FET aims to be largest provider of Android Chinese-language applications

Feb 24, 11:54

Taiwan-based Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) aims at becoming the largest provider of Android-based Chinese-language online applications and value-added services through tapping...

Ralink expects xDSL chip shipments to climb over 30% in 2011

Feb 24, 01:55

Ralink Technology has revealed that judging from current order visibility, shipments of its xDSL chips are expected to climb 30-40% in 2011. Shipments went up 46% in 2010, the company...

HP unsatisfactory performance to impact Taiwan upstream supply chain

Feb 24, 01:35

Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced revenues of US$32.3 billion during the period from November of 2010 to January of 2011, lower than market watchers' expectations of US$32.9 billion,...

Touch panel maker TPK posts EPS of NT$23.03 for 2010

Feb 24, 01:30

Touch panel maker TPK Touch Solutions has reported net profits of NT$4.74 billion (US$160.3 million) on consolidated revenues of NT$59.6 billion for 2010. The earnings translated...

Fire strikes Ritek plants causing tight supply of Blu-ray discs

Feb 24, 01:25

A fire broke out at optical disc maker Ritek's plants in Hsinchu, Taiwan before the Lunar New Year holidays. Despite the company announcing that the fire would not impact its operations,...

Western Digital unseats Seagate in 2010, says Information Network

Feb 23, 14:13

Western Digital (WD) took command of the hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2010 from long-time leader Seagate on the strength of its market momentum in mobile computing, according to...

Global NOR flash market to shrink in 2011 and beyond, says IHS

Feb 23, 11:22

The global market for NOR flash memory will decline by almost 6% in 2011 after blockbuster growth last year - the first sign of the difficult years that lie ahead as the industry...

Raydium reports NT$20 EPS for 2010

Feb 23, 01:05

LCD driver IC design house Raydium Semiconductor has announced revenues of NT$9.172 billion (US$311 million) for 2010, and net income came to NT$1.282 billion or NT$19.97 a share...

Kenmec reports NT$8.4 billion in 2010 consolidated revenues

Feb 22, 01:50

Equipment provider Kenmec Mechanical Engineering released unaudited consolidated revenues of NT$8.4 billion (US$286 million) in 2010, up 60% from 2009. Kenmec's main equipment business...

Ju Teng DSLR camera chassis shipments to double or triple on year in 2011

Feb 22, 01:30

Digital camera chassis maker Ju Teng International Holdings is expected to see its DSLR camera chassis shipments to double or triple on year in 2011 and the company will also have...

Inotera reportedly experiencing yield issues during process transition

Feb 22, 01:10

Inotera Memories is reportedly experiencing yield difficulties in back-end processes for 12-inch wafers and has produced 20,000-30,000 wafers of defective chips. Inotera transitioned...

Young Optics sees revenues up, gross margin down in 2010

Feb 21, 14:46

Optical module and component maker Young Optics had 2010 consolidated revenues of NT$7.482 billion (US$235 million), increasing by 33.54% from 2009. But gross margin decreased by...

Coretronic ships over 78 million BLUs in 2010

Feb 21, 10:21

Taiwan-based Coretronic shipped 78.15 million BLUs (backlight units) to bring in revenues of NT$59.272 billion (US$1.86 billion) in 2010, according to the company at a February 18...

Taiwan market: Canon aims at sales of NT$6 billion in 2011

Feb 18, 16:22

In the Taiwan market, Canon recorded revenues of over NT$5 billion (US$157 million) mainly from sales of digital cameras, printers and MFPs (multi-function peripherals) in 2010, rising...

SMIC returns to profitability after 5 years of losses

Feb 18, 13:54

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has announced that it swung to net profits of US$13.1 million in 2010, after five years of losses.

Trend Micro 2010 net profit down nearly 28%

Feb 18, 12:01

Taiwan-based information security software provider Trend Micro saw 2010 net profit drop 27.88% to JPY12.72 billion (US$145 million), according to the company.

CyberLink to deal out almost all of 2010 net profit

Feb 18, 11:58

Taiwan-based digital multimedia software solution provider CyberLink plans to distribute a dividend per share of NT$7 for 2010 operation, accounting for 98.88% of the year's net earnings...

