Hon Hai cements spot as world's top electronics maker
Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry reported its revenue soared 61 percent in the first half of the year, cementing its position as the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer.
Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry reported its revenue soared 61 percent in the first half of the year, cementing its position as the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer.
Hitachi has sold just over 4 per cent of the outstanding stock shares in Elpida Memory, Japan's leading supplier of DRAM (dynamic-RAM) computer memory chips, Elpida said Tuesday.
Just a few months after clearing one company of charges related to its peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-sharing software, a Taiwanese court on Friday ordered executives at another one to pay fines and serve up to three years in jail.
Analysts following BenQ ahead of its takeover of Siemens's mobile phone unit weren't very happy recently: one day earlier, the Taiwanese electronics maker said its August sales fell 21 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Inventec Appliances, one of the principal suppliers of Apple's iPod music players, reported its revenue more than doubled in the first half of this year.
Sales at Quanta Computer, the world's largest notebook computer maker, rose by 23 per cent during the first half of the year on strong laptop computer sales.
Microsoft said Tuesday it acquired Teleo, a developer of services and technology that allow users to make and receive voice phone calls on their PCs via the Internet.
Rambus and contract chipmaker, United Microelectronics, have inked a licensing agreement that highlights how Rambus is finding new ways into the PC after its memory technology failed to become a global standard.
Fujitsu Siemens Computer (Holdings) on Tuesday launched a new series of high-performance, low-energy workstations based on Advanced Micro Devices' dual-core 64-bit Opteron processors.
Stock holders of Adobe Systems and Macromedia have voted in favour of plan for Adobe to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock deal expected to close later this year.
Taiwanese contract chip maker United Microelectronics (UMC) said Monday it will double its monthly shipments of cutting edge 90-nanometer chips by October due to strong demand for chips used in a broad range of devices.
Telstra plans to launch a host of new high-speed services for mobile phone users, including new video features, as part of its official 3G opening on September 5.
Taiwanese electronics maker, BenQ, has announced that its sales and net income dropped sharply during the second quarter due to weaker product pricing for some of its gadgets.
The global hard-disk drive (HDD) industry benefitted from unusually strong demand between April and the end of June, normally the weakest season for the industry, acoording to market researcher, iSuppli.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's largest contract chip maker, plans to spend $US7.5 billion on advanced chip factories in central Taiwan, according to the government.