DisplaySearch expects shipments of almost 33 million mini-notes (netbooks) in 2009 as penetration of these products into the notebook market grows to 20% worldwide. At the same time,...
Taiwan-based WiMAX licensee Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) will start commercial WiMAX operations initially in Taichung, central Taiwan, at the end of 2009, according to company...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) continued to enjoy sequential revenue growth in June 2009, and saw the on-year decrease narrow to 9.6% compared to double-digit drops...
More than 200 Taiwan and overseas companies in the solar industry will take part in PV Taiwan 2009, Taiwan's international photovoltaic (PV) forum and exhibition scheduled for October...
Taiwan DMS provider Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) is making efforts to tap emerging markets in the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Russia for its WiMAX...
Gigabyte Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$3.22 billion (US$97.47 million) for June 2009, an increase of 11.86% on month, but a drop of 14.2% on year.
Market research firm iSuppli has lowered its forecasts for global semiconductor and electronic equipment revenues in 2009, due to lingering economic woes and continuing poor visibility...
Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total US$3.2 trillion in 2009, a 6% decline from 2008 spending of US$3.4 trillion, according to Gartner. Continued weak IT spending because of...
Taiwan-based second-tier notebook ODM Mitac Technology generated revenues of NT$1.624 billion (US$49.6 million) in June, the highest monthly level so far in 2009 and rising by 46.6%...
There will be a MEMS pavilion at SEMICON Taiwan 2009 scheduled for September 30-October 2, according to SEMI Taiwan. The government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute...
The consumer electronics (CE) industry will not achieve an annual expansion in 2009, which would signal a true recovery, despite the global CE market returning to sequential revenue...
Worldwide consumer location-based service (LBS) subscribers and revenues are on pace to double in 2009, according to Gartner. Despite an expected 4% decrease in mobile device sales,...
Taiwan's exports in June grew 4.8% sequentially to an eight-month high of US$16.95 billion, although the figures still represented a decline of 30.4% from a year earlier, according...
MediaTek has responded to a media report saying the company lost a tax lawsuit by clarifying that the Taipei High Administrative Court only judged whether a new or old regulation...
LED-backlit monitor penetration rate will only be 3% in 2009 because of LED supply shortage and slower-than-expected drop of LED backlight unit (BLU) cost, according to market sour...
