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Monday 1 July 2013
Asustek and HP enter China tablet market with entry-level models
Asustek Computer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are both set to enter the China tablet market with new cheap tablet models: the Asustek 7-inch 8GB MeMO Pad HD 7, priced below CNY999 (US$163)...
Monday 1 July 2013
China white-box tablet players seeing success in landing government procurement orders
China-based white-box players are gaining the upper hand in the competition with first-tier brand vendors for tablet procurement orders from Asia Pacific governments due to their...
Monday 1 July 2013
STATS ChipPAC to close Malaysia plant
STATS ChipPAC, which provides IC assembly and test services to semiconductor companies and electronics OEMs, has unveiled plans to consolidate manufacturing at its production units...
Friday 28 June 2013
MediaTek, Spreadtrum advance in China market as Qualcomm chip sales decline, says TrendForce
MediaTek has been making an impressive run lately; not only is the Taiwan-based chip manufacturer commanding its way in the mid-to-high end smartphone space, it has also successfully...
Friday 28 June 2013
China stringent money policies expected to benefit Taiwan component factories
As the China government has enforced very stringent money supply policies, small China-based notebook component makers have faced operational problems due to difficulty obtaining...
Friday 28 June 2013
China Mobile aims to start VoLTE business in 2014, says company president
China Mobile plans to start testing Voice over LTE (VoLTE) in second-half 2013 and aims to start commercial operations in 2014, company president Li Yue revealed at the 2013 Mobile...
Friday 28 June 2013
Harvatek quits joint venture project with TCL
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Harvatek has announced the termination of joint venture with China-based TV brand TCL. Harvatek noted that both parties have had disagreements on...
Thursday 27 June 2013
China market: Chine Mobile to launch over 10 TD-LTE smartphones in 2H13, says report
China Mobile, the largest mobile telecom carrier in China, will launch more than 10 models of TD-LTE smartphones in the China market, China-based tech.163.com quoted company...
Thursday 27 June 2013
Everlight plans to acquire Germany-based lighting fixture firm
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Everlight plans to spend less than EUR10 million (US$13 million) to acquire 100% of a Germany-based lighting fixture firm, according to the firm.
Thursday 27 June 2013
EU duty on China-made solar products to help Taiwan solar industry, says SAS
The European Union (EU) has imposed a tentative anti-dumping tariff of 11.8% on solar products imported from China and is negotiating with the China government. If both sides reach...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Digitimes Research: China 3G service subscribers to top 300 million in 1H13
The number of 3G service subscribers in China is expected to top 322 million by the end of the first half of 2013, representing a penetration rate of 27.1%. Meanwhile, sales of smartphones...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Taiwan LED firms enter automotive lighting market
LED lighting market is booming but price competition has been causing firms to see shrinking profit margins. Taiwan-based LED firms aim to improve technology and enter the automotive...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
China market: High inventories at leading smartphone vendors may cause price war
China-based telecom carriers reportedly have reduced their marketing efforts to promote sales of smartphones after reaching their operating targets for the first half of 2013, causing...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
China-based group buying platform to sell Taiwan-made food
A group buying platform under the largest China-based e-commerce operator Alibaba will cooperate with Taiwan's Chinese National Federation of Industries to sell more than 30 Taiwan-made...
Wednesday 26 June 2013
GET to hike solar wafer capacity
Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) has upgraded ingot slicing technology and will invest NT$50 million (US$1.67 million) to expand monthly production from...