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Toshiba Corporation has published its results for the second quarter and first six months of the year, posting a net profit in Q2 of ¥21.9 billion ($190.9 million) on turnover of ¥1.7 trillion ($14.8 billion), which compares with a net profit of ¥16.2 billion ($141.2 million) on turnover of ¥1.6 trillion ($13.9 billion) in Q2 … Read more
Toshiba has rolled out a significant number of new laptops in the Satellite series, as well as two new additions to the Qosmio range. The products have 15.6″ or 17.3″ displays and range in price from €250 to €1,220 ex VAT. One products is not listed, as Toshiba had not announced specifications. It is the … Read more
Toshiba’s new professional laptop, the Portege Z20T, is a Core-M unit that takes aim at Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 and Dell’s Venue 11 Pro 7000. As a convertible model, the Z20T’s 12.5″ display can be detached and used as a tablet. In this mode it features micro-HDMI, micro-USB and micro-SD inputs. Docking will add HDMI, … Read more
Toshiba unveiled its Portege Z30-A notebook series in July, although we were not covering the product category as fully as we are now. All models in the series are thin (13.9 – 18mm) and lightweight (1.2kg), designed for business users. The Z30-A-1C is the latest to be released. Featuring 4G connectivity, the laptop also boasts … Read more
TPK said sales in October fell 50% from October 2013 to NT$11.2 billion ($372.2 million), though this was 4.9% higher than September. Sales to date increased almost 4% to NT$128.3 billion ($4.2 billion).
For the fifth year in a row, TSMC has bestowed its Partner Award on ARM, for outstanding partner performance.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) saw sales exceed NT$80 billion ($2.6 billion) for the first time in October, its fourth consecutive record monthly sales figure. Last month’s result represented a 56% year on year increase in sales and brought sales so far in 2014 to NT$621 billion ($20.3 billion), 23.5% higher than a year earlier. TSMC … Read more
TUV Rheinland (Greater China) has granted its Low Blue Light certification to Acer’s monitors – the first company to receive the accreditation worldwide. Blue light filters are used on the B6 and V6 professional models, as well the K2 consumer series. TUV’s Low Blue Light certificate is based on its 2PfG testing standard. A display’s … Read more
TV shipments climbed 4% YoY in Q3’14, following several quarters of low results – average TV shipment growth was less than 1% on both a unit and revenue basis in the first half of the year. LCD TV shipments barely compensated for falling plasma and CRT shipments. However, LCD TVs were up almost 9% in … Read more
A report on the smartphone market in the United Arab Emirates is now available at Research and Markets (http://tinyurl.com/lpfyggs). Smartphone demand in the country has risen swiftly over the last five years, especially with new lower-cost offerings and 4G services being introduced. Research and Markets’ report predicts that the UAE smartphone market (including ‘smartphones’ (sub-5″) … Read more
Los Angeles-based start-up uBeam, has secured $10 million in Series A funding to take its wireless charging system to market. The technology has been in development for three years by company founder, Meredith Perry, and was first made public in August this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 31). Perry says that there is still … Read more
Universal Display Corporation (UDC) posted a net profit of $4.3 million on turnover of $32.8 million in Q3, which compares with a net profit of $5.5 million on turnover of $32.8 million in the third quarter of last year. UDC’s net profit for the first nine months of this year increased 77.7% to $28.7 million … Read more
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