Last update: Friday 2 November 2012 [360 news items]
CMI suffers 50% decline in touch panel revenues in 2Q12 due to product delays
Aug 8, 16:05
Chimei Innolux (CMI) saw sharp declines in revenues from touch panels in the second quarter mainly because of customers adjusting their products as well as delaying them to the market,...
Digitimes Research: Shipments of Taiwan's LCD driver ICs expand over 13% on quarter in 2Q12
Aug 8, 15:25
Shipments of LCD driver ICs by Taiwan-based IC design houses reached NT$18.83 billion (US$628.5 million) in the second quarter of 2012, up 13.5% sequentially and 2.8% on year, according...
Aug 8, 15:03
Contract chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) has reported revenues of NT$9.61 billion (US$321 million) for July 2012, up 3.5% on month and 9.1% on year.
China market: iPad occupies over 72% of 2Q12 tablet sales
Aug 8, 12:01
There were 2.34 million tablet PCs sold in the China market during the second quarter of 2012, increasing by 7.8% on quarter and by 63.4% on year, and iPad series had the largest...
VIS sees shipment drop in 3Q12
Aug 8, 01:45
Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has posted brisk results for the second quarter of 2012, with revenues up 44% and profits jumping significantly on quarter. But looking...
DRAM revenues grow 12% in 2Q12, says DRAMeXchange
Aug 7, 12:23
Worldwide DRAM revenues arrived at US$7.02 billion in the second quarter of 2012, up 12% from US$6.27 billion in the prior quarter, according to DRAMeXchange. But the figure reflects...
LCD driver IC vendor Sitronix posts strong pre-tax profits in 2Q12
Newswatch - Aug 7, 02:05
LCD driver IC vendor Sitronix Technology saw pre-tax profit soar 41% sequentially to NT$114 million (US$3.8 million) for the second quarter of 2012, the highest in the past seven...
Foundries shine in IC ranking, says IC Insights
Aug 6, 16:05
Market research firm IC Insights has updated its list of the world's top 20 semiconductor suppliers by revenue in the first half of 2012. Three pure-play foundries - included in the...
Yingli Solar expects single-digit gross margin for 2Q12
Aug 6, 12:22
Yingli Green Energy (Yingli Solar), a China-based vertically integrated solar firm, has pre-announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012.
HTC sees fall in 3Q12 sales with lower margin
Aug 3, 16:41
HTC has announced financial results for the second quarter of 2012, which met its revised guidance. Looking forward, the smartphone firm expects to post sequential decreases in both...
WPG 2Q12 results in line with guidance
Aug 3, 15:53
WPG Holdings, Asia's largest IC distributor, has reported second-quarter consolidated revenues of NT$90.98 billion (US$3.04 billion), with gross margin arriving at 5.26%. Both figures...
China market: 2Q12 third-party e-payment service over CNY945 billion in trade value
Aug 3, 15:02
In the China market, platforms of third-party (between buyers and sellers) electronic payment (e-payment) service generated total sales transaction value of CNY945.66 billion (US$149.5...
Aug 3, 10:23
Rubicon Technology, a provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, reported that second quarter (ended June 30, 2012) revenue...
China accounts for 27% of total smartphones shipped in 2Q12, says Canalys
Aug 2, 16:21
China accounted for 27% of the 158 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the second quarter of 2012, compared to 16% for the US, according to Canalys Research. More than 42 million...
Mag.Layers, Thinking see pre-tax profits improve in 2Q12
Aug 2, 15:35
Passive component makers Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics and Thinking Electronic both saw their pre-tax profits increase sequentially in the second quarter of 2012 thanks to a low...
Samsung expands lead in 2Q12 NAND market, says DRAMeXchange
Aug 2, 14:18
The worldwide NAND flash memory market posted revenues of US$4.22 billion in the second quarter of 2012, down 11.9% sequentially, according to DRAMeXchange. Samsung Electronics continued...
First Solar reports sharp increase in 2Q12 sales
Aug 2, 10:33
First Solar, a US-based solar firm, announced financial results for the second quarter of 2012. Net sales were US$957 million in the quarter, an increase of US$460 million from the...
Winbond nearly halves losses in 2Q12
Aug 2, 01:10
Winbond Electronics has managed to cut its losses to NT$326 million (US$10.86 million) in the second quarter of 2012, down from NT$646 million in the first quarter. Second-quarter...
