Taiwan’s Panel Industry Output Declined in the 2016H1
TAIPEI, Taiwan - According to PIDA, Taiwan’s panel industry was affected by unclear global demand and the continual growth of Mainland China’s production capacity for panels. Therefore, during the first half of 2016, the output of Taiwanese LCD panel manufacturers slowed down...
Samsung Electronics and SAP Open Research Center for Next-generation In-memory Platform
Samsung Electronics and SAP SE, today held the opening ceremony for a joint research center where engineers will conduct R&D for memory solutions to be used in next-generation in-memory computing. The establishment of the research center is part of an extended partnership between the two world-leading corporations...
Stacked Perovskite/CIGS Solar Module Achieves Unprecedented Efficiency at 17.8%
Scientists from imec (partner in Solliance and EnergyVille), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, ZSW), announced that they have fabricated a thin-film solar module stack made up of perovskite and Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) with a conversion efficiency of 17...
54% of TSMC’s 2016 Revenue Expected to Come From <40nm, IC Insight Says
According to the IC Insight, TSMC has long been the technology leader among the major pure-play foundries. 54% of TSMC’s 2016 revenue is expected to come from ...
HP and LG Electronics See Solid YoY Growth in PC Monitor Market in Q2
The total worldwide PC monitor market shipped more than 30 million units in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16), up 4.9% year over year and 4.6% quarter over quarter, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). "The second quarter proved better than forecast overall, with the U...
Four IC Industry Clusters Have Emerged in China, TrendForce Reports
The development of China’s semiconductor sector has gained new momentum in the first year of the country’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016~2020). According to the global market research firm TrendForce, committed policy efforts and investments from the Chinese government have resulted in the formation of four IC industry clusters that are respectively located in the country’s four major regions of activities – the Yangtze River Delta...