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Wednesday 5 August 2009
Acer expected to ship 8-9 million notebooks in 3Q09
Acer shipped an estimated 2.5-2.7 million notebooks, including netbooks and ultra-thin models, in July 2009, and is expected to ship a total of 8-9 million units in the third quarter...
Tuesday 4 August 2009
PCB maker HannStar Board expects strong growth in 3Q09
Taiwan PCB maker HannStar Board, due to increasing demand for PCBs used in notebooks, is expected to see its revenues for the third quarter rise by over 20% on quarter and its capacity...
Monday 3 August 2009
Acer is quick to reiterate launch of dual-OS netbooks in September
Acer last week acted quickly to reiterate that it will launch its first dual-OS netbook with both Windows XP and Android in September 2009 as scheduled, following claims by industry...
Friday 31 July 2009
China white-box players eye AMD and VIA for netbooks larger than 12-inches, says paper
White-box netbook makers in China have recently started to manufacture netbooks with panels sized larger than 12-inches that adopt either an AMD or VIA processor platform, as market...
Friday 31 July 2009
Intel to suspend Atom Z sales to netbook makers, say sources
Intel has reportedly informed customers that it will accept no more orders for its Atom Z processors from netbook makers soon, as it is getting close to completely digesting its inventory,...
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Quanta and Inventec to produce HP netbooks
Quanta Computer will begin ODM production of a new 11.6-inch netbook in August and a new 10.1-inch model at the end of 2009 for Hewlett-Packard (HP), while Inventec will begin producing...
Wednesday 29 July 2009
ECS to supply WiMAX and 3G modules
Taiwan-based motherboard maker Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has extended its production to include WiMAX and 3G modules targeting telecom service providers, according to the...
Tuesday 28 July 2009
No new netbooks from Asustek, Acer in 2H09; Acer pushes back Android netbook
Asustek Computer and Acer will not offer any new netbooks in the second half of 2009, as Intel plans to push the launch of its entry-level products including the Pine Trail-M platform...
Monday 27 July 2009
Taiwan market: BenQ launches 11.6-inch netbooks
Taiwan-based BenQ has launched its new 11.6-inch netbook in the Taiwan market and aims to capture the third rank position in the local netbook segment before the end of 2009, according...
Monday 27 July 2009
Siano debuts CMMB mobile-TV chip with conditional access and descrambling
Siano Mobile Silicon has announced the SMS1186 CMMB TV receiver chip, a drop in replacement to its SMS1180, which adds on-chip decoding support for Pay-TV services which are emerging...
Friday 24 July 2009
Taiwan market: Netbook vendors seeing increasing bundling with 3G services
Acer, Asustek Computer and BenQ have seen an increase in the number of netbook sales in the Taiwan market made via bundle deals with 3G services. Meanwhile, netbooks accounted for...
Friday 24 July 2009
ViewSonic chooses Taiwan for initial launch of netbooks
Branded monitor vendor ViewSonic has decided to launch its netbook lineup first in the Taiwan market, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Thursday 23 July 2009
TCA expects Computer Application Show to create business opportunities
The Taipei Computer Association (TCA) expects its upcoming Taipei Computer Application Show (TCAS), which will be held from July 30 to August 3 at Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition...
Thursday 23 July 2009
Intel pushes back Pine Trail-D platform and Clarkdale CPUs to 1Q10
Intel has decided to push back its Pine Trail-D platform for nettops from October 2009 to the first quarter of 2010, in addition to Pine Trail-M for netbooks, while the company's...
Thursday 23 July 2009
Large-size panel shipments reach record levels in June, says DisplaySearch
Global large-size TFT-LCD panel shipments reached 46.7 million units in June 2009, up 8% sequentially and 24% on year, according to DisplaySearch. This sets a new record for the...