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Tuesday 2 October 2012
Panel makers look to continued shipment momentum in October
Having enjoyed strong sales to China in August and September, Taiwan-based LCD panel makers are hoping sales of LCD TVs in China during the October 1 holidays will be robust enough...
Tuesday 2 October 2012
China market: 50-inch flat screen TVs drop below CNY5,000 in holiday promotion
Vendors and retail chains in the China market have launched pricing campaigns to promote flat screen TVs during the 8-day National Day holiday period beginning September 30, with...
Monday 1 October 2012
China market: China Mobile aims to sell over 100 million TD-SCDMA devices in 2013
China-based telecom carrier China Mobile has set a goal of selling more than 100 million TD-SCDMA terminal devices in 2013, with 80% of them to be smart devices, according to the...
Monday 1 October 2012
Wistron lands OEM LCD TV orders from Haier, says paper
Wistron has reportedly landed OEM LCD TV orders from China-based brand Haier with shipments to start at a rate of 100,000 units a month initially in October 2012, according to a Chinese-language...
Monday 1 October 2012
GCL-Poly determined to hold current polysilicon price, says chairman
Market observers believe China's anti-dumping investigation against US- and South Korea-based polysilicon firms is likely to increase the price of domestic polysilicon supply. According...
Monday 1 October 2012
Taiwan, China LED industries facing shuffle, says Epistar chairman
The LED industry has been seeing rising sales but profitability has been decreasing in 2012. Biing-Jye Lee, chairman of Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar, noted that total revenue...
Friday 28 September 2012
Foxconn reportedly registers solar subsidiary in China
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has registered its solar subsidiary in China, according to news reports from China. The solar subsidiary will mainly produce solar...
Friday 28 September 2012
Commentary: Island dispute delays multi-lateral FTA between China, Japan, and South Korea
The recent island disputes between Japan and China, and Japan and South Korea are likely to delay the formation of a multi-lateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the three countries...
Friday 28 September 2012
Price of quad-core smartphones in China may fall to US$100/unit
Qualcomm and MediaTek have been competing over solutions for quad-core entry-level smartphones. China-based handset makers believe that, by the second half of 2013, there will be...
Friday 28 September 2012
Qualcomm to offer TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE reference design to enter China Mobile supply chain
Qualcomm will offer a TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE-based Qualcomm reference design (QRD) in a bid to enter China Mobile's supply chain in the first quarter of 2013.
Thursday 27 September 2012
China IC foundries move toward specific process manufacturing, says Digitimes Research
China-based IC foundries, except Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC), have moved to enhanced their specific process offerings...
Thursday 27 September 2012
Digitimes Research: China-based Elec-Tech ramping up LED chip capacity
China-based Elec-Tech's LED revenues have been increasig, with the business segement's contribution reaching around 32% of total revenues in first-half 2012. A further breakdown shows...
Thursday 27 September 2012
IC design firms seeing strong demand from China smartphone market
The expanding smartphone market in China has caused the supply of related chips, such as LCD driver ICs, touchscreen controller ICs and analog chips, to fall short of demand, according...
Thursday 27 September 2012
Intel CEO meets Acer executives to discuss smartphone business
Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently had a meeting with Acer's executives in Taiwan, discussing the smartphone business and has also introduced some telecom carriers to Acer as a foundation...
Thursday 27 September 2012
ARM architecture expected to have market potential for use in servers, say Taiwan makers
ARM architecture, due to its advantages in low power consumption, is expected to have potential for applications in servers. In particular, China-based operators of Internet services...