Articles tagged with: Sharp and Sony
Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments Down by 15.8% in First Quarter
..liday quarter with channels clearing out excess inventory. But the 1Q09 decline was especially sharp due to weak end-user demand, currency volatility, and lack of credit for merchants as consumers and the supply chain adapt to the recession. & more
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Semiconductor Kings Suffer Sales Tragedy in 2008
..ry sales in 2008 resulted in Hynix's precipitous revenue plunge - and its fall to the No.-9 ranking, down from sixth-place in 2007," Ford said. The next biggest decline was posted by NXP Semiconductors, at 29.4 percent, due to the spin off of more
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A Receding Economic Tide Lowers Expectations for Crucial System-Level Chips
..ly forecasted revenue would rise by 6.7 percent for the year. Revenue will decline by a sharp 9.9 percent in 2009 to reach $91.2 billion. "The ancient rubric, ‘He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword,Ã' remains true in today's core more
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A Forgettable Year for Memory Chip Makers
For memory chip makers, 2008 will go down as a year to forget, as a major downturn in this segment caused revenue to fall for nearly all suppliers and contributed to negative results for the overall semiconductor industry, according to preliminary market-share figures from iSuppli. more
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Gartner: 2008 Phone Unit Sales to Rise, Economy Weighs
..ts for a global market share of 39.1% during the quarter, a sharp gain from last year's 35.5% market share in the same period. Sales in the ultra-low-cost end in new growth markets remain Nokia's strong point. South Korean handset manufacturer more
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Sony Ericsson Still Sees Weaker Europe Demand, Keeps Guidance
..rkets day, referring to a market recovery. Sony Ericsson suffered a sharp drop in earnings in the quarter due to a slowdown in the higher-end markets of Western Europe. Net profit fell 48% to EUR133 million from EUR254 million as weaker sales of more
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UPDATE: Motorola Plans to Split in Two; Icahn Said Not a Factor in Move
..r after a sharp drop in handset sales began to eat into its profits and punished the stock price. Icahn began buying up shares and waged a proxy battle for a seat on the board of directors at the company's annual meeting last May. This year, t more
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Deutsche Tel Slumps on Fixed-Line Business Targets
FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- Deutsche Telekom shares fell sharply Wednesday after the company unveiled targets for its domestic broadband and fixed line business in what some traders interpreted as a profit warning, though the company later reiterated its 2008 outlook. more
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FOCUS: India Bet Becomes a Sure Thing for Global Mobile Operators
..made inroads into the Indian market by producing very cheap basic phones in partnership with local operators like Reliance. According to Gartner, ZTE is the second-largest maker of mobile phones in India after Nokia. The listed Chinese company more
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