China-based LED firms Sanan Optoelectronics entered the Taiwan market in 2012, heating up competition and causing LED chip prices to fall. Some firms believe Sanan may become relatively slower in improving technology and others believe the ...
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The company has invested about €7.5 billion since it set up its Ireland base in 1989. Intel has secured planning approval from Ireland's planning agency to build a $4bn chip manufacturing plant in Leixlip, near Dublin. The new ...
With a tough 2012 behind it, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to return to profitability this year through cost-cutting, new chips and other measures, executives said Tuesday. The moves include releasing new chips this year for laptops and ...
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Due to falling LED chip prices, market observers believe Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar will need to rely on AlGaInP LED sales to increase the firm's profit margin while it is unlikely for Formosa Epitaxy to return to profitability ...
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Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar and Japan-based Toyoda Gosei have signed an agreement to set up a joint venture for the China market. According to Toyodo Gosei, the LED market in China has been plagued by price competition making it ...
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ASPs in the LED market fell 20-30% in 2012. LED makers believe the price fall for LED lighting products will be relatively significant compared to the price fall of backlighting products in 2013. In addition, the price for 60W retrofit LED ...
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Ex-employees accused of stealing over 100,000 files Chipmaker AMD has sued four ex-employees, alleging that they have stolen secret documents and trade secrets before joining its rival Nvidia. AMD filed a lawsuit in the US District ...
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The Greater China LED industry went through consolidation in 2012 and many tier-two and tier-three firms exited the market due to continuous net losses. The effects of the consolidations will show in 2013. Since newcomers in China ...
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As LED lighting is expected to boom, firms have been looking into adopting automated production. Nan Ya Photonics, a Taiwan-based joint venture between LED chipmaker Epistar and the Formosa Plastics Group, announced at the beginning of 2012 ...
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LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy plans to increase its total number of MOCVD equipment in Taiwan and China mainland to 104 by the end of the first quarter in 2013 due to an optimistic outlook about market demand. Demand in the LED backlight ...
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It was a jittery session for stocks, with shares falling more than 1 percent after Senate Majority Harry Reid warned a deal was unlikely before the deadline, only to rebound merely on the news that the House would reconvene Sunday, ...
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Samsung Electronics is assuming that technology in the iPad and iPhone violates its patents without knowing the actual processes in the devices'chipsets,Apple argued on Tuesday in Australian Federal Court. The second day of Apple and ...
US chipmaker Marvell Technology faces having to pay one of the biggest ever patent damage awards. A jury in Pittsburgh found the firm guilty of infringing two hard disk innovations owned by local university Carnegie Mellon. It said Marvell ...
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Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)plans to cut as many as 2,340 jobs,or about 20%of its workforce. The cuts are expected to be announced as early as next week,according to Bloomberg,citing an anonymous source as the plans are not yet ...
The jury found that Marvell infringed two university's patents A federal jury in the US ordered chipmaker Marvell Technology to pay$1.17bn in damages for patent infringement following a lawsuit filed by Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. ...
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