Sony on August 28 unveiled four Alpha series DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera models, A380, A500, A550 and A850, for launch in the Taiwan market, with A850 to be available...
Dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handset shipments will double between 2009 and 2011, and this year is expected to see 144 million handsets shipped, with forecasts for 2011 at just over 300...
Qisda will start making e-book readers using panels from AU Optronics (AUO), with small volume production slated for the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company CEO Hsiung...
LCD TVs still have big growth potential because their current penetration rate remains low at 13% of the total two billion units of installed TVs worldwide, according to Corning CEO...
Inventec's notebook shipment forecast for 2010 has been reduced by market watchers from the previous estimate of up to 27 million units, to only 23-25 million units, since Inventec...
TPO Display expects the smartphone segment to share 20% of its total LCD panel shipments for 2009, as smartphone panel shipments have increased significantly, according to industry...
Small- to medium-size LCD module (LCM) specialist Star World Technology has announced consolidated net loss of NT$93.31 million (US$2.83 million) for the first half of 2009, which...
Taiwan-based TV maker Amtran Technology shipped over two million LCD TVs in the first half of 2009 and expects to achieve its 2009 goal of shipping 4-4.5 million units, according...
Worldwide semiconductor revenues are on track to total US$212 billion in 2009, a 17.1% decrease from US$255 billion in 2008, according to the latest outlook by Gartner. This forecast...
Defying the current economic turmoil, global set-top box (STB) shipments are expected to rise in 2009 due to rising demand from Asia and from products supporting high definition,...
Samsung Electronics has set an internal goal of attaining a 20% share in the global notebook CMOS image sensor (CIS) market in 2009 and an over 30% share in 2010, according to Taiwan-based...
Southeast Asia (SEA) mobile users are expected to hit 453.3 million subscribers by the end of this year, growing 18.4% over 2008. Billings are estimated to grow by 13.6% on year to...
According to The NPD Group, feature phones still rule the market, even as smartphone sales continue to increase their share of overall handset sales. Unit-sales of new feature phones...
Domintech, a subsidiary of Unimicron Technology, plans to introduce its first own-branded accelerometers (g-sensors) by the end of 2009, according to the company.
Advansus, a Taiwan-based industrial computing DMS joint venture between IPC maker Advantech and Asustek Computer, has set a target EPS of NT$2 for 2009, according to company vice...
