The latest report from WitsView, a division of TrendForce, finds shipments of LCD TV panels in June fell 0.5% monthly but increased 7.9% yearly, totaling 22.6M units. The shipments in the previous six months reached 132.3M units and fulfilled 52.5% of this year’s total LCD TV panel demand, which is estimated at 252M units.
On October 14, 2014, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced the establishment of the National Integrated Circuitry Industry Investment Fund. This fund shows China’s intention of building a domestic semiconductor sector with the DRAM industry as the cornerstone.
As applications of Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies widen, online-to-offline (O2O) will become the prevalent business model. The latest research by Topology Research Institute (TRI), a division of TrendForce, finds the falling prices of IC components drive down the costs of sensors. This trend in turn accelerates the developments in the IoT industry related to technological advances and entries into different vertical markets.
