...oted that it is still too early to tell whether supply will be enough to feed demand. They generally believe shortages will only be solved when fresh capacity becomes available from 2009.
More her...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 08:34
...LCD panel is not necessarily a bad thing for the industry as this may possibly lead to earlier-than-expected shortages in 2009. Chiu indicated that shipments in August will be better than July, and st...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 09:20
...o planning to follow suit and will push out free netbook bundles as soon as the company solves its processor shortages , according to sources at telecommunication vendors.
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Friday, August 08, 2008 10:01
...ny, contract and spot market prices are expected to remain high throughout the third quarter amid consistent shortages . Contract prices for solar cells are above $3/W and spot market prices are at $3....
Friday, August 08, 2008 09:55
...in to a selected group of resellers, telling them to load up with iPods and certain Macs, a sign of upcoming shortages in the distribution channel ahead of a product. With new iPods apparently just ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008 14:20
...ts during pre-order period, leaving virtually no handset supplies for launch day). Analysts think that these shortages are sign of unexpectedly high demand that could contribute to the fourth quarter ...
Monday, July 21, 2008 15:35
...the carrier still signed up customers who will receive the handset with the next iPhone shipment. Unexpected shortages after just three days may indicate that Apple underestimated the demand (RBC's Ab...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:53
...rs or more. About 150 people were reported to have waited in line in front of Apple’s London flagship store. Shortages are reported on a global basis: Apparently, must consumers are buying the more ex...
Friday, July 11, 2008 08:15
...ch pressure. The IPC industry's lower volumes and high variety are said to have minimized the possibility of shortages .
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Monday, July 07, 2008 09:53
...n a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash
memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for competitors,
Apple has ordered 50 million flash memory chips for its iPhones...
Thursday, July 03, 2008 16:09
...segments, but they are seeing weaker-than-expected demand from clients whose production is being impacted by shortages of components, including processors and batteries, the sources said.
More her...
Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:12
...80% expressed concern that global warming will cause worse storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and water shortages while 68% pointed to flooding of major cities, 64% to less tourism and 57% to inc...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 14:17
...hipments growth in 2008, with shipments of Eee PCs expected to surpass five million units, despite component shortages and rising cost concerns, according to company president Jerry Shen speaking duri...
Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:56
Intel's upcoming G45 and G43 IGP chipsets are expected to see shortages in the third quarter due to a recent switch in Intel's production allocation, according to sources at motherboards makers.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 09:40
... leading up to the
World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June. Apple has been
confirming sudden iPhone shortages in the U.S. and UK over weekend,
which leads some to believe that we might...
Monday, May 12, 2008 11:16
...eports, left Intel unable to meet demand. Asustek Computer president Jerry Shen recently said he expects the shortages will persist until September this year.
More here at Digitimes.
...
Friday, May 02, 2008 09:43
... units rolled out per month, North America gets around 720,000. Related: >Best Buy reportedly faking Wii shortages >Wii shortage turns attention to Chinese ''Vii''...
Friday, April 25, 2008 09:42
...ystation 3 and Xbox 360, reaching its highest monthly sales since Christmas. Despite continued console shortages , hardware sales rose likely because of the release of Super Smash Bros Brawl.&nbs...
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:20
...wer this year and starting from the second or third quarter, color filter (CF) and glass substrates may face shortages , according to LCD component makers. In the past, panel makers have aimed to drop ...
Monday, March 03, 2008 09:01
...aming. Best Buy noted that the lower revenues in video gaming were due to “industry-wide temporary inventory shortages in the United States during January”.
“The macro-economic environment grew more...
Friday, February 15, 2008 07:28
...video gamers are critical for HD success Despite the delay and product shortages initially, Sony was able to pump millions of the console into the market. And sur...
Monday, February 11, 2008 21:00
...nk in the top 10, with sales of nearly 312,000 units. Release date mix-ups at retailers and nationwide shortages have caused sales for the ambitious rhythm game to be underwhelming....
Friday, December 14, 2007 07:15
The printed circuit board (PCB) market may see shortages in 2008 as expansion plans of makers in China are being hindered by tough regulations concerning waste water control, according to industry sou
Monday, December 03, 2007 09:25
...showed minimal interest in 32" PDP TVs in the past, the growing demand for PDP TV amid the LCD TV panel shortages , has prompted Samsung SDI to evaluate related offerings, according to industry so...
Friday, November 16, 2007 08:08
Best Buy's latest tactic is apparently to announce the availability of "the last Wii" at multiple sporadic times throughout the day to create a false sense of limited supply. Pinceton (
Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:14
... highest-end silican solar cells are about 41% efficient. Current reports are coming in that there are shortages of solar silicon. And many analysts believe the 30-40% growth rate is unrea...
