Despite stronger-than-expected growth during the fourth quarter, 2012 was still a miserable year for the semiconductor market and suppliers, with only eight out of the Top 25 chipmakers managing to eke out revenue growth—but nine ...
Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm are top three. Global semiconductor revenue has declined 2.6% to $299.9bn in 2012, according to a report from Gartner. The top 25 semiconductor vendors reported a 2.8% decrease in annual revenue, and accounted ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm
The local sharemarket has closed lower as investors struggle to maintain the confidence that marked the earlier months of this year. OptionsXpress market analyst Ben Le Brun said that although mining stocks had performed better on the ...
Tags: Shares Wilt, sharemarket
The Ford Falcon, Holden Commodore and Toyota Aurion locally-built trio continued the large segment's sales slump through the first quarter of 2013. Ford's sedan from Broadmeadows fell to just 831 units in March, down 34.8 per cent ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Transportation, Large Cars
Based on preliminary US Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that the US imported a total of 2,441,000 net tons (nt) of steel in February, including 1,819,000 net tons (nt) of finished ...
Tags: Finished Steel Imports, Mineral, Steel
To be able to withstand the challenge from low priced petrochemicals from the US in future, Asia’s biggest retailer, Sinopec Corp, earlier called China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, is gearing up to reduce its petrochemical production ...
Mobile-based browsing has tripled in the last two years, and is making significant inroads on traditional Internet access from personal computers, according to statistics from a Web metrics company. Mobile's gains are in part a side ...
Tags: Mobile, Browser Usage, app
The bedding industry took a dismal turn in February, with units declining 7.4% and the dollar value of wholesale shipments dropping 6.7%. For the first two months of the year, units are down 3.9% while dollars are down 3.2%, according to ...
Tags: Bedding Sales, bed, furniture
The Rieter Group held its own in 2012 against difficult market conditions worldwide. Order intake for the year as a whole declined by 12% to 839.7 million CHF, although Rieter received more orders in the second half-year than in the first. ...
Tags: Textile machinery, Textile, raw material
Ford will pay out US$750 million ($719 million) to hourly workers as part of a severance deal as it winds down production at its manufacturing plant in Genk, Belgium, by the end of next year. Reuters reports Ford has reached a deal with ...
We all love our tablets and smartphones, but do our gadgets love us back? In the ergonomic sense, definitely not. It's nearly impossible to have good posture while using mobile technology. The rules we observed so religiously when we were ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
According to statistics released by the Korea Iron & Steel Association (KOSA), Korea imported 100,600 tons of heavy plates in February, slumping by 69% year on year. It’s analyzed that weak demand for the Chinese materials from ...
Tags: Heavy Plate Imports, Heavy Plate, Steel
Nvidia hopes to make its ambitious break into the portable handheld gaming market in the next few months, the company's CEO said Tuesday. Speaking to analysts on the sidelines of the company's annual developer conference, Jen Hsun Huang ...
Tags: Nvidia, game market, Computer Products
According to the latest figures from IDC, the MEA region’s external storage market suffered a year-on-year decline in the last quarter of 2012. The research firm announced on Tuesday that the region’s external storage market ...
Tags: IDC, MEA region, external storage market
Microsoft has done something it's historically been loath to do: discount prices for the copies of Windows it sells to computer makers, online reports said today. Both the Wall Street Journal and the Asian electronics supply chain ...
Tags: Microsoft, computer, company news