Taipei, Aug. 22, 2012 (CENS)--Eying business opportunities created by the new Windows 8 operating system (OS), scheduled for release in October, Taiwan-based personal computer (PC) vendors Acer and Asus will soon launch Win 8 tablet PC models. Acer plans to launch two Windows 8 tablet PCs suppor

Taipei, Aug. 6, 2012 (CENS)--Industry executives estimated Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. and Formosa Epitaxy Inc. (FOREPI) to see monthly revenue from July to September set new highs mostly thanks to robust sales of Google Nexus 7 tablets, which adopt the two companies’ LEDs as backlights. Go

Taipei, Aug. 6, 2012 (CENS)--Industry analyst Canalys says that Apple Inc., the U.S.-based PC brand, replaced Hewlett-Packard (HP) to be the leading global PC (including tablet computers) vendor with a significant 19.4% market share in the second quarter, largely due to its release of the iPad, wit

Taipei, July 24, 2012 (CENS)--Witnessing popularity of Nexus 7, a tablet PC jointly developed with Google, Asustek Computer Inc., a globally leading PC brand vendor, has allegedly raised its overall tablet PC shipment forecast for 2012 to 5 million units from 3 million units predicted earlier, acco

Taipei, Jun. 12, 2012 (CENS)--With the global market for display panels slowly recovering, Taiwanese makers of such products and related parts are gradually recovering from severe downturns in the past months. DisplaySearch, a global display market researcher, issued its latest report indicating

With the Taiwan International Lighting Show (TILS) being held the third time this year as was the annual Innovative Product Award competition, the organizers, Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) and Taiwan Lighting Fixture Manufacturers’ Association (TLFMA), said that the competition

Taipei, May 18, 2012 (CENS)--The Lite On Group will open an operation center in Hubei Province of mainland China to tap the mainland’s thriving domestic market for optoelectronics products, according to group chairman, Raymond Soong. Soong made the statement when recently receiving the visiting

DK Signal Ltd. has been dedicated to developing and manufacturing PA speakers and systems as one of top-caliber suppliers of this kind in Taiwan. Backed by over 30 years of expertise in acoustic engineering and related technologies, the ISO9001-2000-accredited company is in a position to supply

Taipei, April 5, 2012 (CENS)--The Taiwan-based Wistron Corp., a globally leading contract manufacturer of notebook PCs by market shares, reported full-year EPS (earnings per share) of NT$4.36 for 2011 to outpace its Taiwanese counterpart Compal Electronics Inc. as the second most profitable company

Yuh Shin Electric Co., Ltd., founded in 1982, specializes in developing and producing oil-immersed transformers to civil engineering contracts, factories, etc. for electromechanical applications. Over the past few years, the company has successfully developed the 1- & 3-phase transformers for va

Taipei, March 8, 2012 (CENS)--China Steel Corp. (CSC), Taiwan's largest integrated producer of steel products, has recently been approved by the Indian government to set up a representative office in the capital New Delhi. For the past several years, CSC has been stepping up deployment of overse

Taipei, Feb. 24, 2012 (CENS)--Delta Electronics Inc., AcBel Polytech Inc., Phihong Technology Co., and Leader Electronics Inc., Taiwan’s major power-supply makers branching out into LED lighting manufacturing, estimate sales of their LED lamps to grow at am exponential rate this year. They base

Taipei, Feb. 20, 2012 (CENS)--In conjunction with the sales growth of electric vehicles (EVs) over coming years, more than 1.5 million locations to charge vehicles are expected to be available in the United States by 2017, with a total of 7.7 million locations worldwide, according to a recent repor

Taiwan’s plastic injection industry has matured and grown strong over the 30 years or so since its inception, building up a strong manufacturing ecosystem that covers almost all sectors of the industry from molds and components to machines and injected parts. Along with its wide coverage th

Anchorn Enterprise Co., Ltd., founded in 1981 in Taiwan and relocated to mainland China in 1996, excels in electronic transformer, ballast, dimmer and LED drivers. It has been certified with CE, CB, SAA, VDE, NEMKO, SEMKO, UL, CUL, PSE and ROHS. The company’s electronic devices are particularly

Taipei, Dec. 23, 2011 (CENS)--Asustek Computer Inc. Chairman Jonney Shih recently said his company will ship three to six million tablet PCs in 2012, spiking from an estimate of 1.8 million systems in 2011, in spite of unstable signal problem with Wi-Fi device inside its Transformer Prime tablets.

