Sony's fiscal year loss has reached nearly $ 3 billion

According to foreign media reports, Sony said on Thursday that it is now forecast a loss of nearly $ 3 billion as of March this year, the current fiscal year buy electronics, more than Sony forecast three months ago has doubled, mainly due to Sony has included in the sale of Samsung LCD joint venture stake in the costs and the impact of the floods in Thailand.

Sony released this terrible prediction because it included a one-time overhead and the stronger yen exchange rate and other factors, including tax expense related to its Sony Ericsson joint venture. However, even in the absence of these costs, Sony this year is terrible laptop screen.

Well-known Walkman, of Bravia and Vaio product line, including Sony's core consumer business sector accounts for half of Sony's sales revenue. This sector in the period from October to December last year, sales dropped significantly year on year, resulting in a substantial operating loss. Sony attributed the decline in sales to decline in Japan, Europe and the United States and other major markets, intense competition and price of the television industry.

Sony released the next day announced changes in the leadership of the company earnings. Responsible for Sony's consumer products division, Hirai Kazuo Hirai will be in April this year Acer laptop screen, succeeding Howard Stringer Howard Stringer, Sony president and chief executive officer.

Four Sony this week announced earnings, The Hirai there a lot of hard work to do. October to December last year in the third quarter of fiscal year 2012, Sony laptop screen revenue of 1.82 trillion yen ($ 24 billion), down 17.4 percent. Sony during the quarter, net loss of 160 billion yen (about $ 2.09 billion), although these losses reflect the non-operational projects.




Wireless devices chip sales reached $ 58.6 billion last year

February 4 morning news, market research firm Trefis released Thursday reported that the iPhone and iPad to drive Apple's investment in chip technology, and wireless device chip sales of more than computer chips buy electronics.

According to iSuppli's report, the wireless device has become the largest consumer semiconductor market, accounting for 24% of the total global chip sales. Apple Tablet PC field of the largest semiconductor consumer, the related expenses of $ 4.6 billion, followed by Samsung (microblogging) Electronics and HTC (microblogging) $ 600 million and $ 200,000,000 laptop screen.

The Trefis Apple's price target of $ 550, including the iPhone for more than 50% of the iPad contributed about 13%. This price target of about 20% higher than Apple's current stock price.

The data show that in 2009, the wireless device chip market has more than the PC chip market, but this trend in 2010 reversed. From the point of view, this trend is strengthening.

Last year, sales of wireless equipment chips is about $ 58.6 billion, representing an increase of 14.5% over 2010. The same period in PC chip sales only grew 4% to $ 53.7 billion. Taking into LG screen account the speed of the PC market growth continues to lag behind the market of smart phones and tablet PCs, this gap is expected in the next few years will be expanded.

The iPhone and the iPad leading the growth of the entire wireless market. Interestingly, in the first quarter of fiscal year 2012 earnings conference call, Tim Cook, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he thought the iPad is Apple's future is an important opportunity for the Tablet PC market would eventually PC market a larger scale Chi Mei screen.


Rumors said that Dell's Alienware game laptop will be upgraded 

According to foreign media reports, Dell will be updated in 2012, Alienware product line, there will be three series of new products launched M14X R2, M17X R4 and M18X R2.

Alienware M14X R2 notebook appearance of red and black options, 1GB or 2GB memory alone significantly. Alienware M17X R4 notebooks are AMD Radeon 7970M, Acer laptop screenselect the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675M graphics cards. Alienware M18X R2 notebook appearance of the same black and red, there is no configuration information.

Existing Alienware M14x, M17X R3 and M18x notebook 14 inches, 17.3 inches and 18.4 inches screen, powered by Intel dual-core or quad-core processors, AMD and NVIDIA graphics options.

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