China will continue to bolster the development of a domestic robotics industry, according to a new robotics technology roadmap that was recently released by the Chinese government for the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016~2020). China aims to have three to five internationally competitive domestic robotics companies by 2020.
According to the latest large-size panel report by WitsView, a division of TrendForce, TV panel shipments arrived at 20.82 million units in April, translating to a 7.2% drop from March and 5% drop from a year ago. Branded TV set vendors began to replenish their inventories for the Chinese Labor Day sales earlier in March. This resulted in weaker panel shipments for April, when vendors had just about completed this phase of inventory activities.
In the first quarter of this year, the average contract price of NAND Flash chip fell by about 10% compared with the previous quarter due to persistant market oversupply. During the same period, the prices of eMMCs and Client-SSDs also dropped 13~18% quarterly as a result of steep decline in shipments of smartphones, tablets and notebooks.
Japan has enormous influence over the development of the global biotech industry. The country is the world’s third-largest pharmaceutical and biotech market after the U.S. and China. It is also ranked second globally in terms of R&D spending in pharmaceutical and biotech industry. One of the major trade exhibitions in Japan, Life Science World 2016, was held in Tokyo earlier this May.
Members of the PV industry will be gathering in Shanghai next week for China’s largest solar energy trade show, SNEC 2016. The tradeshow will provide a venue for manufacturers across the PV supply chain to negotiate their orders in June. Therefore, the global PV market will not witness noticeable price fluctuations this month.
