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Thursday 22 January 2015
Digitimes Research: China smartphone industry to report shipment growth of 8.6% for 4Q14
During visits to firms in China's smartphone supply chain in November and December 2014, Digitimes Research found that their shipments to the domestic market were weak in the fourth...
Thursday 22 January 2015
China government moving forward with panel component subsidies
Demand for upstream panel components is increasing in China and local makers are unable to meet supply, particularly for TFT polarizers. The China government, as a result, is issuing...
Thursday 22 January 2015
HP appoints new chairman for China subsidiary H3C Technologies
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has appointed chairman of HP China Mao Yunan to concurrently serve as new chairman of its subsidiary in Hangzhou, H3C Technologies. The move has reportedly triggered...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Second-tier motherboard players planning new strategies for 2015
Facing fierce competition from the top-two players, Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, small motherboard players such as ASRock, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and Micro-Star...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Sunplus to sell STB chip business to China firm
Sunplus Technology, a Taiwan-based IC design house specializing in multimedia and PC peripheral chips, has announced plans to sell its STB (set-top box) IC business to China-based...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Merry denies losing out orders to China rivals
Headset maker Merry Electronics has denied recent market reports indicating that the local supplier is likely to lose its speaker orders for iPhone devices to China-based rivals.
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Storart growing eMMC presence in China
Storart, a Taiwan-based supplier of eMMC device controller ICs, expects to ship more than one million eMMC controllers a month in 2015 as the company is expanding its market presence...
Wednesday 21 January 2015
TV display shipments reach 247 million in 2014, up 7.4% on year; China makers to hold 22% global share in 2015, says firm
TV display shipments reached 247 million globally in 2014, up 7.4% on year, with Samsung Display holding a 22.4% share, according to research firm Sigmaintell.
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Rising competition from China supply chain: Q&A with Compal president Ray Chen
Compal Electronics was one of the pioneers that relocated its major production base to China from Taiwan in 1990 and has since then transformed itself into an IT conglomerate with...
Tuesday 20 January 2015
China robot development lacks direction, says report
China's governments and industries have been making efforts to develop robots but there has been a lack of direction for the development in terms of application, according to China-based...
Monday 19 January 2015
Two China LED packagers obtain licensing of white LED patents from Toyoda Gosei
China-based LED packaging service providers Shenzhen Refond Optoelectronics and Shenzhen Jufei Optoelectronics have signed with Japan-based Toyoda Gosei for license use of the latter's...
Monday 19 January 2015
Panel makers aim to land orders for China vendors' US$80 smartphones
Price competition is intensifying in the handset panel segment as makers attempt to increase orders from China vendors for units priced CNY500 (US$80) and below.
Monday 19 January 2015
Digitimes Research: China Mobile may start deployment of TD-LTE Nanocell devices in 2H15
In order to meet fast growing demand for TD-LTE, China Mobile is likely to kick off commercial deployment of Nanocell networks in the second half of 2015, according to Digitimes Re...
Monday 19 January 2015
China to purchase at least US$4.5 billion in panels in 2015, says TAITRA
China is expected to purchase at least US$4.5 billion worth of panels from Taiwan in 2015, according to Francis Liang Kuo-hsin, chairman of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council...
Monday 19 January 2015
China market: Smartphone shipments in 2014 estimated at 389 million units, says paper
There were 389 million smartphones shipped in the China market in 2014, decreasing over 8% on year, the Chinese-language Commercial Times has cited statistics by China's...