10.1-inch tablet PC, the S1080, featuring Windows 7 and powered by an Intel Atom N550 dual-core processor.

MSI, Gigabyte to outsource notebooks to Pegatron, Clevo, says paper
Newswatch - Jan 4, 15:51
Taiwan-based notebook makers Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology reportedly will outsource their notebook production to Pegatron Technology and Clevo, respectively,...
Gigabyte to announce G1-Killer series motherboards for gamers at CES 2011
Dec 31, 15:26
Taiwan-based motherboard maker Gigabyte Technology will announce its new G1-Killer series motherboards at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 targeting the enthusiast gamer market...
All Taiwan motherboard makers fail to achieve 2010 shipment goals
Dec 30, 01:30
Affected by the bond crisis in Europe and weaker-than-expected demand in China, Taiwan-based motherboard makers have all failed to achieve their shipment goals for 2010. As China...
Logitech requires Gigabyte to suspend Revue shipments
Dec 24, 01:30
Logitech has reportedly informed Gigabyte Technology to temporarily suspend shipments of Revue set-top boxes (STBs) for the period from December 2010 to January 2011 waiting for Google...
Taiwan makers plan to hike motherboard prices
Dec 17, 01:25
Taiwan-based motherboard makers including Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) plan to hike the prices of their motherboards to reflect rising...
Gigabyte receives server orders for 1Q11, says paper
Newswatch - Nov 23, 15:44
Gigabyte Technology has received server orders from clients in the US and will start shipping in the first quarter of 2011, helping the company's 2011 revenues from the server segment...
Asustek, MSI, Gigabyte, Pegatron see October revenues down sequentially
Nov 10, 01:50
Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI), Gigabyte Technology and Pegatron Technology on November 9 reported revenues for October 2010, all slipping on month by 2-9.9%.
Gigabyte introduces new Booktop T1125 3-in-1 notebook
Nov 4, 16:52
Gigabyte Technology has introduced its latest notebook, the Booktop T1125, featuring a 11.6-inch touchscreen panel. The notebook can be instantly turned into a tablet PC and is able...

Netbook shipments of Taiwan-based vendors from 2007-2010
Oct 31, 16:41
Netbooks are low-cost notebooks with screen sizes below 10-inch mainly designed for Internet usage. Devices adopt either a solid state drive (SSD) or traditional hard drive and typically...
Gigabyte ships 5.2 million motherboards in 3Q10
Sep 29, 01:30
Gigabyte Technology has revealed that its shipments of motherboards increase substantially in September which will bring total motherboard shipments for the third quarter of 2010...
Gigabyte introduces new notebooks with rotatable touch-panel display
Sep 28, 02:20
Gigabyte Technology on September 28 will introduce the T1125 11.6-inch notebook, which reportedly will come equipped with a rotatable touch-panel display and docking station, prompting...
IDF San Francisco 2010: Gigabyte reveals P67-based motherboards
Sep 16, 01:30
Gigabyte Technology has demonstrated new Intel P67-based motherboards, supporting Sandy Bridge processors and USB 3.0 technology at IDF in San Francisco.
Gigabyte upwardly adjusts 1H10 revenue total 1.5% after audit
Stockwatch - Sep 14, 02:20
Gigabyte Technology upwardly adjusted its first-half 2010 revenues to NT$23.78 billion, up from 23.42 billion, after going through the audit process, the company explained in a filing...
Gigabyte ships 12.5 million motherboards in January-August period
Sep 10, 14:40
Gigabyte Technology has posted revenues of NT$3.76 billion (US$117.54 million) for August 2010, down 9.65% sequentially and 5.82% from a year earlier. Shipments of motherboards reached...
Gigabyte adjusts handset strategies
Aug 24, 15:05
Taiwan-based motherboard maker Gigabyte Technology has decided to adjust the operational strategies for its handset business - wholly owned subsidiary Gigabyte Communications. The...
Gigabyte and ASRock announce profits for 1H10
Aug 23, 14:23
Taiwan-based motherboard makers Gigabyte Technology and ASRock both announced profits for the first half of 2010.
US$1 per GB NAND may not resuscitate SSD, says iSuppli
Aug 20, 10:12
After two years of inflated prices, NAND flash memory at the end of 2010 is set to return to the key US$1 per gigabyte (GB) level considered a key threshold to drive adoption of solid...
Asustek expected to revise down motherboard shipment target for 2010
Aug 17, 14:13
Asustek Computer is likely to revise downward its motherboard shipment goal for 2010 due to a slow pace of recovery in the US and Europe and competition from rival Gigabyte Technology,...
Most motherboard makers post weaker-than-expected revenues in July 2010
Aug 10, 14:43
First-tier motherboard maker Asustek Computer saw July revenues grow 11.83% sequentially to NT$23.07 billion (US$727 million), while Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Micro-Star...
Gigabyte expects strong motherboard shipment growth in 3Q10
Jul 30, 16:32
Gigabyte Technology expects its shipments in the third quarter to return to the level of the first and to reach its goal of 19 million units for the whole year amid recovering demand...
Gigabyte and Biostar announce profit for 2009
Jun 18, 16:36
Taiwan-based Gigabyte Technology has announced net profits of NT$2.04 billion (US$63.3 million) for 2009. Revenues for 2009 totaled NT$43.91 billion with EPS of NT$3.24.
First-tier motherboard makers see over 10% on-month drop in May revenues
Jun 10, 14:52
Affected by dropping demand in Europe and China, first-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Pegatron Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology all saw...
Gigabyte is ready for cloud and will launch more notebooks in 2H10
Jun 3, 11:44
Taiwan-based Gigabyte Technology has always been known as a first-tier motherboard maker and brand as well as an innovative PC player. However, not much has been heard about the company's...

