China's top-six TV brands shipped 2.92 million units of TV sets in July 2011, up 12.5% on month and 33.7% on year, Witsview has revealed. The six vendors' TV shipments in August and...
Taiwan-based Thinflex, a supplier of flexible copper clad laminates (FCCLs), expects utilization rates at its plants in China and Taiwan will rebound to 70% in the third quarter of...
Price negotiations held during EU PVSEC 2011 have been a battlefield between suppliers and customers. China-based first-tier solar integrated firms have reportedly quoted solar modules...
Weakening demand claimed its first victim with the bankruptcy of Evergreen Solar. Solar Power Industries in PA closed its doors in May. Spectrawatt, the solar cell manufacturer that...
Yingli Green Energy Holding, a China-based solar energy company which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar," joins effort with the Energy research Center of...
China-based CEC-Panda LCD Technology has ramped up panel production at its 6G plant to 60,000 sheets a month with a yield rate of up to 90%, according to industry sources. The 6G...
IC design house MediaTek has reported NT$8.31 billion (US$285 million) in consolidated revenues for August 2011, up 16.3% sequentially. The figure also represented the highest monthly...
Dell has announced plans to cooperate with China-based online search engine Baidu to develop new tablet PC and smartphone products that feature Baidu's software platform and some...
Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, three web portals in the China market, have cooperated with handset vendors to launch customized smartphones to provide mobile cloud computing services,...
The current price of 6-inch solar wafers is around US$1.95/unit but the industry expects prices to drop to US$1.80-1.85/unit in October. The price of polysilicon is expected to decrease...
Global smartphone shipments for 2011 will reach 462 million units, rising 60% from the 288 million shipped in 2010, according to Digitimes Research. Apple is expected to overtake...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has transferred nearly its entire stake in its packaging and testing joint venture to partner United Test and Assembly...
China Unicom and China Mobile both have launched own-brand 3.5G handsets using chipset solutions from MediaTek, with prices set below CNY1,000 (US$156), or one-quarter the price of...
Japan-based LED firm Nichia Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Tokyo District Court to enjoin Chip One Stop from infringing Nichia's patent (No. 4530094, or "patent...
