59 news items tagged special report
Coronavirus impact special report: Mobile devices
Thursday 27 February 2020Global notebook unit shipments for the first quarter of 2020 are estimated to experience a sharp sequential fall of 29-36% than the 17% projected earlier, as severe labor and components...
Global server shipments to grow 6.6% in 2020, says Digitimes Research special report
Thursday 16 January 2020Global server shipments, having declined moderately by 1.4% in 2019, will return growth in 2020, thanks to significant demand from the datacenter sector, according to Digitimes Research's...
Digitimes Research: Solar spot prices in Greater China remain flat despite continuous demand from Europe
Friday 4 May 2012Solar spot prices in Greater China have not shown signs of increasing despite continuous demand and clear order visibility, said Chihheng Liang, analyst at Digitimes Research and...
Commentary: Long-term solar material supply contracts increase losses during industry downturns
Thursday 3 May 2012Long-term solar material supply contracts seem to stabilize the financial performance of solar firms during good times, but increase the magnitude of losses during down times.
Digitimes Research: High demand in Europe holds Greater China solar spot prices steady
Friday 27 April 2012Market demand in the second quarter has been hot causing price falls to seize, said Chihheng Liang, analyst of Digitimes and author of new report, PV 2012-Expectations for the...
New business model and strategies in China's smartphone market - Another kind of Android
Friday 20 April 2012Google's open approach to Android's source code has enabled the operating system (OS) to grow rapidly in the smartphone market. Virtually all market research carried out on the subject...
PV 2012 - Expectations for the global solar market
Friday 13 April 2012The solar market saw solar prices dropped drastically due to oversupply in 2011 and most solar firms across the supply chain suffered losses. Nevertheless, a significant drop in prices...
Digitimes Research: Spot price of polysilicon in Greater China drops to US$22.5/kg
Friday 13 April 2012The prices of solar products in China dropped slightly this week (April 9-13).
Digitimes Research: Flat solar spot prices in Greater China due to long holiday
Friday 6 April 2012Due to long holidays in China, solar spot prices this week (April 2-6) has remained relatively flat.
Key trends in the development of LED lighting technology
Tuesday 3 April 2012LED lighting prices are expected to fall by 30% per year, with luminous efficacy approaching 200 lm/W by 2014. Many countries have also identified 2015 as a key milestone in their...
Trends in the touch panel supply chain, 2010-2014
Friday 23 March 2012The touch panel sector was one of the few bright spots in the global tech industry in 2011, with production value growing 88% on year to reach US$12.56 billion. Shipments are expected...
Digitimes Research: Consistent demand in US market keeps Greater China solar price steady
Friday 23 March 2012The prices of solar products in Greater China continue to hold despite the concerns over the upcoming Germany feed-in-tariff (FIT) cuts. In addition, demand in the US has been picking...
Digitimes Research: Price of solar modules in Greater China falls on Yingli low offer
Friday 16 March 2012Digitimes research analyst Chihheng Liang stated that prices across the supply chain have been falling. The price fall of solar modules was due to Yingli's quote of CNY5.18/W (EUR0.55/W)...
Trends in the global IC design service market
Tuesday 13 March 2012With the cost of developing a new semiconductor fab anticipated to surpass US$5.0 billion by 2015, more and more IDMs are adopting a fab-lite outsourcing model. The growth in the...
Digitimes Research: Solar prices in Greater China begin to fall due to Germany FIT cuts
Friday 9 March 2012The announcement of Germany's new feed-in-tariff (FIT) cuts has stopped the price increases of solar products that began in February. Despite the fact that the Germany government...
Digitimes Research: Solar cell prices in Greater China increase to reflect rising costs
Friday 17 February 2012The return of demand has been helping solar firms in Greater China to increase capacity utilization rates, said Chihheng Liang, Digitimes Research analyst. Order visibilities are...
Trends in the high- brightness LED lighting market
Monday 13 February 2012Digitimes Research projects that the global high-brightness LED industry will see year-on-year growth of 13.4% in 2012, with output rising to US$10.1 billion. The main reason for...
Digitimes Research: Solar wafer makers in Greater China increase quotes
Friday 10 February 2012The prices of solar wafers and cells have been increasing. However, polysilicon spot price remains flat at US$29.50/kg while the price of solar modules has dropped by EUR0.01/watt.
Digitimes Research: Rising demand continues to push up polysilicon price in Greater China
Friday 13 January 2012The spot price of polysilicon in Greater China continues to increase. Many small- and medium-size polysilicon firms suspended operations when the price was falling rapidly in 2011...
Network convergence in China, 2012
Tuesday 3 January 2012Network convergence combining telecom, broadcast and Internet on a single platform to deliver voice, data and video content to devices has already begun in China and trial services...
2012 tablet market forecast
Friday 30 December 2011With a global economic situation that does not seem too pessimistic for 2012, demand for mobile computing will rise steadily and the price-performance ratio of tablet devices will...
Global smartphone industry, 2012 forecast
Thursday 22 December 2011Global smartphone shipments are forecast to top 464 million units in 2011, with Apple being the top ranking vendor in terms of shipment volume, followed by Samsung Electronics and...
Niche DRAM market analysis and prospects for 2012
Friday 16 December 2011Since 2009, niche DRAM has been one of the rising stars in the memory sector, with bit growth soaring over 70% annually and outpacing standard DRAM growth. This Digitimes Special...
Digitimes Research: Solar firms facing concerns over the ability to repay loans
Wednesday 7 December 2011Since the second half of 2011, many solar firms have been suffering losses and possible bankruptcies. US-based Solyndra, Spectrawatt and Evergreen Solar all declared bankruptcy. Many...
Digitimes Research: Spot price of polysilicon in Greater China remains static
Friday 2 December 2011This week's spot prices of solar products in the Greater China region continued to fall but the pace of decline was slowing down significantly, as the market approached an end of...