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Thursday 12 April 2018
Uncertainty grows over large-size LCD TV panel prices
The price trend of large-size LCD TV panels has become increasingly uncertain recently, with some observers believing that quotes for such products will rise soon due to a low yield...
Thursday 12 April 2018
Chip demand from China handset firms picking up
Chip demand from China-based handset companies is picking up and will buoy sales performance at related chip suppliers, such as application processor designer MediaTek and LCD driver...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Tsinghua Unigroup readies CNY370 billion for chip deployments in next 5 years, says chairman
China's Tsinghua Unigroup has readied CNY370 billion (US$58.74 billion) to support its semiconductor deployments in the next five years, and plans to inject up to US$100 billion into...
Monday 9 April 2018
Global PV installation capacity in 2018 hard to predict, says CPIA executive
The total PV installation capacity to be added around the world in 2018 is difficult to predict mainly because of uncertainties in China, the US, India and Japan - the four largest...
Monday 9 April 2018
Zhao Weiguo resigns from two Tsinghua Unigroup subsidiaries
Zhao Weiguo has resigned as chairman of both Unisplendour and Unigroup Guoxin, as well as from their boards of directors. Zhao remains chairman of China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup,...
Monday 9 April 2018
Handset component makers braced for strong sales in 2Q18
Upstream component makers in the handset supply chains are braced for brisk sales in the second quarter of 2018, buoyed by the launch of new models and the replenishment demand for...
Monday 9 April 2018
China faces challenges in reducing PV power waste
China's National Energy Administration aims to reduce the proportion of PV-generated electricity that fails to connect to local power grids to below 5% total PV power in 2020, but...
Monday 9 April 2018
Dell releases gaming notebooks for different price segments in China
Dell has unveiled several new gaming notebooks under its Alienware brand and G series product line in China, featuring Intel's eighth-generation Core i9/i7/i5 processors, with prices...
Monday 9 April 2018
Korea becomes largest semiconductor equipment market in 2017, says SEMI
Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled US$56.6 billion in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 37% from 2016 sales of US$41.24 billion, according to SEMI....
Tuesday 3 April 2018
China smartphone vendors set high goals for overseas shipments
First-tier China-based smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology are stepping up their deployments and investments in overseas markets, as they have set...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
China becomes largest consumer of semiconductor packaging equipment and materials, says SEMI
Fueled by heavy government investment, IC packaging and testing in China generated US$29 billion in revenues in 2017, making China the world's largest consumer of packaging equipment...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Global February semiconductor sales increase 21%, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$36.8 billion for the month of February 2018, an increase of 21% compared to the February 2017 total of US$30.4 billion, according to the...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
IC packagers to see revenues bolstered by non-smartphone sectors
While strong demand for non-smartphone and 5G chips will keep foundry fabs running at full capacity in the second quarter, backend wafer test and IC packaging and testing service...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
China firms making progress in AI chip development
China-based artificial intelligence (AI) chip developers including Hisilicon Semiconductor, Cambricon, DeePhi Tech, Horizon Robotics and Bitmain have been aggressively planning new...
Tuesday 3 April 2018
Taiwan PC-related IC suppliers to post flat or slight revenue growth in 2Q18
Networking IC supplier Realtek Semiconductor, analog IC firm Anpec Electronics, power management IC specialist Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT), and MOSFET makers including Advanced...