Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $41.5m for full-year 2013, down 38% on $67.2m for 2012. ...
Tags: optical products, increasing utilization, competitive landscape
Once the mobile world's pioneers, Nokia, Motorola and BlackBerry are now the industry's sorry laggards, searching for lost glory. Analysts hold out little hope for them as they struggle to get back in a game now lorded over by Samsung and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, Samsung, smatrphone
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have failed to settle their latest patent dispute despite a daylong meeting between top Samsung executives and Apple CEO Tim Cook hosted by a mediator earlier this month. The companies detailed ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Corning's Gorilla Glass customers include Apple and Samsung Electronics. New smartphone glass screens are set to be developed by American manufacturer Corning this year. The shatter-resistant screens created with Corning's 3D Gorilla ...
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Have you ever called your cellphone carrier to report poor signal strength? Sure you have. And did that carrier do anything significant to fix the problem? Of course it didn't—unless you live in South Korea. "I guarantee ...
Tags: mobile traffic, 4G, LTE-Advanced technology, wireless networks
Spurred by demand from the LED lighting and mobile device markets, sapphire substrate manufacturers have been actively expanding their production capacity, according to the report ‘Global Sapphire Substrate Market 2013’ from ...
Tags: LED, smartphone
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA recently opened its newest design center in Seoul, South Korea, strategically situated close to key customers (including some of the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Lenovo plans into Germany smartphone market in the near future. Since 2014, the third of the world's smartphone makers will sell smartphones to German, before it has to sell personal PC and laptop computers. Lenovo PC and notebook ...
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A jury on Thursday ordered Samsung Electronics to pay Apple $290 million for copying features of the iPhone and iPad. That was in addition to $640 million the South Korea-based Samsung already owed Apple from a ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Verdict, $290 million
For third-quarter 2013, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, RFIC, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $11.1m, down 45% on $19.9m ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA are sampling the first RF ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS CMOS SOI RF switches, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has announced the UltraCMOS 10 platform, the latest development of its UltraCMOS ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Finnish mobile giant Nokia Corp introduced its first ever Windows tablet, the Nokia Lumia 2520, and launched a portfolio of large screen Lumia smartphones: the Lumia 1520 and 1320, in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. Finally, Nokia made an ending to ...
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PC giant Lenovo is considering a bid for troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry. The news follows the revelation that it has been granted permission to examine the company's books and comes after months of denials that it was interested in ...
Tags: Computer Products, Lenovo, Blackberry
Homegrown Chinese mobile phone makers have seen a high-end chip supply shortage become a big obstacle on their expansion way. Gu Wenjun, a senior analyst with iSuppli, said in an interview recently that China imported USD 192 billion ...
Tags: Smartphone, Chip