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GaN-on-Si for LED: Q&A with Azzurro vice president of sales and marketing Erwin Ysewijn
Friday 9 November 2012
GaN-on-Si is a new technology that has the potential to replace sapphire substrates in the LED supply chain. Erwin Ysewijn, vice president of sales and marketing at Azzurro Semiconductors, a Germany-based GaN-on-Si supplier,...
Trade barriers bad for solar industry: Q&A with Phoenix Solar president and CEO Murray Cameron
Friday 12 October 2012
The US government announced the final verdict of the anti-dumpig and anti-subsidy investigation against China-based solar firms on October 10, 2012. At PV Taiwan 2012, Digitimes had the chance to sit down with Murray Cameron,...
Solar industry in adjustment period: Q&A with Motech chairman Simon Tsuo
Tuesday 28 June 2011
Yuan-Huai Simon Tsuo, chairman of Motech has been viewed as an important figure in the development of the solar industry in Taiwan. Tsuo commented on the gloomy market in the first half of 2011 and the future of the solar...
The general view of the solar market is too pessimistic: Q&A with LDK president Xingxue Tong
Friday 27 May 2011
The current contraction of the solar market has affected solar firms worldwide. President and COO of China-based LDK, Xingxue Tong, thinks it is an imbalance before the transformation of the industry, which is to operate...
Taiwan IC suppliers to benefit as Samsung steps up purchases of IC parts
Bits + chips | 3h 6min ago
MediaTek hikes 4G smartphone solution shipment target for 2014
Bits + chips | 3h 7min ago
Digitimes Research: Promotion of HEMS appliances in Japan faces problems
Green energy | 5h ago
Young Optics nets NT$54 million for 1H14
Before Going to Press | 4h 18min ago
China market: Gome to start price-cuts to promote LCD TVs in August, says report
Before Going to Press | 4h 22min ago
Teco to exhibit cloud-based smart home appliances at TAIROS
Before Going to Press | 4h 37min ago
Samsung reports decreased handset and tablet shipments for 2Q14
Before Going to Press | 4h 39min ago
PCB/LCD equipment supplier Asia Neo Tech to debut on OTC market
Before Going to Press | 5h 4min ago
Nearly 50 firms stepping into 3D printing, says ITRI
Before Going to Press | 5h 15min ago
Radiant Opto-Electronics nets NT$3.07 per share for 1H14
Before Going to Press | 5h 17min ago
Taiwan market: WD launches NAS HDDs
Before Going to Press | 5h 17min ago
Russia market: Smartphone competition heating up
Before Going to Press | 5h 18min ago
Taiwan panel makers plan to cooperate with China TV vendors to tap international market
Before Going to Press | 5h 18min ago
UMC to ramp 28nm wafer capacity
Before Going to Press | 5h 19min ago
Wintek becomes major touch panel supplier for Xiaomi
Before Going to Press | 5h 20min ago
HTC swings to profitability in 2Q14
Before Going to Press | 5h 21min ago
- SPIL looks to flat performance in 3Q14
- AUO expects 5-8% growth in 3Q14 small- to medium-size panel shipments
- UMC looks to 1-5% wafer shipment growth in 3Q14
- Intel to see difficulties shipping 40 million tablet CPUs in 2014
- Digitimes Research: China sees increased smartphone AP shipments in 2Q14
- Taiwan market: InFocus to launch smartphone M810
- Chunghwa Telecom lowers 2014 capex budget by 5-10%
- Vendors cutting notebook shipments to Latin America
- Taiwan market: FET aims at 95% 4G coverage at end of 2014
- ASE posts EPS of NT$0.64 for 2Q14
- Taiwan sets quality standards for LED light bulbs
- AUO reports staggering profit growth for 2Q14
- Delta Electronics 2Q14 net profit hits record
- Inotera, Nanya Technology report strong earnings for 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan digital camera shipments in 2Q14 up 43.3% sequentially
- Panel supply to remain tight until 4Q14 or 1Q15, says Innolux president
- Tatung to set up rooftop PV systems with total capacity of 4MWp in Pescadores
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship over 67 million large-size TFT-LCD panels in 2Q14
- Taiwan solar firms may rely on markets other than US in 2H14
- GET may set up PV module factory abroad to cope with US anti-dumping taxation
- Digitimes Research: China vendors ship over 101 million smartphones in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan ships 351.4 million small- to mid-size panels in 2Q14
- Macronix to start 8-inch OEM wafer business
- MediaTek 3Q14 revenues to grow 6-11% on quarter, say sources
- Chinese vendors outpace market as 2Q14 smartphone shipments grow 23.1% on year, says IDC
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| OTC electronic | 179.29 | +1.61 | +0.91% |
- China warns US solar anti-dumping duties will damage trade relations (Jul 28) - International Bussiness Times
- Sharp pulls out of Italy to end overseas solar panel production (Jul 24) - Bloomberg
- BlackBerry looks to partnerships to compete with Apple and IBM venture (Jul 24) - Finacial Times
- Baidu to boost mobile investment after profit rises 34% (Jul 25)4 - Business Week
- Amazon reports big losses (Jul 24) - Forbes
- China's Huawei reports 19% jump in sales (Jul 21) - BBC News
- Samsung SDI's suspension of plasma production a plus for earnings: analysts (Jul 2) - Yonhap News
- Facebook to acquire LiveRail (Jul 2) - Company release
- Digitimes Research: China vendors ship over 101 million smartphones in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan ships 351.4 million small- to mid-size panels in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: China sees increased smartphone AP shipments in 2Q14
- Digitimes Research: Taiwan digital camera shipments in 2Q14 up 43.3% sequentially
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- Digitimes Research: Hisilicon AP to give Huawei cost advantage in high-end mobile device market
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Differentiation is the core advantage: Q&A MediaTek president Hsieh Ching-chiang
MediaTek has taken up to 60% of the 3G handset solution market in China, pushing the market value of...
AMD pushing ARM/x86-compatibility for server business, says senior VP Lisa Su
AMD has been reorganizing its businesss, such as moving its desktop business headquarters to Beijing,...
Intel prepared for emerging industries, says company president Renee James
Intel president Renee James, during a recent interview, told Digitimes that the company and its partners...
Turning a smartphone into a PC in a pocket: Q&A with Analogix
According to a recent IDC research note, the transition toward mobile and cloud-based computing is...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2014 global high brightness LED market, trends and shipment forecast
For the global LED lighting market, the market size will reach US$25.82 billion in 2014 or a market penetration rate of 23.4%. This is attributable to exponential shipment growth for light bulbs, tubes, and directional lamps.
- Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015
This Special Report provides forecasts through 2015 for Greater China touch panel shipments with breakdowns based on technology (glass, film, resistive), application (smartphone, NB and tablet) and by firm.
- 2014 global tablet demand forecast
This report analyzes the main players, their strategies and shipments forecasts for 2014, as well as other factors contributing to either growth or decline in various segments within the tablet market, with a particular focus on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft, along with whitebox vendors.