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- 21 Dec 2011:Samsung Electronics has revealed plans to provide the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Galaxy devices. The platform update for Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Note will start in the first quarter 2012, and other Galaxy devices will soon follow.
- 15 Dec 2011:
- 12 Dec 2011:Panasonic will expand its smartphone business beyond its home country of Japan, starting with Europe in March 2012, the electronics giant said today.
- 10 Dec 2011:Micron Technology is seeking Taiwanese partners to supply solid-state drive (SSD) controller chips to cope with the company's expansion in NAND memory chips in 2012, an executive said yesterday.
- Worldwide semiconductor revenues are forecast to reach US$309 billion in 2012, a 2.2% increase from 2011, according to Gartner. This outlook is down from Gartner's previous projection in the third quarter for 4.6% growth in 2012.
- 6 Dec 2011:Hynix Semiconductor has set around KRW4 trillion (US$3.5 billion) for its 2012 capital expenditure, up 18% from the KRW3.4 trillion set for this year, an online news provider Edaily reported Thursday, citing industry sources.
- 1 Dec 2011:The challenging market conditions faced by all PV manufacturers in 2011 have led to many claiming poor visibility into business expectations next year. In recent third quarter conference calls many tier 1 suppliers refrained from giving any 2012 insight, with guidance provided near or during fourth quarter financial results early next year.
- 28 Nov 2011:
- 24 Nov 2011:Subject to approval, the final day of trading of Nokia shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is estimated to be during the first half of 2012.
- 22 Nov 2011:
- 21 Nov 2011:"This is going to take a lot longer than people are assuming, until the end of 2012 at least..."
- 17 Nov 2011:ARM expects the semiconductor industry to grow by "a few percent" in 2012, but its licensing growth will be slower after an exceptionally strong year in 2011, its senior executive said on Thursday.
- Nokia is planning to launch a Windows-running tablet during the summer of 2012, the head of Nokia France said in an interview with a French newspaper.
- Apple's move to standardize on Qualcomm baseband chips will be helpful in bringing LTE to the iPhone and iPad in 2012 thanks to Qualcomm's next-generation mobile device modem chips. The company announced recently that updated chips with integrated LTE and 3G support will offer greater power efficiency for mobile devices, a sticking point that has so far kept Apple from offering compatibility with high-speed LTE networks.
- 16 Nov 2011:Infineon Technologies has said sales in fiscal 2012 will drop by a "mid-single-digit percentage" as customers hold off on orders.
- 14 Nov 2011:Samsung Electronics plans to invest a record KRW38 trillion (US$34 billion) in 2012, sharply up from around KRW30 trillion this year, local online news provider Edaily reported Wednesday, citing unnamed industry sources.
- 12 Nov 2011:Globalfoundries has postponed its plan to start building the Gulf's first microprocessor-fabrication plant in Abu Dhabi next year.
- 11 Nov 2011:ARM has said that co-founder and President Tudor Brown will retire in May 2012 after helping turn the firm into a dominant mobile processor company.
- 8 Nov 2011:Enterprise IT spending will stagger and fall this year but may back on one leg in 2012 despite swingeing public sector cuts and the looming Eurozone financial catastrophe.
- 4 Nov 2011:The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) board of directors has elected Freescale Semiconductor CEO Rich Beyer as its 2012 chairman.
- 3 Nov 2011:
- 31 Oct 2011:Samsung Electronics' president expects Thailand floods to further hit the computer memory chip market by hurting PC production until the first quarter of 2012.
- 24 Oct 2011:Japanese electronics maker Panasonic will scale back domestic semiconductor output by the end of March 2012 and cut about 1,000 jobs, reflecting its recent move to reduce TV panel production, the Nikkei business daily said.
- 14 Oct 2011:Sony Ericsson broke even in its third quarter and announced it will solely focus on smartphones from next year.
- 31 Aug 2011:In the latest look down its road map, Globalfoundries claims it is shipping thousands of 32nm wafers a week, gearing up multiple 28nm offerings for 2012 and planning first customer tape outs using a planar 20nm process at the end of next year.
- 29 Aug 2011:Apple's latest chip technology won't appear in the next-generation iPad until June 2012 at the earliest, according to a firm that tracks the mobile processor industry.
- 19 Aug 2011:
- 4 Aug 2011:Toshiba is planning to withdraw from its mobile phone joint venture with Fujitsu in the first half of 2012, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Wednesday.
- 3 Aug 2011:While global semiconductor revenue is projected to expand by 7.2% in 2011, Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO of EDA vendor Mentor Graphics, sounds a note of caution about maintaining this growth in 2012.
- 24 Jun 2011:Nokia said the staff reductions will happen in phases until the end of 2012 and all the employees concerned can remain with the company until the end of 2011. Nokia previously said it plans to reduce its Finnish workforce by 1,400 people.
