While the mainstream business model for manufacturing and distributing mobile handsets remains leveraging the OBM/ODM/OEM/EMS model, a whole new paradigm has developed within China's...
Taiwan-based handset design houses, including Elan Microelectronics, Egalax-empia Technology (EETI), Capella Microsystems and Prolific Technology, are all expecting strong demand...
MediaTek is expected to see its revenues decline sharply in June 2010, probably to below NT$9 billion (US$280.3 million), as the China government's recent efforts to inspect tax evasion...
International handset brand vendors will likely step up cooperation with manufacturers in Taiwan and China to compete more effectively with local vendors in emerging markets that...
MediaTek is expected to see its shipments of 3G TD-SCDMA chipsets top two million units a month around the end of the third quarter, compared to about one million shipped monthly...
Taiwan-based AboCom Systems is working with white-box handset makers in China to manufacture four Android-based WCDMA smartphones in 2010 with shipments scheduled for June, according...
Global 3G handset chip shipments are expected to increase significantly in March as China-based Huawei Technologies and ZTE have released substantial orders for 3G chips, and some...
Pixart Imaging will spin off its CMOS image sensor (CIS) design subsidiary - PrimeSensor Technology - at the end of first-quarter 2010, according to Pixart chairman Huang Sen-huang...
Macronix International Company (MXIC), a Taiwan-based mask ROM and NOR flash maker, has announced a 1.8V quad I/O serial flash device for mobile phones, DECT phones, Bluetooth, GPS...
Stronger-than-expected sales in Western Europe and an acceleration in the gray market in the third quarter of 2009 will drive worldwide mobile device sales to end users to 1.214 billion...
CMOS image sensor (CIS) supplier Aptina Imaging plans to enhance its VGA level products for 2010, gearing up to tap China's white-box handset market, according to industry sources...
MediaTek has placed more wafer starts at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) for the fourth quarter of 2009, buoyed by...
Large-size panel makers Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) and HannStar Display, eyeing the surging smartphone market, have started producing 2- to 3.5-inch handset panels at their 4.5G...
White-box handset sales from China have increased to 40-50 million units a month, and are still rising due to increasing demand in emerging markets, according to Vincent Tai, CEO...
