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Huawei Result 01/04/2015

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 Result 01/04/2015

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

CPT Result 01/04/2015

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 to Sell Egyptian TV Stake

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

Putman: UltraHD Spells End of 1920 x 1080 Sets

Pete Putnam

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

Russia Carries Weight in East Europe Pay-TV Market

Pay-TV revenues in Eastern Europe will climb 45% from 2010 ($5 million) to 2020 ($7.3 million), according to a forecast by Digital TV Research. However, most of that increase has already taken place and revenues will only climb 17% from 2014 to 2020 (although that is still more than $1 billion). Digital pay-TV revenues will … Read more

Toshiba Awarded Prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award

Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. (TAIS), a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, today announced it has been awarded with a Red Dot Award for product design for two of its products, the Toshiba Chromebook 2and the Portégé® Z20t. As one of the world’s largest and most distinguished design competitions, this annual and international award recognizes an … Read more

APAC Touch Panel Market is Expected to Reach $ 13.48 Billion, Asia-Pacific, by 2020

According to a new report published by ApacMarket.com, the APAC Touch Panel Market (Technology, Application and Country) – Market Size, Asia-Pacific Trends, Company Profiles, Analysis, Opportunities, Segmentation and Forecast, 2013 – 2020, the Asia-Pacific touch panel market is expected to reach $13.48 billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 12.8% during 2014 – 2020. With … Read more