Taiwan-based LED driver IC vendors including On-Bright Electronics, Macroblock and Silergy have landed an influx of short lead-time orders recently, with order visibility extending to the first quarter of 2014, according to industry ...
With the defeat of the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this vast blighted country is poised for a brighter future. But a new US law designed to help the region escape its poverty looks set to do just the opposite. ...
Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, M23 rebels, conflict minerals
After eight successive quarters of decline, the Middle East and Africa hardcopy peripherals market finally returned to a state of positive growth during the third quarter of 2013, with shipments up 6.6% year on year to total 1,472,000 ...
According to a report released Tuesday from the Lake Carriers' Association, US-flag Great Lakes freighters (lakers) carried 8.7 million tons of dry-bulk cargo in November, a decrease of 4.7 percent compared to a year ago. The total was also ...
Global electronic components distributor?Digi-Key Corporation??today announced that it has surpassed one million in-stock components available for immediate shipment, accessible via the new and improved Digi-Key Bill of Materials (BOM) ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
US retailer Macy's is to invest US$170m in a new direct-to-consumer distribution centre in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, to support omni-channel growth. The company, which operates around 840 department stores across 45 states, said the ...
Platts – Oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell to 29.7 million barrels per day (b/d) in November, the lowest volume since mid-2011 when the uprising in Libya significantly reduced the ...
Tags: Platts, OPEC, oil production, Platts survey of OPEC
China makers of film capacitors are boosting production for emerging applications while bolstering competitiveness in traditional bases in consumer electronics, power supplies and communication devices. Companies are complementing these ...
Tags: Film Capacitor, Chinese Suppliers, Broaden Market Base
Sales of smartphones in China are expected to grow 137% on year to 189 million units in 2012, buoyed mostly by a take-off in demand for EDGE and TD-SCDMA models in the second half of the year, according to Digitimes Research. Local brands ...
Tags: Smartphone, Smartphone in China, Chinese Smartphone Market
A true Tier-1 WCS must be equipped to handle 2D barcode and RFID data for individual unique SKU track and trace requirements.Multi-channel order fulfillment, referred to in the logistics industry as omni-channel fulfillment, is increasingly ...
South Korea's November exports of isomer-grade mixed xylenes fell 14% from October to 27,372 mt due to a turnaround and lower shipments to key market China, data released Monday by the Korea Customs Service showed. South Korea exported ...
Tags: Petrochemical, Energy
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has developed a laser diode-transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) that enables 100Gbps optical transmission in one fiber using four-channel wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM), which should help to ...
Not many thermal coal buyers are looking to conclude deals for imported material this week with Chinese Lunar New Year holidays approaching, sources said Monday. "The delivery window before the Lunar New Year is closed," a source at a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Imported Material
In 2013 the Chinese LED packaging market has grown far quicker than the global average, reckons TrendForce's Green Energy Division LEDinside. LED lighting is still the largest application sector, accounting for 42% of the 2013 Chinese LED ...
Tags: LED, LED Packaging, Electrical, Electronics
Reportedly, steel export prices in the CIS countries are in divergent trends with long steel products sliding, steel billets stable, and finished flats climbing. Market for finished longs is dull. Rebar is mostly traded in between ...
Tags: CIS, Steel Export, Steel Prices, Divergent Trends