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Tuesday 30 December 2014
China-based LED packagers expanding capacities
In view of fast growing global demand for LED lighting, China-based LED packaging houses Shenzhen Refound Optoelectronics, Guangzhou Hongli Opto-Electronic, MLS, Foshan Nationstar...
Tuesday 30 December 2014
LTPS, oxide handset panel penetration rate in China reaches 25%
As high-end smartphone shipments from China vendors are continuing to grow in the China market, the penetration rate for LTPS and oxide panels in China has grown to 25.8%. Local panel...
Monday 29 December 2014
China market: Penetration rate for Ultra HD TVs to reach 30% going into 2015
The penetration rate for Ultra HD TVs in the China market is expected to reach 30% going into 2015, according to supply chain maker estimations.
Monday 29 December 2014
Digitimes Research: OTT STB shipments to grow only 20% in 2014; competition between OTT and cable STBs fires up
China's over-the-top (OTT) set-top box (STB) market started taking off in 2012 and enjoyed a 10-fold on-year growth in 2013, but the market started seeing decline in the third quarter...
Monday 29 December 2014
China government issuing subsidies to upstream display players
China's central government is now centralizing efforts to foster development in the nation's panel component and materials segments in an effort to develop more comprehensive supply...
Monday 29 December 2014
Digitimes Research: China Mobile to have 80 million TD-LTE users at end of 2014
China Mobile had the number of its TD-LTE subscribers growing to 54.45 million as of the end of October 2014 and is expected to see the number reach 80 million at the end of the year,...
Monday 29 December 2014
China telecom carriers set aggressive 4G smartphone sales goals, says report
China Telecom and China United Network Communications (China Unicom) have been setting up LTE FDD/TD-LTE 4G networks in China, and have set aside budgets of CNY16 billion (US$2.58...
Friday 26 December 2014
ACES taps China automotive connector market
Taiwan-based electronic connector maker ACES Electronics will invest CNY35 million (US$5.65 million) in Nantong Great Electric (NTGEC), a China-based maker of automotive wiring harnesses...
Friday 26 December 2014
Leading China PV makers ready to set up production lines abroad to evade US taxation
First-tier China-based PV module firms have plans to set up overseas production lines to avoid US antitrust taxation, for which the US Department of Commerce is set to review a proposed...
Friday 26 December 2014
CGCC reportedly questions China PV systems quality
A China government-sponsored certification organization has found that about 30% of the country's PV power-generation systems show various problems three years or more after installation,...
Friday 26 December 2014
Compal plans to hike ODM prices by 5-15% to reflect wage hikes in China
Taiwan-based notebook ODM Compal Electronics is negotiating an increase in ODM prices by 5-15% with clients, with the adjustment needed to reflect ongoing wage hikes in China and...
Friday 26 December 2014
Acer unveils smart classrooms in China
Smart classrooms with hardware and software provided by Taiwan-based vendor Acer were unveiled in a primary school in Chongqing, western China, on December 25, with Acer founder Stan...
Wednesday 24 December 2014
Motherboard vendors see opportunity in China tier-4 to -6 cities
Motherboard brand vendors are seeing demand from China's tier-4 to -6 cities growing rapidly and are turning to place their resources into these markets for 2015, according to sources...
Wednesday 24 December 2014
Digitimes Research: China OGS touch panel makers hiking GFF capacity
Viewing that China-based smartphone vendors have begun to adopt more GFF (a glass sheet and two layers of ITO film) touch panels in high-end products than OGS (one glass solution)...
Tuesday 23 December 2014
China vendor Oppo to ship 50 million smartphones in 2015, say sources
China-based handset vendor Oppo is expected to ship up to 50 million smartphones in 2015 compared to 25-30 million units shipped in the previous year. For total shipments in 2015,...