Taipei, Dec. 20, 2011 (CENS)--Pegatron Corp., a major EMS (electronics manufacturing services) provider based in Taiwan, has reportedly won orders for new-generation four-core tablet PCs from Chinese vendor Lenovo. Industry sources said that Pegatron is scheduled to begin shipment of such PCs to

Taipei, Dec. 8, 2011 (CENS)--Wistron Corp., one of Taiwan’s leading contract manufacturers of personal computers, has acquired orders from Asustek Computer Inc. to manufacture the latter’s medium- and low-tier tablet PCs named Eee Pad Transformer which will be launched in the first quarter of 2012.

Taipei, Dec. 5, 2011 (CENS)--Asustek Computer Inc. recently launched its Transformer Prime tablets, which are the world’s first tablet running on Android 4.0 OS, following its announced goal of competing for No.3 spot in world tablet market against Samsung. Asustek Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Taipei, Nov. 24, 2011 (CENS)--The Taiwan-based Asustek Computer Inc., a globally known PC supplier, has launched the world’s first quad-core tablet PC, dubbed Eee Pad Transformer Prime, in a bid to further increase its tablet product mix and price range so as to better hold its leading status among

Costing only US$199 and compatible with a variety of application software and services, the Kindle Fire that was launched by Amazon.com is expected to become a trendsetter in the market for tablet PCs and quickly gain leading status among non-iPad tablet PCs worldwide. With Apple and Amazon squ

Taipei, Nov. 7, 2011 (CENS)--Non-Apple manufacturers of tablet PCs will compete to roll out new gadgets in 2012 to fight against Apple’s latest iPads, underscoring the beginning of another wave of competition on the market, Taiwan’s industry executives pointed out. The manufacturers include Ace

Taipei, Nov. 2, 2011 (CENS)--Citing the latest market survey authorized by IDC (International Data Corp.), Asustek Computer Inc.’s CEO Jerry Shen stated that his company scored a 16.6% share of the European market for notebook PC in the third quarter of this year, outpacing its Taiwanese counterpar

Continually developing wind turbine manufacturing, Taiwan-based Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd., perhaps the oldest name in industrial motor making in Taiwan and world’s third-largest industrial motor manufacturer by market share, is seen as the major player in the sector on the island. Taiw

Responding to Intel’s battle cry for Ultrabook to enter the PC market, Taiwan’s Asustek Computer Inc. and Acer Inc., both globally top-five PC suppliers by market share, are ready to take on the Apple MacBook Air with Ultrabook laptops. The success of Apple’s Macbook Air, iPhone and iPad has bee

The Taiwan-based Quanta Computer Inc. sent shudders through the PC industry in the third week of September, when the world’s largest notebook PC contract manufacturer by shipment announced a layoff in its tablet PC factory in northern Taiwan, to which industry insiders attribute disappointing sales

Aeon Lighting Technology Inc. (ALT), an affiliate of server computer giant Supermicro Computer Inc., has been active in developing new applications with LED solutions.? The company has recently introduced LED candle bulbs for chandeliers embedded with Cree 3W XP-E and 3W XP-G warm white emitters

Taipei, Sept. 19, 2011 (CENS)--The chairman of Asustek Computer Inc., Jonney Shih, has been invited to address the inaugural Asia D conference, held on October 19 in Hong Kong, as the only Taiwanese on the invitation list, manifesting that Shih and his company’s achievements in technology developme

Tech-fans and geeks believe the ultimate technological and innovative achievement is to win the R&D 100 Awards, selected by an independent judging panel and editors of R&D Magazine published in the U.S. As such and once again, the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), generally seen as t

Denver Ind. Co., Ltd., founded by Kao Yuan-tang in 1972, is a leading maker in Taiwan of lathes, CNC lathes (with large spindle bore) and CNC milling machines, specializing in made-to-order machines for global buyers. Its DHK series heavy-duty precision CNC end-facing lathe with mid-mounted Z-a