More governments around the globe are expected to set compulsory standards for LED lighting devices in 2012, which in turn will help reduce vicious price competition in the LED lighting...

China-based TCL shipped 10.856 million LCD TVs in 2011, including 6.606 million units sold in the domestic market and 4.25 million units shipped to overseas markets, the company has...

The number of LED chips used in LED TVs has been decreasing. Industry sources believe LED TVs will only require 10-12 units of high-power LED chips in the future. Hence global demand...

While China Mobile has been actively promoting TD-LTE, the China government is not expected to issue a TD-LTE operating license to China Mobile for the time being, according to industry...

The spot price of polysilicon in Greater China continues to increase. Many small- and medium-size polysilicon firms suspended operations when the price was falling rapidly in 2011...

Under pressure of continued hikes in labor costs in China, at least half of the China-based motherboard vendors are expected to withdraw from the market in 2012, leaving an estimated...

Notebook PCB maker Global Brands Manufacture (GBM) will start volume production at its new plant in Chongqing, China in July-August 2012, with plans to ramp up the monthly capacity...

Taiwan's solar industry has seen increases in orders reportedly from China-based firms that are trying to avoid possible tariffs resulted from the US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy...

Sales of TVs by retail channels in China's tier-1 cities totaled 1.9 million units in the first week of January 2012, representing a decline of 20% from the same period of a year...

Semiconductor process control service supplier Lumax International has indicated orders from China have been healthy with visibility extended to the third quarter of 2012. The firm...

The price of 2-inch sapphire substrates from China suppliers has fallen to around US$6/unit, with the low price adding pressure on Taiwan-based makers, according to industry source...

TV maker Konka has decided to terminate its partnership with Epistar in a joint venture running an epitaxy plant in Changzhou, China. But Epistar indicated that the exist of the China-based...

An upsurge in solar demand at the end of 2011 has brought hope to solar firms. As inventories have been cleared out, solar firms plan to increase prices slightly after the Lunar New...

Taiwan-based Cal-Comp Electronics expects its external hard drive shipments in 2012 to double from those in 2011 with global market share to reach 50%.

Eric Kuo, general manager of Taiwan-based Lite-On Semiconductor has expressed a conservative view for first-quarter 2012. Kuo noted that inventory levels in the semiconductor market...