VIA Telecom, a subsidiary of VIA Technologies, has received orders for baseband chips for use in CDMA2000 handsets from China vendors Beijing Tianyu Communications Equipment, Dopod...
MediaTek has announced that its consolidated sales for January totaled NT$6.2 billion (US$184.45 million), up 21.48% on month but representing a slight decline of 4.62% on year. The...
With global handset vendors including Nokia restocking their inventories by placing rush orders, Taiwan-based handset PCB makers are seeing increases in their shipments for Februar...
The worldwide mobile phone market experienced an unusual downturn in the normally robust fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08). According to IDC, vendors shipped a total of 289 million units,...
International branded vendors, domestic handset vendors in China, and Taiwan-based handset makers are readying to compete for CDMA handset orders to be released by China Telecom,...
STMicroelectronics has made four major acquisitions since 2007 – Genesis Microchip, Nokia's 3G and 3.5G R&D team, NXP Semiconductors and Ericsson Mobile Platform (EMP)....
Mobile handset shipments in the first half of 2008 had a 14% increase on year while slowed to 8% in the third quarter before crashing into a 10% decline in the fourth quarter. As...
Nokia has notified chip suppliers that it will increase orders in March, a sign showing that handset demand may be recovering, according to market sources.
Taiwan-based handset keypad maker Silitech Technology is expected to benefit from Nokia's plan to increase the supply of components from non-Japanese companies due to the fast appreciation...
Sales of Apple's iPhone 3G handsets totaled 12,000 units in the Taiwan market in December, taking up the sixth ranked position with a 2.2% share in terms of sales for the month, according...
LG Electronics (LGE) shipped over 100 million handsets in 2008, surpassing the amounts shipped by Motorola and Sony Ericsson, respectively, to capture, for the first time, third place...
Foxconn International Holdings (FIH), the Hong Kong-listed handset manufacturing subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), will likely see its consolidated revenues...
Demand for handset solutions from global handset vendors is likely to decline at least 30% in the first quarter of 2009 as gauged by current order visibility, according to sources...
Sales of handsets in the Taiwan market totaled 560,000 units in November, with Nokia topping among all vendors with a 29.4% share, compared to 29.3% in October, according to the latest...
