Last update: Wednesday 5 June 2013 [12 news items]
Digitimes Research: Taiwan notebook shipments enjoy growth in May
Jun 5, 11:26
First-tier notebook vendors and ODMs enjoyed on-month shipment growth in May with brand vendors together having an increase of over 10% and ODMs around 5%, according to Digitimes...

Digitimes Research: Taiwan 2Q13 handset shipments to rise by 43.4% sequentially
May 7, 12:02
Taiwan-based makers will ship 17.15 million handsets on OBM (own brand manufacturing), ODM and JDM (joint design manufacturing) basis during the second quarter of 2013, increasing...
Digitimes Research: Global top-5 notebook brands see over 20% shipment drop in April
May 6, 11:38
Global top-5 notebook brands together suffered a more than 20% on-month shipment drop in April, while top-3 ODMs together had a drop of 14% due to most brand vendors having started...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 2Q13 digital camera shipments expected to rebound sequentially
Apr 30, 09:51
Taiwan-based ODMs Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical will ship 6.48 million digital cameras during the second quarter of 2013, increasing 12.9% from the...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 1Q13 digital camera shipments hit 16-quarter low
Apr 23, 13:54
Taiwan-based ODMs Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical shipped 57.41 million digital cameras in total during the first quarter of 2013, the lowest quarterly...
Digitimes Research: Global notebook shipments see record decline in 1Q13
Apr 12, 15:29
Global notebook shipments suffered a drop in the first quarter, down 14.1% sequentially and 13.7% on year, the sharpest decline in the notebook industry's history, showing the current...
Digitimes Research: Notebook players see combined growth of about 20% in March shipments
Apr 10, 12:26
First-tier notebook brand vendors and ODMs saw their shipments grow significantly on month with the top-five brand vendors together enjoying a shipment growth of 20% and the top-three...
Digitimes Research: Intel's strategies delaying Thunderbolt standardization
Apr 9, 14:31
Although Intel's Thunderbolt (TBT) technology is able to carry a transmission speed of 10Gbps, costs involved to achieve such a result are not cheap, according to Digitimes Researc...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship less than 7 million digital cameras in 1Q13
Jan 25, 16:12
Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical will ship 6.508 million digital cameras in total in the first quarter of 2013, decreasing 14.2% on quarter...
Digitimes Research: Cree LED lighting revenues to account for 38% of total revenues in 2013
Jan 25, 11:09
US-based LED firm Cree has started with producing LED components and began to expand into LED lighting production in 2012.
Digitimes Research: Used automobile lithium batteries could store renewable energy
Jan 24, 14:54
US-based automobile maker GM has been conducting R&D with professionals in different industries on the possibility of storing energy on used automobile lithium batteries.
Digitimes Research: Taiwan 4Q12 digital camera shipments hit 15-quarter low
Jan 22, 21:06
Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical shipped 7.588 million digital cameras in total during the fourth quarter of 2012, hitting the lowest quarterly...
IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
Bits + chips | 10min ago
- LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
- Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
- Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
- Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and PS4
- Taiwan market: HTC launches HTC Butterfly S and HTC Desire 600
- Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
- Digitimes Research: TSMC expanding in China
- Lite-On Technology to deal out 2012 cash dividend of NT$2.35
- Innolux not to be largely affected by subsidies ending in China, says company president
- Genius Electronic to expand lens capacity by 60%
- AUO likely to turn around performance in 2013, says company chairman
- DRAM market grows up, IHS finds
- Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
- Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
- Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
- Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- Taiwan market: ViewSonic to launch Full HD projectors by end of 2013
- IDC lowers forecast growth for monitors while average screen size increases
- Acer positions Gateway and Packard Bell as mid-range/entry-level brands
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- Chilisin eyes strong prospect of tablet market, expects strong growth
- PowerByProxi aims to cooperate with Taiwan makers to explore wireless power market
- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- 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
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- 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
- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row

Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...

Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...

Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...

Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- 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.
















