Last update: Thursday 18 April 2013 [24 news items]
Apr 18, 14:57
Taiwan-based Sampo reached 50,000 in LCD TV shipments during the first quarter of 2013, showing flat growth compared to the first quarter in 2012.
Taiwan market: Local home appliance makers to introduce energy-saving products in 4Q12
Sep 21, 14:38
Demand for energy-efficient home appliances such as refrigerators and flat-panel TVs is expected to heat up in the Taiwan market in October, causing competition between home appliance...
Taiwan TV vendors continue to benefit from energy subsidies
Aug 15, 01:05
Taiwan-based TV vendors Teco and Sampo have reported increased LCD TV sales in July and will continue to see increases throughout August due to energy-saving subsidies issued by the...
Sampo sees 51.2% increase in TV sales due to government subsidies
Aug 9, 01:10
In Taiwan, Sampo has reported a 51.2% increase in domestic TV sales during July compared with the same period in 2011 due to energy saving subsidies issued by the Taiwan government...
Sampo reports increased revenues for June and 2Q12
Jul 10, 01:35
Taiwan-based TV brand Sampo has reported NT$1.12 billion (US$37.4 million) in net revenue during June, a 7.14% increase on year. That gives the company a total of NT$5.68 billion...
Taiwan market: Home appliance vendors optimistic about 2Q12
May 16, 11:17
Taiwan home appliance brands can expect to see revenues improve in the second quarter as Taiwan's government is about to issue its second wave of subsidiaries for electronic produc...
Taiwan market: Sampo looks to ship 60,000-70,000 LCD TVs in 2Q12
May 3, 14:31
Taiwan brand Sampo saw its shipments of flat panel TVs more than double on year to 50,000 units in the first quarter of 2012, and market sources expect its TV shipments to reach 60,000-70,000...
Taiwan-based TV brands promoting LED TVs
Mar 14, 16:00
Taiwan-based household appliance vendors including Tatung, Teco, and Sampo have been promoting LED-backlit TVs due to government incentive policies. The Taiwan government has been...
Taiwan market: Vendors look to 10% sales growth for energy-saving home appliances
Feb 14, 16:35
Taiwan-based household appliance vendors Teco, Sampo and Tatung all expect their sales of energy-saving appliances, including refrigerators, air conditioners and laundry machines,...
Sampo posts on-year revenue growth in November
Dec 15, 15:54
Taiwan-based household appliance vendor Sampo has posted revenues of NT$982 million (US$32.45 million) for November, up 7% on year. For the first 11 months of 2011, revenues amounted...
TCL to continue purchasing AUO TV panels
Dec 6, 14:26
TCL will produce about 15 million TV panels from its own 8.5G flat panel lines in 2012 but will continue to cooperate with AU Optronics (AUO) as it still has to outsource about 50-60%...
TCL anticipates increase in December shipments
Dec 6, 01:30
China-based TV brand TCL's September shipments reached a high for the year. The firm now anticipates December shipments to reach the same level due to the upcoming Lunar New Year...
TCL, Sampo to sign cooperation pact
Dec 1, 10:32
China-based vendor TCL is expected to sign a strategic alliance agreement with Taiwan-based vendor Sampo for purchases and distribution of each other's products. Sampo is expected...
Sampo cooperates with content provider to introduce Cloud TV
Jan 12, 01:50
TV vendor Sampo is cooperating with content provider 5TV and has introduced an LCD TV called Cloud TV which combines a built-in Internet connection, mobile communications and home...
Taiwan market: Sampo launches 3D plasma TVs
Aug 25, 15:22
Local vendor Sampo has launched 58- and 63-inch 3D plasma TVs, and 32-, 40-, 46- and 55-inch LED-backlit LCD TVs in the Taiwan market, with a goal of shipping 100,000 flat-panel TVs...
Taiwan market: Sampo to distribute Westinghouse LED TVs
Jun 15, 11:58
Sampo has obtained the rights to distribute LCD TVs from US-based Westinghouse in the Taiwan market and will introduce 46- and 55-inch edge-type LED-backlit TVs at NT$69,900-99,900...
Taiwan market: LCD TV shipments estimated at 150,000 units in January 2010
Feb 12, 15:02
LCD TV shipments in the Taiwan market are estimated to have reached 150,000 units in January 2010, with Sony ranking the number one vendor with 22,000 units in shipments, according...
Taiwan market: Chimei tops LCD TV vendor ranking in October 2009
Nov 20, 17:10
Chimei shipped 15,000 LCD TVs in October 2009, remaining the top vendor in the Taiwan LCD TV market, according to market sources. Chimei expects to ship over 150,000 units in 2009,...
Sampo to develop inverter, digital video technologies
Jul 8, 16:30
Taiwan-based electric and electronic home appliance vendor Sampo has signed for a syndicated loan worth NT$2.4 billion (US$73.3 million) mainly for R&D of inverter technology...
Taiwan market: Second-tier vendors cutting prices further for 22-inch LCD TVs
Mar 19, 11:36
Second-tier vendors in Taiwan such as Sampo and Teco are aggressively attempting to gain share in the local market for 22-inch LCD TVs by cutting prices down to NT$6,999 (US$207.09),...
Taiwan market: February LCD TV shipments drop about 50%
Mar 11, 15:42
LCD TV shipments to the Taiwan market are estimated at 60,000-70,000 units for February, down some 50% sequentially, according to market sources. Shipments in January reached 134,000...
Taiwan market: LCD TV shipments weaken in February
Mar 6, 12:34
Shipments for LCD TVs in the local Taiwan market are expected to drop in February with most vendors expecting a 30-40% drop on year, according to market sources.
Taiwan market: LCD TV sales strong during Lunar New Year, says paper
Newswatch - Feb 6, 09:43
LCD TV vendors saw strong sales in Taiwan in January during the Lunar New Year holidays when doemstic demand was boosted by government-issued cash coupons for all citizens, according...
Taiwan market: Lower prices not boosting LCD TV demand
Oct 1, 11:51
LCD TV vendors' pricing campaigns can now do little to stimulate demand in Taiwan, where consumers have grown numb to frequent price reductions, according to market sources.
CES 2008: Sampo 42-inch LCD TV
At CES 2008 Sampo demonstrated a 42-inch full HD TV with the built-in DVB-T tuner which can receive digital and analog TV signals. The 42-inch LCD HDTV has an embedded STB and support...
Photo: Sampo, Jan 14.
Taiwan market: Sampo adds two new full HD LCD TVs
Sampo recently introduced one 37-inch and one 42-inch LCD TV in Taiwan. The TVs feature a resolution of 1920x1080 with a viewing angle of 178 degrees. Sampo is offering the 37-inch...
Photo: Company, Jul 24.
Sampo lowers 50-inch PDP TV prices in Taiwan
Sampo recently cut its 50-inch PDP (plasma display panel) TV prices to NT$89,900 in Taiwan. The The PM-50H28 uses Japan-made PDPs, featuring a brightness of 1,200 cd/m2, a contrast...
Photo: Company, Jan 19.
Sampo introduces low-price PDP TV
Sampo recently introduced a series of large-size flat-panel TVs for the Taiwan market, with a 42-inch XGA PDP model priced at a low NT$49,900 (about US$1,531), according to the company...
Photo: Company, Dec 19.
Sampo introduced a 42-inch PDP TV
Sampo recently rolled out another 42-inch PDP TV. The LM-42A1 features a 1,080p resolution, a w802.11a/b/g connection and a virtual keyboard. With a DVB-T tuner, the model can receives...
Photo: Company, Dec 19.
- 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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- 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.
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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.