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Mobo and chipset makers upbeat about a price war between Intel and AMD
June 14, 2006 – 11:28 AM
Taiwan-based motherboard and chipset makers are optimistic that the upcoming price war between Intel and AMD will drive up demand in the PC market.
LED makers eye large-size panel backlighting amid falling margins
May 27, 2005 – 11:17 AM
With oversupply and increased competition dragging down the prices for handset keypad-use blue LEDs by an average of 50 percent annually over the past five years, Taiwan LED makers are eying new market segments, such as LEDs for 15- and 17" monitor-panel backlighting in order to boost their margins, according to LED maker Unity Opto Technology.
Notebook makers scramble for CPU supply
October 3, 2006 – 10:25 AM
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 industry sources.
LCD monitor makers have slow May, but optimistic about 2H
June 13, 2005 – 4:26 PM
Though most LCD monitor makers posted declining shipments last month on seasonal effects, makers are still optimistic about the outlook for the second half of 2005.
Mobo makers do not expect dual-core CPUs to boost sales
May 16, 2005 – 11:17 AM
Although the expected buzz at the upcoming Computex Taipei 2005 show from May 31 to June 4 will be the competing dual-core desktop CPU offerings from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), motherboard vendors have warned that the new processors may not help motherboard sales in the short-term.

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Mobo Makers Try Again with Intel's 925X and 915P Chipsets
August 10, 2004 – 1:01 PM in AMD/ATI
Heat problems associated with the 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 mired our first pre-retail launch tests of Intel's Socket 775 with DDR2 memory. Now that board makers have had over six weeks to work the kinks out, we look again at how mobos take the heat from Intel's 925X and 915P chipsets.

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