Last update: Tuesday 7 May 2013 [52 news items]
CMP material startup gains verification from Taiwan foundry
Jan 18, 15:51
Fulltrol Precision Materials, a Taiwan-based startup that makes chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) materials, has obtained certification for its CMP pads from an unspecified...
Globalfoundries aims to ramp output to 5.8 million 200mm wafer equivalents in 2014
Jan 15, 12:41
Globalfoundries has completed its integration with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, and aims to ramp its total capacity to 5.8 million 200mm (8-inch) wafers in equivalent in...
Globalfoundries to tap Asia IC-design market through Socle Technology
Dec 25, 10:49
Globalfoundries' acquisition of Singapore-based Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing will also enable the US pure-play foundry to tap the IC-design market in Asia thanks to Chartered's...
Kingston to see more than US$1 billion in Asia revenues in 2009
Dec 23, 10:16
Kingston Technology will see revenues reach US$1.1 billion in Asia in 2009, up over 20% from US$900 million in 2008, according to Scott Chen, company vice president for APAC business...
Taiflex chairman predicts 10-15% growth for Asia FPCB market in 2010
Dec 18, 17:06
The FPCB market in Asia will grow 10-15% in 2010 thanks to increased demand coming from ultra-thin notebooks, smartphones and e-book readers, according to Sun Ta-Wen, chairman of...
Transcend lands distribution rights for Samsung memory cards
Oct 21, 12:03
Transcend Information has announced it has obtained rights from Samsung Electronics to distribute Samsung-brand memory cards in the Taiwan market. Transcend has also secured sole...

Numonyx CEO in Taiwan to strengthen ties with partners
Sep 1, 15:36
Brian Harrison, president and CEO of flash memory maker Numonyx, has recently visited Taiwan-based IC designers and distributors, in a move to reinforce company relations with clients...

POS maker Flytech profit up over 34% in 1H09
Aug 20, 11:21
Flytech Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of POS (point of sale/service), on August 19 released its financial report for the second quarter and the first half of 2009, with January-June...
Aug 4, 15:55
Taiwan-based own-brand network equipment vendor D-Link has signed a cooperation agreement with Japan-based system integration service provider Nissho Electronics Corporation (Nelco)...
STATS ChipPAC sales up 45% in 2Q09; swings to profit
Jul 30, 11:30
STATS ChipPAC saw its net sales grow 45% sequentially in the second quarter of 2009, and managed to swing back to profitability, according to the company. The Singapore-based chip...
Taiwan market: Gigabyte Communications launches S1200 smartphone
Jul 17, 15:05
Gigabyte Communications has launched its new Windows Mobile-based smartphone, the S1200, in the Taiwan market. The company also plans to launch the smartphone in other markets in...

Numonyx looks to expand in Asia
Jun 16, 15:07
Numonyx, a joint venture between Intel and STMicroelectronics, has announced its distribution deployment for the Asia market. The flash memory maker has named Edom Technology, Synnex...
More than 230,000 new base stations to be added in 2010 in BRIC, says ABI Research
Jun 12, 10:33
While many sectors of the economy are languishing in the global recession, wireless infrastructure is relatively healthy. This also holds true in the world's major "emerging...
Global chip market to fall 22% in 2009 but resume growth in 2010, says WSTS
Jun 4, 14:47
The global semiconductor market will continue its descent and drop 21.6% to US$194.8 billion in 2009, following a 2.8% decline in 2008, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics...
Garmin and TomTom face challenging competition in Asia
Apr 29, 12:09
While Garmin and TomTom together occupied 67% of the global shipments of portable navigation devices (PNDs) in the fourth quarter of 2008, their combined share in the Asia market...
Mobile broadband in Asia is evolving, says Frost & Sullivan
Apr 20, 11:14
Asia's mobile subscriber total is expected to surpass two billion subscribers by 2012 when 63% of the regions' residents are expected to own a mobile phone, according to Frost &...
IC distributor Avnet expects Taiwan and Asia Pacific revenues to stay flat in 2009
Newswatch - Feb 25, 16:32
Global IC distributor Avnet Electronics Marketing expects its Taiwan and Asia-Pacific revenues to stay flat at US$1 billion and US$3 billion, respectively, in 2009 amid challenging...
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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- DIGIEVER partnership with EverFocus for better professional network surveillance solutions
- Advantech Introduces New 18" and 21" Widescreen Multitouch Panel PCs
- Digital Network Fuels Opportunities in Vehicle Surveillance Market
- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
- 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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- 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
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal

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.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.




















