The Commerce Department issued its final ruling Wednesday in a long-simmering trade dispute with China,imposing tariffs ranging from about 24 to nearly 36 percent on most solar panels imported from the country. The penalties are somewhat ...
Tags: the Commerce Department, China, solar panels, the USA, German
Sharp is expected to sign an agreement by the end of November with Qualcomm US based Intel and Qualcomm considering joint investment of about JPY30bn ($369m) in the struggling Japanese electronics firm Sharp. Sharp is expected to sign ...
Tags: Intel, Qualcomm, low-temperature polysilicon, IGZO display
China's LED chipmakers have been slowing down capacity expansion in 2012 due to market oversupply,but some firms have announced plans to invest in upstream epitaxial crystal processing. Industry sources noted that some installed equipment ...
Tags: LED, epitaxial crystal processing, chip, market
The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centered on the multi-billion dollar solar power market. The EU's ...
Tags: market view, solar power
Although the LED market is still growing steadily in terms of demand, corresponding market growth slows down amid excess capacity build, believes market research company LEDinside. The analysts expects the LED package industry growth to ...
Tags: LED packaging, LED
Two AU Optronics (AUO) subsidiaries, Lextar and Wellypower, are set to merge. According to David Su, chairman of Lextar, the only overlapping technology between the two firms is packaging. Wellypower currently has CCFL and SMD LED products ...
Tags: LED lighting
Taipei, Oct.29, 2012 (CENS)--Market consulting firm TrendForce predicts tablet PCs and smartphone will replace laptops, monitors and LCD TVs to drive growth in the LED backlight market worldwide next year. The company's studies estimate ...
Tags: tablet PCs, smartphone, laptops, monitors, LCD TVs, LEDs, LCD panel
Reeling from a glut of production capacity,makers of solar panels need to acquire innovative production equipment in order to cut costs,increase margins,and offer differentiated products,according to research released today byLux Research. ...
Tags: solar panel, equipment, LR
A recent report by GTM Research suggests that due to the oversupply of the solar industry at least 180 solar panel makers will go out of business or be bought out by 2015. Shyam Mehta, one of the analysts who composed the report, said that ...
Tags: industry trends, Solar
Glen Allen Virginia:Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has begun shipping its latest report on the building-integrated photovoltaics(BIPV)market titled,"BIPV Wall Markets–2012."This report quantifies the potential for wall-attached ...
Tags: Nanomarkets, Bipv Products, Walls, BIPV Wall Markets
Taipei,Sept.14,2012(CENS)--Influenced by slumping global economy,the aggregate sales of Japanese brand liquid crystal display(LCD)TV decreased this year,directly impacting Taiwanese LCD TV makersa shipments,according to C.H.Liu,assistant ...
Tags: LCD TV makers, Taiwan, declines, industrial equipment
A new series of monitors that feature ultra-high (4Kx2K) resolutions are expected to hit markets at the end of 2012, according to industry sources. Sources have yet to specify the company that will be releasing the monitors but claim that ...
Tags: 32-inch HIT monitor, 32-inch 4Kx2K monitor, IGZO technology, panel makers
Philips provides OLED outlook at The LED Show 31 Jul 2012 At The LED Show pre-conference workshop,Philips Lighting highlighted the similarities and differences between LEDs and OLEDs.The presentation also emphasized methods by which OLED ...
Manufacturers all over the world are starting to lay out plans for developing OLED products due to the wide variety of usage for which the technology can be applied, such as for display screens, flexible displays and lighting. Most OLED ...
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Commercialization of 4Kx2K high-definition panels in TVs started recently,but industry sources believe that the TVs will still need another 3-5 years to be widely accepted among consumers as ultra-mobile products such as tablets and ...