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U.S. Firms in the Leading Position of Fabless

Published:2011/4/24 21:16:00 Author:Amy

According to the market research firm IC Insights Inc., U.S. companies took nine of the top 10 places and 13 of the top 20 spots in a sales ranking of global fabless chip suppliers, which means that US firms occupy the leading position of fables in global market. It is also said that the top 20 fabless IC suppliers accounted for 77% of the $59.9 billion in fabless IC capacity last year, which slips two...   (View)

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Electrostatic Discharge Protection

Published:2011/4/22 2:30:00 Author:Phyllis

Integrated circuits without ESD protection will suffer from electrostatic discharge in the forms of dielectric failure, ruptured passivation, electrothermal migration, contact spiking, and splattered aluminum. If you want to have a well understanding of ESD, you should get to know about what is the voltage level, the voltage and current waveform, IC-protection structure, test method, and application circuit. <...   (View)

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Industrial Utilization of LED-backlit LCDs

Published:2011/4/21 21:32:00 Author:Amy

It is said that Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) is going to produce four products of large format LED-backlit LCD. These TFT-LCDs contain two panels in the 10.4-inch class, one 12.1-inch panel re-issue, and one 15.0-inch panel. The LCDs are suitable for industrial utilizations, such as factory automation, gaming, medical devices, Point of Sale (POS) terminals, transportation and test and measu...   (View)

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Crazy Increase of Foundry

Published:2011/4/18 1:00:00 Author:Amy

As we can see, there are more and more leading foundries come into bloom. It is reported by Gartner Inc. that the foundry market is driving aggressive fab expansion plans, which will result in an oversupply situation in the foundry market by late 2011 or early 2012. The fab capacity was over increased by Samsung TSMC, Globalfoundries and UMC. Most firms including HSBC agree that the detailed analysis of the...   (View)

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Differences of Integrated Circuit Industry from Other Industries

Published:2011/3/28 3:11:00 Author:Amy

As a matter of fact, a lot of people are not very clear about integrated circuit industry even having many misunderstandings on investment and management. According to research, the differences of integrated circuit industry from others can be list as following aspects. First, the products are invisible. Integrated circuit is a kind of microelectronic industry and unfamiliar to us. What’s more, the product ...   (View)

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How to Know the Quality of LED Lamp Band

Published:2011/3/25 4:20:00 Author:Amy

One can manage the business in LED industry easily, so a lot of people are engaged in LED lamp or LED lamp band. But there is large gap between brand products and copycatting in term of performance and quality. Some experienced fellows can distinguish high quality LED lamp band from low quality at their very first look. Well, let’s talk about how to judge the quality of LED lamp band. First, check packing. ...   (View)

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The Capacity of Global LED Landscape Illumination Is Significant

Published:2011/3/25 1:21:00 Author:Amy

LED landscape illumination is a kind of lighting sight always taking buildings, streets and bridges, culture and natural landscapes as carriers or using no carriers to display the artistry of LED lighting sight through specific artistic design, control system design and professional installation. LED landscape illumination is a part of application area and in downstream of LED industry chain. As the rapid ...   (View)

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Reality of LED Lighting Market

Published:2011/3/24 4:12:00 Author:Amy

Nowadays, the lighting industry is coming into a new stage of innovation in term of energy-saving, technology or application no matter in global or China market. Incandescent lamp is going to be phased out, energy-saving lamp at its peak and LED to be unfolding. However, the future of lighting market is kind of blind. LED is seen as great potential for growth. Lots of companies from brand leading enterprise...   (View)

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LEDs Have an Overwhelming Advantage in Energy Saving and Environment Protection

Published:2011/3/23 22:24:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

Light emitting diode, or LED, is a solid-state device that directly converts electric energy into light. The core part of LED is a semiconductor chip with two sides which are connected to a positive and a negative power lead respectively, and it is entirely encapsulated in an epoxy resin enclosure. LED can shine and give off different colors depending on the materials used to make the LED chip. LED has bee...   (View)

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More Applications of LED Display in the Future

Published:2011/3/23 22:01:00 Author:Amy

Display screen is a kind of new display apparatuses emerged in 1990s. It has high brightness, clear picture and bright colors. In the area of public multimedia display, it has great market potential. With regard to technology, LED display should be qualified with world-class quality and traits. At present, some high quality domestic LED display is even better than overseas’ with regard to image processing t...   (View)

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Global Output of Wafer Reduce One Quarter Because of Earthquake

