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Monday 6 February 2012
Smartphones overtake client PCs in 2011, says Canalys
Canalys has released its full, fourth-quarter 2011 country-level smartphone shipment estimates to clients, so completing the picture for the year. One notable result was that total...
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Intel discontinuing over 25 desktop CPUs, say sources
To pave the way for the upcoming launch of 22nm Ivy Bridge processors in April 2012, Intel has notified its hardware partners of its schedule for stopping the supply or production...
Tuesday 27 December 2011
Intel Thunderbolt to be more widely available in April
Intel has recently notified its partners that the company will fully release its Thunderbolt technology in April of 2012 with several first-tier PC players already preparing to launch...
Thursday 22 December 2011
Taiwan ODMs facing pressure from Lenovo
Taiwan-based ODMs are expected to face significant pressure from Lenovo's plan of establishing production bases in Japan and South America, according to sources from the upstream...
Wednesday 21 December 2011
AMD updates A-series APUs
AMD has updated its A-series lineup of desktop and notebook accelerated processing units (APUs), further improving its family of dual- and quad-core APUs. Along with speed and performance...
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Asustek and Acer quibble over notebook vendor rankings in China and Europe
Asustek Computer, citing figures from research firm IDC, pointed out that the company's notebook shipments in China have already surpassed Acer and it has become the second largest...
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Asustek, Pegatron to host investor conferences with new products to be focus
Pegatron Technology and Asustek Computer are set to host their third-quarter investor conference on October 27 and 31, respectively, with Asustek's Eee Pad Tranformer and Zenbook...
Thursday 8 September 2011
AMD expands desktop lineup of AMD Fusion APUs
CPU maker AMD has announced availability of its new A-series Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) A4-3300 and A4-3400 desktop processors, bringing the entry-level desktop APU price down...
Tuesday 6 September 2011
Intel launches new CPUs and drops old CPU prices to defend market share from AMD
CPU maker Intel has recently launched several new Sandy Bridge-based processors, while has also reduced the price of some existing CPUs to defend from AMD's competition with APUs.
Monday 22 August 2011
Development of electronics manufacturing bases in China's central and western regions
The recently published 12th Five Year Plan clearly states the government's intention to reform the country's industrial structure, meaning there will be a shift in focus from eastern...
Friday 19 August 2011
Taiwan market: Notebooks seeing better sales than desktops during back-to-school season
Back-to-school demand in Taiwan's PC market has already started to appear, and demand from students for notebooks is much stronger than for desktops with a sales ratio of 6:4, according...
Tuesday 9 August 2011
Quanta, Wistron see revenue, notebook shipments drop in July
Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer and Wistron both saw their revenues and notebook shipments drop on month in July due to their downstream clients reducing orders for July...
Tuesday 2 August 2011
ODD shipments still facing a crisis in 2H11 as Intel focuses on the ultrabook
Optical disc drive (ODD) shipments are facing a great uncertainty in the future as Intel is aggressive pushing its new ultrabook design, which will not require the adoption of an...
Monday 25 July 2011
Increasing back-to-school demand to boost PC and e-book reader sales
Sales of notebook, desktop and e-book readers, which are targeting education and document processing purposes, will have a chance to see a significant growth in the third quarter...
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Intel to launch new Celeron processors in September
Intel is set to launch several new Celeron processors for both desktops and notebooks in September, and will gradually phase out some existing Celeron models.