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Thursday 16 February 2012
Acer expects double ultrabook shipments in 2Q12, improving gross margin each quarter
Acer has announced results for 2011 with operating profit turning from losses to gains in the fourth quarter of 2011, while company chairman JT Wang pointed out that gross margin...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Ultrabook prices to drop 20-30% in early March to April
Prices of the existing ultrabooks are expected to see a 20-30% drop in early March to April to help digesting notebook vendors' inventories as Intel is set to announce its next-generation...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Clevo expected to see bigger profits in 2012
Taiwan-based notebook and retail channel player Clevo, after achieving profit of more than NT$1 billion (US$33.89 million) in 2011 from its retail IT mall business in China, is aiming...
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Senao to expand retail chain in China
Senao International, a Taiwan-based retail chain of handsets and other consumer electronics, has set up Wo Senao, a joint venture retail chain with China Unicom in the China market...
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Vendors dropping ultrabook prices in preparation of second-generation models
As ultrabooks from brand vendors such as Acer, Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are all recently seeing price drops in the North America, sources from retail channel believe that the...
Tuesday 7 February 2012
SanDisk cuts retail product prices
Following reports that Kingston Technology is cutting prices for all of its NAND flash products in the retail market by as much as 15%, SanDisk has also adjusted downward prices for...
Saturday 4 February 2012
Taiwan Mobile plans to set up retail network in China
Taiwan Mobile (TWM), one of the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, plans to extend its self-operated retail network in Taiwan myfone, into China, with 30-50 stores to...
Tuesday 31 January 2012
Foxlink targets China, South Korea retail markets
Taiwan-based component maker and channel player Foxlink will target retail markets of China and South Korea as its major expansion focus in 2012 as Taiwan's retail market is already...
Thursday 12 January 2012
Asustek expects notebook shipments in the US to grow 30% in 2012
Despite seeing the PC market experiencing decline, and economies of the US and Europe are weakening, Asustek Computer still expects its notebook shipments in the US to grow 30% in...
Thursday 5 January 2012
Taiwan market: TWM retail chain to sell 3C products
Telecom carrier Taiwan Mobile (TWM) has announced the offering of 3C products including handsets, tablet PCs, PCs and digital cameras for sale at its local retail chain, myfone.
Friday 9 December 2011
SanDisk shipments to top 700 million units in 2011
SanDisk has forecast that overall shipments of its NAND flash-related products to retail channels and OEM customers worldwide will top 700 million units in 2011, up more than 15%.
Thursday 8 December 2011
White-box players in China quitting tablet PC market
As non-Apple tablet PC players are dropping their tablet PC prices to compete against Kindle Fire, white-box players in China are starting to quit the tablet PC market and can only...
Thursday 1 December 2011
PC supply chain to see shipments stay flat or drop slightly in November
PC component makers and ODMs expect their shipments in November to stay flat or drop slightly on month as orders for the year-end holidays are not as strong as expected, according...
Monday 28 November 2011
Taiwan market: Prices for supply of HDDs for retail channels to rise by 10% in early December
Prices for hard disk drives (HDDs) supplied to retail channels in the Taiwan market have risen 20-30% due to short supply arising from flooding in Thailand, and will be hiked by 10%...
Thursday 17 November 2011
Hard drive prices in retail channels may start dropping in December
Several channel retailers are already preparing to dump their hard drive inventory, which was piled up due to concerns over potential shortages, in December as the imbalance between...