For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
Tags: LED Makers, Entry Level, Electrical
China's State Council (central government) has ordered its subordinate agencies and local governments to stop offering subsidies and tax incentives for China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers because such offering has disrupted ...
Tags: LED industry, LED wafer
Due to inventory adjustments at lighting makers and weak demand for TV backlighting applications, LED chip makers are expected to suffer significant on-quarter decreases in shipments in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to LED supply ...
Tags: LED Chip, LED Epitaxial Wafer, LED
For third-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €45.6m, down just 1.3% on €46.2m both last quarter and a year ago. The utilization rates of most tier-one LED chip makers ...
Tags: Aixtron, deposition equipment, LED maker
SSD (solid-state drive) prices in the China market have drastically fallen, with prices for a 128GB model dropping to US$50-55 and those for a 256GB model to below US$100, according to Taiwan-based memory module makers. The prices ...
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Peripheral chip suppliers for the next-generation iPhone reportedly are preparing to build up combined inventories of related ICs equivalent for the production of 100 million units in the second half of 2014, according to industry sources. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Chip
For second-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, rebounding by 5% from €43.9m last quarter (which had been down 14% on the previous quarter) and up 2% on €45.3m ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD, Electronics
For second-quarter 2014, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $14.5m, up slightly on $14.3m ...
Driven by the fanfare over (and overestimation of) the LCD display market, the LED front-end equipment market experienced an unprecedented investment cycle in 2010-2011. The market surge was driven mostly by MOCVD reactor shipments to new ...
Tags: General Lighting, LED TV
Taiwan LED chip makers expect to benefit from orders from Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics for direct-type LED TVs as of the second quarter of 2014. Despite orders fluctuating from vendors in the China market, the Taiwan makers ...
Total semiconductor revenue in 2013 reached USD 318.1 billion, up from USD 303.1 billion in 2012. Last year’s growth effectively reversed the disappointing 2.4 percent loss of 2012, when revenue contracted from USD 310.6 billion in ...
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Taiwan-based LED chip makers and packaging houses are generally optimistic about their business operations in the second quarter of 2014 mainly due to strong demand from LCD TVs and mobile terminal devices, and in lighting, according to ...
Tags: LED Firms, LED Chips, packaging houses
Smartphones rank among the top technology products owned and/or used, and both smartphones and tablets rank among the top five devices used to connect to the Internet across all the countries surveyed in the Consumer Electronics ...
For full-year 2013, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported a 20% drop in revenue from 2012’s €227.8m to €182.9m. However, although down 34% on €77.5m a year ago, fourth-quarter revenue was ...
The situation, mixed with the entry of several new players at the chip and device levels (mostly from Asia), created a climate of overcapacity, price pressure, and strong competition. As a consequence, packaged LED volumes were sharply ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED