- Taiwan smartphone shipments to drop slightly in 4Q on decreased iPhone 3G orders, paper says
With contract manufacturers seeing decreased orders for the iPhone 3G, Taiwan's smartphone shipments will drop 0.4% sequentially to 10.98 million units in the fourth quarter, much eclipsed by average global sequential...
- Wistron announces year-to-date profits in attempt to settle market jitters, says paper
With Wistron's stock price continuing to fall due to market concerns about the company's balance sheet, the company announced that its net profits for the first ten months in 2008 were NT$6.26 billion (US$187.39...
- 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...
- Quanta, Compal and Wistron expect on-month notebook shipments drop in November, says paper
Quanta expects notebook shipments in November to fall between the 3.3 million units shipped in September and four million units of October thanks to Apple's new MacBook and stable consumer notebook shipments,...
- White Paper: Multithreaded Application Acceleration
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- Acer chairman expects demand to recover in 2-3 months, says paper
With the global economy weakening, JT Wang, chairman of Acer, has pointed out the biggest problem is the lack of confidence in the market. But when confidence is restored, demand will start recovering, according to a...
- Foxconn Technology to benefit from Nokia switching chassis supplier, says paper
Benefiting from Nokia's switch of its handset chassis supplier from Catcher Technology to Foxconn Technology, Foxconn Technology is expected to see on-quarter revenues growth in the fourth quarter this year, according...
- Quanta might cut component orders to Foxconn, says paper
Due to Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) aggressive deployment into the notebook OEM market, including taking orders for Apple's MacBooks from Quanta Computer, Quanta is considering canceling part of...
- Sunrex and Chicony expect keyboard shipments in 4Q08 to hold level, says paper
Taiwan-based notebook keyboard supplier Sunrex Technology expects its keyboard shipment sin the fourth quarter this year to maintain at 13-14 million units, the same level as in the third quarter. 15-18% of shipments...
- Wistron to hire more R&D personnel, says paper
Although many players in the IT industry are cutting back workforces or suspending hiring processes, Wistron has decided to expand the personnel for research and development (R&D), aiming at recruiting more than 1,000...
- HTC Fuze competiting with iPhone and BlackBerry Bold in US market, says paper
AT&T's recent launch of HTC Fuze, the first HTC-branded smartphone sold through the US telecom services provider, will bring HTC to compete directly with Apple and RIM (Research in Motion) in the US smartphone market,...
- Apple and Asustek reduce notebook outsourcing by 20-30% in 4Q08, says paper
Apple and Asustek Computer recently reduced their notebook outsourcing for the fourth quarter this year by 20-30% impacting the two vendors' main OEM partners Quanta Computer and Pegatron Technology, according to a...
- LCD panel makers may suspend operations at some fabs, paper says
Some LCD panel makers are mulling the options of suspending operations at some of their fabs if utilization rates drop below 50% by the end of this year, according to the Chinese-language
- Clevo expects notebook shipments in 2009 to grow 15-20% on year, says paper
Second-tier notebook maker Clevo has already shipped 1.14 million notebooks in the first three quarters of this year and is optimistic that its fourth quarter shipment will maintain at 120,000 units. The company also...
- HTC to ship Android G1 phones to Asia-Pacific markets in 1H09, says paper
High Tech Computer (HTC) will begin to ship Android-based G1 phones to clients in the Asia-pacific region in the first half of 2009, the Chinese-language
- Macronix shipping mask ROM chips for Nintendo's DSi gaming machines, says paper
Macronix International Company (MXIC) has begun to ship mask ROM chips for Nintendo's portable DSi gaming machines, making it the first Taiwan maker to benefit from the launch of new hand-held gaming consoles,...
- Vodafone places mid-range handset orders with Foxlink, says paper
Vodafone has signed a cooperation agreement with Foxlink (Cheng Uei Precision Industry) for the purchase of a significant quantity of mid-range handsets, according to a Chinese-language
- Flextronics lays off employees in Taiwan, says paper
Singapore-based EMS provider Flextronics International has is reportedly laid off around 70 employees at its Taiwan office, while a further cutback is expected in the near future, according to a Chinese-language
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