LG Electronics announced recently that it has started to ship the "Curved OLED TV", a 55-inch OLED TV having a curved screen. The price of the TV with curved screen is about US$13,285, which is about 30% higher than that of the 55-inch OLED ...
Tags: LG Electronics, OLED TV
Gas supplier Air Liquide of Paris, France, which supplies precursors for semiconductor manufacturing, has agreed to acquire Voltaix Inc of Branchburg, NJ, USA, a manufacturer of materials used in the production of semiconductor devices and ...
Tags: Air Liquide, Electronics Materials
Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of supporting LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month. No U.S. wireless carrier is ...
South Korea-based TV makers hope to further reduce the cost of direct-lit LED TVs by using fewer LED chips in backlight modules, hence the firms hope LED packaging houses can increase the wattage of the packaging to 1.2W per chip. This ...
Tags: LED Packaging, Lights
Global natural gas consumption rose 2.2% on the year in 2012 to 3.3 trillion cubic meters, but stayed below the historical average increase of 2.7%, while global LNG trade fell for the first time on record, BP said in its annual statistical ...
Northwest European acrylonitrile-styrene-butadiene and polystyrene producers are raising their competitiveness in order to retain market share in the fast growing Turkish market, market sources said this week. European producers are ...
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To meet the growing demand for gallium in LED manufacturing in North-East Asia, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is to invest in a new gallium chemicals facility to be located in South ...
Tags: 5N Plus, LED, Electrical, Electronics
The company anticipates earnings per share in the range of $0.39 to $0.43. Texas Instruments (TI) said it expects to post revenue in the range of $2.99bn to $3.11bn for the second quarter of 2013 compared to the previous estimates. The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Global MOCVD equipment capacity is still in oversupply while prices of LED light bulbs continue to fall. Among all global operational MOCVD tools, Taiwan-based makers account for 28.1% and China-based firms 22.3%, according Digitimes ...
Tags: LED, light bulbs
Analyst concerns that Galaxy S4 smartphone sales are lagging sent Samsung's shares down 6% early Friday. Samsung's Galaxy S4 The decline in Samsung's stock follows analyst worries that a more affordable Galaxy S4 Mini or the rugged ...
Global consumption of spirits in both domestic and travel retail markets marked a slowdown in 2012, according to International Wine & Spirit Research (IWSR), a UK-based provider of data on wine, spirits and ready-to-drinks. In 2012, ...
Few advanced economies can measure up to the potential of emerging markets, which have been forecast to exhibit the fastest growth rates for food and non-alcoholic beverages over the next five years, according to a new report from global ...
Tags: Markets, Agriculture&Food, Drink
It was reported that the person who in charge of Panasonic's digital products business expressed in an interview with Japanese media that Panasonic will launch OLED TV before the end of 2015. Currently, Panasonic is developing the ...
Tags: OLED TV, Consumer Electronics
Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, has been contracted to provide the design for a large heavy construction vessel (HCV). The ship is to be built for Subsea 7 S.A., the seabed-to-surface ...
Tags: Transportation, Service, Design
China's pending move to slap anti-dumping tariffs on imported solar polysilicon from key countries will generate a surge in pricing for this key raw material in June and July, but the magnitude of the increase will be limited by market ...
Tags: Solar Polysilicon, tariffs