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AUO publishes 65-inch Full HD OLED panel technology paper at SID Display Week

AU Optronics (AUO) is participating in Display Week 2013, held by SID (Society for Information Display) in Vancouver from May 19-24. AUO's R&D team has submitted 13 papers to SID's Technical Symposium, including the paper debut of what it claims is the world's largest 65-inch Full HD OLED TV ...
Taiwan networkingcommunication device makers see decreasing profit-to-RD spending ratio

Seven main Taiwan-based networking/communication device makers saw the average ratio of pre-tax profit to R&D expenditure continually decline from 0.87 for 2010 to 0.45 for first-quarter 2013, their financial reports have ...
Taiwan attracts January-April foreign direct investment of over US$1.5 billion

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 960 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$1.558 billion in January-April 2013. The number of projects increased 34.08% on year but the value decreased ...
Win Semi expects to post double-digit revenue growth in 2013

Gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafer foundry Win Semiconductors expects to post double-digit revenue growth in 2013 thanks to its complete product portfolio and broader client ...
Revenues for drivers in LED general lighting applications to triple says IMS Research

Global revenues for LED driver ICs used in general lighting applications will more than triple from 2012 to 2015, as the market for solid-state illumination booms, according to IMS ...

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TSMC presence in advance process market remains strong

A report has claimed that Samsung Electronics' combined production of chips using advanced 32/28nm process technologies accounted for roughly 50% of the global production of the same class chip foundry in the first quarter of ...
Chicony seeks growth from non-notebook product lines

Seeing the notebook industry suffering from weak demand, Taiwan-based keyboard maker Chicony Electronics has turned to its non-notebook businesses such as external keyboards and camera modules for tablets, for further growth in ...
Taiwan April export order value slightly down on month year says MOEA

Taiwan received export orders worth US$35.69 billion in total in April 2013, decreasing by 0.4% on month and by 1.1% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on May ...
Global large-size panel shipments exceed 65 million units in April 2013 says WitsView

Additionally, monitor panel shipments dropped 3% on month in April to a total of 13.88 million units. Shipments for notebook panels sized 10.1-inch and above saw shipments of 14.08 million units, declining 11% on month. As for tablet panels, shipments attained a total of 17.85 million, a drop of 1% on month despite adjustments made in Apple's inventory, said ...
Supply chain to begin volume shipments of new Xbox console orders in 3Q13

As Microsoft is expected to unveil its next-generation Xbox game console codenamed Durango on May 21 at the Xbox Campus, sources from the upstream supply chain revealed that they are already shipping related orders in small volumes and mass shipments are expected to start in the third quarter to reach the peak in the fourth ...

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Congress says Food Security Bill would have immensely benefited the poor

The Information and Broadcasting Minister , Manish Tewari, has blamed the opposition for the Governments inability to pass the Food Security Bill, which would have helped the country's poor. He was speaking during his visit to Odisha.

Manish Tewari said that the bill was " so ambitious and breathtaking" in its very conception and would provide food security to 67 percent of the people of this country, including the poorest of the poor, the marginalised, the weakest. Rice would have been provided at Rs. 2 a kg, wheat at Rs. 3 a kg, maize at Rs. 1 a kg . But the bill has been sacrificed at the altar of political opportunism. "Can there be a bigger travesty of both politics and policy in this country?" questioned Manish Tewari.

Commoners like Padma Singh, a mother of five children in a village in Odisha, is struggling to feed her children, she said subsidised food would have helped her sustain her family.

Padma said, "We are very poor and cannot have a proper meal. My family survives by eating only rice and boiled potato, as we cannot afford lentils. The cost of rice in the open market is 20 rupees per kilogram. We do not have a below poverty line card as well, so we cannot access subsidized food," she said. ...