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Friday 22 March 2013
China market: 4Kx2K LCD TV prices expected to fall in early May peak sales period, say Taiwan makers
Retail prices for 50-inch and above 4Kx2K (3840 by 2160) Ultra HD LCD TVs are twice those for Full HD models of the same sizes in the China market currently, but are expected to be...
Friday 22 March 2013
Huawei introduces 6.1-inch smartphone
The line between smartphones and tablets have been blurred and firms such as Huawei, Asustek Computer, and Samsung Electronics hope to capture the new business opporutnity by introducing...
Thursday 21 March 2013
Digitimes Research: Room for further development in China smartphone market
Sales of smartphones in China are expected to top 330 million units in 2013, making the market a fierce battle field for local and international smartphone brands and inducing makers...
Thursday 21 March 2013
Suntech announces petition of insolvency and restructuring of China subsidiary
China-based large-size solar firm Suntech Power Holdings announced that on March 18, 2013, a group of eight China-based banks filed a petition for insolvency and restructuring of...
Wednesday 20 March 2013
More China smartphone vendors adopt MediaTek quad-core solutions
Following the steps of Lenovo and Coolpad, two other China-based smartphone vendors, Huawei and ZTE, reportedly will also adopt MediaTek's quad-core MT6589 solutions for the production...
Tuesday 19 March 2013
SMIC to operate at 90% of production capacity in 2Q13
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is expected to operate at 90% of its production capacity in the second quarter of 2013, buoyed by orders from IC design...
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Suntech announces default with respect to 3% convertible notes
Suntech Power Holdings, a China-based solar firm, has announced that it has received from the trustee of its 3% convertible notes a notice of default and acceleration relating to...
Tuesday 19 March 2013
China Mobile to procure TD-LTE devices from Huawei, ZTE, Samsung
China Mobile, the only TD-SCDMA mobile telecom carrier in China, will procure TD-LTE terminal devices from Huawei Technologies, ZTE, and Samsung Electronics, and will offer two own-brand...
Monday 18 March 2013
High demand of low-cost whitebox tablet panels expected to benefit China but put strain on Taiwan
Whitebox tablet vendors, most of whom are based in China, are increasingly using TN panels from China-based panel makers in their products to lower costs. This is putting pressure...
Monday 18 March 2013
First-tier vendors to supply more notebook models with no OS
Several first-tier notebook brand vendors including Lenovo have reportedly been raising their shipment proportions of models without an operating system (OS) to attract consumers,...
Monday 18 March 2013
Everlight Electronics tapping China LED lighting market
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Everlight Electronics has begun to tap the China market for its own-brand LED lighting products through setting up a marketing subsidiary in Shanghai...
Monday 18 March 2013
Digitimes Research: Smartphone sales to reach 329 million in China in 2013
There will be 329 million smartphones sold in the China market in 2013, hiking 67.0% from 2012 due to large growth in the total number of 3G subscribers, while sales of feature phones...
Monday 18 March 2013
MediaTek to see revenues rally 50% sequentially in March
MediaTek is expected to see its revenues surge 50% sequentially to over NT$9 billion (US$302.4 million) in March, powered by shipments of its quad-core MT6589 smartphone solutions,...
Monday 18 March 2013
ARM Greater China to enjoy double-digit shipment growth across several product lines
ARM's Greater China president Allen Wu expects the company's shipments of products such as application processors, embedded applications and micro controller units (MCU) in the Greater...
Monday 18 March 2013
Incredible: Suntech fails to pay back loans but share price increases by 4%
There is a Chinese saying: observing flowers in the fog. It simply means people aren't seeing things clearly. This is how I feel about the recent events unfolding at Suntech, a China-based...