If you've been feeling a bit chipper lately and looking forward to the rest of the year, don't be alarmed: you may just be part of the 67 percent of Ontario truckers who are feeling optimistic about the trucking biz. According to the ...
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Growing demand for LED backlight products will continue to buoy the revenue performance of LED driver IC suppliers Macroblock and On-Bright Electronics in the third quarter of 2013, according to industry sources. Macroblock saw its ...
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Taiwan-based ODMs Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Asia Optical will ship 6.26 million digital cameras in total in the third quarter of 2013, increasing 2.4% on quarter but decreasing 38.8% on ...
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Affected by LED chip’s consecutive price drop and efforts to control costs, Taiwanese chip manufacturers including Epistar, FOREPI, and others are turning to Chinese sapphire substrates. A move that directly contends Taiwanese ...
Hard disc drive (HDD) vendors expect their shipments in the third quarter to stay flat sequentially, but drop over 10% on year due to PC clients' reluctance in placing orders. Some HDD players have adjusted their shipment ratio estimates ...
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PC brand vendors originally hoped China's PC market would help cover their dropping sales from other major regions worldwide in the third quarter, but such a hope may not come true because demand in China's tier-1 to -2 cities had a larger ...
Prices for sapphire ingots in the third quarter of 2013 are expected to increase by 15-20% on quarter mainly due to growing demand from LED makers and China-based smartphone vendors, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers. Prices ...
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Lite-On IT, a member of the Lite-On Group, is establishing automated production lines for LED light bulbs and will begin volume production in the third quarter of 2013 with initial shipments to US-based retail channels, according to group ...
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Frank Chien, chairman of Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Formosa Epitaxy predicts the firm will return to profitability in the third quarter, and quarterly revenues will show sequential growth of 20-30%. Formosa Epitaxy developed package free ...
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According to Arab News, the Saudi Arabian Ports Authority has announced that the commercial ports are now ready to receive cement and clinker. The announcement follows King Abdullah s decree last month, which ordered the import of 10 ...
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LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar expects LED applications to account for 30% of total revenues in third-quarter 2013, up from the current 20-25%, due to increasing demand. As production capacity for blue-color LED (InGaN) chips ...
The recent narrowing in the Brent premium to NYMEX crude, which fell to a 17-month low of $7.48/b on Thursday, is set to continue into the third quarter, with $5/b a possibility, before widening again early next year, Goldman Sachs analysts ...
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US-based LED firm Cree reported US$348.9 million in revenues for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2013, ended March 31, 2013. The figure showed an on-quarter increase of 1% and an on-year increase of 23%. Cree noted that third-quarter ...
LED makers have been seeing rising demand and capacity utilization rates in the second quarter of 2013. However, China-based makers noted that there is currently CNY5 billion (US$807 million) worth of inventory, and if end market demand is ...
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Due to falling LED chip prices, market observers believe Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar will need to rely on AlGaInP LED sales to increase the firm's profit margin while it is unlikely for Formosa Epitaxy to return to profitability ...
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