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CEC Panda Places $40 Million Order with Orbotech

by Andrew Fenn

Orbotech will be providing LCD panel manufacturer CEC Panda with $40 million worth of inspection, testing and repair solutions for the company’s next-generation fabrication facility in Chengdu, China. As part of the deal, Orbotech …

Apple Drops to Third Place in Q2 Wearables Results

by Andrew Fenn

Xiaomi and Fitbit have overtaken Apple in the wearables market, which grew by 8% in Q2, according to new figures reported by Canalys. Xiaomi shipped 3.5 million units over the last three months. Meanwhile, …

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Foxconn’s Sales Are Up in July

by Yvette Raikes

Foxconn Electronics posted July turnover of NT$315.1 billion ($10.4 billion), down slightly MoM but up 7.5% YoY. This resulted in revenue to date of NT$2.2 trillion ($72.5 billion), up 1.6%. The company said that …

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WiseChip Sees Strong Growth

by Yvette Raikes

WiseChip Semiconductor, which makes PMOLED panels, saw profit for the first half of the year of NT$127 million ($4.2 million) on turnover of NT$905 million ($29.8 million). In July revenue was NT$182 million ($6.0 …

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TSMC Gears Up FinFET Production

by Bob Raikes

The Commercial Times in China has reported that TSMC is expected to start making 12nm FinFET chips in the fourth quarter of 2017. They will be used in Xavier CPUs and Volta GPUs for …

Quanta Has Good Q2

by Yvette Raikes

Quanta Computer reported Q2 net profits of NT$3.98 billion ($131.2 million), up 13.6%, on turnover which rose 13.3% YoY to NT$235.37 billion ($7.8 billion). The company commented that it would have seen a decline …

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CR & Microsoft Dispute Reliability of Surface Products

by Bob Raikes

Consumer Reports (CR) in the US said that it was removing its recommendation of four of Microsoft’s notebook products and “cannot recommend any other Microsoft laptops or tablets because of poor predicted reliability”. The …

Tags:Convertible PCs| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 30

Dates Announced for International HDMI Plugfest

by Andrew Fenn

The International HDMI Plugfest will take place from the 25th to the 29th of September, at Presto Engineering’s Caen offices in Normandy, France. The event allows creators of HDMI hardware and software, such as …

New VR Consumer Study from Strategy Analytics

by Andrew Fenn

A new report from the User Experience Strategies service at Strategy Analytics has revealed some interesting consumer information regarding the virtual reality industry. “Virtual Reality: Who are VR owners and VR Intenders?” explores the …

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UniPixel Signs Deal for Equity Credit

by Bob Raikes

UniPixel said that it has entered an equity purchase agreement that gives the company the right to “put,” or sell, up to 13.1 million shares of common stock to L2 Capital for an investment …

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Transsion Launches New Phones in India

by Bob Raikes

We recently saw a reference to Transsion Holdings, which has an HQ in Shenzen in China, and is building a new HQ there. The company is reported to have made 80 million handsets in …

Tags:India| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 24 - Issue 30

DVB Approves New Sub-Title Specification

by Bob Raikes

The DVB steering board has approved a new specification for subtitling for broadcast TV and which will be based on the W3C Timed Text Markup Language and will run alongside the current bitmap-based technology …

Tags:DVB| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Standards| Vol 24 - Issue 30