Design & Supply Chain

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.(May 23, 2013)—The headlines often trumpet news about declining commodity prices. So why don’t these reductions ever seem to result in price reductions from suppliers?

Suppliers will never volunteer to lower their prices, of course.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.(May 22, 2013)—Sales of liquid crystal display televisions (LCD TV) during China’s Labor Day holiday rose 18 percent in 2013 compared to a year earlier, as consumers were lured by attractive promotional pricing and a government subsidy program.

Chinese consumers bought 4.2 million LCD TV sets in a three-week stretch from April 15 through May 5, the Labor Day selling season for this year, according the TV Systems Intelligence Service at information and analytics more...

Vancouver, British Columbia(May 21, 2013)—Television industry participants gathering at the Society for Information Display (SID) 2013 Display Week event here this week are showcasing the product they hope will rejuvenate the market: the Ultra-High Definition (UHD) set.

But can UHD avoid the dismal fate of another product touted as the industry’s savior just a few years ago, the 3-D TV?

TV panel makers are betting on a high rate of growth for UHD LCD TVs during the next four years. more...

Vancouver, British Columbia (May 20, 2013)—Can PC makers produce ultrathin, touch-screen PCs that are appealing to consumers—and that are priced at just $200?

The astounding answer seems yes—if microprocessor Intel Corp.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.(May 16, 2013)–Pumped up by demand from a wide range of users, including professional athletes and exercise enthusiasts, global shipments of sports and fitness monitors are set to total more than 250 million units during the next five years combined.

Shipments will rise to 56.2 million units in 2017, up from 43.8 million in 2013, according to a new report entitled “The World Market for Sports & Fitness Monitors” from IMS Research, now part of IHS (NYSE: IHS). more...

LONDON (May 13, 2013)–Average pricing for Chinese-manufactured photovoltaic (PV) solar modules could surge by 45 percent in June, cutting some solar project IRRs to below 7 percent and further dampen demand in Europe as a result of the preliminary antidumping duties imposed in the European Union, according to IHS (NYSE: IHS).

Chinese modules carried an average price of $0.66 per watt (W) in March, and were expected to increase to $0.67/W in June, based on a forecast from the IHS Solar more...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.(May 10, 2013)—Will the enabling and investment strategy of Intel Corp. lead to low-cost touch-screen-enabled notebooks that drive new demand for PCs and yield innovation in the global display market?

Find out at the IHS/SID 2013 Business Conference, held May 20 in Vancouver, Canada. At the event, Zane Ball, Intel vice president and general manager, Global Ecosystem Development, will deliver a keynote address discussing the company’s plan to empower the PC industry to more...

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif.(May 9, 2013)—The eight leading suppliers of industrial electronics suffered revenue declines in 2012, reflecting weak conditions for the beleaguered market, according to an IHS iSuppli Industrial Electronics Market Tracker Report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (May 2, 2013)—Global shipments of solid state drives (SSD) in PCs are set to rise by a factor of seven by 2017, allowing them to claim more than one-third of the market for PC storage solutions by that time, according to an IHS iSuppli Storage Market Tracker Report from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).

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LONDON (May 3, 2013)—Shipments and revenue of video surveillance equipment in Russia and Eastern Europe are on track to approximately double from 2012 to 2017, buoyed by improving economic conditions and preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and 2018 FIFA World Cup, both events to be held in Russia.

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El Segundo, Calif.(April 30, 2013)—What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70 percent of the world’s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market?

The answer would be chaos, with the worldwide electronics supply chain grinding to a halt and stopping major more...

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AUSTIN, Texas (April 26, 2013)–With history showing that high-profile terrorism events like the Boston bombing can drive increased government spending on security, global sales of video surveillance equipment could exceed the booming growth already predicted for the market. more...