Lenovo + MediaTek

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(1) Loretta Chao, As Rivals Outsource, Lenovo Keeps Production in-Home; Lenovo's challenge is to develop products 'that we can't wait to have,' an analysist says. Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2012 (front page).
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 25522699291362.html

Quote:

"The in-house approach—combined with aggressively moving into fast-growing emerging markets—has helped Lenovo turn a declining business around. Its profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 grew 73% to $473 million, outpacing most of its rivals. As recently as three years ago, Lenovo was still posting losses.

"Lenovo is different [from other Chinese manufacturers] because it sells under its own name. That makes it the first Chinese global consumer brand.

"Sales of Lenovo's newest products are small but growing. According to IDC, the company was the fourth-largest vendor of tablets in the first quarter with a 2.8% share of unit shipments, up from No. 8 in the fourth quarter of last year. Apple, meanwhile, garnered a 63% share of tablet shipments with its iPad.

(2) Latest first.
(a) Clare Jim, Packing power, Taiwan's Mediatek sees leap in cheaper chips
http://in.reuters.com/article/20 ... INBRE8690AR20120710

Quote:

"China's Lenovo is one maker of such phones to use Mediatek's designs. [MediaTek's Chief Financial Officer David] Ku said Mediatek has recently launched dual-core platform for cheap phones and plans to introduce faster, graphics-friendly quad-core as well as 4G LTE chips next year. 'Before, phones under $200 would not have possessed dual-core.'

MediaTek "sees its full-year shipments of smartphone chips at 75 million, up sharply from 10 million last year.

(b) Junko Yoshida, MediaTek to Bring Premier Smartphone Features to $150 - $200 Handsets. EETimes, June 27, 2012
http://www.eetimes.com/electroni ... 150----200-handsets
("The new platform [for smartphone, dubbed MediaTek MT6577], which combines a dual 1GHz Cortex-A9 application processor from ARM with MediaTek’s proven 3G/HSPA modem, features a PowerVR Series5 SGX graphics processing unit from Imagination Technologies, and runs the latest Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' operating system")