中國智能手機市場提振日本電子產業

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Eric Pfanner, 中國智能手機市場提振日本電子產業. 华尔街日报, Oct 21, 2014
cn.wsj.com/big5/20141021/tec094732.asp


, which is translated from

Eric Pfanner, Chinese Smartphones Lift Japan’s Electronics Business; Japanese parts makers tap surging demand; Murata, TDK benefit. Wall Street Journal, Oct 20, 2014
online.wsj.com/articles/chinese-smartphones-lift-japans-electronics-business-1413827482

Quote:

"The parts sales are a rare bright spot in Japan’s gloomy electronics industry, and China’s smartphone market—the world’s largest and growing at 19% a year, according to Counterpoint Research—is a big factor.

"A significant portion of those handsets’ guts—as much as 50% by value, in some cases—is made by Japanese companies * * * Those parts range from displays [by Japan Display and Sharp, for example] and Wi-Fi modules to tiny, energy-storing ceramic capacitors [from Murata] " plus "camera modules from Sony Corp. * * * By contrast, Japanese suppliers account for about one-third of the bill of materials for the latest iPhones, and less than that for Samsung phones, said Shoji Sato, an analyst at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities."

Note:
(a) "Tsuneo MURATA, president of Murata"  (株式会社) 村田製作所 社長 村田 恒夫
(b) TDK Corp (TDK株式会社), where TDK "is an acronym of the original Japanese name of the company: Tōkyo Denkikagaku Kōgyō 東京 電気化学 工業 株式会社." Wikipedia