China’s domestic PV demand continues to rise in May. Hence, the leading PV companies are now expanding their businesses into the downstream sector, focusing on PV system in particular. This in turn drives the capacity expansion ...
Tags: PV Systems, PV Moudle
As it enters into February, the off-season market before the long Chinese New Year vacation leads spot prices of certain solar PV products such as polysilicon, wafer and PV cells to drop. Prices of PV modules remain relatively flat because ...
Tags: Solar PV, Solar Cell
Ichor Systems Inc of Tualatin, OR, USA (which designs and manufactures process tools, gas delivery modules and chemical delivery modules for original equipment manufacturers) has had its new 36,600ft2 European head office in Hamilton ...
For August, Taiwan's WIN Semiconductors Corp (the world's largest pure-play gallium arsenide foundry) has reported revenue of NT$1.04bn (US$34.5m) - its highest revenue in the past 12 months - up 7.41% on July and up 23.45% on a year ago. ...
Process control and yield management solutions provider KLA-Tencor Corp of Milpitas, CA, USA has introduced the WaferSight PWG patterned wafer geometry measurement system, the LMS IPRO6 reticle pattern placement metrology system, and the ...
Tags: KLA-Tencor, process control loops
After US announced its preliminary determination on the CVD and AD duty, the momentum in the market has turned weak rapidly. Module and cell manufacturers were the first to be challenged by the decreased capacity and increased inventory. In ...
Impacted by the US-China trade war, PV cell manufacturers’ utilization rates continued to drop in June, and thus affected manufacturers’ sales performances, according to EnergyTrend, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based market ...
Tags: PV cell, Solar Cell
MicroSense LLC of Lowell, MA, USA, which supplies dimensional non-contact wafer metrology equipment for manufacturing silicon, compound semiconductor and power devices as well as magnetic metrology systems for MRAM (magnetoresistive ...
Tags: LED, LED Chip, LED component
PV stock clearance is nearly ending. Industry demands continued to increase in April and May this year, but orders for June 2014 remain uncertain. Thus, the spot market is still observing supply and demand changes in 2Q14. Meanwhile, a ...
PV demand has been boosting since 4Q13, and EnergyTrend predicts that global PV system installation may reach 42GW in 2014. Although the U.S. court has started the anti-dumping and countervailing investigation towards Taiwanese PV cell ...
Tags: High-Efficiency Product, PV Demand
EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce, indicates that since high-efficiency wafer supply shortage remains and demand is still strong, both buyers and sellers have started to plan for February orders ahead of time. It’s ...
Tags: Wafer, Raw Material
EnergyTrend indicates that cell manufacturers may revise the price upward to correspond to the increased poly and multi-si wafer price. Recent targeted average price is US$0.4/watt. “After poly price slightly declined in 2Q13, it ...
Tags: Cell, Poly, Multi-si Wafer
U.S. manufacturer Veeco and German company Aixtron that have long possessed China’s LED epitaxal wafer MOCVD market, will be facing “war declarations” issued by Chinese manufacturers, according to a report by Chinese ...
Tags: MOCVD Equipment, Lighting
LEDforum 2013 Taipei will be hosted by LEDinside on October 16th-17th, 2013. Aside from inviting International and local Taiwanese big named manufacturers to the conference, China LED wafer manufacturer San'an and LED packaging manufacturer ...
The financial report recently published for Taiwan LED manufacture 2Q performance shows LED packaging manufacturers are fairing far better than the majority of wafer manufacturers whom are still in a state of deficit. Among seven packaging ...
Tags: LED, taiwan, LED Packaging