India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is implementing energy efficient labels similar to U.S. ENERGY STAR labels, according to a report from The New Indian Express. Under the BEE scheme launched earlier this month, Indian LED ...
Rollouts of new smartphone models will stimulate demand for mobile DRAM memory in the fourth quarter of 2015, with the chip prices falling at a slower pace, according to DRAMeXchange. With the peak season for smartphone shipments ...
Tags: 4Q15, DRAM, mobile DRAM, SK Hynix
Falling product costs will help to propel the market for LED-based luminaires to some $25 billion in 2023, up more than a factor of 12 from today’s figure of $2 billion and equivalent to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 per ...
Analysts at the consultancy company IHS are predicting that the switch to solid-state lighting will cut global electricity demand for general illumination by a remarkable 24 per cent by 2020. According to the firm’s lighting ...
The Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on Sept. 27 in 2015. It is the second most important festival for Chinese people, only after the Spring Festival. In this year, a charity event "Super Mid-Autumn Reunion Dinner" has been launched across the ...
Major regional markets (i.e. China, the U.S. and Japan) and other emerging markets continue to drive the demand growth of this year’s photovoltaic (PV) market. The latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, says that the ...
Tags: PV market, PV installation
IC demand for tablet PCs has been weak prompting more chip suppliers to phase out their tablet-IC businesses, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses. The rising popularity of large-size smartphones has had an adverse impact ...
Tags: Tablet PCs, Smartphones
Chinese demand for seaborne-traded thermal coal will fall sharply from 2016, dragging prices down in its wake, analysts at Goldman Sachs said this week. In a report entitled The Tiger and the Dragon, the bank's analysts downgraded their ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Coal, Coal Mining
Global TV panel shipments reached 22.31 million units in July 2015, down 1% from the prior month and up 7% a year ago. Branded TV vendors remain optimistic about the peak season sales in the fourth quarter even though sales results in the ...
Tags: TV Panel, panel makers
Global woes drag crude prices, as demand continues to decline in China Retail fuel prices will be lowered slightly from Wednesday to better reflect the global fall in crude prices and the glut in the market, the nation's top economic ...
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It is often assumed that emerging-economy living standards are bound to converge with those in developed countries. But, leaving aside some oil exporters and the city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore, only three countries and regions ...
Tags: emerging economy, financial crisis
The National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planner, said on Monday that retail prices of gasoline would be cut by 110 yuan ($17.78) a metric ton, or 0.08 yuan a liter from Tuesday, while diesel prices would ...
Bough Lin, chairman of Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), has predicted that the semiconductor market is unlikely to return to its seasonal growth pattern until the third quarter of 2015. A seasonal pick-up in demand usually starts ...
Wheat futures told the story best early Monday morning: An 11-cent drop in the nearby futures contract in overnight trading was a surefire sign that it rained in the Plains . . . or that the trade thinks it did. Rain did fall, but it ...
Valentine's Day brings bonanza for boxed bouquets of blossoms Florists recorded a surge in sales of roses in the week leading up to Valentine's Day, with more people ordering luxurious bouquets of roses packed in boxes. Flower retailers ...
Tags: Valentine's Day Roses, Red Rose