China manufacturers of metallized film capacitors are strengthening the category, spurred by the forecast 15 percent annual sales growth in coming years. While most continue to enhance the performance of mature types, major players venture ...
The Foxconn Technology Group of Taiwan will reportedly use self-made “Foxbot” to assemble Apple's iPhone 6, which will be the world's first smartphones to be assembled by robots. According to online media 9to5 Mac, Foxconn, ...
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Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers remained profitable in the first half (H1), 2014 despite the revaluation of the new New Taiwan dollar against the U.S. dollar, which seriously compromised gains from foreign exchange in H1. Industry ...
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Taiwan's leading machine-tool makers are speeding expansion plans to get ready for H2 of this year, which they forecast to be brisker than in H1 due to recovering global economy and increasing demand for automation systems. Chairman of ...
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Ecommerce sales accounted for 6.3% of total revenue at DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc., the largest U.S. based full-line omni-channel sporting, including apparel goods retailer in the second quarter ended August 2, 2014, up from 5.6% in the ...
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Australian exporters are feeling positive, with 95 per cent of SME exporters expecting their overseas sales to remain the same or grow in the next 12 months, according to new research released by EFIC (Export Finance and Insurance ...
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (to 28 June 2014), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $316.3m, up 23.6% on $256m last quarter and up 8% on $293m a year ago (and well above the $305m forecast at the ...
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The growing lighting end-market in 2014 is now projected to account for 35% of all packaged light-emitting diode (LED) dollars, according to a Research Note from Jamie Fox, principal analyst at market research firm IHS Inc. For the first ...
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In recent years, the optoelectronic component market has been dominated by a number of applications, namely LEDs, backlighting and the emergence of solid state lighting. In the optocoupler and photo-relay markets, the focus has been on the ...
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For second-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, rebounding by 5% from €43.9m last quarter (which had been down 14% on the previous quarter) and up 2% on €45.3m ...
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Toll’s revenue increased 1.1 per cent over the previous year to $8.8 billion. Total earnings before interest and tax (before individually significant items) were up 4.3 per cent to $444.4 million, and net profit after tax (before ...
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The ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria, has launched the global “Safe Rates and a Safe Industry – We’re In, Are you?” campaign for Australian truck drivers in the ...
For second-quarter 2014, Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has reported revenue of ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 27 June), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $587m, up 22% on $481m last quarter and 34.6% on $436.1m a year ...
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Despite strong growth in the gallium arsenide device market, GaAs bulk substrate manufacturers saw both production and revenues decline for the second consecutive year, according to the Strategy Analytics Advanced Semiconductor Applications ...