Industry News (2011/04)

Lastest News on Semiconductors

Published:2011/4/26 2:20:00 Author:Phyllis

A chip that can transforme DC-DC converters to accurate charger that suitable for any rechargeable batteries has been introduced by Linear Technology Corporation recently. Named as LTC4000, this chip has the function of handling input and output voltages from 3V to 60V and also making back-up mediation between the battery, input supply and load. It can drive topologies like boost, buck, buck-boost, flyback and SE...   (View)

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The NFC Market Will Grow Quickly In The Second Half Of This Year

Published:2011/4/26 1:37:00 Author:Li xiao na

Recently, the NFC cell phone industry has some new change and progress. The frequent movements of the manufacturers indicate a new gestation process; therefore, the practitioners pay attention to this industry again. The report of Forrester shows that shipment of NFC cell phone will reach 40 million sets to 50 million sets in the year of 2011. Experts maintain that the Chinese market will start obviously in the asp...   (View)

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NAND Flash Supply Drops 4％ in 2Q11

Published:2011/4/26 1:05:00 Author:Amy

The earthquake that occurred in Japan on March 11 is supposed to be the reason of decreasing the worldwide capacity of NAND flash memory bits by less than 4 percent in the second quarter of 2011 and capacity should rebound to normal thereafter, according to the DRAMexchange service provided by TrendForce Corp. According to analysis, Toshiba-SanDisk joint venture owned, the Yokkaichi wafer fabs has recovered...   (View)

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What＇s Going on With Sony＇s PlayStation Network？

Published:2011/4/25 2:33:00 Author:Phyllis

Sony’s PlayStation Network has been down since April 20th, and there’s still no certainty about when it will be back. The reasons for this is complicated and confusing. On the first day of the outage, Sony company has given a short update and announced the breakdown of certain functions of PlayStation Network. On the following days, the company was still investigating the cause of this accident and it remin...   (View)

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Big Companies Take Measures to Protect Themselves from the Impact of Earthquake

Published:2011/4/21 2:26:00 Author:Phyllis

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan last month has a great impact on the supply of key components on the cellphone market like displays, printed circuit boards and batteries. After the disaster, LG electronics Inc has adjusted its chip suppliers for home appliance products from Toshiba Corp to Hynix Semiconductor and Panasonic. Before that LG sourced more than half of its chip requirements for products like fridges...   (View)

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Samsung Was Sued for Coping

Published:2011/4/19 0:52:00 Author:Amy

The report on wJS said that Apple Inc. sued Samsung Electronics Co. that Samsung’s Galaxy line of mobile phones and tablet slavishly copied Apple’s iPhone and iPad, which is regarded as increasing tensions of intellectual-property in the rapidly developing mobile market. The lawsuit was filed Friday in the US District Court of Northern California claiming that Samsung copied the appearance, design packagi...   (View)

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Introduction Of The New System Source Meter

Published:2011/4/17 20:16:00 Author:Li xiao na

Nowadays, the applications of the high power components become wider in the new energy and hybrid electric vehicle fields. Keithley Instruments Inc has developed the system source meter”2651A” which is especially designed to analyze the characteristics of the high power electronics and provide the broadest scale current. This scale current is very important for the different kinds of development, reliability and te...   (View)

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The Predication Of The LCD Television Industry In This Year

Published:2011/4/14 4:26:00 Author:Li xiao na

Although the liquid crystal television is in the stock modifying period, the main manufacturers have improved the capacity to catch up the expectation. According to the report of market wise - LCD industry dynamics, the world’s seventeen television brands have increased by fifteen percent of the output. It is predicated that the growth rate will be six percent in April. The output of these seventeen large ...   (View)

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The Price Growth Of DRAM

Published:2011/4/14 1:44:00 Author:Li xiao na

When the shortage of silicon wafer has not been completely solved, the personal computer manufactures demand to restock in advance. The predication of price growth of DARM rises in the April of 2010. The growth rate will be six percent. Currently, price of the 2GB DDR3 module has increased to eighteen US dollars, so the quotation of 2GB chip will be two US dollars. To be more than twenty US dollars is possible ...   (View)

