There is a saying about how soccer is perceived in three big nations: Americans are not interested in watching soccer games but are good at playing it; Chinese like watching it but are poor players; Indians are neither fond of it nor able ...
Tags: World Cup, Sporting, China Sporting
LCD TV shipments are expected to reach 229 million units in 2015, up from 217 million in 2014, and are expected to further grow to 245 million in 2017. According to supply chain estimates, shipments will increase 3-5% on year throughout ...
Tags: LCD TV, OEMs, Electronics
TV sales in China during the October 1 holiday period are estimated to grow 2-3% on year in 2014, according to sources in the supply chain. Additionally, China-based research firm AVC has indicated it expects sales to grow 2.2% to 5.53 ...
Tags: TV sales, Ultra HD TVs
LED backlighting prices are expected to decline an average of 3-8% while LED demand for lighting applications will remain flat during the third quarter of 2014, according to LEDinside. The firm said because of the traditional slow season ...
Tags: LED Backlighting, LED demand
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has teamed up with research institution Fraunhofer IISB (Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology) in Erlangen, Germany, to develop 150mm silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxy ...
Tags: Aixtron CVD SiC, Electrical, Electronics
China-based TV vendors are extending efforts to promote their products in markets abroad, and expect lower-priced units will be most popular in China during the second half of 2014. Industry sources revealed that as LCD TV demand in China ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 27 June), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $587m, up 22% on $481m last quarter and 34.6% on $436.1m a year ...
Tags: Skyworks, semiconductors
As local and national governments struggle to deal with ever-growing piles of electronic waste (e-waste), scientists are now refining the picture of just how much there is and where it really ends up. Published in Environmental Science & ...
Tags: Geography, Electrical, Electronics
Samsung is building its own home in Silicon Valley, which will primarily concentrate on memory and display R&D. The Korean company aims to tap into the top-drawer pool of component, system and semiconductor talent here, and, of course, a ...
Tags: Samsung, Electrical, Electronics
Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that that several of its solutions are powering the Nighthawk X6 platform from networking product maker NETGEAR of San Jose, CA, USA. The device is reckoned to be the ...
Tags: Skyworks, Electrical, Electronics
For the second-quarter 2014, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $95.1m, up 5% on $90.8m last quarter but down 2.5% on $97.4m a year ago. Data Storage ...
Tags: Veeco MOCVD MBE ALD, Electrical, Electronics
Backlight unit (BLU) maker Radiant Opto-Electronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$23.308 billion (US$778 million), gross margin of 13.38%, net profit of NT$1.427 billion and net EPS of NT$3.07 for first-half 2014. For the ...
Global supply of panels used in notebooks, LCD monitors and TVs is expected to remain tight until the fourth quarter of 2014 or the first quarter of 2015, according to Innolux president Wang Jyh-chau speaking at a July 28 investors ...
Tags: LCD panels, Panel
OLED displays have been touted as the future TV, with advantages in superior viewing angles, deeper blacks, more vivid colors, and stunning level of detail. The new LG TV’s come with features including Color Refiner which is able to ...
Directed by Infineon Technologies AG together with partners Aixtron, SiCrystal AG and SMA Solar Technology AG, the three-year German project NeuLand (begun in late 2010) has developed highly integrated components and electronic circuits ...