- PTI acquires land for expansion despite global economic woes
Packaging and testing house Powertech Technology (PTI) has injected NT$327 million (US$9.79 million) to acquire land, according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). PTI chairman DK Tsai remarked...
- SIA forecasts 5.5% decline for global semiconductor sales in 2009
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) released its annual forecast of global semiconductor sales, projecting the first decline in sales since 2001. The forecast projects 2008 sales of US$261.2 billion, a 2.2%...
- Global chip sales forecast to drop 5.6 percent in 2009
(Reuters)
Reuters - Global semiconductor sales will fall in 2009, the first decline in eight years, as the financial crisis takes its toll on consumer spending, a chip industry trade group forecast on Wednesday, sending a key...
- HP Creates Global Online Consumer Support Community
As part of its efforts to offer consumers an unparalleled technical support experience, HP today announced a series of new and updated programs designed to help consumers get answers to questions quickly and...
- Global semiconductor market to contract in 2008, iSuppli predicts
Amid rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global economy and electronics value chain, iSuppli now is predicting worldwide semiconductor revenues will decline in 2008 compared to 2007.
- Technology nonprofit cools down, speeds up with HP Adaptive Infrastructure: TechSoup Global saves time, money, and space using the HP BladeSystem and VMware
TechSoup Global enabled the creation of a next-generation data center through server consolidation and virtualization by trading in old servers, install HP BladeSystem and VMware virtualization software, and integrate...
- Acer ranks number one vendor in global 3Q08 consumer notebook market, says paper
Acer was ranked number one among global consumer notebook vendors in the third quarter this year with shipments of 5.04 million units, surpassing Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) 4.85 million units, according to a...
- Global chip makers eye sales drop in 2009
(Reuters)
Reuters - Global sales of semiconductors are likely to fall 2.2 percent in 2009 due to weak demand for electronics worldwide, industry group World Semiconductor Trade Statistics said on Tuesday, reversing its May...
- Global chip makers lower 2009 sales outlook
(Reuters)
Reuters - The global semiconductor market is likely to shrink by an annual 2.2 percent in 2009, industry group World Semiconductor Trade Statistics said on Tuesday, reversing its May forecast of 5.8 percent growth.
- Sun Microsystems Aligns Business with Global Economic Climate and Amplifies Growth Opportunities Across Open Source Platforms
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a series of changes designed to align its cost model with the global economic climate and accelerate the introduction of compelling open source innovations. As...
- IBM Unveils Resources To Help Entrepreneurs Innovate And Go Global To Ignite Economic Growth
Entrepreneurs aren’t standing still, even during uncertain economic times. To help them tap the global marketplace, grow, and harness new, intelligent technologies to their competitive advantage, IBM today announced...
- Global IT spending will grow in 2009, but not by much, says IDC
Worldwide spending on information technology will slow significantly in 2009 as a direct result of the global financial crisis that began in September 2008. According to a newly revised forecast from IDC, worldwide IT...
- Global and white-box netbook vendors facing difficulty entering the China market
Global first-tier vendors are being met with stiff competition in the China market as local brands, such as Hasee, have launched netbook products with similar specifications, but lower prices.
- Global RFID market to reach US$5.3 billion this year, says ABI Research
The worldwide RFID market will exceed US$5.3 billion in 2008, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Annual revenue growth will increase over the next five years, accelerating over the mid-term as high-growth,...
- Sun Microsystems Launches Social Networks to Connect Global Education Communities
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the launch of two social networking portals especially designed to connect and empower the global education community. The new EduConnection.org community serves...
- Global LCD panel revenues grow 2% in September, says DisplaySearch
Worldwide LCD panel shipment revenues grew 2% to US$6.5 billion in September, with the gap between the top-two players, Samsung Electronics and LG Display, narrowing, according to DisplaySearch.
- CyberLink focuses 2009 business operation on increasing global market share
CyberLink is not optimistic about its business operation in 2009 because of the uncertainty caused by the global financial crisis but will lay emphasis on expanding its global market share through capitalizing on its...
- HP, MTV and mtvU Announce Team Latin America as Winner of 'Engine Room' Global Digital Challenge
Next up, MTV and HP challenge artists to design notebook PC
- Intel says global investment plans on track
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chip giant Intel Corp's chief executive said on Tuesday that its investments around the world are proceeding as originally planned, but that some disruption from the global financial crisis was unavoidable.
- Silitech handset keypad shipments not affected by global financial crisis
Silitech Technology expects its revenues to continue to grow in the fourth quarter of this year as its shipments of handset keypads have continued to move forward without being disrupted by the current economic...
- Value of global PCB output to see 6.5% decline in 2009, says Prismark
Research firms Prismark and NTI were invited by the Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA) to deliver speeches during a PCB managers meeting on October 23. At the event Prismark forecast the value of global PCB...
- Appeals committee to overrule NCC block on CHT equity investment in Global Mobile, say sources
An appeal committee under Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) has reportedly decided to override a previous NCC decision in March that rejected Chunghwa Telecom's planned investment of NT$150 million...
- Worsening global economic problems push down LCD panel prices, says WitsView
According to WitsView's panel price survey for the second half of October, in the monitor segment, which is already relatively saturated (more than a 90% market penetration rate), panel prices dropped by 5-6% (US$5)....
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