Monday, November 12, 2007 11:44
In second half of 2007, increasing notebook shipments have caused component shortages including batteries and panels, but according to Jerry Shen, general president of Asustek's AOOP Business Grou
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 09:07
... components for use in half-height DVD burners has been running tight since the second quarter of this year, shortages have now extended to the DVD-ROM and slim DVD burner segments, according to indus...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 09:32
...f the monitor market up for a prolonged fall in 2008, research firm iSuppli is warning. Six months of supply shortages and price increases have boosted LCD panel manufacturers' profit margins to r...
Thursday, October 04, 2007 09:16
The NAND flash controller IC market has shown signs of a rebound in September amid easing of shortages of the memory type, but price wars among Taiwan-based controller suppliers remain an issue, accor
Friday, September 21, 2007 09:30
... the middle of the second quarter of 2008 with the LCD monitor panel segment experiencing the most intensive shortages among all applications, according to panel makers. Although the LCD monitor and n...
Thursday, September 13, 2007 09:03
...lectronics could lead to NAND flash supply falling as much as 20% below demand, recent estimates suggest the shortages are already starting to slow prompting sources at downstream makers to narrow the...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 09:35
... which resulted in many people who did not get a Wii or a PS3 eventually opted for the Xbox. Even today, Wii shortages continue to stunt the potential sales growth of the console. Source: NPD Despi...
Saturday, August 25, 2007 09:44
...been delayed, according to Taiwan-based component makers. With the delay of its plans, any easing of the Wii shortages in the worldwide market is unlikely to be seen in the second half of 2007, said t...
Friday, August 17, 2007 09:06
Notebook makers may find their annual shipments target for 2007 fails to meet expectations due to component shortages being observed across the board. Affected components include panels, analog ICs, b
Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:04
...rged for the hard drive industry during 2006. According to the market research firm, the industry also faced shortages of glass media, along with minor shortfalls of other components near the end of t...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:16
...,000 units of Sony’s Playstation 3. In December, when sales numbers were limited by Wii and PS3 supply shortages , Microsoft sold about 1.1 million consoles, Nintendo about 604,000 and Sony about...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 13:55
...f actually having a hot product available in sufficient numbers when the buyers are ready to buy. Because of shortages of the Xbox 360 last year, both Sony and Nintendo got a little pop, while Microso...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 18:49
...ther means or have already been sold on. This is simply amazing. At launch the Xbox 360, which suffered some shortages , got bidding of up to about $,000 on eBay. For the PS3 that's more the norm than ...
Friday, November 17, 2006 17:07
People pining for the sleek PlayStation 3 gaming console might find shortages on Ebay as well. People pining for the sleek PlayStation 3 gaming console might find shortages on Ebay as well. Th
Thursday, November 16, 2006 18:50
...e second quarter when computer demand slowed. While general inventory remains high, CPU companies are seeing shortages of some low-end and high-end notebook processors. ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 21:38
Thursday, October 12, 2006 16:11
Unexpectedly strong demand in the notebook market has resulted in CPU shortages , sending notebook makers scrambling to secure CPU supply for the fourth-quarter high season, according to industr
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 13:34
... low prices for PC microprocessors," Isuppli analyst Nam Kim said that he does not see any "near term supply shortages " in the segment. According to Kim, consumers aren't affected by higher DRAM price...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006 19:36
...eduled tri-continent launch of Sony's PlayStation 3 console, SCEA president Kaz Hirai has stated that retail shortages in each territory are inevitable. Less than three months before the scheduled tr...
Monday, August 21, 2006 19:45
...e anticipated rate. This brief, but noteworthy, delay could be the first indication that reports of possible shortages in the supply of blue-laser diodes may be accurate. ...
Thursday, July 13, 2006 21:01
It's not that Sony's choice of price for its forthcoming PlayStation 3 console wouldn't meet with some criticism; the question was, how much? Last week, in a major Japanese game magazine, the Compute
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 16:00
Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president of Intel, admitted that terminating the supply of entry-level chipsets led to Intel missing profit and market share goals.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 13:52
With motherboard makers maintaining a conservative outlook for the second quarter, a shortage of Nvidia G71 (GeForce 7900 GTX/GT) graphics chips may have emerged in both Europe and the US marke
Thursday, April 20, 2006 13:06
...r analyst P.J. McNealy of American Technology Research has stated that Microsoft's much publicised component shortages for the Xbox 360 are over, suggesting that the company is back on track to sell 1...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 23:34