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Can China’s Chip Get out the Vicious Circle of Generations Lag

Published:2011/2/12 0:13:00 Author:Amy

Chip industry needs continuous investment sometime more than hundreds million with fast upgrade and high market risk. According to Moore’s Law, the density of integration of semiconductor technique improves 100% in 18 months while the cost decreases proportionally. In other words, corporations need continuous capital input to update the facilities; otherwise, they will be locked in a passive state. Some exp... (View)

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The Defective Products Of Intel

Published:2011/2/11 21:52:00 Author:Li xiao na

The recovery of the personal computer market is influenced by the industry chain crisis. Many computer manufacturers maintain that the defective product of the Intel impact the sales of the entire market. Intel admitted that the design defect was existed in its chip group of Cougar Point in last month. About five percent of the hardware and DVD will be unable to response within three years. This chip group is the k... (View)

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The Driving Forces Of The MEMS Industry

Published:2011/2/11 19:55:00 Author:Li xiao na

The MEMS market increased robust in the last year, and the growth rate was 18.3%. The newest research of iSuppli shows that this is only the beginning of increase in the MEMS and sensor market, and this trend will go on until 2014. The MEMS market’s periodicity is not as strong as the other industries; therefore, the economic fluctuation has small influence ... (View)

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Qualcomm Releases New Dual-core Processor for Panel Tablet PC Market

Published:2011/2/11 18:40:00 Author:Amy

Qualcomm releases a new dual-processor for tablet PC market, said the report on Feb 11th. Its main competitors will be Texas Instruments and Nvidia’s similar products. APQ8086 processor launched by Qualcomm will be adopted in HP TouchPad tablet PC which released on Wednesday. Steve Mollenkopf, the CEO of Qualcomm, said on Thursday that manufacturers will adopt this chip into more than 20 models of tablet PC... (View)

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Softening Demand for LED Brings Pressure of Price

Published:2011/2/11 2:32:00 Author:Amy

The latest price investigation which conducted by LEDinside, a TrendForce-owned LED research institution, shows that the demand for LED application in forth quarter of 2010 still did not rebound. For instance, the need for lighting products is not as much as expectation and the large size panel inventory are still under adjustment. As a result, the price pressure of LED remains since the third quarter and no signs ... (View)

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The Transition Of 4G Stimulates The Increase Of Communication Market

Published:2011/2/11 1:49:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the research of iSuppli, the industry of wireless communication device is increasing in the year of 2011. There are two elements driving the increase of wireless communication device, one is the transition of the 4G standard, and the other is the flat panel medium. Manufacturers’ income will reach 302.7 billion in the year of 2011, which increases by 2.06% than last year. What is more, the shipment of ... (View)

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Can Domestic IC Design House Rise Up by Smart Grid

Published:2011/2/11 0:06:00 Author:Amy

Smart Grid is a kind of network interaction between users, users and grid companies with reading data in real-time, high-speed and two-way to improve the comprehensive effect of grid. Since China planed to construct Smart Grid in 2009, its construction infrastructure is gradually coming into formation through several measures took by the country like organization construction adjustment, programming standard resear... (View)

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Smart Phone Brings Opportunities To The Manufacturers

Published:2011/2/10 21:28:00 Author:Li xiao na

With the development of 3G technology, cell phone not only can make calls and short messages, but also can provide more integrated services with high-quality, including the image, music, video, teleconference, E-business, and web browsing. Actually, cell phone, especially the smart phone has led us into a more colorful world. The fast development of 3G and internet also makes the smart phone more popular. D... (View)

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2010 Worldwide Top 10 Semiconductor Purchasers

Published:2011/2/10 3:54:00 Author:Amy

Cartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, published its preliminary statistics a few days ago that leading brand companies are still the significant clients for semiconductor market. In 2010, the total consumption hit 104.3 billion dollars in TAM (Total Available Market) of semiconductor design, which is over one third worldwide chip revenue and increases 26.3 billion dollar... (View)

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Movable Applications Are Entering The Automobile

Published:2011/2/10 2:01:00 Author:Li xiao na

The car manufacturers are trying to lead more and more solutions to the information and entertainment system. Ford has taken action early, so the movable application integration has been implemented on the platform of SYNC. SYNC AppLink is the first application of software in the entire industry, which enables the user to control the applications through the voice mode. Ford also declaimed that the iPhone, BlackBer... (View)

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50 Million Dollars Joint Investment for Development of HB LED