Taiwan sees 4Q10 economic growth of 6.92%

Feb 18, 10:26

Taiwan has posted an on-year growth in real GDP of 6.92% for the fourth quarter and 10.82% for the entire 2010, according to preliminary figures released by the Directorate General...

Global projector market to reach almost 8.5 million in 2010, says PMA

Feb 17, 16:40

The global front projector market is expected to increase 34% on year to 8.49 million units in 2010, driven by demand for short-throw, high brightness and pico projectors, according...

Semiconductor inventories swell to alarming level, says iSuppli

Feb 17, 10:55

Global inventories held by semiconductor suppliers surged to their highest level in two-and-a-half years during the fourth quarter of 2010, a development that could spell trouble...

Apple secures 60% of global touch panel capacity, causing tight supply

Feb 17, 01:50

In order to achieve its internal goal of shipping 40 million iPad products in 2011, Apple has occupied close to 60% of the global touch panel capacity causing tight supply among Apple's...

Acer, Asustek cutting into tier-4 to 6 cities in China

Feb 17, 01:10

Acer and Asustek Computer have recently been aggressively cutting into China's tier-4 to tier-6 cities as both players are optimistic about these cities' potential in the future.

Harvatek January revenues up over 53% sequentially

Feb 16, 01:45

LED packager Harvatek has posted revenues of NT$399 million (US$13.57 million) for January, an increase of 53.23% sequentially and 33.71% on year, a record high for monthly revenue...

Taiwan panel makers to turn profitable in 3Q11

Feb 16, 01:35

After significant losses in the fourth quarter of 2010, Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel makers are expected to remain in the red in the first quarter of 2011, but will start to recover...

Lumax release preliminary January results

Feb 16, 01:30

Lumax International's preliminary consolidated revenue results for January 2011 came to NT$631 million (US$21.46 million), up 29.4% on year and 41.2% sequentially. The provider of...

Solar cell maker Neo Solar announces 2010 EPS of NT$11.55

Feb 16, 01:05

Solar cell maker Neo Solar Power has announced that its 2010 net income reached NT$2.74 billion (US$93.2 million) or NT$11.55 a share. Revenues for the year increased 95.5% from 2009...

Large-size TFT-LCD shipments grow 26% on year in 2010 to 665 million units, says DisplaySearch

Feb 15, 15:44

Global large-size TFT-LCD panel shipments reached a record high of 665 million units in 2010, with strong growth in TV, notebook, tablet PC, and public display applications, according...

China software industry sees 2010 total revenues up 31.3% on year

Feb 15, 02:15

China's software industry generated total revenues of CNY1,336.4 billion (US$197 billion) in 2010, growing by 31.3% from 2009, according to statistics by the Ministry of Industry...

Sapphire substrate price drop to expand to 15% on quarter in 1Q11

Feb 15, 01:50

Prices of sapphire substrates are expected to drop 10-15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2011, an increase from a previous 5-10% quarterly decrease in 2010, but the decrease...

Protective component makers announce positive 2010 results

Feb 15, 01:30

Taiwan-based protective component makers Thinking Electronic and Polytronics Technology have announced unaudited financial results for 2010. Hampered by exchange rate volatility in...

High copper price damaging profitability of notebook component makers

Feb 15, 01:15

Taiwan-based makers of notebook components such as connector, cable, power supply and cooling modules are seeing their profitability drop as the recent global copper price is hovering...

IC distributor Promate saw 2010 pre-tax profit slip 2.75%

Feb 15, 01:10

IC distributor Promate Electronics saw its 2010 unaudited pre-tax profit slip 2.75% from 2009 to NT$495 million (US$16.87 million), and posted EPS of NT$2.25, the same as 2009.

Huga posts NT$840 million in 2010 profit

Feb 14, 13:54

LED chip maker Huga Optotech posted 2010 revenues of NT$4.4 billion (US$150 million), a new company record of NT$840 million in profit and NT$2 in EPS. With orders from China coming...

Synnex Technology 2010 revenues, pre-tax profit hit records

Feb 14, 10:59

Synnex Technology International, which distributes computer, communication, consumer electronics products, has reported consolidated revenues of NT$273.2 billion (US$8.54 billion)...

China sees 3G user base grow by over 36 million in 2010, says media

Feb 11, 11:49

The number of 3G subscribers in China increased 36.834 million to 47.052 million at the end of 2010, China-based IT Times cited the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...