China-based smartphone and tablet makers' influence in the IT market has been growing rapidly and according to Digitimes Research's latest figures, among the 950 million smartphones shipped globally in the first half of 2013, about 330 ...
Tags: smartphone, tablet, IT market
Samsung Electronics has cut its notebook component orders for September to about half of its original forecast and the company reportedly may also reduce its shipment forecast for 2013 to only 13 million units, compared to 13.8 million ...
Tags: Samsung, Notebook Component
Nintendo's Wii U is currently suffering from weak shipments and its quarterly shipments are even lower than those of the Wii, the previous-generation model. Seeing the issue, most third-party game developers have decided to withdraw from ...
Tags: Business Strategy, Nintendo
Apple is rumored to be ready to release its next-generation iPad and iPad mini in October, as related channel retailers have been actively managing their iPad inventories recently, which some market watchers speculate is for welcoming the ...
Tags: Channel Inventory, Apple Tablets
Several brand vendors including Samsung Electronics and Acer have released 8-inch tablets in light of the good sales performance for the 7.9-inch iPad mini and in order to avoid intense price competition with 7-inch models. However, the ...
Tags: Tablet Shipments
Rumors are circulating in Taiwan-based supply chains that production of the camera lens modules for iPhone 5S and 5C reportedly has been marred by low yield rates. Only Largan Precision has been able to achieve above-average yield rates, ...
Tags: Apple iPhones, Lens Module
China and Korea panel makers have plans to produce 48- and 49-inch TV panels in 2014 on their 8.5G lines, with some makers expected to also produce Ultra HD TV panel technology in the same sizes. Market observers believe the makers are ...
Tags: Panel Makers, Ultra HD TV Panels
Taiwan's notebook sales during the back-to-school season in 2013 may drop 20-30% compared to those in 2012 despite the fact that channel retailers and brand vendors have been aggressively promoting their PC products, according to some ...
Tags: notebook products, mobile devices
There were 90.39 million handsets sold in the China market during second-quarter 2013, slipping 0.2% sequentially but growing 41.8% on year, and 77.11 million of the units sold were smartphones, increasing 2.4% sequentially and 56.8% on ...
Tags: Smartphone, China market
Panel makers expect to see increased vehicle display shipments in 2013. Innolux is expected to tackle the high-end vehicle industry in the US and Europe, with industry estimates stating the company is likely to ship at least 14 million of ...
Tags: Panel Makers, Vehicle Display
In addition to Hewlett-Packard (HP) and IBM, Dell recently launched its latest micro-server, the PowerEdge T20, targeting small enterprises and personal studios. Since these types of businesses are more popular in the Asia Pacific region, ...
Fast-charging technologies are driving the growth of the electric vehicle recharging market, with the cumulative number of stations established worldwide expanding by a factor of more than 100 times from 2012 to 2020, according to a new ...
Notebook ODMs have recently started integrating their R&D resources from different departments and are using their idle capacity to develop tablets, smartphones or wearable devices, according to sources from the upstream supply chain. ...
Tags: Notebook, smartphones, wearable devices
Holcim Philippines Inc. will reopen this month its grinding cement plant in Mabini, Batangas that will boost the company s production by 1 million metric tons per year. Holcim Philippines chief executive Ed Sahagun said in a news briefing ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
While LCD monitor demand is expected to slip overall globally in 2013, demand in China is expected to see growth, according to market observers. The observers expect to see users in China swap out older monitor products and replace them ...
Tags: LCD Monitor, Market Demand