LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology expects smart lighting, high-end backlighting and infrared (IR) applications to drive business growth and hike overall gross margin by 3-5pp in 2017, according to company chairman Wu ...
Tags: LED Lighting, IR Devices
Sales of SSD products by Lite-On Technology in the first quarter of 2017 are expected to be affected by a tight supply of memory products, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report, citing company CEO Warrant Chen. ...
Tags: SSD, memory products
Sonoco announced it is implementing a $60 per ton price increase for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) in the US and Canada. Sonoco previously announced a URB price increase of $40 to $60 per ton in October 2016, and the ...
Worldwide shipments of traditional PCs (desktop, notebook, and workstation) totaled 70.2 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, posting an on-year decline of 1.5%, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device ...
About nine million curved-surface LCD TVs were sold globally in 2016, 2.25 times the sales volume in 2015, according to Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO). China is the largest market for curved-surface LCD TVs, with ...
The enterprise wearable market is experiencing a shift from wrist-worn devices to body- and head-worn wearables. ABI Research forecasts enterprise wearable shipments will grow from 30 million shipments in 2016 to nearly 147 million in 2021 ...
Tags: wearable market, VR headsets
Global production value for high-brightness LED chips in 2017 will reach US$13.179 billion, growing 2.8% on year, according to Digitimes Research. There will be 303.754 billion high-brightness LED chips shipped globally in 2017, ...
With demand for all-in-one PCs from the consumer sector continuing dropping, Digitimes Research estimates shipments decreased 4.8% on year to reach around 12 million units in 2016, and the volume in 2017 is expected to stay flat. ...
An estimated 150 million flexible AMOLED panels for use in smartphones will be shipped globally in 2017, triple the shipments in 2016, according to industry sources. Apple will launch a 5.8-inch iPhone equipped with flexible AMOLED ...
Tags: AMOLED display, AMOLED panels
At the Peking University SOE Forum held in Beijing on Wednesday, China’s energy experts and scholars pointed out that the development of natural gas as an energy alternative to curb air pollution is crucial to China’s future ...
Tags: Natural Gas, energy
Use of OLED panels in TVs is on the rise, and the proportion of OLED models will keep rising to 68% in 2020, especially dominating high-end TV segment, according to the Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA). There ...
Sure, Apple could make software that powers both Macs and iPads. Yes, it could put touchscreens in its laptops. And yeah, it could make a hybrid device that's both a tablet and a notebook. But that would be taking the easy route. At ...
The demand for tablets is still taking a tumble. Despite accounting for nearly a quarter of the market with the iPad, Apple saw a decline of more than 6 percent in tablet shipments during the third quarter, research firm IDC said Monday. ...
These iPhoneys are going to need a jailbreak. The New York Police Department raided two storefronts in Brooklyn on Thursday night, seizing up to 11,000 fake iPhones and Samsung devices, as well as counterfeit phone accessories. Police ...
Tags: iPhoneys, NYPD, fake phone
Apple's fancy new headphones for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are the gifts that keeps on delaying. Neither the AirPods nor the BeatsX headphones have made it to market in time for the heaviest shopping window of the holiday season -- yet. A new ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus