Clippings

ATP Electronics, a manufacturer of digital flash media products,
announced the addition of its ProMax family product line with the release
of its highest performance ProMax CompactFlash (CF) memory cards. With
speed rating at 150X, the ProMax CF card is the fastest CF card in the
market today and is specially designed to work with high mega-pixel
digital SLR cameras and video camcorders such as Nikon Digital SLR cameras
D2X, D2H, D200, D100 and D70, as well as Canon EOS series SLR cameras and
others from JVC, camcorders or Konica-Minolta Maxxum 7D cameras. ATP will
showcase this new ProMax CF card product line at the CES 2006 January 5-8
in Las Vegas, at the Sands Expo # 71440.As with ATP's high performance
ProMax SD card, the newly introduced ProMax CF card is water resistant and
extremely shock resistant. In addition, the ProMax CF card also features a
22.5MB/s data transfer speed for fastest file transfers and seamless
multimedia streaming. This feature is especially required in professional
and high-end prosumer level photographic applications. The ProMax CF cards
will be available worldwide starting January 2006, in capacities from
256MB, 512MB, and 1GB to 2GB. ProMax 4GB CF will follow in by end of Q1.

Accton
decides to enter IPTV industry

Accton Technology Corporation announced that it would enter into the
new IPTV in­dustry. Its subsidiary, Arcadyan, has launched STV related
products. Arcadyan plans to increase its capital by getting Compal and
foreign IT manufacturers' participation and investment. The plan to
increase its capital is estimated to be completed in the first half of
next year. Accton's Assistant CEO, Kuo Fei-Long indicates that the
market environment for broadband is getting matured. IPTV, which transmits
multimedia content, will become the next trend in Internet environment.
Arcadyan will provide, based on its current STB platform, multimedia
network, elec­tronic business, electronic program guide (EPG), and
interactive service, as a complete set of solution to officially moving
towards IPTV market. Relative information has boost Accton's share price
in the market. It has exceeded 90 percent growth within the past half
month.

Taiwan
Companies gear up for car electronic market

According to the quarterly report of Garmin, the number 1 GPS company
in United States, the growth rate of consumer GPS product market is much
higher than the professional ones. The personal car type is taking the
biggest share in the consumer car electronic market and it will account
for 46 percent of the whole consumer GPS market in 2008. Taiwan companies
are targeting at this good business opportunity and aggressively preparing
for car electronic market - especially for INPAQ technology Co Ltd in the
upstream and Mitac International Corporation in the downstream. According
to the industry insiders, INPAQ currently is not only providing GPS
antenna to Mitac, but also have obtained certification from the leading
car company Mercedes-Benz and gone ahead with the production. UBS Funds
pointed out that Mitac is using ODM to enter car-assembling market through
the local Japan GPS company.

Kuro
launched own branded MP3

Kuro has launched the first own braded MP3 on Dec.
22. This product would be distributed in PC home and company official
web-site that also announced to cultivate personal consumer market after
the launch. The new debut of MP3 from Kuro is equipped with 512MB memory
at the price of NT$3,888 per piece with one year free Kuro membership.
With the bundle of software and hardware, Kuro avoided the direct
competition with other MP3 products on the market and developed a new
business model for the own branded MP3. This MP3 model was OEMed by Compal.
In terms of target market, Taiwan would be the first place to launch. In
the future, China would be the next target market when European and
American markets were still looking for partners.