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Thursday 20 May 2010
Applied Materials still top PV manufacturing equipment supplier in 2009, says VLSI Research
Applied Materials was the largest supplier of PV manufacturing equipment for the second year in a row with revenues from this sector exceeding US$1 billion, according to VLSI Resea...
Wednesday 19 May 2010
Wild semiconductor thin film equipment market in 2009, says The Information Network
The film deposition equipment market for chip manufacturing was down 38% in 2009, but on a sector-by-sector basis, sales dropped between 8.7% to 71.7%, according to The Information...
Friday 14 May 2010
Celxpert to ship 18 million notebook batteries in 2010
Celxpert Energy projects notebook battery shipments for 2010 to reach 18 million units, up 58% from 11.4 million units in 2009. Demand from customers in China and other Asian countries...
Friday 14 May 2010
NXP leads 2009 automotive infotainment semiconductor market, says iSuppli
NXP Semiconductors took the top position in the global automotive infotainment semiconductor market in 2009, the first time it has held the top spot since iSuppli began tracking the...
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Elpida profits for fiscal 2009 higher than expected
Elpida Memory saw its net income for the year ended March 31, 2010 reach 3.1 billion yen (US$33 million), higher than its preliminary estimate of two billion yen. Consolidated revenues...
Tuesday 11 May 2010
Flytech hits record revenues in April
Taiwan-based POS maker Flytech Technology has reported unaudited revenues of NT$281.6 million (US$8.94 million) for April, the highest monthly figure ever.
Monday 10 May 2010
Enterprise cloud server hardware offers increased efficiencies for IT industry, says IDC
The breaking dawn of economic recovery combined with an aging server installed base and IT managers' desire to rein in increasingly complex virtual and physical infrastructure is...
Monday 10 May 2010
China STB shipments post significant increase in 2009, but to decline in 2010, says iSuppli
Set-top box (STB) shipments in China increased sharply in 2009 in line with the country's higher consumption of LCD-TVs, according to iSuppli.
Friday 7 May 2010
Netbooks and ultra-thin notebooks shine in 2010, says iSuppli
Notebooks in 2010 will post solid double-digit growth due to improved economic conditions worldwide as well as the expected expansion of two high-achieving segments-netbooks and Consumer...
Thursday 6 May 2010
Infineon leads 2009 automotive chip ranking, says Semicast
Infineon Technologies was the largest supplier of semiconductors to the automotive sector in 2009, according to Semicast Research. Freescale Semiconductor, for many years the leading...
Thursday 6 May 2010
First Solar became largest PV module producer in 2009, says IMS
Leading thin film manufacturer First Solar topped the rankings list for PV module suppliers in 2009, surpassing all of its crystalline rivals to ship more than 1GW of modules and...
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Giga Solar to ship silver-aluminum paste in 2Q10
Giga Solar Materials, a Taiwan-based maker of photovoltaic conductive paste, will begin shipping silver-aluminum paste in the second quarter with China as the main market, according...
Wednesday 5 May 2010
MLCC powder materials to push up PDC 1H10 revenues
Prosperity Dielectric Company (PDC), which produces powder materials for passive components, expects first-half 2010 revenues to match around 88% of total revenues in 2009 thanks...
Wednesday 5 May 2010
DRAM market recovers to end 2009 in triumph, says iSuppli
Following a revenue low in the first quarter of 2009 not seen since 2001, the DRAM industry ended the fourth quarter at US$8.7 billion, up a mighty 43% from US$6.1 billion in the...
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Four network equipment makers to deal out 2009 dividends higher than 2008
Taiwan-based makers of network/communication equipment, Accton Technology, Alpha Networks, CyberTAN Technologoperationy and Cameo Communications will distribute dividends per share...