By the end of 2016, more than half of all new automotive 77GHz radar systems worldwide will be equipped with chips from Munich-based Infineon Technologies AG, meaning that about one in 15 new cars will use a driver assistance system using ...
When it comes to pricing and market expectations, 2015 was another tough competitive year for packaged LED vendors, with challenges in both backlighting and lighting, comments Jamie Fox (principal analyst for Lighting and LEDs at IHS ...
Tags: LED market, Packaged Led Maker, Samsung
Energized by demand from hybrid and electric vehicles, power supplies and photovoltaic (PV) inverters, the emerging global market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors will rise from just $210m in 2015 to ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market, GaN, SiC
Manufacturer and consumer demand for Ultra HD (4K) TVs remains strong, including 4K TV, wide viewing angle (WCG), high dynamic range (HDR) and other high-definition picture performance improvements. Despite overall sluggishness in LCD TV ...
Today, the global average LED lamp retail price is $23.50 per unit, indicating a fall of 1.2 percent in March 2014 over February 2014 and a 9.4 percent drop from the same time last year. The figures come from the latest release of IHS ...
Tags: LED Lamp, retail price, Drops
Two new LED market surveys reveal the growing importance of Chinese suppliers to the world market and the significant growth forecast for LED multifaceted reflector lamps. Firstly, China’s significant investment in its LED ...
Tags: LED industry, MR Lamp, worldwide market
The European machine vision (MV) industry is in “an excellent condition”, according to the German VDMA’s latest market survey. published earlier in July. It states that the MV sector’s turnover grew more strongly ...
Tags: Machine Vision, strong growth, software
China's domestic smartphone makers continue to battle foreign rivals as they post bigger market shares in the second quarter of this year, industry statistics show. Chinese brand Xiaomi sold more smartphones than any other producer in the ...
Tags: smartphone, Xiaomi, Huawei
As a proportion of total global lamp revenue, LED lamp revenue grew from 25% in 2013 to 30% in 2014 and is forecast to reach 67% in 2022 as the lighting market continues to transition to LED technology, according to a research note from ...
Tags: LED market, Lighting market, LED Light
Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
Tags: GaN SiC, Power electronics
Whereas 2014 was a challenging year for lighting products (with most traditional technology suppliers reporting declining quarterly revenues for lamps and luminaires), many LED-only manufacturers saw their revenues rise, says market ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Traditional Lighting
SMA, ABB, and Omron lead global photovoltaic (PV) inverter market-share rankings; however, over the first three quarters of 2014, China-based telecommunications company Huawei made the largest gain in global market share, with just over ...
Tags: PV Inverter, Huawei, Lights
Last year China leapfrogged past Germany to become the world’s largest market for solar equipment, according to industry figures. True, a September report showed the former is also set to push global carbon emissions to a record high ...
Tags: Solar Energy, PV
The market for gallium nitride (GaN) packaged LEDs in automotive applications will reach $1bn this year for the first time, rising by 11% from $943m in 2013 to $1.05bn in 2014, forecasts the LED Intelligence Service of IHS Technology in a ...
Tags: Automotive LED lighting, GaN LEDs
The global average retail price of LED lamps was $21 in September, down 4.9% on the prior month and 19.2% year-on-year, according to the September 2014 release of the IHS Technology LED lamp Retail Price Tracker. Picture: Global LED ...
Tags: LED market, Lighting market