The ICT market is heading towards the touch generation, and firms are making sure their devices are "touchable."
Last update: Tuesday 12 June 2012 [13 news items]
Display Taiwan 2012: Touch and AMOLED to be main focus
Jun 12, 15:03
Display Taiwan 2012 will take place from June 19-21 at Taipei's TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall, with the focus mostly on touch panels and AMOLED technology.
CMI expanding touch senor capacity
Jun 12, 01:25
Chimei Innolux (CMI) has been expanding its production capacity of touch sensors to meet an expected increase in demand for touch screens arising from Windows 8 and Ultrabook PCs,...
Touch panel maker G-Tech reports healthy revenue gains for May
Jun 11, 16:09
Touch panel maker G-Tech Optoelectronics saw its revenues grow 18.6% on month and 4.8% on year to NT$714 million (US$23.82 million) in May. For the first five months of 2012, revenues...
Touch panel makers gearing up for Windows 8 devices
Jun 7, 01:25
Touch panel companies are all gearing up for new demand created by Windows 8 ultrabooks. Demand for 11.6- to 15.6-inch touch panels is set to boom driven by rollouts of new ultrabooks...
Touch panels for Windows 8 devices to start shipping in 3Q12
Jun 6, 01:50
On the heels of Intel's announcement at Computex Taipei 2012 that its upcoming ultrabooks designs will support touch panels, market observers predict that demand for 13.3- to 15.6-inch...
Young Fast medium-size thin-film touch panels to grow 50% sequentially in 2Q12
May 25, 01:10
Young Fast Optoelectronics is expected to see its shipments of medium-size thin-film touch panels grow by 50% sequentially in the second quarter of 2012, but revenues are likely to...
Sony to ship in-cell touch panels for next-generation iPhone, say sources
May 24, 01:20
Sony is likely to become one of the in-cell touch panel suppliers for Apple's next-generation iPhone, which is expected to be launched in September or October, according to industry...
TPK looks to strong demand for medium- to large-size touch solutions in 2H12
May 17, 01:40
Touch panel maker TPK Holding expects demand for medium- to large-size touch solutions to outpace supply in the second half of 2012 due to the proliferation of touch applications...
AUO lands notebook touch panel orders from Acer, Lenovo and Asustek
May 11, 01:10
AU Optronics (AUO) has recently landed OGS (one glass solution) touch panel orders for notebooks from Acer and Lenovo, in addition to Asustek Computer, which will purchase over 50%...
Wistron, Compal focus on touchscreen technologies
May 8, 01:30
Notebook ODMs Wistron and Compal Electronics are optimistic Windows 8 will bring a new trend for touchscreen control, and the companies have been working aggressively in the touchscreen...
Elan becomes leading provider of Windows 8-based touch ICs
Apr 25, 01:10
Taiwan-based IC design house Elan Microelectronics has offered fourth-generation touch IC solutions featuring an integrated power management, DSP and MCU solution and has won increasing...
China-based touch panel makers expanding capacities
Apr 19, 14:53
China-based touch panel makers are following their rivals in Taiwan in ramping up their production and aggressively expanding capacity – a development which may trigger an oversupply...
CPT sees booming shipments of touch sensors used in AMOLED panels
Apr 17, 01:10
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), a Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker stepping into production of touch sensors, has seen growing shipments of touch sensors mainly for use in AMOLED panels...
- 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: LCD monitor shipments from Taiwan makers drop 14.7% in 1Q13
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan small- to medium-size TFT LCD panel shipments to rise nearly 10% in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD TV shipments expected to rise nearly 5% in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: LED TV to account for 100% of Samsung TV products in 2013
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- Fortrend shipped Turn Key to China first licensing partner
- Merck inaugurates its New Business R&D and Application Lab in Taiwan
- Multi-touch applications in PC and mobile devices
- The opportunities and challenges for Taiwan in the face of multi-platform applications
- Trends and challenges for the development of multiple platforms for mobile devices in 2013
- LSI completes acquisition of SandForce
- Fujitsu introduces ARROWS Z ISW11F au smartphone
- PSCo Technical Distribution partners with Matrox to offer fully integrated turnkey video walls
- Digital Signage Expo 2012 opens conference registration
- Subkarma invited OPTOTECH to take part in the '2011 Taipei World Design Expo'
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- MIT tech turns any surface into a user interface, but it's useless without Google Glass (May 2) - ExtremeTech
- Diamond Pixels: Galaxy S4's unique subpixel arrangement gets a close up (April 30) - Andorid Authority
- Revolutionary display technology can lift the ban on digital billboards (May 8) - EMSNow
- This ain't Foxconn: Inside the factory where Vertu assembles smartphones by hand - Digital Trends
- Amazon buys Liquavista from Samsung, launches digital currency (May 13) - Reuters
- Korea launches touch screen industry forum to help domestic manufacturers grow worldwide (May 8) - The Next Web
- Amazon's rumoured smartphone-with-holograms is an awful idea (May 10) - Wired
- LG working on 'unbreakable' display as part of new OLED-based focus (May 3) - Andorid Authority
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Lenovo displays new 10.1-inch tablet at the Mobile World Congress
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- China market: Epson targets 2011 projector shipments to reach 200,000 units
- Projector suppliers find new ground in emerging markets
- Taiwan market: Enterprise models dominate 2Q11 shipments
- ViewSonic announces ultra-portable LED projector line
- Computex 2011: Nvidia introduces wired 3D Vision glasses and new GeForce GPUs
Ultra HD is now the industry name for "4K" resolution
Panel makers are gearing up to produce Full HD applications for high-end smartphones.
LCD TV panel prices have stabilized, with the China TV market reporting strong sales during the October 1 National Day holidays.
Many local and foreign makers, such as AUO, CMI and Corning, are at Touch Taiwan 2012 from August 29-31.
Future developments in the TFT LCD panel industry: Q&A with Innolux chairman
The TFT LCD panel industry is continuing to intensify as market demand is increasing, bringing competition...
The development of OGS products in China: Q&A with Truly chairman
Despite lagging growth in the global economy, smartphone and tablet applications that use one-glass-solution...
The possibilities of Willow glass: Q&A with Corning executives Alan Eusden and Dipak Chowdhury
Corning Glass is one of the world's leading makers in specialty glass. One of its latest products is...
Despite the fact the penetration rate of LED backlight units (BLUs) in TVs has been increasing continuously,...
- 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...
- A glimpse into the e-book reader market - May 2010
In 2008, worldwide e-book reader shipments totaled only 700,000 units, according to Digitimes Research. But demand exploded in 2009 as consumer interests grew...
- Overview of LCD TV market - May 2010
When the economic recession hit at the end of 2008, the LCD TV market seemed to be heading toward a doomsday scenario in 2009; however, demand turned out to be...
- Large-size LCD panel overview - Jun 2007
Global large-size LCD panel market revenues are expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% to US$96.2 billion by 2011, up from US$53.5...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.