On May 16th, the policies for promoting consumptions of products such as energy saving home appliances have been studied during the Executive Meeting of China’s State Council, and it has been determined to allocate 26.5 billion RMB of financial subsidy to launch the promotion of air-conditioner, Flat-Panel TV, refrigerator, washing machine, and water heater meeting energy saving standard
According to LEDinside, a research division of TrendForce, Europe’s worsening debt crisis has curbed demand from the European market and threatened Asian LED makers, who rely heavily on export sales. Therefore, some manufacturers’ sales momentums have shown a slight decrease in 2Q12.
As Microsoft is poised to launch Windows 8, touch Notebook (NB) with Windows 8 stood out among all the products at 2012 Computex. Through an innovative combination of touch function and NB, brands vendors are hoping to both revive NB market and ease tablet PC’s absorption of NB demand.
According to TrendForce, this year’s biggest DRAM industry event, the announcement that Japanese manufacturer Elpida will join hands with U.S. maker Micron, marks the end of a perfectly competitive market as Samsung, Hynix, and the new Micron team become the three main players in an oligopolistic market.
According to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, 2HMay 4GB module price stayed flat compared to the first half of the month - highest price did not exceed US$21.5.