Transcend, ADATA, and Silicon Power Have Moderate Sales for Samsung's New Plant
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Samsung Electronics will build a US$14.7 billion semiconductor plant in South Korea, which will be used to construct chips used in mobile devices. However, the third quarter should be a good business period of time for DRAM and NAND firms, but having influenced by Samsung's expansion, Transcend, ADATA, Apacer, and Silicon Power have moderate sales...
MediaTek Becomes the Supplier of Cube T7
TAIPEI, Taiwan — More and more tablets are powered by MediaTek's 64-bit octa-core processor, the latest Cube T7 is no exception, which also offers LTE and relies on the MediaTek MT8752 for the processing needs. This is a new chipset, that's supposed to be a tablet version of the MT6752, that was found on smartphones...
Global Petrochemical Prices Fell 3% in September
According to Platts’s PGPI report, prices in the $3-trillion-plus global petrochemicals market continued to fall in September, following the drop in upstream energy prices. The PGPI is a benchmark basket of seven widely used petrochemicals and is published by Platts...
The Growth in APAC Unified Communications On-Premise Infrastructure to Slow Down
IDC finds the Asia/Pacific excluding Japan Unified Communications (UC) On-Premise Infrastructure market grew 1% year-on-year (YoY) in the first half of 2014. The market is expected to grow to US$3.9 billion in 2018, at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4...
Gartner:Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 0.5% in Q3
Worldwide PC shipments reached 79.4 million units in the third quarter of 2014, a 0.5 percent decline from the third quarter of last year, according to Gartner, Inc. “Growth in the mature markets was offset by a decline in shipments in emerging markets, similar to what was seen in the second quarter of 2014,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner...
HTC Debuts RE Action Camera in New York
TAIPEI, Taiwan — HTC unveiled an action camera RE in New York on Wednesday that allow users to create photos and videos more easily. RE takes 16MP images, 1080p/30fps video, 4x slow-motion 720p video and time-lapse recording, and features a 1/2...