Taiwan vendors of non-brand name flash-based MP3 players have reduced their retail prices by 10-20% for 512MB models and 20-35% for 1GB models in an effort to avoid potential stagnant sales or excess inventory due to the launch of Apple Computer's iPod nano reports DigiTimes

Although Apple has not yet announced when and at what retail prices the iPod nano will be launched in the Asia market, source claim that USA prices indicate that the iPod nano will have a large competitive impact on the Taiwan market.