China market: Asustek, Gigabyte together may share 60% of motherboard sales in 2012

Dec 30, 01:00

Taiwan-based vendor Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology aim to ship 10.0 million and 8.0 million motherboards, respectively, in the China market, together accounting for 60%...

Intel to launch Medfield platform in 2Q12, Clover Trail-W platform in 4Q12

Dec 29, 14:16

Intel plans to launch its Medfield platform running on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS in the second quarter of 2012 and then release its Clover Trail-W platform running on Windows...

Intel to unveil 22nm Ivy Bridge processors on April 8, say Taiwan PC makers

Dec 28, 16:48

Intel plans to release a total of 25 models of its 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, including 17 CPUs for desktops and eight for notebooks and ultrabooks on or around April 8, 2012, according...

Gigabyte fixing problems associated with defective BIOS design in X79 motherboards

Dec 28, 15:52

Gigabyte Technology, in response to questions concerning a defective BIOS design in its X79-series motherboards, has offered remedies including recall of certain versions of X79 motherboards,...

Intel adjusts Atom development focus, say sources

Dec 26, 12:19

Intel reportedly plans to launch new members of its Atom CPU-lineup for network-attached storage devices and entry-level servers in the second quarter of 2012, according to industry...

Atom bomb does not detonate Intel CPU business in 3Q11, says IHS

Dec 23, 12:04

Despite a plunge in sales of its Atom chips destined for the moribund netbook market, Intel in the third quarter managed to expand its leadership position in the global microprocessor...

ASRock aims at shipments of 10 million motherboards in 2012

Dec 23, 01:15

ASRock, a Taiwan-based maker of motherboards for sale under the own brand ASRock, has set target shipments of 10 million motherboards for 2012, according to industry sources in Tai...

Intel drops Sandy Bridge CPU prices

Dec 22, 01:10

Intel has recently notified its partners of plans to reduce prices of the existing Sandy Bridge-based processors with some Core i3 and i5 series processors to see a drop of 10-15%,...

AMD updates A-series APUs

Dec 21, 16:34

AMD has updated its A-series lineup of desktop and notebook accelerated processing units (APUs), further improving its family of dual- and quad-core APUs. Along with speed and performance...

Processor firms outpace industry growth in 2011, Gartner says

Dec 20, 14:17

Processor suppliers Intel, Qualcomm, AMD and Nvidia outperformed the rest of the semiconductor industry in 2011, Gartner wrote in its recent report. Worldwide semiconductor revenues...

Asustek outsources motherboard orders to Cal-Comp Electronics

Dec 20, 01:10

Asustek Computer has recently added Taiwan-based Cal-Comp Electronics, an affiliate of Compal Electronics, as its motherboard manufacturing partner and is expected to outsource 5-6...

Nvidia to set up China R&D center of Tegra-based automotive electronics with Foxconn

Dec 19, 14:00

Nvidia president and CEO Huang Jen-hsun on December 16 signed with Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) for establishing an R&D center of automotive information/entertainment...

Intel 4Q11 revenues to be below expectations due to HDD supply shortages

Dec 13, 12:06

Intel has announced that the company's fourth-quarter results are expected to be below the company's previous outlook due to hard disk drive (HDD) supply shortages. The company now...

Taiwan vendors to play minor role in Windows On Arm development

Dec 5, 16:02

Microsoft has recently decided the downstream partners for its development of the Windows on Arm (WOA) platform with Taiwan-based vendors only invited to play minor roles in the project,...

Nvidia Tegra 3 to challenge shipments of 25 million units in 2012

Dec 2, 14:34

Nvidia is set to challenge to ship 25 million Tegra 3 processors for use in smartphones, tablet PCs and automobiles in 2012 as the company is unlikely to be able to achieve the same...

Intel reasserts semiconductor market leadership in 2011, says IHS

Dec 2, 11:16

After three years of seeing its dominant position in the global semiconductor market whittled away by aggressive competition from Samsung Electronics, Intel is set to reverse the...

Gigabyte, MSI have not yet planned ultrabooks

Dec 1, 01:40

Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology have not yet made plans for ultrabook product lines as both players are still seeing losses in their notebook businesses, according...

Intel CTO to visit Taiwan and discuss new technologies

Dec 1, 01:35

Intel Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Justin Rattner is set to visit Taiwan on December 6 to announce several new technologies developed by Intel Lab.

Intel to launch Cedar Trail-M in December

Nov 30, 01:20

Intel will launch its Cedar Trail-M platform for netbooks including 32nm-based Atom N2800 and N2600 processors in December, according to industry sources.

Windows-on-ARM platform to join notebook competition in June 2013

Nov 29, 13:48

Windows on ARM (WoA), a combination of Windows 8 and ARM-based processors, is expected to make an official appearance at the end of 2012 and will try to compete in the notebook market...

Nichidenbo pessimistic about demand for solid-state capacitors

Nov 22, 16:27

Taiwan-based Nichidenbo is cautious about the market for solid-state capacitors due to sluggish end-market demand, according to the passive component distributor.

Market watchers conservative about Asustek 4Q11 performance

Nov 22, 01:40

Despite Asustek Computer is confident about its performance for the fourth quarter, some market watchers are conservative about it as the US and Europe economies remain weak, while...

Taiwan notebook vendors conservative about adoption of Nvidia Tegra 3

Nov 18, 15:24

Taiwan-based notebook vendors are conservative about adopting Nvidia's Tegra 3 processors and may consider platforms developed by Qualcomm or Texas Instruments (TI) in 2012, according...

Intel refreshes enthusiast processor lineup with 6-core offerings

Nov 15, 17:00

Intel has advanced its highest-end six-core processor family with the introduction of two new processors: the Intel Core i7-3960X processor Extreme Edition and the Intel Core i7-3930K...

VIA releases new Mini-ITX motherboard for digital home media enthusiasts

Nov 15, 16:57

VIA Technologies has announced the VIA VE-900 Mini-ITX motherboard, immediately available worldwide. The motherboard provides the ideal platform for DIY enthusiasts to custom build...

AMD announces two new server platforms in China

Nov 15, 01:20

AMD, on November 14, announced its latest 16-core Opteron 6200 series server processors, previously codenamed Interlagos, in Beijing, China with server players such as Hewlett-Packard...

Asustek, Gigabyte reduce 4Q11 motherboard shipment forecasts, says paper

Newswatch - Nov 14, 16:34

Despite that Intel is set to launch its latest high-end X79 chipset soon, motherboard players are reducing their shipment forecasts for the fourth quarter due to hard drive shortages...

Notebooks players bid on both Intel and ARM

Nov 11, 15:53

As ARM has been aggressively cutting into the notebook industry, where Intel has dominated for a while, notebook players are adopting a strategy to bid on both ARM and Intel platforms...