The Taiyuan facility employs 79,000 people and manufactures automobile electronic components, consumer electronic components and precision moldings.
Planet Labs' technology, like that at other microsatellite companies such as Skybox Imaging, are benefiting from the progressive miniaturization of consumer electronic components, along with a federal effort to commercialize space.
Philips Electronics NV, in full Royal Philips Electronics NV, major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment.
A custom-built personal computer housed high-end consumer-level electronic components that were specially selected and configured to enable continuous real-time acquisition, processing, and display of both structural and speckle variance data.
The government then began to promote a shift from agriculture to the manufacture of textiles, consumer goods, and, eventually, electronic components for export.
Witting later joined the parent company in Pittsburgh, as group vice president in charge of the electronic components and consumer products divisions.
Sharp Corp. engages in the manufacture and sale of electronic components and consumer electronic products.
"Our business is experiencing a significant deterioration in demand, especially in the global consumer markets served by our electronic components segment," said Lynch.
Asian tech companies suffered Friday, as a wave of worse than expected earnings from makers of electronic components and consumer products hammered Japanese and South Korean stocks.
The problem now is as follows: The products these countries sell — raw materials (oil, agricultural commodities) and commodity types of consumer goods (garments, textiles, toys, footwear, electronic components, semiconductors) — are all deflating in price.
But experts warn that the risk from dismantled consumer electronic devices, which often contain lead components, is also grave -- and poorly understood.
