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Tuesday 8 March 2011
Standalone application processors are wining in mobility markets, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Several years ago there was a widely accepted expectation that application mobile processors would be fully integrated with baseband processors on a single chip. However, today we...
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Notebook brands to compete against Apple with tablet PC-featured netbook
Global notebook brand vendors including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI), facing strong competition from Apple's iPad, are changing...
Friday 18 February 2011
Sony's new handheld game console faces diminished prospects, says IHS
At a special PlayStation event held in Japan at the end of January, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announced plans for its next-generation handheld gaming and multimedia device...
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Quanta, Wistron see up, while Compal down in December notebook shipments
Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Pegatron Technology have announced their revenues for December 2010 with Quanta and Wistron both seeing...
Tuesday 4 January 2011
Qualcomm all set for a 4.5G Mirasol plant in Taiwan
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies (QMT) is expected to install equipment at its new Mirasol plant in Taiwan in October 2011, and start volume production at the beginning of 2012, according...
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Power management ICs in portable devices represent nearly 40% of total analog IC revenues, says Petrov Group
The annual unit growth rate for portable devices is estimated at more than 12%, from about two billion in 2008 to over 3.4 billion devices in 2013. These devices have an increasing...
Tuesday 1 June 2010
Computex 2010: Touchscreen products are everywhere
Touchscreen products will be one of the focuses during Computex 2010, despite that there is no individual section dedicated to the segment, as vendors of handheld devices such as...
Friday 23 April 2010
Yageo claims smallest GPS antenna for handheld devices
Yageo, Taiwan's largest maker of passive components, recently announced the release of what it claims is the industry's smallest ceramic chip antenna (PIFA mode) for use in high-end...
Thursday 24 December 2009
TSMC signs cooperation pact with Tsinghua University
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has signed an industry-academy cooperation agreement with Tsinghua University, China's leading science and engineering educational...
Thursday 12 November 2009
Wistron developing handheld device using flexible e-paper
Wistron is currently developing a 5- to 6-inch handheld device that will adopt a flexible e-paper display from the recently acquired Polymer Vision, according to Brian Chong, chief...
Wednesday 7 October 2009
3M enhances 3D display capabilities for handheld displays with 3D optical film
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- 3M's optical systems division today announced that 3M has developed a new, field sequential 3D optical film for handheld devices - enabling true...
Friday 4 September 2009
Nokia to develop Maemo platform-based handheld devices for high-end segment
Nokia will focus on the development of Maemo platform-based mobile Internet devices (MIDs) for the high-end mobile computing segment in addition to Symbian-based devices for the mass...
Thursday 2 July 2009
IC designer Prescope to offer handheld game console in 3Q09
Prescope Technologies has stepped into system products and will offer a handheld game console with a 2.7-inch screen and 100 built-in games in the third quarter, targeting China and...
Thursday 18 June 2009
TSMC ready to deliver full-node 28nm in early 2010
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced development of its 28nm low-power technology that extends Silicon Oxynitride (SiON)/poly usage beyond 32nm with a dual/triple...
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Acer aims to ship 20 million smartphones annually in 2012-2014
Acer aims to ship 2-2.5 million own-brand smartphones in 2010 and expects annual shipments to increase to 20 million units in 2012-2014, making it one of the world's top-five smartphone...