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The NB Market Is Impacted By Tablet Computer Directly In This Year

Published:2011/4/13 2:59:00 Author:Li xiao na

The earthquake makes the terminal demand low, and it also influences the supply chain of the NB market. The second generation factory’s shipment has so many uncertainties. Although the demand can delay to the second half of this year, the NB market will be impacted directly by the tablet computer. Therefore, the predication of NB’s shipment has been reduced to 208 million sets. The yearly growth rate is 7.3%. The s...   (View)

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European Photovoltaic Market Is Benefited From The Earthquake

Published:2011/4/7 22:49:00 Author:Li xiao na

For the photovoltaic industry, the subsidy policies in Italy and Germany are uncertain. Practitioners look on the market. Recently, influenced by the earthquake, Japanese government may have the new budget to support the northeastern area. One billion watt of the solar energy system will be installed. All the practitioners watch closely this news. Besides, the unclear disaster makes the electrovalence in Europe inc...   (View)

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Semiconductor Industry Is Facing The Crisis Of Short Supply

Published:2011/4/7 4:30:00 Author:Li xiao na

The earthquake in Japan has badly influenced the silicon wafer supply. Experts maintain that the other sources can be used to meet an urgent need and all are in control, but the semiconductor stocks reduce quickly. The growth of semiconductor’s achievement in February, which has a low base, is not hard, but the low demand and short supply after the second quarter will bring the real challenges. The earthqu...   (View)

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The Status Of DRAM Marker After The Earthquake

Published:2011/4/7 2:53:00 Author:Li xiao na

The earthquake in Japan makes the supply of silicon wafer short, but it also makes the DRAM industry recover on the verge of death. Although the price of DRAM has not increased obviously, it becomes the fact that the market is becoming warm. The contract price had increased slightly in March, and it is predicated that the price will continue to grow in April of this year. In the aspect of NAND Flash, its price has ...   (View)

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Growth Of Solar Energy Battery Was More Than 100％ In 2010

Published:2011/4/6 22:36:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the research of PHOTON, the production of the solar energy battery increased by 118% in the year of 2010, and the output reached 27.2 GW. In 2011, the world’s manufacturers are planning to produce fifty GW of battery. Its power capacity is equivalent to six unclear reactions. The photovoltaic power has become the actual solution, and its generating cost is equivalent to the wind energy. The output of t...   (View)

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The Price Of Photovoltaic Components Will Reduce By 37％ To 50％

Published:2011/4/6 4:00:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the report of Solarbuzz, the installation in the photovoltaic market was 18.2GW in the year of 2010. The output of the world’s photovoltaic industry was 82 billion US dollars. It had increased 105% when compared with 2009. Meanwhile, its supply chain had gained 10 billion US dollars of stocks and bonds in the past twelve years. Germany, Italy, Czech, Japan and American are first five largest c...   (View)

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4G Access Will Take Half Of The Flow In 2014

Published:2011/4/6 0:48:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the research of HIS Screen Digest, the users of ordinary phone and smart phone become more and more. In the year of 2011, the users of wireless 3G will increase by thirty-four percent. The increasing data access makes many people worry about the crowding network, which drives the operators to invest on the 4G. The 3G continues to increase. It is predicated that the number of 3G users will reach 999.3 m...   (View)

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The Movable Hard Disk Has Large Developing Space

Published:2011/4/5 20:12:00 Author:Li xiao na

With the popularization of networking, digitalization and entertainment, the information exchange and data backup become more and more frequent in people’s daily life. This demand drives the development of movable memory industry. As the representative of the memory, movable hard disk has become the necessary digital device for people. Therefore, movable hard disk has become one of the markets with largest potentia...   (View)

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The Development Of Information And Technology Companies In Japan

Published:2011/4/1 21:54:00 Author:Li xiao na

Before March the eleventh, geologists had maintained that the earthquake was very possible to happen in Japan. Japan is the world’s important manufacturing base of the electronic products, which has one fifth of the market share. What is more, Japan is in the significant position in the electronic industry. If the disaster comes again, the world’s IT setup will undertake a heavy damage; even the entire information ...   (View)

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