The top three foundries are in the world top ten semiconductor companies ranked by first half sales, says IC Insights. TSMC's capacity utilization rate in 2Q12 was 102% (exceeding 100% because of the way the company defines its ...
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On 5 December, leading industry representatives met in Brussels to formalize and launch LightingEurope, the new voice of the lighting industry in Europe. This new association represents European lighting companies, including SME’s ...
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While an analyst firm is reporting that global semiconductor revenue has dipped 3% this year, the market is expected rebound in 2013. Gartner Inc. reported this morning that worldwide chip revenue will hit $298 billion this year, a 3% ...
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
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IDG News Service - This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first ...
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Mr Jyotiraditya Scindia the minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power said that as per extant policy, Foreign Direct Investment up to 100% is permitted in the power sector, under the automatic route, for: i) Generation and ...
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Source: Toshiba Toshiba’s white LED package Toshiba Corporation will begin mass production of white LEDs on 200mm silicon wafers this month based on technology that it licensed and developed with Californian firm Bridgelux. ...
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Thanks to the replenishment demand from brand vendor in 3Q12, the production value for October has shown a respective performance compared to the same period of last year. According to LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, total ...
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Become a craze with the energy-saving China LED industries have sprung up everywhere, branching out of one after another across the continent. In the Pearl River Delta, Huizhou City, Guangdong is actively building the national China LED ...
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Taiwan-based ODM Inventec has obtained PV(photovoltaic)module orders from a Japan-based client and has begun shipments,according to company chairman Richard Lee. While Inventec has been an ICT product supplier for the client,the client ...
Prices for LED light bulbs to replace 60W incandescent bulbs are expected to keep falling from an average of US$30 in November 2012 to as low as US$10 in the first half of 2013, according to Taiwan-based LED lighting makers. The ...
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Toshiba will begin mass production of white LEDs on 200-mm silicon wafers this month based on technology that it licensed and jointly developed with Bridgelux. Toshiba has announced that it will begin production of white LEDs on 200-mm ...
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Toshiba said Tuesday it will soon begin mass production of a new line of hybrid disk drives equipped with flash memory, touting them as a low-cost replacement for the solid-state drives used in ultrabook and laptop computers. Hybrid ...
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The Japanese semiconductor industry is on a downward spiral as rival companies in Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S. made gains in chip, memory and integrated circuit sales, research firm IC Insights said in a study. The sales of ...
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For its most recent financial quarter, IBM experienced declining revenue and flat income, though it still managed to deliver increased earnings per share. In the third quarter, IBM generated US$24.7 billion in revenue, down 5 percent from ...
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