Last update: Monday 8 April 2013 [49 news items]
CCL prices to rise after Lunar New Year
Jan 6, 14:30
The price of copper-clad laminates (CCLs) is likely to be raised after the Lunar New Year holidays as the average copper price has exceeded US$7,300 per ton and PCB demand remains...
Surging copper price to impact PCB supply chain
Dec 3, 14:56
Copper foil and copper-clad laminates (CCL) makers' profits in the fourth quarter of 2009 will be eroded since the average copper price per ton has topped US$7000, compared to US$6100-US$6700...
CCL makers see July revenues up on month
Aug 11, 15:50
Copper-clad laminate (CCL) makers Iteq, Elite Material (EMC) and Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) saw July 2009 consolidated revenues of NT$1.096 billion (US$33.5 million), a rise on...
Copper foil prices likely to be raised by 2-3% in August
Jul 28, 11:55
Taiwan copper foil makers have said they may raise prices by 2-3% in August as the average copper price has hit another record of US$5,500 per ton. Taiwan copper-clad laminate (CCL)...
Copper foil supplier Co-Tech to see profits in 2009 with stabilized ASP
Jun 12, 16:46
Taiwan-based copper foil supplier Co-Tech expects to swing to profits in 2009 since the price of copper foil has stabilized. The company aims to maintain 2008 shipments of 13,000...
Taiwan copper foil makers to increase prices in June
Jun 3, 10:51
Taiwan copper foil makers are likely to raise their quotes in June and July to reflect the recent surge of copper pricing despite that PCB demand remains weak. Average copper prices...
Taiwan maker Co-Tech hikes May quotes for copper foil by 5-10%
Apr 21, 17:04
Taiwan-based copper foil supplier Co-Tech has notified copper-clad laminate (CCL) customers that it will raise product prices in May by 5-10% and may further increase prices in June...
Nan Ya Plastics to raise CCL prices
Apr 3, 16:17
Leading copper-clad laminate (CCL) maker Nan Ya Plastics is expected to raise thin laminate prices by 5% in April as prices of glass fabric and copper foil are rising. The price of...
PCB makers increase CCL inventory
Newswatch - Mar 13, 16:51
Some PCB makers have begun building up copper-clad laminate (CCL) inventory levels and have signed long-term purchasing contracts with CCL makers as they believe the price of CCLs...
CCL makers EMC and Iteq mull raising inventory levels in response to material price hikes
Feb 24, 12:25
Taiwan-based copper-clad laminate (CCL) makers Elite Material (EMC) and Iteq, in view of rising component prices for copper and glass fabric, expect CCL prices to go up in March....
CCL prices may rise in 2Q on stabilized copper prices
Jan 15, 17:11
Copper prices have rebounded in January, stabilizing the prices of copper clad laminates (CCLs), and industry players expect CCL prices to rise in the second quarter if average international...
Copper foil prices to rise 5-10% in January 2009
Dec 31, 12:20
According to industry sources, copper foil maker Chang Chun Group has taken the lead in rising copper foil quotes, pushing other suppliers to also reset their quoting strategies....
Copper pricing drops to US$5,000; price of copper foil expected to decline 5% in November
Oct 17, 01:00
Average international copper pricing dropped to US$5,000 per ton on October 15, a 7% decline in a single day. To reflect the falling price of copper, copper foil prices in Taiwan...
Dropping copper price not benefiting copper foil players
Sep 5, 12:30
Recent weakening copper prices does not necessarily mean that copper foil makers will have a potential price revision in the following months, as electricity costs are going to rise...
- 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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- 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
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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.