Published:2011/2/10 1:09:00 Author:Amy

ShineOn announced that it attains joint investment of $50 million from GSR Ventures, NLVC and IDG-Accel to develop High Brightness LED. It is the largest investment in domestic so far with regard to international capital investment on LED encapsulation project. ShineOn is a foreign-funded hi-tech enterprise which mainly engaged in HB LED encapsulation with high capability of manufacturing and developing on ... (View)

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Tablet Computer Will Drive The Development Of DRAM

Published:2011/2/9 23:40:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the research of iSuppli, the tablet computer will drive the development of DRAM industry in the year of 2011. The shipment of tablet used DRAM will increase eight times in this year, which will reach 353.3 millon Gb. This situation will not change in future several years, and the shipment will grow to one billion in 2012. The robust shipment in the tablet computer field makes a stark contrast with the ... (View)

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IC Design Service in Great Potential

Published:2011/1/27 3:53:00 Author:Amy

Nowadays, many design service foundries are emerging in the area of IP development and exchange trade in China. In the face of vertical division of work for IC industry chain, many single-venture and joint-venture design foundries are rising with involved fields including IP development and exchange trade service, IC design and development service, project service of IC products application platform, IC embedded so... (View)

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The Navigation Market Will Reach The Peak In 2011

Published:2011/1/27 1:22:00 Author:Li xiao na

The product forms in the navigation field are increasing in the beginning of 2011. The tablet computer and smart, which integrate with GPS function, have high sales; therefore, the demand of personal navigation device is becoming low. Many manufacturers showed their tablet computer, which can be regarded as the movable navigation device, on the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. Tablet computer is the ... (View)

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Can SMIC Be the First Alternative of Wafer Foundry?

Published:2011/1/26 3:50:00 Author:Amy

SMIC, one of the biggest wafer foundries in China, has been put on right track after a period of instability by positively rebuilding customers’ confidence and focusing its attention on narrow technology area with better profitability for operation, says the new CEO of SMIC, David N.K. Wang. The new strategy of SMIC seems intends to concentrate on mainstream of wafer foundry market, especially in logic, sim... (View)

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The Storage Industry Will Keep Increasing In 2011

Published:2011/1/26 3:21:00 Author:Li xiao na

The shipment of world’s storage products will increase by ten percent in 2010, because the demand from corporations is robust. The shipment of HDD and SSD will increase to 547.2 million in 2011, which increases 10.9% than last year. With the recovery of economy, the demand of storage products is increasing; therefore, HDD and SSD are benefited. HDD will keep the leading status, which will have 532.7 million of ship... (View)

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Semiconductor Foundries Fall Off Leaves Three Kingpins in 2011

Published:2011/1/26 1:09:00 Author:Amy

The report of IHS iSuppli shows that there may be three main foundries offering the service of bulk advanced semiconductor manufacturing at he end of 2011, covering TSMC, GlobalFounfries Inc. and Samsung. Other fab foundries including UMC and SMIC who can provide bulk manufacturing service close to world class level, but they are not the main strength. Will any other foundry companies join in? It is very po... (View)

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Connected Family Plays An Important Role In Consumer Electronics Industry

Published:2011/1/26 1:03:00 Author:Li xiao na

The shipment of the consumer electronics has increased 2.6% in 2010. The consumer electronic plays an important role in connected family. It is predicated that the shipment of consumer electronics will reach 1.6 billion in the year of 2011. The consumer electronics includes many familiar products, such as the television, audio part, portable video player, set-top box, video player, digital camera, projector, E-Book... (View)

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Semiconductor Component Content Value in Electronic System Products Hit 25.4％

Published:2011/1/25 3:49:00 Author:Amy

Semiconductor Component Content Value in Electronic System Products Hit 25.4% Market research institution IC Insights’ latest report shows that the value of semiconductors among worldwide electronic system products hit the new record of 25.4% and with the increasing of ASP of semiconductor components next two years, its proportion of value will continuously raise. According to the statistical record of I... (View)

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The Ratio Takes By The LED Backlight Will Increase In LCD Panel

Published:2011/1/25 2:27:00 Author:Li xiao na

Two-thirds of the large-size LCD panel will use the LED backlight in 2011, and this ratio was still less than fifty percent in last year. The shipment of LED backlight large panel can be 495.6 sets in 2011, which increase by 74.9% than the last year. For the panels of laptop computer and netbook, the ratio takes by the LED backlight increases from ninety-one percent to one hundred percent. The shipment of large-siz... (View)