Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a net loss in last year's fourth quarter, weighed down by a US$120 million write-off related to its Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell product brands. Acer said on Tuesday its fourth quarter loss reached ...
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Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a net loss in last year’s fourth quarter, weighed down by a US$120 million write-off related to its Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell product brands. Acer said on Tuesday its fourth quarter loss ...
Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar has reported February consolidated revenues of NT$1.259 billion (US$42 million), representing an on-month decrease of 6.7% and an on-year decrease of 12.5%. The accumulated revenues for the first two ...
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Global smartphone shipments grew 43% annually from 490.5 million units in 2011 to a record 700.1 million units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. Samsung was the star ...
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Samsung led both the smartphone and overall handsets market in the fourth quarter, though analysts' estimates of shipments and market share varied. The South Korean company shipped 106 million handsets in the fourth quarter of which 60 ...
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Nearly 196 million smartphones and 451 million handsets were shipped during fourth-quarter 2012, according to the latest estimates from marketing anakyst firm ABI Research. This brings 2012 annual totals to 653 million smartphone and 1.6 ...
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IDG News Service - ARM showed strong growth in an otherwise weak semiconductor market, with robust demand for smartphone and tablet processors driving profit and revenue growth in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday. The ...
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While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
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Tablets and smartphones -- and users' infatuation with them -- continue to pummel the PC market. Worldwide PC shipments were flat this past quarter, just like they were for the previous six quarters before that, according to a report out ...
Tags: tablets, smartphones, PC market, users'infatuation
IDG News Service-News of weak server sales,continuing turmoil at Hewlett-Packard and the ongoing U.S.political impasse over the so-called"fiscal cliff"have not given tech industry watchers much to cheer about this week. Major IT companies ...
Tags: tech industry, HP, server sales, Microsoft, IBM, Intel
Taipei, Nov.6, 2012 (CENS)--A market research firm IDC's global NB shipments report in the third quarter shows Lenovo Group Ltd. replacing Hewlett-Packard (HP) to become the world's largest NB maker; while Taiwan's Asus Computer Inc. posted ...
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IDG News Service-Apple's iPad shipments for China nearly doubled in the third quarter,after Apple settled in July a lengthy dispute over the iPad trademark name that once threatened to ban the device from store shelves in the country. ...
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Taipei, Oct. 25, 2012 (CENS)--With robust operations, Taiwan's leading printed circuit board (PCB) manufactures, Gigabyte Technology Co. and ASRock Inc., enjoyed quarterly shipment growth of 20-40% in the third quarter. However PCB ...
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During the third quarter of 2012, leading PV module manufacturers were confronted by increasing inventory levels (from 66 to 79 days outstanding) and declining shipments (down 7%, quarter-to-quarter). This occurred because PV manufacturers ...
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A year after a flooding disaster in Thailand took out a large portion of hard disk drive production, the industry has fully recovered with shipments to the computer market expected to hit a record level this year. According to market ...
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