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Friday 9 September 2011
Top-6 China TV brands expect shipments to rise in 3Q11, says WitsView
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...
Friday 9 September 2011
FCCL maker Thinflex looks to improving utilization rates
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...
Friday 9 September 2011
China solar module makers to slash quotes by 15%
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...
Thursday 8 September 2011
China has won the solar war, says Information Network
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...
Thursday 8 September 2011
Yingli, ECN and Amtech team up for N-MWT PV cell
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...
Thursday 8 September 2011
China-based CEC-Panda ramps up 6G LCD output to 60,000 sheets monthly
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...
Thursday 8 September 2011
MediaTek August sales up 16% on-month
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...
Wednesday 7 September 2011
New Dell/Baidu products expected to launch in November
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...
Wednesday 7 September 2011
China market: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu offer customized smartphones to provide mobile cloud computing services
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,...
Wednesday 7 September 2011
Price of solar wafers likely to drop below US$1.90 in October
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...
Tuesday 6 September 2011
Digitimes Research: Apple to lead in 2011 smartphone shipments
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...
Tuesday 6 September 2011
UTAC gains controlling stake in JV with SMIC
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has transferred nearly its entire stake in its packaging and testing joint venture to partner United Test and Assembly...
Monday 5 September 2011
China Unicom and China Mobile launch own-brand 3.5G smartphones competing with iPhones
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...
Friday 2 September 2011
Nichia files patent infringement lawsuit against Everlight
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...
Thursday 1 September 2011
China government to promote semi industry consolidation, says Digitimes Research
According to a recently published Digitimes Research...