Production growth in China's machinery sector slowed sharply in the first half of 2015, an industry association said on Thursday, predicting a moderate rebound amid grim conditions. The China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF) said the ...
Combined handset shipments by Taiwan-based handset vendors and ODMs in the third and fourth quarters are likely to be lower than the amount they shipped in the second quarter, reflecting slackening demand, according to Digitimes Research. ...
Tags: handset shipments, TCL, LG Electronics
Affected by a variety of factors, including fallout from the Greek debt crisis, slowing growth in China coupled with its recent stock market slump, steady displacement of Taiwanese suppliers by mainland Chinese counterparts, sagging ...
In the first six months of this year, Taiwan exported US$10.12 billion of machinery, including US$1.64 billion of machine tools, both of which representing year-to-year decreases, with the total export inching down 0.4 percent and the ...
Tags: machinery exports, machine tools
Shaanxi Auto cargo van “100 Cities” introduction meeting was held in Jinan on July 18, and this is the first leg in Linyi City. Shaanxi Auto Sales Company deputy GM Liu Xiangtao, together with other leaders, dealers, customers ...
Tags: Auto Trucks, Auto cargo
After prices for LED chips and packaging services fell 10-17% in first-half 2015, prices are expected to be stable in third-quarter 2015 due to peak demand, but may fall again in fourth-quarter 2015 and first-quarter 2016 due to slow ...
Tags: LED market, LED Prices
US based apparel marketer Columbia Sportswear Company said its net sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2015 grew 17 per cent year over year and thereby created a record for second quarter sales. In a press release, Columbia Sportswear ...
Tags: Sportswear, apparel
For the second quarter of 2015, overall orders for Italian textile machinery recorded a 15 per cent increase over the same period of last year. An Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) press release informed that ...
Tags: Textile Machinery, Textile
Although the production capability of China-based notebook ODMs is still too small to make a significant impact on their Taiwan-based counterparts, the notebook supply chain in China stands a chance of expanding their presence in the global ...
Researchers in the USA have developed vertical Schottky and pn gallium nitride (GaN) diodes on silicon with performance comparable to devices grown on much more expensive substrates [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor
The Russian outdoor apparel and garment industry is trying for foreign investment in the sector. Representatives of the official Russian delegation at OutDoor, Europe’s leading trade fair for the outdoor sector in Friedrichshafen, ...
Tags: outdoor apparel, outdoor garment
The final ruling of U.S.’s review of 2012 anti-dumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) against certain Chinese PV cells addressed the importance of PV capacities in countries out of China and Taiwan. The AD/CVD rates for PV cells ...
China's big players are gearing up for a price war in the high-end smartphone sector, and the only big winner will be the consumer. Xiaomi Corp, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp's Nubia have all rolled out new products in what has ...
Tags: high-end smartphone, smartphone
Smartphone-use lens module maker Largan Precision recorded net EPS of NT$68.82 (US$2.23) for the first half of 2015, the company said at a July 16 investors conference. Of smartphone-use lens modules shipped in the second quarter, ...
Tags: Smartphone, lens module
Although many brand vendors have launched wearable products, orders for wearable devices may not be sufficient to drive growth for related component suppliers. The vendors have many different devices and each of them needs only a small ...
Tags: Wearable Devices, Smartphone, Mobile Device