As the life-cycles of gambling machines are decreasing due to increasing competition among casinos, Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) makers, including Advantech, IEI Integration, Ibase Technology, Axiomtek, Firich Enterprise and Astro, are ...
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Taiwan-based smartphone vendor HTC on October 23 denied media reports that claimed the company had shuttered some of its production lines, looking to outsource production in order to ease the pressure on its cash flow. In a company filing ...
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MediaTek is expected to see its shipments of tablet solutions double in 2014 from 15-20 million units projected for 2013 and account for 30% of the non-iPad tablet chipset market, according to an industry estimate. MediaTek has launched ...
Reshuffling in the LED chip manufacturing industries in Taiwan and China through merger may happen faster than originally expected and larger makers will merge with smaller ones, leaving only two Taiwan-based makers and three China-based ...
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Prices for sapphire, due to potential extended use in smartphones, are expected to increase 10-15% in the first or second quarter of 2014, Taiwan-based makers cited Russia-based sapphire maker Monocrystal as indicating. Following use to ...
Tags: Sapphire, smartphone rear cameras
Taiwan-based Motech Industries on October 17 unveiled its Sirius series monocrystalline silicon solar cells with a maximum energy conversion rate of 20.5% and will kick off volume production in the first quarter of 2014. Motech said it ...
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Foxconn Electronics has obtained Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification for frames for PV systems and the company indicated that it currently produces such frames on an OEM basis. Since Foxconn also has experience in producing solar ...
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Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that China Steel Sumikin Vietnam Joint Stock Company, its steel sheet joint venture with the Taiwan-based steel producer China Steel Corporation, will start ...
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Taiwan-based LED packaging houses Everlight Electronics and Unity Opto Technology as well as LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics hold optimistic business outlooks for the fourth quarter of 2013 mainly because demand for LED ...
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The average spot market quote for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer has risen slightly by 1.18% to US$0.86/W, while that for high-efficiency models by 1.09% to US$0.926/W, according to Taiwan-based maker Green Energy Technology ...
Tags: Spot Prices, Silicon Wafers
Taiwan-based BIOS designer Insyde Software has announced consolidated revenues of NT$82.48 million (US$2.81 million) for September, flat on month but down 32.78% on year, with consolidated revenues for the first nine months of 2013 reaching ...
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Taiwan-based IT and consumer electronics retail chains Tsann Kuen Enterprise and E-Life Mall saw their September consolidated revenues slip sequentially by 0.22% and 13.86%, respecitvely. Tsann Kuen's September consolidated revenues ...
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China Petrochemical Development Corporation (CPDC) is expected to shutdown its Acrylonitrile (ACN) plant for maintenance turnaround this month. "The Da-Sheh based ACN plant is expected to remain off-steam for around 15 days from October ...
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China Electric, a Taiwan-based conventional lighting product maker, has announced a plan to invest NT$128 million (US$4.32 million) to acquire a 59.91% stake in GIO Optoelectronics, a Taiwan-based CCFL and LED lighting product maker, in ...
Solar-grade crystalline silicon ingot and wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.16 billion (US$39.3 million) for September 2013, the highest monthly level since October 2011 and increasing ...
Tags: crystalline silicon, wafer