Last update: Tuesday 21 May 2013 [157 news items]
CMO beats AUO in large-size panel shipments for second consecutive month
Mar 9, 15:33
Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) saw its large-size shipments increase 23.2% sequentially to 4.2 million units in February, beating fellow rival AU Optronics (AUO) for the second month...
AUO sees almost 17% increase in February revenues
Mar 5, 16:43
Taiwan TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) has announced a 16.7% sequential increase in both consolidated and unconsolidated revenues for February 2009.
Driver IC maker Novatek foresees shipment growth in large-size applications
Newswatch - Mar 4, 15:30
Driver IC maker Novatek Microelectronics has estimated its first-quarter shipments for large-size applications will growth stronger than smaller-size ones. The company expects February...
China market: TV vendors kick off price war for 37-inch LCD models
Mar 4, 15:17
The China TV market is shifting its promotion focus to 37-inch LCD models with at least one vendor offering one at a price below cost levels, as 32-inch models are currently in shortage...
LCD TV vendors to gear up promotion of 120Hz in 2H09
Feb 26, 15:48
LCD TV vendors plan to gear up the promotion of 120Hz to become the mainstream specification for the large-size TV market in the second half of 2009 in order to boost demand and profits,...
CMO and AUO neck-and-neck in 1Q09 large-size LCD shipments
Feb 23, 15:50
Shipments of large-size TFT-LCD panel (10-inch and above) from Taiwan's second largest panel maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) are estimated to be almost on par with those from...
CMO in the red last year due to huge 4Q08 losses
Feb 12, 16:36
TFT-LCD panel maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) slumped into the red in 2008 after seeing huge losses of NT$31.41 billion (US$920 million) in the fourth quarter, according to results...
Feb 9, 16:06
AU Optronics (AUO) has announced preliminary consolidated January 2009 revenues of NT$13.25 billion (US$393.76 million), down 10.1% sequentially and down 71.9% on year.
China market: Large-size LCD panel shipments top 215 million units in 2008, says CCID Consulting
Feb 9, 15:21
With weakened demand in the notebook, LCD monitor and TV markets, large-size TFT LCD panel shipments to China increased only 20.7% to more than 215 million units in 2008, lower than...
Large-size LCD panel shipments decline in 4Q08, says iSuppli
Jan 6, 12:23
Following a 3% sequential decline in the third quarter, global shipments of large-size LCD panels (diagonal dimension of 10-inch or more) decreased by another 5% in the fourth quarter...
Large-size LCD panel prices continue to drop with TV segment declining most in 2H of December
Dec 22, 17:12
With demand dropping amid the sluggish global economy, large-size TFT LCD panel prices continue to drop in the second half of December, according to the latest pricing data released...
Large-size LCD panel November revenues fall to lowest in more than 2 years
Dec 22, 12:29
In November 2008 shipments of large-size TFT LCD panels reached the lowest level since May 2007, according to the DisplaySearch. Shipments were 28.5 million units, down 21% on month...
HannStar may stop selling large-size LCD panels on the open market
Dec 16, 01:05
With LCD panel prices continuing to drop, panel maker HannStar Display may stop selling its large-size LCD panels on the open market, according to market sources. The sources explained...
CMO receives orders for 55-inch LCD TV panels
Nov 24, 17:20
LCD panel maker Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) has received orders for its 55-inch LCD panels before volume production, according to company president Jau-Yang Ho.
Handset-related IC design house to enter large-size segment in 2009
Newswatch - Nov 19, 15:40
Taiwan-based ILI Technology, which specializes in handset panel-use LCD driver ICs, is extending its presence to include large-size applications. The company is currently at the sample...
CMO braces for further shipment and ASP drops for large-size LCD panels in 4Q08
Oct 27, 15:21
Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) expects shipments of TV and IT applications to decline 15% and 10-15% sequentially in the fourth quarter respectively, with their respective average...
Large-size LCD panel prices trending down again
Oct 20, 11:24
Large-size LCD panel prices are trending down again, after stabilizing for about a month, as the global economy continues to worsen.
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 touch panel market has been expanding fast since the Apple iPhone launch captivated the world with its touchscreen magic. According to Digitimes Research analyst, Jason Yang -...
China may see LCD panel oversupply in 2H12: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Tony Huang
Local and foreign players are scrambling to build next-generation large-size TFT LCD panel fabs in China, which is expected to become the largest LCD TV market in the world in 2011...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
- EverFocus launches ECOR960 X1 16CH with better image quality and more affordable price
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- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
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- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
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- 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
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...
Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- 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.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.