Taiwan-based PHS operator First International Telecom (Fitel) saw a 28% on-year decrease in its first half 2009 revenues falling to NT$1.51 billion (US$45.92 million). However, the...
Taiwan LED packaging house Edison Opto has posted net profit of NT$118.19 million (US$3.6 million) on revenues of NT$644.25 million for the first half of 2009, with operating income...
While Sony reportedly will lower the retail price for its half-height internal Blu-ray Disc (BD) optical disc drive (ODD), the BDU-X105, to US$49.99, PC-use BD drives will not be...
The global Internet protocol television (IPTV) market withstood the worst of the worldwide economic storm during the last six months, putting it on track to achieve more than 50%...
Sony on August 28 unveiled four Alpha series DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera models, A380, A500, A550 and A850, for launch in the Taiwan market, with A850 to be available...
Dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handset shipments will double between 2009 and 2011, and this year is expected to see 144 million handsets shipped, with forecasts for 2011 at just over 300...
Qisda will start making e-book readers using panels from AU Optronics (AUO), with small volume production slated for the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company CEO Hsiung...
LCD TVs still have big growth potential because their current penetration rate remains low at 13% of the total two billion units of installed TVs worldwide, according to Corning CEO...
Inventec's notebook shipment forecast for 2010 has been reduced by market watchers from the previous estimate of up to 27 million units, to only 23-25 million units, since Inventec...
TPO Display expects the smartphone segment to share 20% of its total LCD panel shipments for 2009, as smartphone panel shipments have increased significantly, according to industry...
Small- to medium-size LCD module (LCM) specialist Star World Technology has announced consolidated net loss of NT$93.31 million (US$2.83 million) for the first half of 2009, which...
Taiwan-based TV maker Amtran Technology shipped over two million LCD TVs in the first half of 2009 and expects to achieve its 2009 goal of shipping 4-4.5 million units, according...
Worldwide semiconductor revenues are on track to total US$212 billion in 2009, a 17.1% decrease from US$255 billion in 2008, according to the latest outlook by Gartner. This forecast...
Defying the current economic turmoil, global set-top box (STB) shipments are expected to rise in 2009 due to rising demand from Asia and from products supporting high definition,...
Samsung Electronics has set an internal goal of attaining a 20% share in the global notebook CMOS image sensor (CIS) market in 2009 and an over 30% share in 2010, according to Taiwan-based...
