The termination of China's Home Appliance Subsidiary programs in first-half 2013 caused LED backlight market demand to ease in June and July 2013. However, some chip makers have reflected rebounding performances due to stable market orders ...
Tags: LED Makers, LED Lighting
China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Elec-Tech International has been seeking strategic alliances with Taiwan-based fellow makers, with Genesis Photonics being the most likely target, according to industry sources in Taiwan. ...
Tags: LED chip, LED lighting
Taiwan- and China-based LED chip makers are expected to lay the emphasis on market share gains over the next two years, instead of profitability which was primarily considered in the past, according to chairman Lee Biing-jye for ...
Tags: LED Makers, Epistar
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has given a conditional approval to China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics' proposal to invest NT$2.352 billion (US$78.4 million) in Taiwan-based fellow maker ...
A 110-core chip has been developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology as it looks for power-efficient ways to boost performance in mobile devices, PCs and servers. The processor, called the Execution Migraine Machine, tries to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Two major Taiwanese chip makers are set to merge after China's anti-trust regulator approved the deal with only minor provisions. The thumbs-up from China's Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) will enable MediaTek's $4bn purchase of MStar ...
Tags: Chip, taiwan, Computer Products
Intel is expected to announce availability next week of a low-power Atom server chip code-named Avoton, which is likely to appear soon in systems such as Hewlett-Packard's Moonshot. Avoton chips will become part of Intel's Atom C2000 ...
Tags: Computer Products, chip
The global LED market value recorded a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 20-30% during 2010-2012, but most of Taiwan-based LED makers did not see substantial growth in revenues, and this was possibly because they worked separately in ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lights
Due to strong demand in the global LED lighting market in first-half 2013, the utilization rate of metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) systems that the major chip makers have installed and debugged is rising, according to ...
Tags: China, MOCVD Tool, LEDs, GaN
Total revenue for Taiwan-listed LED makers fell from NTD10.96bn in May to NTD10.6bn in June, as the LED market was affected by declining demand for backlight application and stocktaking, according to LEDinside (a subsidiary of industry ...
Tags: LED Market, LED Backlights
Some of Taiwan-based LED chip makers have extended to packaging, offering solutions that EMS players can directly turn into lighting products, according to industry sources. The makers are revisig their business amid fast growing demand ...
Tags: LED chip, LED lighting, Packaging
Taiwan-based LED chip makers will generate total production value of US$1.82 billion in 2013, growing 19.2% from 2012, according to Digitimes Research. Among LED applications, lighting will account for 33% of the value, followed by 32% ...
Prices for sapphire ingots in the third quarter of 2013 are expected to increase by 15-20% on quarter mainly due to growing demand from LED makers and China-based smartphone vendors, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Prices ...
Tags: Taiwan, smartphone, Consumer Electronics
According to the latest '2013 Global Sapphire Substrate Market Report' published by the LEDinside research department of market research institute TrendForce, sapphire substrate manufacturers are optimistic about the emerging demand for ...
Tags: substrates LEDs, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and ...
Tags: AMD, Server Strategy, ARM Chips