Dialog’s Board Supports Atmel Deal
Dialog’s Board of Directors sent out a release to highlight its support for the Atmel acquisition and recommended shareholders to vote for it. (Dialog to Buy Atmel)
HTC’s Vive win Best Accessory Prize
HTC’s Vive VR headset has won the best accessory award at the Paris Games Week. The Vive product is due to ship to developers later this year, with volume shipments in 2016. Attendance at the show was reported to be 300,000 people, second only to Germany’s Gamescom.
Tsinghua Eyeing MediaTek?
The chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup, a state-backed Chinese technology company, has said it may be interested in a tie up with Mediatek, if rules on investment from China into Taiwanese chip companies were changed. Tsinghua already owns Spreadtrum and RDA Microelectronics. Mediatek reacted by a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange a comment that it … Read more
Global LCD TV shipments grow 8% in 3Q15
Data from Taiwan analyst, Witsview, quoted by Digitimes puts the LCD TV market at 53.1 million units, while the Q4 market is forecast to be 62.2 million units, an increase for the quarter, but down on an annual basis by 7.5%. Over the year, the market for LCD TVs will hit 216 million, down from … Read more
Giantplus Buys 4G Fab from CPT
GiantPlus of Taiwan has bought a 4G production line from its parent company, Chunghwa Picture Tube (CPT) to further develop its specialty display products sales. The capacity of the fab is 60K 680 x 880mm sheets per month. Separately, CPT has been reported by the China Post to have suspended production in another 4.5G plant … Read more
Taiwan Sees Growth in Large Panel Shipments in Q3
Digitimes Research reports that large LCD sales by Taiwanese makers reached 58.63 million in Q3, up 1.2% quarter on quarter. The volume gives Taiwan a forecast market share for the year of 34.2%, with Q4 being just 32.6%. The company forecasts all sales for the year at 674 million, down 5.6% annually, with Innolux expected … Read more
Acer Re-vamping Smartphones
Acer is re-aligning its smartphone strategy to look for revenues and profit rather than share and will de-emphasise developing regions, which are already seeing fierce competition and weak demand in some, according to Taiwanese sources. Acer will limit its cost be reducing the number of planned new phone models. Separately, Acer said that it will … Read more
BT TV adds 106K TV Users
BT in the UK said that it has added 106,000 TV subscribers in Q3 2015, its best ever growth, bringing its TV customer base to 1.3 million. The company highlighted the BT Sport Europe (which has the rights to Champions League soccer in the UK) and its first UltraHD channel as positive factors. It also … Read more
BluFocus first Ultra HD Blu-ray test center in North America
BluFocus Inc., a leading testing and certification company for the home entertainment industry, announced today it has been approved as the first BDA “Ultra HD Blu-ray™” Test Center in North America for Movie Player Verification, Application Software Verification and Commercial Audiovisual Content Verification. As an approved Ultra HD Blu-ray Test Center, BluFocus will ensure that … Read more
SK Telecom to Buy CJ Hellovision
SK Telecom of Korea is to buy a 30% stake in CJ Hellovision from CJ’s parent company and 25.3% through other stock purchases to take control of the firm which is said to be the largest supplier of cable channels and internet TV in Korea. The acquisition will then be merged with a wholly-owned subsidiary, … Read more
The Advent of Wireless Power
Fresh into our new millennium (umm, that’s the next thousand years) we may finally be on the cusp of cutting the last cord. The power cable that is, at least to our most prevalent devices like smartphones and wearables, so says a new report from Navigate Research. It claims high growth in the nascent wireless … Read more
PEW Releases Technical Device Ownership Data
In a new survey, the PEW Research Center released the latest data on technical device ownership in the USA. The survey was taken in the March / April and June / July 2015 time frame and involved around two thousand adults (age 18 and older) each. The first survey asked for all devices, while the … Read more
