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Hisense has confirmed the appointment of Andreas Kretz as the company’s new VP of Hisense Europe and head of European R&D for smart TVs, tablets and smartphones. Prior to joining Hisense in February, Kretz worked for Jamdeo, a joint venture company between Hisense and Flextronics.
New vendors, new devices and greater end-user awareness will drive the 2015 worldwide wearable market to new heights, says IDC. 45.7 million units will be shipped this year, says the firm, rising 133.4% from 2014’s 19.6 million. IDC expects shipments to reach 126.1 million units by 2016, at a CAGR of 45.1%. An increased focus … Read more
A rumour circulated the web at the end of March that Microsoft would launch a new Surface tablet sporting 64-bit Windows 8.1, rather than Windows RT. Lo and behold, the Surface 3 was announced on the 1st April. The new tablet ditches the ARM processor used on the original Surface RT and Surface 2 in … Read more
34 million desktop monitors were shipped in Q4’14: an overall fall of 4.4% YoY, but 1.3% higher than IDC’s forecast. Western Europe, the second-largest monitor market worldwide, experienced positive growth of 8.4%. Vendors focusing on the consumer space, like Samsung and LG, fuelled the category. Windows XP renewals also boosted shipments in both public and … Read more
Huawei Technologies Ltd. posted a 32.7% rise in net profit last year to $4.5 billion and a 20.6% increase in turnover to $46.5 billion. Huawei’s consumer group contributed $12 billion to total turnover for the year, up 32.6% on the previous year, thanks to growing consumer demand for smartphones and particularly strong growth in emerging … Read more
E Ink Holdings Inc. posted a net profit of NT$793 million ($25.3 million) in Q4 on turnover of NT$3.7 billion ($118.2 million), which compares with a net profit in the fourth quarter of the previous year of NT$100 million ($3.2 million) on turnover of NT$4.1 billion ($131.1 million). For the year E Ink recorded a … Read more
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) reported a net loss of NT$3.6 billion ($115.2 million) on turnover of NT$56.4 billion ($1.8 billion) for last year. The company shipped 455 million small and medium sized panels, of which 160 million were for smartphone-use, a year on year improvement of almost 40%. Tablet-use panels accounted for 43 million units, … Read more
Toshiba is reported to be in talks with Egyptian home electronics company El Araby about selling 40% of its 51% stake in TV manufacturing facilities in Egypt. The two companies set up their joint venture in 2011, with El Araby taking a 49% stake to Toshiba’s 51%. The report in Digitimes claims that Toshiba wants … Read more
Quanta Computer posted a net profit in the fourth quarter of NT$5.4 billion ($172.6 million) on turnover of NT$251.6 billion ($8 billion), bringing the company’s net profit for the year to NT$18.8 billion ($600.9 million) and turnover to NT$926.3 billion ($29.6 billion).
Sony Mobile plans to ship as many as 38 million smartphones in the 2015 fiscal year (April 2015 – March 2016), according to sources in the handset supply chain. The new figure is slightly down from the 39.2 million units shipped in fiscal 2014, as Sony has shifted its focus to the mid-range and high-end … Read more
Germany’s Bundeskartellamt, an anti-monopoly regulator, has approved Media Broadcast’s business model for use with its DVB-T2 network. The company will offer pay services from commercial broadcasters in HD.
Pete Putman of HDTV Expert has predicted that the production of ‘ordinary’ (1920 x 1080) TV screens will cease by the end of 2016/2017. Quoted in the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers’ (SMPTE) Newswatch publication, Putman says that we are approaching price parity between 1920 x 1080 and UltraHD sets, with a “relatively … Read more
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