With the growth of mainstream LCD applications, such handset, PC and TV panels, slowing down and at the same time more and more new-generation production lines coming online, makers have different plans for their older-generation fabs.

The sizes of LCD panels used in automotive, gaming and industrial PC (IPC) applications are becoming larger and larger, as flat panel as well as end-device vendors are aiming to ramp up gross margins of their products, according to Digitimes Research.

Global shipments of CMOS as well as CCD image sensors will exceed US$15 billion in value in 2020, Digitimes Research estimates. The shipment value increased by over 15% on year to US$12.2 billion in 2017.

Shipments of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices totaled about 300,000 units in the Japan market in 2017, Digitimes Research has estimated.

The worldwide top-5 notebook brands (excluding Apple) and top-3 ODMs saw their shipments went up from a month ago in May due to rising procurement orders from North America's education sector and the easing in passive component shortages.

Sales in the global semiconductor-grade silicon wafer market are forecast to rise over 20% in 2018, after surging 20.8% in 2017, thanks to a continued rally in silicon wafer prices, according to Digitimes Research.

Newly developed small- and medium-size display solutions showcased at the recently concluded Computex 2018 indicate that flat panel makers are still keen on the development of related biometric technologies such as fingerprint and 3D sensing so as to cope with the prevailing trend in the smartphone...

Prospects of market-niche medical display products are promising, buoyed by a number of factors, including aging global population, increasing chronic diseases, growing middle class in emerging markets, continued improving medical technology and, notably, that global medical demand is expected to grow...

Google has been pushing sales of its Google Home devices to more markets and has also incorporated Google Assistant into the smart speaker as it is gearing up efforts to compete against Amazon in the smart home market, according to Digitimes Research.

Having swung back to the growth track in 2017 after a three-year recession, global shipments of AIO (all-in-one) PCs are set to grow more robustly in 2018 and see its ratio to the global desktop PC shipments continue to rise, according to Digitimes Research.

Shipments of handsets by Taiwan's brand vendors and ODMs totaled 17.8 million units in the first quarter of 2018, down 27.8% on quarter but up 17.5% on year, according to Digitimes Research.

Google is now actively soliciting support for its ARCore and Google Lens platforms from handset vendors as it has taken the lesson from the ill-fated Tango platform which was discontinued due to increasing challenge from Apple's ARKit after it managed only to secure support from two handset makers...

The output value of China's IC design industry sector is expected to exceed US$35 billion in 2018, driven by a combination of positive factors including continued growth in shipments of China-based smartphone vendors, rising demand for consumer electronics devices amid rampant IoT applications, and...

Taiwan's shipments of LCD monitors dropped 6.3% sequentially to below 20 million units in the first quarter of 2018 although the quarterly figures were higher than the levels seen a year earlier, according to Digitimes Research.

Worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments drop around 30% sequentially in April primarily due to seasonal factors, but compared to the same month in 2017, the volumes went up 3%. Digitimes Research believes that the on-year increase was not a result of market recovery, but market...

Worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments drop around 30% sequentially in April primarily due to seasonal factors, but compared to the same month in 2017, the volumes went up 3%. Digitimes Research believes that the on-year increase was not a result of market recovery, but market...

Display products highlighted by China-based flat panel makers at the recently concluded China Information Technology Expo (CITE) show that most of China's panel suppliers are actively developing 18:9 all-screen and profile-cut panels in response to demand from the handset sector, the largest application...

Global server shipments (based on motherboards shipped) amounted to 3.4 million units in the first quarter of 2018, slightly down on quarter, but the shipments are expected to rise 9% sequentially in the second quarter, Digitimes Research estimates.

Shipments of smartphone-use application processors in China are expected to increase 17% sequentially to 173.8 million units in the second quarter of 2018, Digitimes Research estimates.

Shipments of large-size LCD panels (9-inch and above sizes) by Taiwan-based panel makers (excluding Foxconn's affiliate Sharp) are expected to slip 1.4% sequentially in the second quarter of 2018 after falling 4.3% in the first, according to Digitimes Research.