- 23 Jun 2011:
- 30 May 2011:Samsung's total capacity is expected to be eight million 4-inch OLED panels per month by the end of 2011. But the display maker is also said to have delayed investments for larger screen sizes of 6 inches to 9 inches until 2012.
- 23 May 2011:Chip manufacturing firm Globalfoundries will begin construction of a new manufacturing plant in Abu Dhabi next year, the majority stakeholder of the company said on Friday.
- 20 May 2011:
- 19 May 2011:Order Focus: GT Solar makes record-breaking polysilicon production equipment sale (May 18) - PV-TechGT Solar International has received the largest order to date for its polysilicon production equipment from South Korean firm OCI.
- 12 May 2011:Consumer solid-state drives will have a break-out year in 2012 due to falling prices, which will make SSDs a primary storage option for mainstream users, Gartner said.
- 4 May 2011:Nokia board chairman Jorma Ollila said Tuesday that he would leave his post by the year 2012 as expected, but that he would not "throw in the towel" at the world's leading mobile phone maker before then.
- 21 Apr 2011:GDP will expand 0.8% in 2011, down sharply from the 1.7% growth previously forecast. But as reconstruction spending gains pace, the economy will expand 2.3% in 2012, faster than previous estimates for 1.3% growth, the OECD said.
- Smartphones and tablets will be the first devices to use ARM's upcoming Cortex-A15 processor, and will be available starting late 2012 or early 2013, said James Bruce, the US mobile segment manager at ARM.
Digitimes Research: China sees increased smartphone AP shipments in 2Q14
Bits + chips | 6h 56min ago
Taiwan market: FET aims at 95% 4G coverage at end of 2014
Mobile + telecom | 6h 58min ago
ASE posts EPS of NT$0.64 for 2Q14
Bits + chips | 7h 3min ago
China polysilicon maker LDK Solar to resume production
Before Going to Press | 7h 27min ago
Digitimes Research: Taiwan ships 351 million small-to-medium-size panels in 2Q14
Before Going to Press | 7h 28min ago
UMC reports EPS NT$0.28 for 2Q14
Before Going to Press | 7h 29min ago
Digitimes Research: Xiaomi continues to rank as number one smartphone vendor in China in 2Q14
Before Going to Press | 7h 29min ago
InFocus looking to become top-3 smartphone vendor in Taiwan
Before Going to Press | 8h 19min ago
ASE to ramp up SiP packaging revenues in 2014
Before Going to Press | 8h 24min ago
Vendors cutting notebook shipments to Latin America
Before Going to Press | 8h 26min ago
Innolux to decrease reliance on China market
Before Going to Press | 8h 52min ago
Wah Lee 3Q14 revenues to move higher
Before Going to Press | 8h 53min ago
Growth in global panel demand to exceed growth in supply, says AUO
Before Going to Press | 8h 53min ago
Intel to see difficulties shipping 40 million tablet CPUs in 2014
Before Going to Press | 8h 54min ago
AUO expects 3Q14 small- to medium-size panel shipments to rise 5-8% sequentially
Before Going to Press | 8h 55min ago
MediaTek 3Q14 revenues to grow 6-11% on quarter
Before Going to Press | 8h 56min ago
Taiwan market: Everlight Electronics expected to ship 2.6 million LED light bulbs in 2014
Before Going to Press | 8h 57min ago
AUO 2Q14 net profit hits 4-year high
Before Going to Press | 8h 58min ago
China market: LCD TV sales in 1H14 down on year, says China Market Monitor
Before Going to Press | 8h 59min ago
- 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
- Sales for mini versions of flagship smartphones short of expectations
- Corning reports profit growth for 2Q14
- Taiwan sets quality standards for LED light bulbs
- AUO reports staggering profit growth for 2Q14
- UMC to post single-digit revenue growth in 3Q14
- FCCL supplier Taiflex looks to 10% on-quarter revenue growth in 3Q14
- Hermes Microvision revenues to stay flat in 3Q14
- China Internet user base grow to 632 million at end of June, says CNNIC
- Adlink develops 3D intelligent vision-aided positioning system
- Phison reports strong earnings for 1H14
- Asustek, Gigabyte releasing new gaming notebooks in 3Q14
- LG Innotek signs cooperation to focus on Li-Fi business, says report
- 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: Smartphone AP shipments in China to grow 2H14
- 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
- Unitech, Dynamic ramping rigid-flexible PCBs
- GET may set up PV module factory abroad to cope with US anti-dumping taxation
- Everlight to expand monthly LED packaging capacity to 4 billion chips, says chairman
- Commentary: Microsoft moves to eliminate Nokia
- Neo Solar Power nets NT$1.02 per share for 1H14
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- 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
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