American Tire Distributors Holdings Inc. posted a net loss of $49.5 million on net sales of more than $1.2 billion for its second quarter ended July 5, 2014. That compares to a loss of $5.8 million on sales of nearly $1 billion for the same ...
The average annual unit growth rate of analog ICs has increased to 8.9 percent for the forecast period of 2013 to 2018, outpacing all other major IC product segments and total IC shipment growth, which is pegged at 7.2 percent growth, ...
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US recycler Metalico expects domestic ferrous scrap pricing to remain under pressure until the American scrap export market improves, it said Thursday. First-quarter US scrap exports were at an eight-year low, leading domestic exporters ...
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Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. reported net sales of $796 million for its first quarter of 2014, a decrease of $65 million compared with the same period a year ago. Operating profit for the quarter was $81 million, which is $16 million lower than ...
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GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical communications components for fiber-optic and wireless networks) has claimed a leadership position in point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul with ...
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Driven by surging demand from the lighting, tablet and cellphone backlighting segments, global revenue for gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) rose 10.6% from $11.2bn in 2012 to $12.4bn in 2013, but this could mark the last ...
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Driven by surging demand from the lighting, tablet and mobile backlighting segments, global revenues for GaN LED climbed 10.6% in 2013, but this could mark the last hurrah for the era of double-digit dollar growth for the market, according ...
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Related 4K NPD: Growth Coming In 4K Desktop Monitors 4K Technicolor Certifies Seiki 4K Cable, Adapter 4K Morega Demos 4K HEVC SoC 4K Video Audio Center Is Ready For The Holidays Santa Clara, Calif. — Falling production costs and ...
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Kid-safe tablets and smartphones are hitting the market, giving parents more control over how the mobile devices are used. Hollywood studio DreamWorks has joined the move, introducing its DreamTab at this week's Consumer Electronics Show ...
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Worldwide computer monitor shipments increased for the third quarter, despite the market being depressed year over year, according to IDC. IDC reported that monitor shipments were up 4.5 percent, with 35 million shipped worldwide. This ...
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As falling prices for LED lighting systems drive up adoption rates of LED lamps in the coming years, the adoption of intelligent lighting controls is also expected to accelerate. Intelligent lighting controls, including occupancy sensors, ...
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The Nasdaq computer index Friday hit its highest point since November 2000, in the wake of the dot-com bust, despite mixed reports this week from the hardware and components sector. The Nasdaq computer index closed Friday at 1989.89, up ...
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Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei and Yulong/Coolpad have taken advantage of the surging low-end smartphone market. According to IC Insights, the four major China-based handset companies are forecast to ship 168 million smartphones in 2013 and together ...
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Apple has unveiled a third consecutive decline in earnings as sales of Mac laptops and desktop computers fell, while unit shipments of smartphones and tablet computers continued to increase. The company sold 33.8 million iPhones, up from ...
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Packaged LEDs on brink of general lighting take-over 11 Oct 2013 Analysts at IHS expect market to double to $7.1 billion over next three years. Unit sales of packaged LEDs for general lighting are set to triple between now and 2016 as ...
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