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Hon Hai, aka Foxconn, invests in Sharp to strengthen its position
After several months of negotiation and many twists, finally Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., also known as Foxconn, will officially acquire Sharp Corporation, the over 100-year-old...
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Foxconn-Sharp takeover deal creates world’s largest TFT LCD production...
The boards of Foxconn and Sharp approved a takeover plan valued at US$3.5 billion at the end of March. This means Foxconn will control Sharp from now on. Through its subsidiaries Innolux and Century,...
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Global operators’ top NFV and SDN use cases
We have investigated network functions virtualization (NFV) and its software-defined networking (SDN) companion for the past five years as they have become the hottest topics in telecom. Service...
View ArticleNetflix and pay TV: friends or foes?
Cord-cutting is now a reality in most countries in Europe. Many European operators have lost TV subscribers in the last year and there are increasing numbers of homes that are not taking or not...
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Samsung and Chinese TV makers to refill LCD TV panel inventories from Q2'16
Samsung, the world’s leading TV brand, slashed panel demand in Q4’15 because the company’s panel purchases and set shipments were mismatched. It shipped 47.5 million sets while it purchased 54.6...
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Shorter life cycles for integrated circuits: It pays to select ICs carefully...
Over the past two decades the average life cycles for integrated circuit (IC) components have decreased by about 30% on average. But that doesn’t mean that there won’t be opportunities to select ICs...
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AMOLED is becoming the biggest growth segment in the display business,...
On the demand side, communication infrastructure, including 3G, 4G/LTE, and high-speed wireless services, continue to expand worldwide. These system improvements have led to demand for smartphone...
View ArticleRise of the machines: has generalized AI arrived?
The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the world must surely be one of the greatest contemporary puzzles. The spectrum of risk and the gamut of possible applications are significantly complex...
View ArticleThe Indian TV programming market — a gold mine
IHS estimates that Indian TV broadcasting revenue, including advertising, subscription and public funding, totaled$4 billion in 2015. Revenue is forecast to grow 17% in the next five years, stimulated...
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Expect deep capex cuts in China this year
As we learned in February, Chinese New Year 2016 is a year of the Monkey and for people born in a year of the monkey (1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004), 2016 is considered a bad year....
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The Kumamoto Japan earthquake and its impact on the electronics supply chain
IHS Technology recently shared a presentation with our customers that provided insights on the recent Kumamoto, Japan, earthquake—along with expectations on the impact of this disaster on the...
View ArticleEye in the sky: deregulation and drones
In the past few years, drones have risen from being merely fun and novel consumer toys to earning more serious regard—as well as tangible deployment—in commercial applications. While almost 3 million...
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Cypress Semiconductor boosts Internet of Things (IoT) position with...
Cypress Semiconductor announced that it will acquire Broadcom’s wireless Internet of Things (IoT) business in a $550 million deal. The deal was announced on Thursday, April 28, at the same time it...
View ArticleInfoComm China 2016 from a digital signage point of view
Held annually for three days at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China, the 11th InfoComm China (IFC) is Asia Pacific’s biggest professional audiovisual (pro-AV) and information...
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Embedded touch panels to comprise over 50% of mobile phone displays by 2017
In 2016, embedded touch panels such as in-cell and on-cell thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid-crystal display (LCD) and on-cell active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) are showing strong...
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Smartphone OLED shipments reach record high in March 2016
Monthly data from IHS shows a sharp rise in active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) smartphone displays in March 2016 compared to the leading low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS)...
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Technology bets: what future is Silicon Valley backing?
In late April a few big announcements in as many days came in quick succession—first from Alphabet (Google’s parent company), then Apple, Facebook, and finally Amazon. The headlines were unambiguous:...
View ArticleSEMICON Southeast Asia 2016: The future of smart manufacturing in Malaysia
The SEMICON Southeast Asia (SEA) 2016 conference in Penang, Malaysia, gathered experts in the region and highlighted microelectronics and industrial automation innovations from the semiconductor...
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Distributed antenna system innovation can lower TCO
By definition, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a system is a financial estimate aimed at helping the owner determine all costs associated with the system, direct and indirect. Applied to...
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Wide color gamut technology emerging as a key requirement for high-end displays
With the growing adoption of wide color gamut solutions in the high-end display market, wide color gamut technology is emerging as a key requirement for premium displays.According to the latest IHS...
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