China's fragmented home-grown mobile-phone industry needs consolidation to compete. china. China's fledging, fragmented handset industry needs to be further consolidated to compete effectively with global players, which now control over 80% of China's mobile phone market, according to industry observers. China's fledging, fragmented handset industry needs to be further consolidated to compete effectively with global players, which now control over 80% of China's mobile phone market, according to industry observers....

While wireless industry experts and customers have mixed feelings about the latest wireless carrier merger reports, most agree that carrier consolidation is inevitable. While wireless industry experts and customers have mixed feelings about the latest wireless carrier merger reports, most agree that carrier consolidation is inevitable....

Pioneer-NEC deal delivers much-needed consolidation, but is it enough?. pioneer. However, with the crowded market now overripe for a round of consolidation, NEC may not be the last company to make an exit from plasma, iSuppli/Stanford Resources believes....

Faster adoption of DDR2 can speed up DRAM industry consolidation. faster adoption of ddr2 can speed up dram industry consolidation. Lawrence Chang, the vice president of Kingmax Semiconductor, the company ranked as the world’s eighth-largest third-party DRAM-module supplier by iSuppli for the last two years, argued that this would speed up consolidation in the DRAM-module industry....

Hoping to cash in on corporate users' growing desire for server consolidation, VMware on Monday rolled out an improved version of its core product that makes virtual SMP (symmetrical multi-processing) available to dual-processor servers allowing larger mission-critical applications to be consolidated on Intel-based systems. Hoping to cash in on corporate users' growing desire for server consolidation, VMware on Monday rolled out an improved version of its core product that makes virtual SMP (symmetrical multi-processing) available to dual-processor servers allowing larger mission-critical applications to be consolidated on Intel-based systems....

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) recently announced a series of manufacturing and development consolidations that will roughly reduce its 40,000-person global workforce by 11 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) recently announced a series of manufacturing and development consolidations that will roughly reduce its 40,000-person global workforce by 11 As part of the company’s consolidation initiative, which it expects will save up to nearly US$300 million over the next five years, it will close its Guadalajara plant and create what it calls "centers of competency" for the development and production of sliders, head-gimbal assemblies (HGA) and media....

Although the Taiwan LED industry experienced consolidation this year due to falling margins, oversupply and slower growth, Taiwan-based LED makers including Everlight Electronics, Bright LED Electronics and Unity Opto Technology are planning to aggressively expand in 2006, according to the companies.. Although the Taiwan LED industry experienced consolidation this year due to falling margins, oversupply and slower growth, Taiwan-based LED makers including Everlight Electronics, Bright LED Electronics and Unity Opto Technology are planning to aggressively expand in 2006, according to the companies....

Chinese consulting firm Analysys International agreed with Wang’s description and adds that it believes that "Lenovo has finished its initial consolidation for phase one" and that Amelio’s operation experience may help the company consolidate the PC business for mature and emerging markets....

Believe it or not, it’s the digital camera industry, which iSuppli believes will be impacted by reduction in shipment growth, declining revenues, and further manufacturer consolidation and shakeout. Unfortunately," he said, "the losses and consolidation already seen in the digital still camera market may be a sign of things to come for other segments."...