- Intel says Q4 forecast revision final
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Reuters - Intel Corp's cut in its fourth-quarter revenue outlook earlier this month was the final revision by the world's top computer chip maker, which is grappling with weakening demand, Chairman Craig Barrett said...
- PCB industry to fall 15-25%, says NPC
Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC) has forecast PCB industry sales are to fall 15-25% in the fourth quarter due to decreased retail demand for IT and communications products in the US. Institutional investors expect...
- LG Display stays on top in large-size LCD unit shipments in October, says Displaybank
LG Display (LGD), which climbed to the top in terms of unit shipments to the large-size LCD panel segment in September 2008, was the only one of the top-four makers to show an increase in shipment volume in October,...
- Chip market enters into its 11th industry recession, says Future Horizons
Despite the fact the first half of 2008 was stronger than many predicted, the relentless deterioration in the global financial markets has finally tipped the global economy into recession. Not surprisingly, it has...
- 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...
- Blu-ray Disc Combo drives to go mainstream in 2009, BD burners in 2011, says Lite-On IT
Blu-ray Disc Combo drives will be the mainstream PC-use BD drive format in 2009 and BD burners will become the mainstream format in 2011, according to Lite-On IT.
- Solar panel overcapacity expected in 2009, says The Information Network
While solar energy panel sales have and will continue to grow at a rate of about 40% per year, market research firm The Information Network indicated that several key growth drivers, including high oil prices, a...
- Blu-ray-R disc market to reach critical mass in 2009, says Ritek
Blu-ray Disc-R (BD-R) discs are expected to reach a crucial market size of 20 million units in 2009 that will give the format momentum for sharp growth thereafter, according to Ritek, one of Taiwan's leading optical...
- Chinese chip firms shift to capitalize on domestic growth, says iSuppli
After years of double-digit annual growth, China's semiconductor sales revenues in 2008 are expected to rise by only 6.7% to reach US$81.7 billion, up from US$76.6 billion in 2007, iSuppli predicts. However, China's...
- WiMAX, 3G and number portability to drive Indian wireless market in 2009, says iSuppli
Defying the global economic slowdown, India's mobile-phone demand is expected to continue to rise at an accelerated rate in 2009 due to the rollout of 3G and WiMAX networks and the implementation of mobile number...
- 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,...
- Sun CEO Says Apple Shifting to Solaris File System
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz causes a stir in the Macintosh community, saying publicly that OpenSolaris ZFS will become the file system for the Leopard version of Mac OS X. - Sun Microsystems president...
- Kodak says Samsung and LG cameraphones infringe its digital camera patents
Eastman Kodak announced that it has filed complaints against Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other related entities for infringement of Kodak patents. The Kodak actions specifically allege that Samsung and LG...
- US house pricing key to economic recovery, says TSMC chairman
Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), remarked at a conference held by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce (CNAIC) on November 14 that bringing an end to...
- Silicon wafer shipments contract by almost 3% in 3Q08, says SEMI
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments contracted almost 3% during the third quarter of 2008 compared to the second quarter, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the...
- LCD panel market to recover in 2H09, says DisplaySearch
According to DisplaySearch, the LCD panel market will start to recover in the second half of 2009, as history of the panel industry indicates that oversupply in panel market usually will not last for more than three...
- Slowing handset market weakening demand for displays, says DisplaySearch
Coming into the holiday shopping season, worldwide shipments of displays for mobile phones are slowing significantly. According to the latest forecast from DisplaySearch, mobile phone display unit shipments will only...
- Photovoltaic market to shift in buyers' favor in 2009, says iSuppli
Pricing for polysilicon used to create photovoltaic (PV) cells is expected to drop in 2009 and the following years due to fundamental imbalances in the solar supply chain, according to iSuppli.
- 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...
- LG Display, Sharp and CPT to be fined US$585 million for LCD price fixing, says US Justice Department
Three leading LCD panel makers, LG Display (LGD), Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), have agreed to plead guilty and pay a total of US$585 million in criminal fines for their roles in conspiracies to fix prices...
- 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...
- 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...
