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Tuesday 16 August 2011
Tablet players expected to cut price to digest inventory overstock
Non-Apple tablet PC players, facing the fact their devices are having weaker sales than their order volumes, while demand from the retail channel has been quickly shrinking, are expected...
Tuesday 2 August 2011
Foxconn cooperates with Synnex for China motherboard market
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced it will form a strategic alliance with channel retailer...
Thursday 28 July 2011
External hard drive shipments in 2011 unlikely to meet targets
Players in the external hard drive industry originally expected to see more than 100% growth on year in 2011, but may not be able to achieve growth as strong as expected due to serious...
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Foxconn reportedly considering ECS acquisition
Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) reportedly is considering to acquire motherboard maker Elitegroup Computer...
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Lenovo pushes oversea acquisition to expand PC market share
With China-based PC vendor Lenovo successfully surpassed Acer and became the third largest PC vendor worldwide in the second quarter, Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming pointed out that the...
Thursday 14 July 2011
Notebook vendors bracing for Europe bad debts, say sources
Retail channels in Southern Europe including Italy, Greece and Portugal are reportedly facing a crisis paying off their debts to upstream brand vendors, which may affect several first-tier...
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Desktop PC market is expected to achieve 8% shipment growth in 2011
The desktop PC market, benefiting from the rise of tablet PCs, is expected to achieve a growth of 8% on year in terms of shipments in 2011 with motherboard players including Gigabyte...
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Foxconn breaks ground for Taipei IT mall
Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) on July 11 held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Taipei Information Park, an IT shopping mall project based on a BOT (build-operate-transfer)...
Thursday 7 July 2011
Foxconn to establish Cybermart IT mall in Taiwan
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will start establishing buildings for the Taipei IT mall project on July 11 with company chairman Terry Guo to attend the groundbreaking...
Thursday 16 June 2011
Acer reducing 2011 tablet PC shipment target by 50%
Acer, on June 15, announced that the company has reduced its annual tablet PC shipment forecast from originally 5-7 million units to only 2.5-3 million units, a drop close to 50%...
Tuesday 14 June 2011
Taiwan-based Senao to open 22 joint venture chain stores in China by end of July
Senao International, a handset and communication device retail chain in Taiwan, in the first quarter of 2011 established Wo Senao, a joint venture in the China market with China United...
Tuesday 14 June 2011
Acer notebook shipments in retail channel expected to surpass 3 million in June
Acer's notebook shipments in the retail channel are expected to surpass three million units in June and if the company's upstream partners such as Compal Electronics, Wistron and...
Friday 3 June 2011
Asustek taking cautious attitude toward Acer dumping 3 million notebooks in Europe
As Acer has announced it will provide channels with US$150 million in sales allowances to clear inventory, sources from the notebook industry believe such action will result in close...
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Computex 2011: Asustek announces Padfone, bundling smartphone with tablet PC
Taiwan-based notebook brand vendor Asustek Computer, at its pre-Computex press conference, announced its Padfone, bundling a 4.3-inch smartphone with a 10-inch tablet PC for an estimated...
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Toshiba reportedly abandoning ideas for developing Wintel-based tablets and Chromebooks
Japan-based notebook brand vendor Toshiba reportedly has abandoned ideas for developing Windows 7-based tablet PCs and Chromebooks as the two devices have already disappeared from...