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Samsung Electronics posted strong second-quarter results, matching its South Korean competitor LG Electronics with growth in handset sales. The company, which makes a wide range of electronics, said it expects
Read more >>LG Electronics appeared to buck the second-quarter doldrums with a record net profit and an increase in mobile phone shipments. The results were much brighter than numbers from Nokia and Sony Ericsson, which ea
Read more >>Apple and Research In Motion took in a disproportionate share of the handset industry's operating profits last year relative to their worldwide market share, according to an analysis by Deutsche Bank analy
Read more >>Compal Communications shipped 4.7 million handsets in the second quarter of 2009, bringing the total handset shipments for the first half of 2009 to 9.03 million units, according to a Chinese-language Economic
Read more >>While PND and in-dash navigation device sales continue to suffer from the economic recession, handset-based turn-by-turn navigation is boosted by the rapidly growing smartphone segment. ABI Research expects the
Read more >>Taiwan-based Largan Precision has reported self-estimated consolidated revenues of NT$646.8 million for June, the highest monthly level so far in 2009 mainly due to booming shipments of 3-megapixel lens kits fo
Read more >>Protection component maker Polytronics Technology has begun shipments of a new line of SLD circuit protection devices used in lithium batteries to a handset vendor. Monthly shipments are expected to increase fr
Read more >>Handset keypad and flexible PCB maker Ichia Technologies posted consolidated revenues of NT$3.96 billion (US$120.36 million) in the first half of 2009, up 10.6% from a year earlier, the Chinese-language Economi
Read more >>Nvidia has reportedly landed orders for its Tegra chip from some of the top-five brand handset vendors, according to market sources in Taiwan.
Read more >>PCB maker Ichia Technologies has reported consolidated June revenues of NT$675 million (US$20.52 million), up 21.4% from May, and revenues from FPCBs totaled NT$331 million, up 21.2% sequentially. Career Techno
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