- Taiwan semiconductor industry to decline 3.9% in 2008, says IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast the global semiconductor industry will see a 1.3% on-year growth in sales, but Taiwan will see a 3.9% decline in 2008. Industrial Technology Intelligence Services...
- 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...
- North America 3Q08 TV shipments up 12% on year, says DisplaySearch
As the US economy slid deeper into turmoil at the end of the third quarter this year, preliminary shipment indications from DisplaySearch's report show that North America TV shipments from manufacturers to retailers...
- T-Mobile G1 Android handset has US$143.89 BOM, says iSuppli
The T-Mobile G1 smartphone, the first wireless handset to be based on Google Android mobile operating system, carries a bill-of-materials (BOM) cost of US$143.89, according to a virtual teardown conducted by iSuppli.
- 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...
- Blu-ray player prices may drop to US$150-200 range for holiday season, says ABI Research
The need for healthy holiday sales in a bear market, competitive pressure from movie download services, and media speculation about the future success of the Blu-ray format itself has resulted in falling Blu-ray Disc...
- 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
- 3D display market to grow quickly through 2015, says Displaybank
The 3D display market is forecasted to grow to US$15.8 billion market in 2015 from US$140 million in 2008, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) 95% for the period, according to Displaybank.
- Japan-based passive component supplier Nichicon to acquire Fujitsu's solid capacitor business, says Zenitron
Fujitsu's distributor Zenitron indicated that Japan-based Nichicon is going to acquire Fujitsu's capacitor business, while market watchers commented that the acquisition of Nichicon and Fujitsu will stabilize product...
- DRAM industry needs overhaul or will face difficulty raising funds for 18-inch wafer manufacturing, says Inotera executive
Taiwan has to overhaul its development of the DRAM industry otherwise the industry may encounter difficulties when trying to raise funds to move manufacturing to 18-inch wafers, according to Charles Kao, president of...
- LED backlit LCD TV shipments to reach 26 million in 2011, says Displaybank
LCD TV applications, which employ LEDs instead of CCFLs as a backlight source, is forecasted to break through 10 million shipments in 2010 and largely exceed the initial expectation, according to Displaybank.
- 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...
- Small- to medium-size displays market heading toward slow down, says DisplaySearch
Suppliers of small- to medium-size displays (under 10 inches in diagonal) will face a much less cheerier holiday season than last year. According to the latest forecast from DisplaySearch, small- to medium-size...
- Demand in emerging markets not as strong as expected, says IC design houses
While emerging market demand had been counted on to support global 3C product shipments in 2008 while demand from first-tier markets is weak. However, the economy of emerging countries is also weakening so 3C product...
- 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,...
- Taiwan online games market to grow to over NT$12 billion in 2010, says MIC
Total revenues of online gaming services in the Taiwan market will keep increasing to a forecast of NT$12.256 billion (US$373 million) in 2010, according to the Market Intelligence Center (MIC) under the...
- 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
- US$600 million in LCD equipment pushed out to 2009, says The Information Network
LCD panel manufacturers will have pushed out array processing equipment for TFT-LCDs by US$600 million by the end of 2008, according to The Information Network.
- Financial crisis to take US$25 billion bite out of semiconductor market in 2009, says Gartner
The economic crisis is having a significant impact on the semiconductor industry, as worldwide semiconductor revenue growth in 2009 is expected to be 1%, down by approximately 7 percentage points from previous...
- 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,...
- Analyst Says iPhone Production May Be Cut
FBR Capital Markets predicts that production of the Apple iPhone might drop more than 40 percent in the fourth quarter. - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) FBR
Capital Markets said on Monday that production of Apple Inc's...
- Worldwide PC processor market hits record shipments in 3Q08, says IDC
Worldwide PC processor shipments in the third calendar quarter of 2008 reached record levels again, according to new data from IDC. However, the outlook for the processor market in the fourth quarter this year and...
- NAND flash market faces historic downturn in 2008 and 2009, says iSuppli
Once one of the fastest-growing segments of the global semiconductor industry, the NAND flash memory market has been stricken by weakening consumer spending, causing revenues to decline in both 2008 and 2009,...
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