Channel retailers are launching significant price competition to stimulate TV sales during the Black Friday shopping season in the US, optimizing the availability of affordable TV panel prices, according to market sources.
Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor (TAS, formerly Opto Tech) expects its entry in the compound semiconductor sector to bear fruit and start contributing to the company's revenue growth at the end of 2023.
Although demand for OLED DDI (display driver ICs) in the fourth quarter of 2022 is short of the expectation made in early 2022, relevant IC design houses including Novatek Microelectronics and Raydium Semiconductor hold rosy outlook on the demand, according to industry sources.
TV sales during China's Double 11 online shopping festival were lower than expected, with sales volume and value experiencing annual declines, according to industry sources.
Inventory adjustments of LED backlit devices for TV applications are about to end, while those for PC- and other IT-related applications continue, according to industry sources.
LED chip maker Epileds Technologies suffered consecutive operating losses for the second and third quarters of 2022 and expects slow business to continue until the second quarter of 2023, according to company chairman Ming-sen Hsu.
Electronic paper developer Iris Optronics and display assembler Genetouch have teamed up, ready to launch a series of display products based on the former's cholesteric liquid crystal (ChLC) technology in 2023.
FIC Global will begin to ship advanced AR HUDs (head-up displays) in small volumes to US- and Europe-based electric vehicle (EV) vendors at the end of 2022, according to company president and CEO Leo Chien at a November 17 investor conference.
E-paper solution provider E Ink Holdings (EIH) has expressed optimism about e-paper public information display (PID) demand, particularly in Europe due to an update of EU energy labeling requirements.
LED probing, testing and sorting equipment maker FitTech has disclosed it has acquired Taiwan-based TWC Opto and China-based XQT-Opto Technology in a bid to strengthen its product lines of laser probing and testing equipment.
Liteon Technology announced that the second phase of its manufacturing facility in Haiphong, Vietnam, was officially inaugurated. As an overseas demonstration of Liteon towards Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, the facility will be highly automated, digitalized, and combined with advanced technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, playing a key role to manufacture networking and consumer electronics products.
