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PC Vendors to Raise Retail Prices in 3Q17
Apr 30, 2019PC vendors, in order to reflect continual hikes in component costs, including display panels, DRAM, SSDs, Li batteries, plan to raise retail prices when new models equipped with revised Kaby Lake processors are launched in the third quarter ...
Tags: PC, SSD, PC component
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China LED Industry Recovering
Jul 5, 2017As demand for LED end devices has resumed growth amid shortages of LED chip supply, China's LED makers have recently begun expanding their capacities and local governments are also planning new subsidy and investment programs to assist the ...
Tags: LED chip, LED packaging
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Industrial Robot Makers Expanding Capacity
Feb 27, 2017Worldwide robot makers have been expanding their capacity recently with Germany-based Kuka cooperating with the China-based Midea Group to expand its capacity in Europe and China. Meanwhile, Japan-based Yaskawa has also increased investment ...
Tags: Industrial Robot, Robot
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PC Industry Expected to Stabilize in 2017
Feb 9, 2017With AMD ready to release Ryzen CPUs and Vega GPUs, sources from the upstream supply chain expect the PC industry to stabilize and see a less than 5% on-year shipment drop in 2017, while PC and related component sales in the first quarter ...
Tags: PC Industry, CPU
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Can Micro-LED Challenge LCD&OLED Market Position?
Nov 20, 2016Apple’s developments in the market are a hot topic in the technology industry, market rumors that next generation iPhones would be using OLED displays ushered in a large wave of investments in the sector in China. OLED, which was a ...
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VR Players Pushing Into China Market
Oct 8, 2016As demand for VR-related experiences continues to grow and the China government has been aggressively pushing establishment of VR industry alliances, players including High Tech Computer (HTC), Intel, AMD, Nvidia and ARM have all increased ...
Tags: VR industry, VR device
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Rising Demand Causing Components Shortages
Sep 29, 2016With demand for notebooks stronger than expected and notebook component suppliers conservative about their shipments, several components including panel, battery and solid state drive (SSD), reportedly are suffering from shortages, ...
Tags: Notebook, Solid State Drive
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Smartphone Vendors Crossing Into Notebook Market
Jul 19, 2016China-based Huawei and Xiaomi have entered the notebook market and Korea-based smartphone brand vendors Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are also releasing products for the market. Sources from the upstream supply chain have commented ...
Tags: Smartphone, Notebook
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The Next Apple Launch Could Be Here As Soon As July
Mar 23, 2016We’re just hours on from yesterday’s Apple keynote, but the product train keeps rolling. Apple is planning to launch new devices as soon as July, a new report claims. It’s said that Apple will show off two new MacBooks ...
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China Vendors Pushing Into 2-in-1 Market
Mar 6, 2016With assistance from Microsoft and Intel, China-based brand vendors and white-box players have been aggressively pushing new 2-in-1 devices recently. In addition to Huawei's MateBook and Haier's 2-in-1 devices, white-box players are ...
Tags: white-box players, Huawei, Acer, notebooks
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Notebook Players to Expand Into Non-PC Market
Jan 13, 2016With the notebook market expected to continue seeing a single-digit percentage shipment decline in 2016, brand vendors and ODMs are expected to become more aggressive pushing into the Internet of Things (IoT) sector to boost their non-PC ...
Tags: notebook market, Non-PC Market
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Motherboard Vendors Score Points in Graphics Cards
Nov 1, 2015Taiwan-based vendors Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) and China-based vendor Colorful Technology have seen shipment and profit growths from marketing bundled motherboards and graphics in the China's DIY PC market, ...
Tags: Motherboard, Graphics Cards
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Desktop Shipments in 2015 Expected to Fall 15%
Oct 25, 2015Global desktop shipments are expected to decline 15% on year in 2015 and some brand vendors may see their shipments drop over 20% as demand from emerging markets such as China was weaker than expected, while Windows 10's free upgrade plan ...
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Notebook vendors gearing up to push new 2-in-1s
Sep 30, 2015Notebook brand vendors including Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell are preparing to launch their new Skylake-based 2-in-1 devices starting October and expect these devices to attract consumer demand to help boost ...
Tags: Notebook, Computer, 2-in-1 devices
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China Tablet Makers Seeking for Other Applications
Aug 17, 2015China-based tablet supply chain makers such as Holitech, Shenzhen DPT-Touch and Silead, in view of decreasing orders from China-based white-box vendors, have been seeking orders for other applications such as smartphones, industrial ...
Tags: smartphones, automotive devices