Foxconn, the original equipment manufacturer for Apple products, is reportedly expanding its manufacturing capacity in 2012, aiming to increase production for iPhones and iPads to meet the ever-growing market demand.

Taiwanese computer company Compal has announced that it acquired Toshiba's LCD TV assembly plant in Mexico and the asset transition is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2011.

Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that it has reached an agreement with Brazilian local enterprises to produce tablet computers in the country.

The U.S.-based mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. will invest nearly USD1 billion to build a new display panel plant in Taiwan in 2011.

Dell has announced that its plant in Xiamen will start providing desktop computers and related products to its clients in Taiwan, and the company promised to enlarge operating investment in Xiamen.

Taiwanese networking equipment giant AboCom System Inc. has announced in Zhengzhou, Henan, that it will invest CNY2 billion to establish a 3G mobile phone technology industry base in the city.

Vincent Tong, spokesperson of the Taiwan-based original equipment manufacturer Foxconn, has confirmed to the media that to ease the pressure brought by labor cost increases, the company will relocate its major production lines from Shenzhen to Langfang in Hebei.

Rock Hsu, chairman of Taiwan's Kinpo Group, has announced that the group's Compal Electronics will set up a new notebook computer manufacturing base in Chongqing by 2011.

Qingdao Haier, the Chinese home appliance and electronics maker, the company will build a new energy-saving refrigerator project via its wholly-owned subsidiary in Hefei.

The world's three major IT companies — Apple, HP and Dell — are reportedly respectively conducting investigations on the working conditions of Foxconn following the series of suicides happened in the Shenzhen factory of this Taiwan-based original electronics manufacturer.

With a total investment of USD350 million, U.S.-based SemiLEDs Corporation's new LED chip project named Xurui Optoelectronics has recently laid its foundation in Nanhai in Foshan, Guangdong province.

China's "shanzhai" mobile phone manufacturers are planning to bring their production facilities to India to gain recognition of India's huge mobile phone market and obtain legal status for their products in India.

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Coolpad has revealed to the local media that the first-phase project of its new mobile phone manufacturing base in Dongguan's Songshan Lake, Guangdong, has been put into production.

Kodak is opening a second production line for its Xiamen printing plate manufacturing facility to enhance the company's manufacturing capacity for offset products.

According to the executives of Lenovo Group, China's leading PC maker, the will shut one of its Indian manufacturing facilities to improve production efficiency.