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Friday 27 March 2009
LitePoint to focus marketing on smartphone, MID and notebook sectors
Wireless testing solutions provider LitePoint will focus its marketing on the smartphone segment, which is expected to grow 25-30% worldwide in 2009 despite a projected slowdown for...
Thursday 26 March 2009
Young Fast to cut into netbook touch panel market in 2H09
Taiwan-based touch panel maker Young Fast Optoelectronics started mass production of capacitive touch panels in February and will cut into the netbook touch panel market in the second...
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Taiwan PC vendors questioning potential of white-box netbook market
Some Taiwan-based PC vendors are not optimistic about the outlook for the white-box netbook market in China and have added that the current 2,000 yuan (US$292) asking price for a...
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Paragon to expand vacuum sputtering capacity in China
Paragon Technologies, a Taiwan-based provider of vacuum sputtering processing to prevent EMI (electromagnetic interference) in notebooks, will expand its capacity in China by setting...
Monday 23 March 2009
Intel pushes netbook standards in China to compete against VIA, says paper
Intel is pushing netbook standards in China's white-box netbook market hoping to compete against VIA Technologies' netbook alliance, according to a Chinese-language Commercial...
Monday 23 March 2009
Intel reportedly considering increase for Atom N270 pricing in China
Intel is reportedly considering increasing the price of its Atom N270 CPU in China due to recent upstream component shortages caused by a significant increase in the number of China...
Friday 20 March 2009
HannStar 5.3G plant to reach full capacity in April
LCD panel maker HannStar Display's utilization rate at its 5.3G plant is expected to be fully-loaded in April as shipments of medium-size netbook panels and large-size LCD monitor...
Friday 20 March 2009
Larger-size LCD TV and netbook panel prices continue to drop in 2H of March
Prices for 37-inch-and-above LCD TV panels and 10.x-inch netbook panels continue to drop, while prices for other applications remain flat in the second half of March, according to...
Thursday 19 March 2009
HP shows interest in Hynix CMOS image sensors
Inventec, which will produce Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) next-generation 10-inch netbooks, has been asked to evaluate the possibility of adopting Hynix Semiconductor's new VGA CMOS image...
Thursday 19 March 2009
Compal chairman expects rush orders to last one month, says paper
Chairman of Compal Electronics Rock Hsu has said that although recent rush orders have been in very large volumes spanning several segments including netbooks and handsets, the positive...
Thursday 19 March 2009
VIA unveils Surfboard for mini-notebooks
VIA Technologies has announced the VIA Surfboard C855 reference design, an ultra-compact mainboard incorporating the VIA C7-M ULV processor, the new VIA VX855 unified IGP chipset,...
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Gold Circuit Electronics runs China PCB facility to nearly full capacity
PCB maker Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) has said that its Changshu plant (Jiangsu Province, China) is running at almost full utilization, thanks to rising shipments for netbooks...
Wednesday 18 March 2009
ViewSonic to launch netbooks and notebooks in China
ViewSonic will extend its marketing in the China market from LCD product lines to netbooks and notebooks, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Linux netbook market share to drop to only 10% in 2009, says paper
The global market share of Linux-based netbook is expected to drop to only 10% in 2009 from 70% in 2008, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report...
Tuesday 17 March 2009
ASRock to launch 3-5 notebook models this year, says paper
ASRock plans to launch 3-5 notebooks models in 2009 with panel sizes ranging from 12- to 15-inch and prices from US$400-600, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times...