Last update: Tuesday 18 June 2013 [515 news items]
Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
Jun 18, 16:45
The solar market seemed promising for South Korea-based big enterprises such as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai. However, continuous loss has pushed these firms to modify the business str...
Digitimes Research: China touch panel makers expand their influence in the market
Jun 18, 14:40
As China-based touch panel makers are continuing to improve and expand their product portfolios, international-based handset and tablet vendors are increasing their orders to the...
Digitimes Research: Competition in the AMOLED panel industry continuing to heat up
Jun 17, 16:07
Panel makers throughout Taiwan, China and Japan are continuing to bump up development of AMOLED panel technology, with Japan Display showing the most visible signs of being a competitor...
Digitimes Research: China mobile AP market to expand in 2013
Jun 14, 11:04
The China mobile application processor (AP) market will expand over 60% in 2013 to 506 million units, with smartphone-use APs accounting for 77.4% of total shipments, Digitimes Research...
Digitimes Research: Google tying up with branded vendors to strengthen its online retail channel
Jun 11, 15:46
The launch of HTC's New HTC One Google Edition and Samsung Electronics' Galaxy S4 Google Edition by Google on June 26 through Google Play highlights Google's attempt to further strengthen...
Digitimes Research: Chemical bond energy can store electricity generated by solar power
Jun 11, 14:44
To have a steady supply of electricity generated from solar energy, energy storage is crucial.
Digitimes Research: South Korea accounts for 97% of AMOLED panel sales in 2012
Jun 11, 12:45
South Korea was responsible for over 97% of AMOLED panel sales in 2012 largely due to panel makers in the nation cooperating with AMOLED material and equipment providers both in and...
Digitimes Research: Mixed capex plans for major semiconductor firms in 2013
Jun 11, 11:01
Intel, Samsung Electronics, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Texas Instruments (TI), Toshiba, Renesas Electronics, SK Hynix, and STMicroelectronics were among the...
Digitimes Research: AMOLED handset panel shipments to reach 363 million units in 2015
Jun 11, 10:24
Currently, smaphone is the most important application for AMOLED panels and has been fueling shipment growth. Digitimes predicts AMOLED handset panel shipments to grow to 363 million...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan MOCVD capacity to account for 28% of global total in 2013
Jun 10, 12:18
Global MOCVD equipment capacity is still in oversupply while prices of LED light bulbs continue to fall. Among all global operational MOCVD tools, Taiwan-based makers account for...
Digitimes Research: May LED light bulb prices fall in Japan
Jun 6, 15:14
In May, prices of 40W and 60W retrofit LED light bulbs in Japan were on average JPY1,719/unit (US$17.32/unit) and JPY2,350/unit, respectively. May prices of 40W and 60W retrofit LED...
Digitimes Research: China foundry output value to rise 15% in 2013
Jun 5, 12:34
The output value of China's IC foundry industry will register growth of 15.4% in 2013 reaching US$4.08 billion, thanks to a ramp-up of new capacities at 12-inch foundries, brisk demand...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan notebook shipments enjoy growth in May
Jun 5, 11:26
First-tier notebook vendors and ODMs enjoyed on-month shipment growth in May with brand vendors together having an increase of over 10% and ODMs around 5%, according to Digitimes...
Digitimes Research: Samsung, SK Hynix to see sequential revenue growth in 2Q13
Jun 4, 21:09
In the second quarter of 2013, demand in the global PC and smartphone market is expected to increase but most firms have no plans to expand capacity. Hence revenues at Samsung and...
Digitimes Research: Spreadtrum may see TD-SCDMA market share fall below 40% in 2013
Jun 3, 20:17
China-based handset solution vendor Spreadtrum Communications obtained close to a 50% share in the TD-SCDMA market in 2012.
Digitimes Research: Samsung may experience in-house chipset supply shortage in 2013
Jun 3, 19:11
South Korea-based Samsung Electronics is not just an industry leader in the global smartphone market, it is also aggressive in promoting in-house processors to other brands. In addition...
Digitimes Research: Samsung logic IC capex stays high in 2013
Jun 3, 12:49
Samsung Electronics is expected to spend US$6 billion on its logic IC business in 2013, down from a record US$7 billion in 2012, according to Digitimes Research.
Digitimes Research: 2Q13 brand tablet shipments to reach 34 million units
Jun 3, 12:02
Following the low season in the first quarter of 2013, many vendors from the non-iPad tablet camp will introduce new affordable models running on the Google Android platform in the...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan top foundries combined revenues to rise 15% in 2Q13
May 31, 15:53
Taiwan's top-three IC foundries will see their combined revenues register sequential growth of 15.3% in the second quarter of 2013, compared to the 0.7% on-quarter increase posted...
Digitimes Research: Toshiba, Renesas, and Sony return to profitability in 1Q13
May 31, 14:39
Japan's top-three semiconductor firms, Toshiba, Renesas Electronics, and Sony, saw on-year decreases in their fiscal 2012 (from April 2012 to March 2013) revenues, but profits impr...
