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Coretronic BLU Shipments Grow 20% YoY

by Helen Vince

Coretronic ended 2014 with a 20% increase in shipments of backlight units (BLUs), with volume reaching 92.9 million units. This was despite seeing shipments fall 11% sequentially in Q4 to 23.4 million and 2% …

Tags:Coretronic| DLP Projectors| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| large displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Small & Medium Displays| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Innolux Records Flat Performance in 2014

by Helen Vince

Innolux reported just a 1.4% increase in sales in 2014 from the previous year, reaching NT$428.7 billion ($13.5 billion). The result came after sales in December were flat month on month at NT$38.2 billion …

Tags:Financial Data| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

UMC Reports December Sales Increase

by Helen Vince

United Microelectronics (UMC) reported sales of NT$12.2 billion ($384.8 million) in December, up 5.8% from November and 23.2% higher than December 2013. Last month’s result brought sales for the year to NT$140 billion ($4.4 …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UMC| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Pegatron Confident About Apple Oders

by Helen Vince

Pegatron has said it is confident that shipments to Apple in 2015 will not decrease, despite concerns that the company will lose orders to Wistron and Compal Electronics now that they have become additional …

Tags:Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Lenovo to Buy Compal’s JV Stake?

by Helen Vince

Reports from Taiwan suggest that Lenovo is considering buying Compal’s 49% stake in their joint venture OEM business, LCFC (Hefei) Electronics Technology. LCFC started production at the end of 2012, primarily undertaking OEM production …

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Asustek Sees Rise in Q4 Sales

by Helen Vince

Asustek reported a strong performance in Q4, driven by steady demand for its smartphones and notebooks. The company’s turnover for the quarter rose 5.4% year on year to NT$137.7 billion ($4.4 billion), taking turnover …

Tags:Asus| Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 04

Hannstar’s 2014 Sales Fell 25%

by Helen Vince

Hannstar Display reported a 24.7% drop in sales for 2014, falling to NT$23.7 billion ($748.2 million). In December, sales of NT$2 billion ($63.1 million) were 1.8% lower than November but 5.2% higher than December …

Tags:Financial Data| Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Christie Partners with Sahara

by Helen Vince

Christie has signed a new partnership agreement with Sahara Benelux which will distribute Christie’s range of displays in the Netherlands and Belgium. Sahara Benelux will offer Christie’s full range of products, including flat screens, …

Tags:Christie| Distributors| Europe| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Taiwan ICT Products Come into Focus at CES

by Helen Vince

The prestigious COMPUTEX d&i awards, executed by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) in cooperation with the International Forum Design (iF), revisited Las Vegas, the United States for International CES. Las Vegas is …

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Eizo Adds Russian Distributor

by Helen Vince

Eizo has added Comptek to its network of distributors in Russia.

Tags:Distributors| Eizo| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Samsung to Reduce Smartphone Line-up

by Helen Vince

In the same week that Samsung forecast its first fall in annual profit for three years, the company also unveiled plans to streamline its smartphone line-up, cutting new releases this year by 25-30% from …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 02

AUO’s 2014 Sales Fell 2% YoY

by Helen Vince

AU Optronics (AUO) saw sales for 2014 fall 2% year on year to NT$408.2 billion ($12.8 billion), though in December and the final quarter of the year, sales improved slightly YoY. AUO’s sales in …

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