Taiwan market: 2Q12 projector shipments decrease
Aug 1, 12:22
There were 22,743 projectors shipped in the Taiwan market during the second quarter of 2012, decreasing by 11.6% on quarter and by 11.9% on year, according to IDC Taiwan.
PTI 2Q12 beats estimates; sees challenges ahead
Aug 1, 12:09
Memory IC packaging and testing house Powertech Technology (PTI) has reported better-than-expected revenue and EPS results for the second quarter of 2012. But looking forward, the...
Nuvoton sees profits up more than 200% on quarter in 2Q12
Newswatch - Jul 31, 16:24
Nuvoton Technology, the logic IC subsidiary of Winbond Electronics, has reported net profits of NT$309 million (US$10.29 million) for the second quarter of 2012, increasing 209% from...
Hanvon turns profitable in 2Q12, says report
Jul 31, 15:36
Hanvon Technology, the largest China-based vendor of e-book readers, saw its operations swing into net profits of CNY980,000 (US$155,900) in the second quarter of 2012 from net losses...
China market: B2C transactions over CNY98 billion in 2Q12, says Analysys
Jul 31, 15:23
In the China market, B2C (business to customer) online shopping operators generated total sales of CNY98.84 billion (US$15.6 billion) during the second quarter of 2012, growing 20.7%...
MediaTek posts strong sequential profit growth for 2Q12
Newswatch - Jul 31, 15:21
MediaTek has announced net profits of NT$3.357 billion for the second quarter of 2012, up 34.3% sequentially and 0.9% on year. Second-quarter ESP stood at NT$2.95, compared to NT$2.19...
Capella posts 2Q12 EPS of NT$4.83
Jul 31, 14:35
Capella Microsystems (Taiwan) has posted a higher than expected EPS of NT$4.83 (US$0.16) for the second quarter of 2012, with a number of fellow companies also expected to report...
Taiwan 2Q12 economic growth rate lowered to -0.16%
Jul 31, 10:10
Taiwan's economic growth rate (on-year growth in GDP) in the second quarter of 2012 has been downward adjusted from 0.77% estimated in late May 2012 to -0.16%, according to advance...
Strong demand for smartphones in 2Q12 continues to drive the worldwide mobile phone market, says IDC
Newswatch - Jul 30, 15:13
The worldwide mobile phone market grew 1% on year to 406 million units in the second quarter of 2012, as Samsung Electronics and Apple shipped almost half of the world's smartphones,...
Silicon Motion reports slight profit increase for 2Q12
Newswatch - Jul 30, 12:08
Silicon Motion Technology has announced its net sales increased 8.8% on quarter to US$69.7 million in the second quarter of 2012, while net income (non-GAAP) increased to US$14.6...
Veeco sees 2Q12 revenues fall on-year
Jul 30, 10:48
Veeco Instruments announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012.
Macronix suffers expanded 2Q12 net operating loss
Jul 30, 10:17
Macronix International, a Taiwan-based maker of NOR flash and mask ROM, saw net operating loss increase from NT$786 million (US$26.3 million) in the first quarter of 2012 to NT$1.208...
Jul 27, 15:47
IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) both saw their second-quarter net profits rise over 50% sequentially along with higher...
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers see 2Q12 LCD TV shipments hit 8-quarter low
Jul 27, 14:12
Taiwan-based makers shipped 8.307 million LCD TVs in total during the second quarter of 2012, the lowest in eight quarters with a sequential decrease of 2.3% and on-year drop of 29.8%,...
Samsung regains smartphone leadership, IHS says
Jul 27, 14:07
Six months after losing the top position in the smartphone market to Apple, Samsung Electronics in the second quarter regained leadership as its sales rose 5% to 36 million units,...
Samsung 2Q12 sales and profits surge on robust sales of mobile devices
Jul 27, 12:35
Samsung Electronics has announced that sales and operating profits for the second quarter of 2012 both hit record highs. The available presentation materials show that the company's...
LG Display sees record high 2Q12 sales results
Jul 27, 12:30
LG Display has posted its second quarter sales results at KRW6.9 trillion (US$6.05 billion), up 14% from some KRW6 trillion a year earlier, according to the company's recent financial...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- GIGABYTE Launches the BRIX Ultra Compact PC Kit
- AEWIN Introduces Newest Multiplayer Gaming System SGA-5010
- Carry Technology Highlights Thunderbolt and Wi-Fi Card Reader Series
- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
- EverFocus launches ECOR960 X1 16CH with better image quality and more affordable price
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
- Chilisin sunken-type molded power inductor for MXM Graphic application
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- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...
Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.