Deposition equipment maker Aixtron AG of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of ？274.4m for full-year 2008, up 28% on 2007’s ？214.8m (and the third consecutive year of growth).

G Electronics, the local arm of the world's biggest IT&C and electronics supplier, recorded a 20 percent increase in turnover last year, to 152 million U.S. dollars, on important sales on all the company's main sectors, NewsIn informs.

LG beat Samsung in the final rankings to emerge as the channel champion in the LCD category. LG did better than Samsung in four out of the five parameters— price-performance, marketing and branding, service and support, and channel relationships.

Samsung said statistics showed that it had achieved top revenue in the UAE with a 27 per cent market share.

LED lamps were compared to other technologies in a recent issue of National Geographic magazine, and LED lighting was also discussed by the UK parliament last week.

Flat-screen maker LG Display expects a more than 50 percent rise in shipments of LCD TV panels in China in 2009, Gyo-Young Song, sales chief in charge of south China, said on Wednesday.

Samsung Electronics may shed jobs through a voluntary retirement program as the consumer electronics giant faces a sharp drop in profits amid a global economic slowdown.

Seiko Epson will consolidate production at its unprofitable liquid-crystal-display and semiconductor units as part of a plan to focus on faster growing businesses including printers and projectors

Apple is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touchscreen as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday. Apple is working with Taiwan's Wintek and Quanta Computer to assemble the new netbooks.

Shipments of notebook PCs with LED backlights reached 3.7 million in the final quarter of 2008 – a 62 percent rise on the preceding quarter.

The LED ligting market growth of $5B by 2012 is too optimistic at a time when growth in consumer lectronics is on the decline due to bad economy. The economic recovery will commence only in the middle of 2010 and the estimate for LED consumer lighting market can only be around $2B.