Global production of high-brightness LED chips in 2014 will reach a total value of US$12.743 billion, increasing 129% on year, according to Digitimes Research. LED lighting will take up 39.4% of high-brightness LED chips to be produced in ...
Tags: High-Brightness LED, LED Lighting
Some ODMs will see their shipments of TVs decline sharply in 2013 due to decreasing global TV demand, according to industry sources. Compal Electronics is expected to ship three million ODM TVs in 2013, down 37.5% from 4.8 million shipped ...
Tags: TV Panel, Electronics
Large-size (9-inch and above) TFT LCD panel shipments are expected to reach 675 million units in 2014, down 1.4% on year, according to Digitimes Research. LCD TV panel shipments will see only 0.7% growth. Panel shipments will outpace LCD ...
China-based white-box vendors are expected to ship 80-90 million tablets in total in 2013, hiking 60-80% on year, and may ship 100 million units in 2014, up 25% on year, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. The sources pointed ...
Tags: White-Box Vendors, Tablets
Average retail prices for LED light bulbs equivalent to 40W and 60W incandescent ones in the Japan market stood at JPY1,717 (US$17.2) and JPY2,468 respectively in October, slipping on month by 3.2% and 3.7% respectively, according to ...
Tags: LED Bulb, Average Prices
US-based crystal growth solution and equipment provider GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has announced that Apple will pre-pay US$578 million to secure sapphire supply. GTAT will be able to use the funds to set up additional sapphire ...
Tags: Apple Funding, iPhone Screen
Global LED tube shipments are expected to reach 380 million units in 2014 to give the technology a 9.74% penetration rate in the market, according to Digitimes Research. The lamps are becoming more in demand than fluorescent units due to ...
Tags: LED Tube, LED shipments
Shipments of notebooks to be launched in the peak sales period prior to new year began in October, but shipments in the fourth quarter are expected to increase on quarter by less than 5% and quite a large portion of shipments are ...
Tags: Notebook Shipments, Electronics
The number of LEDs used in Ultra HD TV panel backlighting in 2014 is expected to reach 497 million units, up 91% on year, according to Digitimes Research. The average size Ultra HD TV panel shipped during the year is expected to be ...
Tags: HD TV Panels, LED
LED TV vendors are planning to shift their focus more onto edge-lit units in 2014, which are expected to make up as high as 60% of LED TVs in the market during the year. The penetration rate for direct-type backlit LED TVs has been ...
Tags: LED TV, Edge-Lit Units
The average retail prices for LED light bulbs equivalent to 60W incandescent bulbs in the US, Europe, Japan and South Korea declined by 1.5-3.8% on month in September, Digitimes Research has found. September average retail price for 40W ...
Tags: LED Light Bulbs, Lighting
With more and more smartphones and other portable devices adopting sapphire as cover glass, sapphire ingot vendor Sapphire Technology Company (STC) is looking to double its production capacity to meet the anticipated growth in demand, ...
The MHL Consortium on August 20, 2013 unveiled the new MHL 3.0 standard, pushing nine new features. Among the nine features, only seven are real enhancements, while the remaining two are just reaffirmation of the standard's existing ...
China-based smartphone and tablet makers' influence in the IT market has been growing rapidly and according to Digitimes Research's latest figures, among the 950 million smartphones shipped globally in the first half of 2013, about 330 ...
Tags: smartphone, tablet, IT market
Nintendo's Wii U is currently suffering from weak shipments and its quarterly shipments are even lower than those of the Wii, the previous-generation model. Seeing the issue, most third-party game developers have decided to withdraw from ...
Tags: Business Strategy, Nintendo