Vol 22 – Issue 44 – Page 7

Lenovo Makes a Portable “All in One”

by Milos Pavlovic

Lenovo has added several new products to its Yoga line of products. It has created the Yoga Home 900, a “portable all-in-one PC” and the Yoga 900 which is thinner and lighter than predecessors …

AMD Optimises for AR & VR

by Milos Pavlovic

AMD has released new software for its Radeon chips that will be, effectively, an operating system for the company’s chips when used in stand-alone applications such as A/R and V/R headsets. AMD has already …

Flex Sells Swedish Plant

by Milos Pavlovic

A Swedish contract manufacturer, Orbit One, is buying a factory in Ronneby, Sweden, from Flex. The Flex factory is very close to Orbit One’s existing facility and is said to be Flex’s last manufacturing …

Dialog’s Board Supports Atmel Deal

by Milos Pavlovic

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

by Milos Pavlovic

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 …

Tsinghua Eyeing MediaTek?

by Milos Pavlovic

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. …

Global LCD TV shipments grow 8% in 3Q15

by Milos Pavlovic

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 …

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Giantplus Buys 4G Fab from CPT

by Milos Pavlovic

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 …

Taiwan Sees Growth in Large Panel Shipments in Q3

by Milos Pavlovic

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 …

Acer Re-vamping Smartphones

by Milos Pavlovic

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 …

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BT TV adds 106K TV Users

by Milos Pavlovic

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 …

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SK Telecom to Buy CJ Hellovision

by Milos Pavlovic

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 …

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