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Monday 25 October 2021
China makers actively investing in mini/microLED
China-based panel maker BOE Technology in 2020 established a business unit for developing and producing miniLED fine-pitch displays and microLED displays, while LED chip maker Sanan...
Monday 25 October 2021
Lithium price surge sends battery makers scrambling for supply
Lithium price has been on the rise since 2020, bringing production costs of EV batteries higher. Theoretically, prices of battery cells and battery packs will rise by at least 30%,...
Friday 22 October 2021
China automaker Geely considers developing ICs in-house
China's Geely Automobile Holdings is reportedly mulling in-house development and production of chipsets for its own vehicles as it has newly expanded its registered businesses to...
Friday 22 October 2021
China Big Fund continues financing homegrown semi equipment suppliers
China's National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund (aka the Big Fund) continues to pour money into China's domestic fab toolmakers, looking to rev up the development of China's...
Friday 22 October 2021
China smartphone shipments fall 5% in September
Smartphone sales in the China market slipped 5.4% sequentially to 20.81 million units in September 2021, with non-Chinese brands accounting for less than 6% of the sales, indicating...
Friday 22 October 2021
Visionox, BOE, CSOT score points in OLED
China-based display panel makers Visionox Technology, BOE Technology and China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) have seen considerable achievements in producing and receiving...
Thursday 21 October 2021
CATL faces challenges in bid to build battery plant in US
The largest China-based lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) has reportedly planned to set up a battery factory in the US, but the company will face challenges,...
Wednesday 20 October 2021
AUO to expand 6G LCD panel capacity in China
Taiwan's Investment Commission has approved AU Optronics' (AUO) acquisition of a 49% stake in its China-based subsidiary, AU Optronics (Kunshan), from a joint-venture shareholder...
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Samsung new NAND flash capacity coming online in 2H21 may worsen price falls
The gradual commercialization of Samsung Electronics's new production capacity for NAND flash memory in the second half of 2021 has sparked concerns among market observers about a...
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Honor strengthens smartphone marketing in overseas channels
Honor, a spinoff from Huawei, has been re-establishing its partnerships with US-based vendors including Qualcomm, Microsoft and Intel since early 2020 and has risen to third place...
Tuesday 19 October 2021
TV sales during October holidays in China down 12.2% on year, says AVC
In the China market, 2.36 million TVs were sold during the week-long holidays in early October 2021, decreasing 12.2% on year, while the corresponding sales value of CNY9.1 billion...
Tuesday 19 October 2021
Economists warn spillover effect of China economic slowdown
China's third-quarter economic growth numbers slowed more than expected to 4.9% from the same period last year, falling short of the 5.2% forecasted by a Reuters poll, but the growth...
Tuesday 19 October 2021
First-tier China lithium battery makers keep prices unchanged for LTA clients
First-tier China-based lithium battery makers, despite continual hikes in material cost, have kept quotes unchanged for LTA (long-term agreement) supplies, according to industry so...
Monday 18 October 2021
Output of panel components, LCD modules in China falls 30% due to power restrictions
Local governments' restricting power supply in China has led to decreases in utilization of production capacities at LCD panel supply chain makers' factories mostly in southern and...
Friday 15 October 2021
Supply chain flexibility is crucial, says Cheney Wang, VP of supply chain and Taiwan GM of Latch
Latch was founded in 2014 by a group of former Apple employees and began trading on Nasdaq on June 7th, 2021 under LTCH. Through a SPAC listing, it raised $453 million and values...