Global shipments of large-size LCD panels in fourth-quarter 2011 decreased by 1% on quarter, resulting in 174 million units.

Shipments of LCD monitors by Taiwan makers totaled 27.46 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, down 5.7% sequentially and 13.1% on year, according to data compiled by Digitimes...

Phison Electronics has announced it made solid earnings in 2011 thanks to its cost advantage over fellow flash memory controller firms. The company is migrating to 55nm processing...

After losing market leadership in the third quarter, Apple returned to the number one rank in global smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter as consumers flocked to buy the newly...

Philips has reported fourth-quarter 2011 sales of EUR6.7 billion (US$8.8 billion) with lighting sales up by 7% on year. Fourth-quarter 2011 net losses resulted in EUR160 million due...

Booming smartphone sales made Samsung Electronics' latest quarter its most profitable quarter ever, according to the company.

Taiwan's direct Internet connection with 18 countries (including Hong Kong and Macao) reached a total bandwidth of 579.309Gbps as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2011, increasing...

Corning has reported fourth-quarter 2011 revenues of US$1.9 billion, down 9% on quarter but up 7% on year. Net incomes were US$491 million, down 39% from third-quarter 2011.

Solar module prices increased by 7% in December 2011 due to a temporary pick-up in demand ahead of feed-in-tariff (FiT) reductions in a number of key markets, according IMS Research...

Taiwan-based IC substrate maker Kinsus Interconnect Technology reported 2011 total revenues of NT$16.871 billion (US$563 million), up 15.05% on year. Kinsus' fourth-quarter 2011 revenues...

DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology's net losses for 2011 widened to NT$39.88 billion (US$1.33 billion) from NT$15.13 billion a year ago. Revenues declined 35% on year to NT$36.74 billion...

Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical shipped 12.219 million digital cameras in the fourth quarter of 2011, decreasing 21.8% on quarter and...

Shipments of small- to medium-size flat panels by Taiwan makers totaled 368 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011, down 4% on quarter but up 10.8% on year, according to data...

Taiwan-based Cal-Comp Electronics expects its external hard drive shipments in 2012 to double from those in 2011 with global market share to reach 50%.

Due to a surge of demand in December, Germany's 2011 total solar installations reached 7.5GW, exceeding installations in 2010 and expectations. Industry sources believe inventories...