The average annual growth of DRAM content per PC will decline to a record low of 17.4% this year says IHS. This is some way down from the peak growth year for DRAM content growth in PCs which was 56% in 2007 followed by 50% in 2008. ...
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This summer, Panasonic will launch a commercial Tablet PC developed with Microsoft. The New product is equipped with Windows 8 operating system, and positioned as a strategic commodity of the company's business. Panasonic intends to ...
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The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet have raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device? Some analysts say that Microsoft can't afford to have smashing ...
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Dell urged Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to drop the Windows brand from the tablet-based RT operating system because it thought it would lead to confusion. That's what Dell vice chairman and president of its PC arm Jeffrey Clarke told ...
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Microsoft has set the ambitious goal for Windows 8 of 400 million devices in customer hands by next July and more than 100,000 applications stocked in the Windows Store by the end of January, according to a top Microsoft sales exec. Keith ...
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Taipei,Oct.12,2012(CENS)--Acer Inc.,Taiwan-based international personal computer(PC)maker,recently announced the prices of its first Windows 8 Ultrabook,the Aspire S7,on its U.S.website,ranging US$1,200 to US$1,650 and similar to Apple`s ...
Taipei, Nov. 7, 2012 (CENS)--F-TPK, a leading touch-panel maker in Taiwan, raked in NT$9.46 per share of net profits in the third quarter and NT$26.97 per share in the first three quarters this year, the highest among listed firms, reported ...
Tags: touch-panel maker, over-the-counter market, tablet PCs and notebook PCs
Wintek Corp., a Taiwanese supplier of touch panels, cooperates with Quanta Computer to fill orders for Win8 products from brand vendors including HP, Dell, and Lenovo for the first time; along with growing design projects with Nokia, ...
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Taipei, Nov. 16, 2012 (CENS)--LED packager Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. has recently landed orders for its infrared (IR) LEDs from many mainland Chinese suppliers of touch-screen modules for Win 8 PCs. Industry executives estimated IR ...
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Recently, Everlight has enjoyed considerable business for its infrared (IR) LEDs from many mainland Chinese suppliers of touch-screen modules for Win 8 PCs. Based on these orders, industry executives estimated IR LEDs as a percentage of ...
Getting to grips with Windows RT's development environments, and converting full-strength Windows 8 apps down to its cut-down RT partner is "nuanced" work that requires "quite a lot [that developers] will need to implement specifically", ...
Tags: Microsoft, Win RT, Win 8, Wade Wegner
Taiwan LiteOn Technology Corporation has hit a two-year monthly high in September revenues, benefiting from its cloud computing server power- management and LED products. The company's PC peripherals has enjoyed new highs in sales as the ...
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Taipei, Sept. 10, 2012 (CENS)--Leading Notebook (NB) makers in Taiwan, including Quanta Computer Inc., Compal Electronics, Inc., and Inventec Corporation, recently announced compromised combined revenues in August due mainly to the ...
Nissan Motor Co. (7201), Japan’s second- biggest carmaker, and Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. (6305), the world’s largest maker of giant excavators, agreed to merge their forklift operations through a new venture. Nissan ...