Shipments of Taiwan monitors may see a sequential decrease in the fourth quarter of 2009 mainly due to a high baseline set in the third quarter thanks to government procurement projects...

Global demand for Blu-ray Disc (BD) players and movie discs is expected to steadily increase as average retail prices for players will drop from US$193 currently to US$77 in 2012...

Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker Prime View International (PVI) has announced the company's board of directors on November 18 approved procedures for the acquisition of E-Ink....

Market watchers expect China will require six to eight 8G or above LCD panel production lines to fulfill its demand in the future. China's LCD TV panel demand in 2009 is estimated...

Taiwan-based solder material maker Shenmao Technology expects its revenues in 2010 to grow 20% and reach a record high compared to 2009.

Taiwan's IC production value is estimated to reach NT$1.2238 trillion (US$38.43 billion) in 2009, down 8.1% on year, according to the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA)...

PC price reductions during the year-end holidays in 2009 may not range as high as in the previous year, according to sources at notebook vendors.

Motherboard maker Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) saw consolidated revenues of NT$55.41 billion (US$1.69 billion) for the first three quarters of 2009, a drop of 18.8% on year;...

Although the global solar panel market remains in an acute state of oversupply, the inventory glut plaguing the industry has begun to abate somewhat due to surprisingly strong demand...

Taiwan-based connector maker Simula Technology expects the ratio of its revenues generated by related notebook solutions will increase to 30-40% in 2010 compared to 20-30% in 2009,...

ABI Research has scaled down its estimation of femtocell shipments to only about 350,000 in 2009, compared to shipments of 790,000 that it forecast in April.

Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) has seen order visibility extend to the first half of 2010, and the company estimates revenues next year will grow 50% from 2009, according...

PCB suppliers expect their fourth-quarter shipments of HDI boards used in ultra-thin notebooks to drop sequentially because sales of ultra-thin notebooks have been weaker than expected,...

Acer on November 11 unveiled its 15.6-inch Aspire 5738DG 3D notebook and the company has already prepared 3,000 units to sell at the IT Month consumer trade show in Taiwan. The show...

Taiwan-based network equipment maker Netronix will begin to expand its production lines for e-book readers at the end of 2009 instead of the first quarter of 2010 as originally planned...