Asustek Computer Inc. (ASUS brand) of Taiwan recently launched the ZenWatch 2, a stylish and personalized wearable device powered by Android Wear and produced in partnership with Google. The watch is part of the PC vendor's efforts to become a major player in the global smart-device market. ASUS said that the ZenWatch 2 is a precision watch that serves as a smart companion to Android smart...

Flexible displays are not only spawning a spate of applications and revolutionizing the display market, but also an increasingly important segment of overall display market revenues, according to a new report from IHS Inc., the leading global source of critical information and insight. In fact, IHS says, flexible displays are expected to comprise 15 percent of the total display market revenue ...

Global shipments of LCD TV panels in June fell 0.5 percent month-on-month (MoM), but increased 7.9 percent year-on-year (YoY), to total about 22.6 million units; while accumulated TV-panel shipments in the first six months reached 132.3 million units, meeting 52.5 percent of the year's total LCD TV panel demand that is estimated at 252 million units, according to WitsView Technology Corp., a LCD ...

The lackluster demand for information technology (IT) panels, especially from the notebook PC segment, has been increasing inventory pressure on thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) suppliers. Lacking clear signs of a demand recovery from IT applications, some Taiwanese panel maker have decided to lower their capacity-utilization ratios by 5% to 10% in third quarter to restore th...

Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) recently announced its partnership with the domestic Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has led the world to develop technology to recycle scrap liquid crystal, whose annual production value in Taiwan from recycling waste thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels is estimated at least NT$400 million (US$13.3 mi...

Some 19,926 projectors were sold in Taiwan in the first quarter of 2015 (Q4, 2014: 21,898 units), down 11.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) and 9.0 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ), according to statistics released by IDC Taiwan, the local subsidiary of the global provider of market intelligence. Ray Lin, associate market analyst, PC & Peripherals Group of IDC Taiwan, attributes the sales decli...

For branded media tablets, or tablet PCs, the year 2015 is off to a rocky start. For the first time since inception, the popular consumer item experienced its largest quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decline to date of 35 percent, in the first quarter, according to ABI Research, a market intelligence company specializing in global connectivity and emerging technology. In addition, tablet PCs exper...

Market rumors being reported in media say that MediaTek Inc. of Taiwan, recognized as the largest cellphone chipset supplier in Asia, may merge leading graphic IC design company Nvidia Corp. of the U.S. to jointly tap the lucrative automotive application market, on which MeidaTek has declined to comment. Some institutional investors say that the telematics infrastructure makes essential the AP...

With increasingly fierce competition among the six major IoT (Internet of Things) alliances, Taiwan's two high-profile personal computer (PC) vendors, Acer Inc. (Acer brand) and Asustek Computer Inc. (Asus), have each chosen to join different camps to tap more lucrative business opportunities in Smart Home, telematics etc. segments. Acer has joined Intel's team, while Asus has chosen Qualc...

Global shipments of 4K, or UHD (Ultra High Definition), LCD TV panels grew nearly 400 percent year-on-year (YoY) to reach 4.7 million units in the first quarter of 2015, with volume barely dropping from the seasonally strong fourth quarter of 2014, and especially strong demand in China during the Chinese New Year holiday season, according to IHS Inc. However, IHS said, growth for the rest ...