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Tuesday 2 October 2012
Taiwan LCD driver IC suppliers striving to win touch controller orders from China white-box market
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC companies are striving to win orders for touch controller chips from China's second- and third-tier white-box smartphone and tablet brands as a means to...
Tuesday 2 October 2012
Commentary: Challenges and strategies of China LED firms
China's government has been providing subsidies to help its domestic LED industry. Some firms have been benefitting but others remain in limbo amid rapid product price falls.
Tuesday 2 October 2012
MediaTek smartphone IC shipments likely to peak in 4Q12
MediaTek's shipments of smartphone chips will stand a good chance of reaching another monthly high during the fourth quarter if smartphone sales during China's October 1 holidays...
Tuesday 2 October 2012
No end in sight for polysilicon oversupply, says Solarbuzz
Despite the fact that most leading polysilicon producers have been operating at a loss, polysilicon capacity is expected to grow 22% in 2012 and a further 18% in 2013, according to...
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...