Eversol sees stable gross margin in 2H10; cautious on poly-Si price outlook

Dec 24, 01:25

Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Eversol expects its gross margin to remain flat sequentially at 25% in the fourth quarter of 2010. Gross margin for the second half of the year will...

No rebound for DRAM prices yet, says DRAMeXchange

Nov 25, 16:29

Contract prices for 2GB DDR3 modules, which once soared to a peak of US$46.50 in the first half of 2010, have now dropped below US$30, according to DRAMeXchange. The price will hit...

Semiconductor photomask market to plunge in 2H10, says The Information Network

Oct 7, 13:57

Record growth in the first half of 2010 in the semiconductor photomask market has stopped, and begun nose-diving, according to The Information Network.

LCD TV shipment growth accelerates in 2H10, says iSuppli

Sep 27, 16:40

Despite a second-quarter slowdown in global LCD TV shipment growth, the second half of the year is expected to bring a recovery as price reductions spur another year of double-digit...

ASE slowing copper wire bonding expansion, says paper

Newswatch - Sep 23, 16:25

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) is slowing down the expansion of its copper wirebonding capacity due to low market visibility, according to a Chinese-language Economic...

Taiwan market: BenQ aims at top position for LCD monitors and projectors in 2011

Sep 21, 14:20

BenQ aims to rank top-three for LCD TVs, LCD monitors and front projectors in the Taiwan market in the second half of 2010 and aims to become the leading vendor in the LCD monitor...

Hard drive component maker Min Aik expects strong growth in 2H10

Sep 10, 11:03

As demand for white-box PCs in emerging markets such as Thailand, Indonesia and India is rising, Taiwan-based hard drive component maker Min Aik Technology expects its shipments in...

Inventec sees August notebook shipments down over 13% sequentially

Sep 8, 15:50

Inventec saw its August 2010 notebook shipments drop 13.3% from 1.5 million units in July to only 1.3 million units, with the revenues for the month also down 11.9% on month and 23.1%...

A weak 2H for IC backend, says UTAC Taiwan

Sep 6, 11:53

The outlook for IC packaging and testing throughout the second half of 2010, especially the fourth quarter, is weak, according to YL Hsu, general manager for United Test and Assembly...

Forcecon sees revenues up, gross margins down in 1H10

Sep 3, 16:49

Forcecon Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of notebook cooling modules, saw consolidated revenues of NT$1.82 billion (US$55.5 million) for the first half of 2010, rising 24.95% on...

IC material distributor Niching sees sequential revenue growth in 2H10

Aug 31, 14:05

IC material distributor Niching Industrial has remarked that its revenue outlook for the second half of 2010 remains positive, buoyed by new orders from the memory sector and growing...

Qisda to see 20% of revenues from e-book readers, smartphones, tablet PCs in 2H10

Aug 30, 16:13

Qisda expects its new businesses including e-book readers, smartphones and tablet PCs to account for 20% of its total revenues in the second half of 2010, up from 16% in the second...

Inventec expects all-in-one PCs, tablets, e-book readers to drive revenue growth in 2H10

Aug 25, 16:21

Inventec foresees that all-in-one PCs, tablet PCs and e-book readers will be the main source of growth in its consolidated revenues for the second half of 2010 while sales revenues...

Lead time at 8-inch fabs drops to less than two weeks

Aug 24, 11:54

Lead times at foundries are shrinking, with 8-inch manufacturing falling to less than two weeks compared to over 10 weeks earlier in 2010, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC...

Delta eyeing education market for e-book readers

Aug 20, 15:21

Delta Electronics will tap into the education market with its e-book readers in the second half of 2010 amid the digitalization in universities and school libraries.

IC design houses to see flat sequential growth in 2H10 revenues

Aug 18, 14:12

IC design houses Integrated Technology Express (ITE), Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) and Ene Technology are expecting order levels in August 2010 to be similar to these of July,...

Career, Flexium expect sales boosted by orders for touch panels

Aug 16, 16:18

Career Technology and Flexium Interconnect, two major Taiwan-based flexible PCB (FPCB) suppliers, both expect shipments for touch screen devices including smartphones and tablets...

Notebook component makers conservative about 2H10

Aug 12, 14:26

Although several notebook players are still expecting performance to pick up in August and September, their upstream component partners are turning conservative as order visibility...

Global e-book reader shipments to be 2-3 times higher in 2H10, says E Ink chairman

Aug 11, 11:47

Price-cut competition for e-book readers among global vendors including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony and Hanvon is expected to stimulate demand in the second half of 2010, with...

Ability Enterprise expects to ship over 23 million digital cameras in 2010

Aug 10, 11:49

Taiwan-based Ability Enterprise expects to ship 13 million digital cameras in the second half of 2010, leading to more than 23 million units in total shipments for 2010, according...

Supply-side constraints may cause DRAM shortage in 2H10, says iSuppli

Aug 10, 10:49

Two issues potentially might negatively impact second-half DRAM availability and push what is left of the year into undersupply, according to iSuppli. Bottlenecks in the availability...

Supply of flexible PCB to fall short of demand in 2H10

Aug 9, 12:08

Supply of flexible PCB boards may fall short of demand for the first time in six years in the second half of 2010 due to strong demand from the smartphone, tablet PC, LCD panel and...

NOR flash prices to lose momentum in 2H10, says Macronix CEO

Aug 5, 14:48

Miin Wu, chairman and CEO of Macronix International, expects to see a balance in supply and demand for NOR flash chips in the third quarter quarter of 2010. Prices for the memory,...

Fiber glass fabric market to remain steady in 2H10, says Baotek executive

Aug 4, 17:07

The market for giber glass fabric will remain steady in the second half of 2010 as capacity ramp by PCB and CCL (copper clad laminate) makers will help sustain demand for fiber glass...

CPT aims to ship 3 million touch panels per month in 2H10

Aug 2, 16:40

Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) aims to ship three million touch panels per month in the second half of 2010, increasing from two million units monthly...

DRAM supply to outgrow demand in 4Q10, says Digitimes Research

Jul 27, 16:14

Global DRAM supply will outgrow demand by about 3% in the last quarter of 2010 as major chipmakers ramp up their capacity using more advanced processes, according to Digitimes Rese...

AMD to integrate USB 3.0 support in upcoming chipsets; to launch more CPUs in 2H10

Jul 27, 14:48

AMD is currently in talks with Renesas Electronics, which was merged with Japan-based NEC, about the licensing of USB 3.0 technology, and is considering integrating USB 3.0 support...

Uncertainties surround CCL prices in 2H10

Jul 21, 14:31

Quotes for copper-clad laminates (CCLs) have remained stable for July but CCL makers and PCB clients are currently in a seesaw battle on pricing for the rest of the second half, according...

Orders for AMD Fusion to buoy TSMC revenues in 2H10, says paper

Newswatch - Jul 20, 17:06

Orders for AMD's Ontario chips, which will be the first Fusion APU the vendor brings to market, are expected to play a key contributor for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's...

HP prepares DDR3 netbooks to compete for 2H10 market share

Jul 20, 14:38

Despite its hesitant attitude about the netbook market previously, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has recently turned aggressive over the product line and decided to launch new netbooks equipped...

AUO to start LED-backlit LCM volume production in China in 2H10, says vice chairman

Jul 16, 11:38

AU Optronics (AUO) vice chairman HB Chen has revealed that AUO will start volume production of LED-backlit LCD modules (LCMs) at its joint ventures (JVs) in China in the second half...