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Friday 11 July 2014
Taiwan IC design houses aim to land more tablet IC orders from brand vendors
Taiwan-based IC design houses are shifting their focus to win more IC orders from brand tablet vendors instead of white-box suppliers since shipment growth of white-box tablets has...
Monday 7 April 2014
Suppliers to start pilot production of components for 4th-generation Surface in September
Microsoft unveiled its third-generation Surface at the Build 2014 conference, but the company has already started developing the fourth-generation model and will start pilot production...
Tuesday 3 December 2013
Retina iPad mini, Surface tablets enjoy brisk sales during Black Friday Weekend
Apple's iPad mini units and Microsoft's Surface were among the most sought after tablets during the Black Friday weekend sales, which will help improve fourth-quarter performance...
Monday 30 September 2013
Digitimes Research: Surface 2 series tablets unlikely to help Microsoft in mobile market
Microsoft announced its second-generation tablets, the Surface 2 series on September 23 in New York. Their specifications are similar to those of previous market rumors, while the...
Tuesday 24 September 2013
Taiwan market: Retailers clearing Surface inventories
Following the release of new Surface 2 series tablets, retailers in Taiwan are now scrambling to clear their inventories of the first-generation Microsoft tablets. The retailers are...
Monday 18 February 2013
Winbond NOR flash enters Microsoft Surface Pro supply chain
Winbond Electronics has made additional ground with its NOR flash memory. The company's serial flash products have been adopted for Microsoft's Surface Pro, according to iFixIt's...
Tuesday 6 November 2012
Microsoft Surface RT more profitable than iPad, IHS teardown reveals
The Microsoft Surface RT model with the minimum 32GB of NAND flash memory and an optional black Touch Cover carries a bill of materials (BOM) of US$271, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis...
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Digitimes Research: Surface tablet to mainly devour notebook demand in the short term
Microsoft's recently launched own-brand Surface tablets have raised the question of whether Surface will devour consumer demand for tablets or notebooks, or maybe even both. In terms...
Friday 19 October 2012
Surface RT to pose threat to Windows 8 tablets, say Taiwan makers
Microsoft's Surface RT tablets for sale at US$499-699 are expected to put large competitive pressure on Widows 8 tablets from Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu,...
Friday 19 October 2012
Weak demand for notebooks to remain until 1Q13
Intel's financial performance for the third quarter of 2012 reflects a stagnant global notebook market mainly due to fast growing demand for tablets and smartphones, and because Apple,...
Thursday 4 October 2012
Google, Microsoft sing different tune for Nexus and Surface smartphones, say sources
Google and Microsoft both reportedly plan to extend the Nexus 7 and Surface tablet lineups to include smartphones as a means to further increase the penetration of their own platforms,...
Tuesday 18 September 2012
Supply chain estimates x86 Surface Price at US$500-700 and RT below US$399
Microsoft's own-brand Surface tablets are expected to launch at the end of October with the related supply chain players estimating that the Surface RT's hardware cost is at around...
Friday 31 August 2012
Microsoft fails to pacify PC vendors about Surface tablets
To ease the impact created by its WoA Surface tablet PC, Microsoft has been negotiating with brand vendors including Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell since July hoping to pacify them;...