Published:2011/3/23 2:03:00 Author:Amy

The latest report from iSuppli, a market research institution, said in Monday that global wafer output reduced one quarter by reason of Japanese earthquake. Shirakawa plant owned by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd has suspended for production, so did Utsunomiya plant owned by American silicon wafer manufacturer MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. According to iSuppli, the biggest impact on chip industry is memory supp...   (View)

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Resumption of Some Chip Plants in Japan

Published:2011/3/22 4:39:00 Author:Amy

According to foreign media, some Japanese chip plants shut down by reason of earthquake and tsunami have started to resume production. But some other plants still confront shortage of electricity. Some industry insiders indicated that at present, the biggest concern of the chip industry is the quake and tsunami’s impact on supply chain of global high technology industry. Some issues may not be able to be so...   (View)

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Japanese Quake Accuses Monitor Panel Rise in Price

Published:2011/3/22 1:09:00 Author:Amy

According to the latest price list by market research institution Display Search, from late March this year, the quotation of monitor panel will increase slightly by impact of earthquake in Japan. The quoted price of 18.5 and 20 inches monitor panel has increased one dollar with 2 percent growth and NB panel’s price was equal to the previous months. Display Search said that the OEM production volume in the...   (View)

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On Circuit Breaker

Published:2011/3/21 22:59:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

A circuit breaker is an electrical switch that works automatically to prevent the electrical circuit from damaging by overload and short circuit. The operational principle is to detect a fault condition and then discontinue the flow by interrupting the continuity. A circuit breaker can be reset to resume normal operation unlike fuse that has to be replaced after operates once. Circuit breakers are various in size, ...   (View)

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Assessment of Japan Earthquake Impact on Semiconductor Industry

Published:2011/3/21 3:13:00 Author:Amy

After 9M earthquake occurred in Japan, the semiconductor industry was slightly impacted, reported the statistics of IHS iSuppli. It was predicted that the output of Japanese semiconductor will be hindered in two weeks; panel firms was not affected directly but the capacity of LCD panel and related components were badly hurt. According to the previous estimate by iSuppli, the revenue of electronic devices pr...   (View)

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The Biggest Advantage of LED Streetlight Is Control Function Instead of Conservation

Published:2011/3/20 21:56:00 Author:Amy

In March 11, the Seventh China Road Lighting Forum was held at International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Chongqing. LED streetlight application and trend was focused most attention. After several decades of development, LED has entered into a stage of high brightness white light from previous red/yellow light. The lab notes of luminous efficiency have exceeded 160lm/w and the level of industrializat...   (View)

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Analysis on the Advantages and Limitations of LED Lamps

Published:2011/3/18 2:16:00 Author:LiuQiaoyan

With the rapid development and evolvement after entering the market, LED lamps have become the brightest star of 21 century. As more and more people started to realize the significance and benefit of LED, Chinese government promulgated some development planning policies about this industry to show the importance. In this article, the author collected some information about LED lights and hope it can help. ...   (View)

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Europe PV Account for 70％ of Global Market in 2011

Published:2011/3/17 0:42:00 Author:Amy

According to the latest research that despite Europe solar industry is facing hard condition, the region still gets the lion’s share o of the global PV business with 70% in 2011. There are 15 major global solar markets and nine of them are in Europe. Europe PV installed capacity will reach 15.7GW this year which is three quarters of global market. Worldwide installed capacity predicted to exceeded 22.2GW. T...   (View)

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Japan Stock up Chip by Reason of Quake and Tsunami

Published:2011/3/15 5:54:00 Author:Amy

9-magnitude earth earthquake occurred in Japan triggering tsunami. The region where quake happened has many leading semiconductor firms. At present, Sony, Toshiba and Rissa have announced to shut down. It can be forecasted that the price of Japanese chip will jump by a wide margin. According to report, the quake has a great impact on dozens of semiconductor firms causing supply shortage for application comp...   (View)

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Global Semiconductor Inventory Hit Two-and-a-half Years in the Fourth Quarter Last Year

Published:2011/3/11 3:16:00 Author:Amy

Global semiconductor inventory was increased to two and a half years in the fourth quarter of 2010, said the report from IHS iSuppli. It will be in trouble if the growth of chip industry declines. By the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, DOI of semiconductor suppliers is 83.6 days which increases 5.5 days with 7 percent increase compared to the third quarter with 78.1 days. That hit the historical record s...   (View)

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