Digitimes Research: AMOLED production capacity expected to increase 327% by 2015
May 31, 14:36
The production capacity of AMOLED panel technology is expected to reach 11.47 million square meters in 2015, up 327% compared to 2012, according to Digitimes Research.
Digitimes Research: South Korea display equipment firms to see rising revenues in 2013
May 31, 11:33
For the third consecutive year, AMOLED capex at South Korea-based Samsung Display will exceed LCD panel capex in 2013. Samsung Display has been investing in OLED production and increasingly...
Digitimes Research: Global 2Q13 handset touch panel shipments to show 5% sequential growth
May 31, 10:55
The second quarter is the beginning of the traditional boom season for the touch panel market and demand from handset makers has been reviving. Digitimes Research predicts that global...
Digitimes Research: Global LED light bulb shipments to reach 842 million units in 2013
May 29, 21:31
LED light bulb penetration rate in Japan is likely to reach 60% in 2013. LED light bulb commercialization grew rapidly in Japan, but because the lifespan of products is around 40,000...
Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
May 24, 11:26
Revenues for South Korea-based LED firms have been rising due to the introduction of affordable LED direct-type TVs and lighting products since 2012. Digitimes Research expects strong...
Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
May 24, 10:37
The US has rich natural resources and states in the southwest region have sufficient sunshine with an annual average of over 2,200 hours. Western states in the US have been introducing...
Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
May 22, 10:57
Global LED tube lighting shipments in 2013 will increase to 220 million units to account for 5.5% of the entire lighting market, as LED tube lights' luminous efficiency reaches 110lm/W,...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD driver IC shipments rise 22% in 1Q13
May 20, 21:26
Shipments of LCD driver ICs by Taiwan-based IC design houses for the first quarter of 2013 grew 21.6% from a year ago to NT$20.18 billion (US$673.8 million) in value, according to...
Digitimes Research: Europe solar trade tariffs may slow down market growth
May 20, 11:11
The European Union (EU) plans to announce the details of its anti-subsidy tariff against China-based solar firms on June 6, 2013. The tariff is expected to be 30-67.9% with the average...
Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
May 15, 14:07
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) both saw their wafer shipments increase sequentially in April 2013, thanks to rising demand for...
Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
May 13, 14:15
Demand for energy storage continues to rise and lithium-ion batteries are a common choice. However, due to prices, safety and energy storage, many substitutes such as lithium-sulfur...
Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
May 10, 15:56
April 2013 prices of 40W and 60W retrofit LED light bulbs in Japan were JPY1,743/unit (US$17.25/unit) and JPY2,357/unit, respectively, showing an on-month decrease of 4% and 12.5%,...
Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
May 9, 14:39
Over-investment has caused rising inventories in the sapphire industry. Although demand has been returning in the first-half of 2013, to reduce inventories, sapphire prices are unlikely...
Digitimes Research: Global tablet shipments in 1Q13 down sequentially, up on year
May 9, 11:44
There were 31.93 million tablets shipped globally during the first quarter of 2013, decreasing on quarter by 26.1% but increasing on year by 66.1%, according to figures collected...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan IC vendor revenues down 7.4% sequentially in 1Q13
May 8, 22:07
Accumulated revenues of Taiwan-based IC design houses reached NT$98 billion (US$3.32 billion) in the first quarter of 2013, down 7.4% from the previous quarter but up 8.5% from a...
The LED industry has been growing rapidly in China. Digitimes Research recently visited China-based LED chipmaker Hang Zhou Silan Azure (Silan Azure) to gain insights in China's LED...
China government to promote semi industry consolidation, says Digitimes Research
According to a recently published Digitimes Research...
The coming of Smart TV: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Tom Lo
Digitimes Research has been publishing quarterly research reports on the ICT (information and communications technology) and FPD (flat-panel display) industries since 2004. Starting...
The PV inverter boom: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Sophia Chen
The PV inverter market managed a staggering shipment growth of 132% to 19.8GWp because of strong demand, according to Sophia Chen, author of the recently published Digitimes Research...
The LED upstream boom: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Jessie Lin
With LED chipmakers aggressively increasing capacity to meet fast growing demand from the LCD displays and general lighting markets, suppliers in the upstream are optimistic on outlook...
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- Open cell business model is a threat to BLU makers, says Radiant chairman
- Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
- Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Taiwan panel makers see increased orders for 5-inch qHD panels from China telecom operators
- Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
- JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
- MediaTek allocating more resources for development of tablet solutions
- China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
- Tablet IC sales to soar in 2013, says IC Insights
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- DRAM supply shortage to extend through 2015, says Inotera executive
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
- NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Epistar to issue 250 million new shares for private placement
- Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
- Analog IC vendors to see orders rebound in 2H13
- Sean Maloney joins SMIC as independent non-executive director
- Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
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- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
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- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...
Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- 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...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.