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Wednesday 30 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake has no significant impact on touch panel industry
Overall supply of touch panel materials has seen limited impact from the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan, as most of the production plants are located in...
Monday 28 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Earthquake may impact entry-level OLED applications
The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast coast of Japan have not had significant impact on OLED material supply, but may affect entry-level OLED panel applications,...
Friday 25 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Sony PS3 supply may run tight due to quake-hit laser diode production
The massive earthquake in Japan has impacted the supply chain of Blu-ray Disc (BD) players. Blue laser diodes used in BD players' optical pick-up head units (OPU) are mainly produced...
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake to affect several major IT industries of Korea
The earthquake in Japan will bring a significant impact on South Korea, which heavily depends on Japan for the supply of many components and materials.
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Quake impacts memory supply, spot price on the rise
Since Japan is second to South Korea in importance to the global memory industry, spot price for DRAM and NAND flash products both rose on the first trading day after the March 11...
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan quake likely to cause major disruptions to auto supply chain
The earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, the area where the country's major car and parts manufacturing is, will likely cause significant disruptions to the auto industry's...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake impact on IC packaging industry
Though several major IC packaging material suppliers have resumed operations at their earthquake-affected plants, there is still growing concern that production will be hampered by...
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Quake will not have serious impact on OLED material supply
Japan is an important supplier of upstream OLED materials. Sumitomo Chemical and Showa Denko are the main material producers of polymer-based OLED, and Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsui Chemicals...
Monday 21 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Limited wafer availability good for DRAM industry
With major silicon wafer plants remaining closed following the recent earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, there is growing concern in the memory industry whether chip companies...
Monday 21 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake impacts three major fab-tool suppliers
Three major Japan-based suppliers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment have suspended operations at several of their plants in the earthquake-ravaged areas with no timeframe for...
Monday 21 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan earthquake to affect HDD industry
The global hard disk drive (HDD) industry, already facing challenges from solid state drives (SSDs), cloud computing and limitation of vertical read-write technologies, is expected...
Sunday 20 March 2011
Status updates of IT firms possibly affected by Japan earthquake
Operations at most of Sony's earthquake-damaged plants remained suspended as of March 17.
Friday 18 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Earthquake impacts two major Japan LCD stepper makers
Looking at TFT LCD equipment supply, although South Korea has improved its own equipment production capability in recent years, it still relies heavily on Japan for PECVD, sputter...
Friday 18 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan represents over 30% of IGBT production, slight impact from quake
The impact the Japan earthquake has on photovoltaic (PV) inverters will be determined by the supply of insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) since Japan represents 30% of global...
Friday 18 March 2011
Digitimes Insight: Japan LCD component supplies see minimal impact from quake
As the epicenter of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 was located close to the northeastern prefecture of Miyagi, the local area has...