CONNECT WITH US
Global supply chain: China market
China market news coverage
IN THE NEWS
Tuesday 2 October 2018
Spirox reshuffles top management
Taiwan-based Spirox, which distributes and sells packaging and testing equipment, has reshuffled its top management in a move to expand its presence in China.
Monday 1 October 2018
Memory market growth promising: Q&A with Apacer president CK Chang
The memory-chip market exhibited impressive growth in 2017 as undersupply drove up both the DRAM and NAND flash prices. However, oversupply has re-emerged this year casting a shadow...
Friday 28 September 2018
Sharp China eyeing 20% revenue growth in 2019
Having seen its performance in the China market improve significantly thus far in 2018, Sharp aims to ramp up its yearly sales revenues in the market by 20% in 2019, according to...
Friday 28 September 2018
JD.com sells PV products online in China
JD.com online shopping operator has begun selling PV products, including modules, inverters and other components, and offering brokerage services for installing and maintaining PV...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Trade war set to hit China LED lighting makers
The latest US plan to impose 25% of tariffs on China-made products beginning January 1, 2019 is expected to drive LED lighting vendors to reduce orders for China-based makers and...
Wednesday 26 September 2018
Cooling fan maker Yen Sun expanding capacity in China, Taiwan
Cooling fan supplier Yen Sun Technology will see its new plants in Taiwan and China start commercial runs by the end of 2018 and in early 2019, respectively, boosting its overall...
Wednesday 26 September 2018
China to account for 90% of pure-play foundry market growth in 2018, says IC Insights
China's pure-play foundry market is expected to increase 51% in 2018, while China's total share of the global pure-play foundry market will jump by 5pp to 19%, according to IC Insights...
Wednesday 26 September 2018
PCB sector sees little impact from US-China tariff war
The US has recently kicked off imposing additional tariffs on roughly US$200 billion of imports from China, promoting Taiwan major assemblers of electronics products to seriously...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
TSMC to set up new fab for advanced packaging
Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has started its environmental impact assessment on land designated for construction of a new plant by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
China 5G market unlikely to grow in scale until after 2022, Digitimes Research says
The end-user market for 5G networks in China may not enter a stage with meaningful growth until after 2022, as telecom operators there are aiming to kick off commercial operations...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
North America semi equipment industry billings drop to 9-month low
The three-month average of worldwide billings of North America equipment manufacturers registered a sequential decrease for the third consecutive month in August 2018, reaching a...
Friday 21 September 2018
US, Europe equipment vendors reducing PV focus
US and Europe equipment vendors have reduced investment and R&D efforts for the PV sector in the wake shrinking demand from China, and instead are focusing more on the semiconductor...
Thursday 20 September 2018
China IC industry to gain solid footing in five years, says Tsinghu Unigroup chairman
China's IC industry is expected to establish a solid foothold in five years and go on to become a top-three or top-four player globally in 2028-2030, according to Zhao Weiguo, chairman...
Thursday 20 September 2018
China IC designers joining world-class ranks, says TSMC executive
China-based fabless IC firms have managed to become world-class chipmakers following 10 years of technology advancement, and they are now technologically on a par with global peers,...
Thursday 20 September 2018
China makers trialing new solar cell technologies
China-based makers are keen on trialing new technologies, mainly PERC (passivated emitter and rear cell) TOPcon (tunnel oxide pasivated contact), N-type TOPcon and HIT (herterojunction...