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Friday 28 September 2012
Commentary: Island dispute delays multi-lateral FTA between China, Japan, and South Korea
The recent island disputes between Japan and China, and Japan and South Korea are likely to delay the formation of a multi-lateral free trade agreement (FTA) between the three countries...
Friday 28 September 2012
Price of quad-core smartphones in China may fall to US$100/unit
Qualcomm and MediaTek have been competing over solutions for quad-core entry-level smartphones. China-based handset makers believe that, by the second half of 2013, there will be...
Friday 28 September 2012
Qualcomm to offer TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE reference design to enter China Mobile supply chain
Qualcomm will offer a TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE-based Qualcomm reference design (QRD) in a bid to enter China Mobile's supply chain in the first quarter of 2013.
Thursday 27 September 2012
China IC foundries move toward specific process manufacturing, says Digitimes Research
China-based IC foundries, except Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC), have moved to enhanced their specific process offerings...
Thursday 27 September 2012
Digitimes Research: China-based Elec-Tech ramping up LED chip capacity
China-based Elec-Tech's LED revenues have been increasig, with the business segement's contribution reaching around 32% of total revenues in first-half 2012. A further breakdown shows...
Thursday 27 September 2012
IC design firms seeing strong demand from China smartphone market
The expanding smartphone market in China has caused the supply of related chips, such as LCD driver ICs, touchscreen controller ICs and analog chips, to fall short of demand, according...
Thursday 27 September 2012
Intel CEO meets Acer executives to discuss smartphone business
Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently had a meeting with Acer's executives in Taiwan, discussing the smartphone business and has also introduced some telecom carriers to Acer as a foundation...
Thursday 27 September 2012
ARM architecture expected to have market potential for use in servers, say Taiwan makers
ARM architecture, due to its advantages in low power consumption, is expected to have potential for applications in servers. In particular, China-based operators of Internet services...
Thursday 27 September 2012
Solar market to return to stability in February 2013, says SAS chairman
MK Lu, chairman of Taiwan-based solar wafer and LED sapphire substrate maker Sino-American Silicon (SAS), has indicated that the solar market will return to stability around February...
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Taiwan-based component makers in China decrease working times for employees
Notebook component factories established by Taiwan-based enterprises in China have reduced working times from 12 hours a weekday and overtime work on two weekend days in the past,...
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Unity Opto begins construction of Beijing plant
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Unity Opto began construction of its plant in Beijing on September 25, 2012. The plant will be operated by the firm's Beijing subsidiary and expects...
Wednesday 26 September 2012
China market: B2B transaction value at nearly CNY3.4 billion in 2Q12, says Analysys
B2B web portals generated total transaction value of CNY3.39 billion (US$536 million) in the China market during the second quarter of 2012, growing by 11.9% on quarter and by 13.0%...
Wednesday 26 September 2012
MediaTek expects current sales momentum to continue in 1Q13, says company president
MediaTek expects current booming sales of its smartphone solutions to continue in the first quarter 2013 thanks to an upsurge in replacement demand for smartphones in China, according...
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Riot at Taiyuan facility will not affect shipments, says Foxconn
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has issued another statement related to the recent riots at its Taiyuan facility in China saying that production lines that were temporary...
Tuesday 25 September 2012
IC distributor CoAsia receiving more CMOS sensor orders in September
CoAsia Microelectronics, which distributes Samsung Electronics' CMOS sensors in China, is expected to post strong revenue gains in September due to increasing orders for Samsung's...