Environmental-friendly and green energy products have grabbed the global market, mercury-free green labeled products are also taking the main stream. LED backlight technology therefore drives next generation light-weight, slim and mobile laptop products market with its advantages of low power consumption, energy saving, compact and long operation life. It also generates new market demands for large LED backlight module. Major brands such as Sony, Toshiba, Fujitsu, HP, Dell and Asus all launched new LED NBs in the market. In March early this year, Apple even took its first shot in consumer NB products range with LED backlight support. LED NB suddenly becomes the norm of luxury modern essential merchandise. In COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2008, NB has also divided into highly expensive and extremely cheap price segments to target its own market individually. LED backlight, moreover, turns to the basic requirement for high-end NB products. The market has also forecasted larger screen panel size laptops with LED backlight embedded will further boost the future sales as well as shed light of COMPUTEX TAIPEI next year on June 2-6, 2009.

According to statistics of the ITIS project -a project initiated by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs and conducted by Taipei-based MIC -- the Taiwanese enterprise VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) equipment industry's IP phone shipment volume in the third and fourth quarter of 2008 is expected to reach 2.48 million and 2.64 million units respectively, representing year-on-year growth rates of 14.5% and 20.5%. Enterprise VoIP gateway shipment volume in the third and fourth quarter is expected to reach 425,000 and 502,000 ports respectively.