CONNECT WITH US
NEWS TAGGED QUOTE
Thursday 27 October 2011
Asustek, Gigabyte to miss motherboard shipment targets for 2011
Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, facing weak market demand in Europe, the US and China, are expected to fail to achieve their motherboard shipment goals for 2011 and only...
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Intel downstream partners request CPU price drop
Executives from Intel's PC partners - Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin and Compal Electronics president Ray Chen both have invoked Intel to help drop the Ultrabook price to below US$1,000...
Thursday 21 July 2011
Primax sees monthly CCM capacity fully loaded in 3Q11
Taiwan-based compact camera module (CCM) maker Primax Electronics, a supplier of iPhone CCMs, has landed orders from Apple for the upcoming iPhone model, and already has its 15 million...
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Apple demands 10% quote cuts from component suppliers in 2Q11, says paper
Apple's suppliers of components such as PCBs, optical components, battery modules and touch panels are reportedly facing pressure from Apple, which has demanded quote cuts of 10%...
Thursday 16 June 2011
Digital camera chassis maker AVY expects flat performance in 2011
Taiwan-based digital camera chassis maker AVY Precision, facing downstream clients demanding price cuts, and a supply shortage of LCD panels and lenses, expects its revenues and profits...
Monday 16 May 2011
Price of solar wafers in China falls below US$2.5/unit
Weak demand in the solar market continues to put pressure on the prices of upstream materials such as wafers. According to industry sources, six-inch solar wafers have been quoted...
Thursday 12 May 2011
Shortage of smartphone and tablet PC components emerging
Despite both upstream and downstream PC and smartphone players claiming to have not seen any component shortages and that they will see normal supplies until the end of May 2011,...
Thursday 28 April 2011
Pegatron sees net losses in 1Q11
Pegatron Technology has announced net losses of NT$559 million (US$19.38 million) for the first quarter of 2011 with EPS of negative NT$0.25 and gross margin of only 1.8%, all historical...
Thursday 28 April 2011
Wistron estimates over 10% growth in notebook and LCD TV shipments in 2Q11
Wistron chairman Simon Lin, at the company's investors meeting on April 27, pointed out that the company's revenue performance in the first quarter of 2011 was lower than expected...
Thursday 21 April 2011
Taiwan hard drive component makers may face difficulty negotiating quotes
As the hard drive market will be fully occupied by three major players following Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) and Seagate completes...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Nvidia may see GPU market share impacted in first half 2011
Nvidia may see its GPU market share impacted in the first half of 2011 as the company lost GPU orders for Apple's MacBook Pro notebook to AMD, according to sources from notebook pl...
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Late February panel quotes remain flat for notebook, monitor use, slightly fall for TV use, says DisplaySearch
International quotes for TFT-LCD panels for late February overall remain unchanged from previous quotes for use in LCD monitors and notebook PCs, but drop by US$1-3 for LCD TV panels,...
Wednesday 16 February 2011
Pixart 1Q11 revenues could decline 20% sequentially, says chairman
Pixart Imaging, which specializes in CMOS image sensors, expects first-quarter 2011 revenues to decline 20% sequentially due to inventory adjustments by games console clients, company...
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Digital camera chassis makers to see shipment growth more so than profit growth
Digital camera chassis makers will see their shipment volume increase in 2011 benefiting by Japan-based digital camera vendors releasing production to their Taiwan-based OEMs; however,...
Tuesday 15 February 2011
High copper price damaging profitability of notebook component makers
Taiwan-based makers of notebook components such as connector, cable, power supply and cooling modules are seeing their profitability drop as the recent global copper price is hovering...