Gigabyte expected to continue receiving server orders from Dell in 2H10
May 3, 11:06
After completing its server orders from Dell in early 2010, Gigabyte Technology is expected to receive more orders from the US vendor for the second half and become the third-largest...

Asustek lowers motherboard shipment drop forecast for 2Q10
Apr 27, 16:24
Asustek Computer recently updated its forecast motherboard shipment growth for the second quarter, from the original predication of a 10-15% sequential drop to a 5-8% decline, equivalent...
ASMedia seeks USB 3.0 chip orders with aggressive quotes
Apr 21, 16:49
ASMedia Technology, a subsidiary of Asustek Computer, is aggressively seeking USB 3.0 chip orders from motherboard makers and is said to be offering prices below US$3 per unit to...
Motherboard makers compete over technologies
Apr 16, 15:16
Motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) have all recently unveiled new technologies for their motherboards to compete for market...

MSI, ECS see branded motherboard shipment gap with Asustek, Gigabyte widen
Apr 15, 15:39
Micro-Star International (MSI) and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) have seen their branded motherboard shipments-gap with Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology widen, according...
Gigabyte and Asustek aim for strong USB 3.0 product shipments in 2010
Apr 2, 15:48
Gigabyte Technology vice president of motherboard business Henry Kao, at the recent USB-IF forum, pointed out that the company expects to ship a total of five million USB 3.0 motherboards...
China market: Asustek cuts motherboard prices by at least 10%
Mar 30, 12:10
First-tier motherboard vendor Asustek Computer has recently slashed the prices of its mid-range and entry-level motherboards by a minimum of 10%, triggering a price war in the China...
Asustek, Gigabyte plan to put USB 3.0 in cheaper motherboards, says paper
Newswatch - Mar 29, 16:21
Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology are considering adding USB 3.0 technology into their mid-range and entry-level motherboards, according to a Chinese-language Apply Daily...
First-tier motherboard makers up AMD shipment proportion for China
Mar 19, 15:52
Sales of AMD-based desktop PCs have accounted for more than 40% of the desktop segment in China, pushing first-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star...
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
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- 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
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- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
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- 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
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal

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.























