With Nittobo suspending production at its plants, the global supply of fiber glass yarns used to make PCBs is likely to be reduced, industry sources have speculated.
The supply of anisotropic conductive film (ACF) for the production of flat panels is likely to be affected by the earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, but with a month of inventory,...
An earthquake measuring 8.9 struck off the northeast coast of Japan near Tokyo on Friday, March 11 at 3:14 pm local time, and major glass substrate supplier Corning noted that there...
A massive 8.4 magnitude earthquake that struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday (March 11) afternoon, with most of semiconductor and LCD panel plants located in the Northeastern...
Corning Display Technologies Taiwan (CDTT) president Alan Eusden has indicated that glass substrate demand growth for the mobile PC segment will reach 18% in 2010-2014, exceeding...
Kinko Optical expects to ship 184 million glass optical lens pieces for digital cameras, phone cameras, projectors, and other products in 2011, increasing by 16.5% from 2010, according...
ITO glass supplier AimCore Technology has announced revenues of NT$119 million (US$4.03 million) for January, up 20% sequentially and 126% on year, a record high in monthly revenue...
Notebook maker Compal Electronics on February 16 announced the establishment of Hwallar Optoelectronics (Fuzhou), a China-based joint-venture with LCD maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes...
In order to achieve its internal goal of shipping 40 million iPad products in 2011, Apple has occupied close to 60% of the global touch panel capacity causing tight supply among Apple's...
AGC has announced it is investing JPY20 billion (US$240 million) in a new float glass furnace in Japan to produce specialty glass for chemical strengthening, including newly developed...
Corning has announced revenues of US$1.77 billion for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 10% sequential increase and 15% on-year increase. EPS for the quarter was US$0.66.
With technology breakthroughs for one/single glass solutions (OGS) for touch panels expected, OGS touch will become a mainstream technology in 2012, and supply for high-end glass...
With touchscreen becoming the trend in the handset and tablet PC markets, cover glass demand is also booming, Japan-based Asahi Glass, on January 20, introduced its new Dragontrail...
As the transition to flat panel TV nears completion, TFT-LCD TV panel demand is slowing, from 41% on year in 2010 to 8.3% in 2011. Total TFT-LCD panel area demand is expected to increase...
