Spurred by demand from the LED lighting and mobile device markets, sapphire substrate manufacturers have been actively expanding their production capacity, according to the report ‘Global Sapphire Substrate Market 2013’ from ...
Tags: LED, smartphone
British sales of Apple's iPhone 5S have seen it outsell its sister smartphone, the iPhone 5C, at a ratio of three to one, but Apple's overall share of the market is still smaller than it was this time last year. That's according to the ...
Tags: iPhone 5s, android, smartphone
THE local glass industry is booming with RM3bil turnover for both glass manufacturing and processing streams of the industry, said Malaysia Glass Association (MGA) chairman Ho Sai Woo. MGA was the local host for Glasstech Asia 2013, which ...
Tags: galss, technical processing, design
As the mobility innovation pool continues to run suspiciously dry, today brings another couple of wacky tidbits from two major technology firms. The first is a reported "curved glass" screen from Apple which, according to a Bloomberg ...
Tags: Apple, Curved Screens, Motorola
Samsung recently revealed another big smartphone called the Galaxy Round. It looks great.Very polished. Spec-wise it's about on par with other top-tier handsets, but its most curious and defining feature is that its edges taper slightly ...
Average retail prices for LED light bulbs equivalent to 40W and 60W incandescent ones in the Japan market stood at JPY1,717 (US$17.2) and JPY2,468 respectively in October, slipping on month by 3.2% and 3.7% respectively, according to ...
Tags: LED Bulb, Average Prices
Chinese display manufacturer BOE Technology Corp. (BOE) has released their 3Q13 financial report. Gross revenue for July-Sept. 2013 reached RMB 8.52 billion (US $1.4 billion) with a gross profit margin at RMB 499 million, doubling from last ...
Lenovo, ZTE, Huawei and Yulong/Coolpad have taken advantage of the surging low-end smartphone market. According to IC Insights, the four major China-based handset companies are forecast to ship 168 million smartphones in 2013 and together ...
Tags: Smartphone, Lenovo, Huawei
An earlier report by Women Citizen projecting Apple’s smartphone dominance is to be challenged by Samsung’s AMOLED technology has been proven wrong by a recent Bloomberg report. Apple has no intention of being left behind by ...
Tags: Apple, OLED smartphones
For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2013 (to 27 September), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported revenue of $477m, up 9.4% on $436.1m last quarter and 13.3% on $421.1m ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
With LED backlighting technology approaching saturation point in the liquid-crystal display (LCD) television panel market this year, suppliers of light-emitting diodes are turning their attention to the new growth opportunity in the ...
Tags: LED market, LED Backlighting, LED
With LED backlighting technology approaching the saturation point in the LCD TV panel market in 2013, suppliers of LEDs are turning their attention to the new growth opportunity in the fast-expanding lighting segment. The proportion of ...
Tags: backlighting LCD, LED Backlighting, LED, Lights, Lighting
Google's latest Nexus smartphone was officially unveiled today and will be on sale from tomorrow, November 1st, in nine countries including the UK. The Nexus 5 is manufactured by Korean firm LG, and runs the updated Google Android ...
Tags: Smartphone, Computer Products
The worldwide smartphone market grew 38.8% on year in the third quarter of 2013, according to IDC. Vendors shipped a total of 258.4 million smartphones in the third quarter, establishing a new record for units shipped in a single quarter by ...
Tags: Smartphone, Huawei, Lenvo
Equipment demand for the production of LCD panels is unlikely to pick up in the short term, as an oversupplied market is discouraging panel makers from expanding capacity and making major equipment upgrades, according to sources at LCD ...
Tags: LCD Panels, LCD Equipment