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Monday 23 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Smartphone shipments to China unlikely to surpass 400 million units in 2014
China smartphone vendors' shipments started weakening in mid-May with the upstream supply chain also seeing orders turning week despite the fact that several China-based smartphone...
Monday 23 June 2014
China May mobile phone user base grows to 1.256 billion, says MIIT
There were 1.256 billion subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of May 2014, growing 0.36% on month and 7.82% on year. 464.07 million (36.94%) were 3G...
Friday 20 June 2014
First China supplier breaks into top 10 LED rankings in 2013, says IHS
China's massive investments in LED manufacturing capacity are paying off, with a China-based company entering the top ranks of the global market for the first time ever, according...
Friday 20 June 2014
More chipset suppliers to tie up with Taiwan-based IC design houses
More chipset suppliers are likely to tie up with Taiwan-based IC design houses in order to tap retail channels as well as to expand their ecosystem in China, according to industry...
Thursday 19 June 2014
Digitimes Research: Qualcomm far ahead of Marvell and MediaTek in China LTE market
Qualcomm, a leading player in terms of LTE technologies, started supplying LTE solutions to markets worldwide including China in 2013. But because of regulations and issues over licensing...
Thursday 19 June 2014
China market: Coolpad is top 4G smartphone vendor in May, says paper
Coolpad ranked as the top 4G smartphone vendor in the China market in May with a 23.1% share in the segment, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) cited Sino Market...
Wednesday 18 June 2014
China lowers 2014 PV installation goal to 10GWp
China's National Energy Administration, viewing that installation of distributed PV systems (mainly rooftop models) so far in 2014 has lagged far behind schedule, has lowered the...
Tuesday 17 June 2014
China market: MediaTek to ship over 200 million 3G handset solutions in 2014
MediaTek is expected to ship over 200 million 3G handset solutions in China in 2014, accounting for a 50% share of the segment and making MediaTek the top 3G solution vendor in the...
Tuesday 17 June 2014
Solar-grade wafer makers adjust pricing in wake of US anti-subsidy measures
Since the US Department of Commerce in early June imposed preliminary anti-subsidy tariffs on solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers, solar cells and PV modules imported from China,...
Tuesday 17 June 2014
China market: x86 server shipments up 22.9% in 1Q14, says IDC
Shipments of x86 servers in the China market during the first quarter of 2014 totaled 350,000 units, up 22.9% on year. Meanwhile, factory revenues of x86 servers during the quarter...
Tuesday 17 June 2014
China PV firms seeking help from Taiwan peers to cope with US anti-dumping taxation
China-based PV makers, expecting US anti-dumping tariffs to be announced in late July, have talked with Taiwan-based fellow makers about cooperation in an attempt to avoid such taxation,...
Monday 16 June 2014
Differentiation is the core advantage: Q&A MediaTek president Hsieh Ching-chiang
MediaTek has taken up to 60% of the 3G handset solution market in China, pushing the market value of the company shares to over NT$800 billion (US$26.68 billion) recently. Digitimes...
Monday 16 June 2014
Coretronic to purchase factory in eastern China
Backlight unit (BLU) and DLP projector maker Coretronic will acquire a LCM (liquid crystal module) factory in Wujiang, eastern China, from LED BLU and LCM maker Taiwan Thick-Film...
Friday 13 June 2014
UMC to expand foundry capacity to fend off competition from SMIC, say sources
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will ramp up its capacity for 40nm processes in order to fend off increasing competition from China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International...
Thursday 12 June 2014
China TV vendor sales outside of China expected to grow 40% in 2Q14
China TV vendors' sales to markets outside of China are expected to grow 40% on year in the second quarter of 2014.