Last update: Monday 28 May 2012 [50 news items]
Notebook related component makers see recovering sales
Feb 13, 15:48
Thanks to rush orders from notebook companies, sales of notebook OEMs as well as notebook related component makers, including passive component, PCB and cooling module makers, are...
Passive component maker Cyntec reports sales growth in January
Feb 6, 15:32
Cyntec saw slight sequential sales growth in January, much better than its earlier expectations of a 20% decline, thanks to rush orders from notebook makers. Consolidated January...
Power choke ASPs falling in 1Q09
Feb 3, 14:07
According to Taiwan passive component makers, the average selling price (ASP) of power chokes is being pressed down in the first quarter in order to compete with Japan-based companies...
Yageo expects January results to hold level on month
Jan 22, 14:36
Passive component maker Yageo expects its revenues performance in January to hold level compared to December, despite their being fewer working days, because of rush orders from downstream...
TXC and Cyntec see rush orders in January
Jan 19, 17:02
Passive component makers TXC and Cyntec have seen rush orders in January, but order visibility is still weak. Customers are adding rush orders because were too pessimistic about the...
Cyntec December sales decline on weak demand for notebook-use passive components
Jan 7, 11:28
Passive component maker Cyntec has reported consolidated December 2008 sales of NT$251 million (US$7.61 million), down 26% from November, as weak demand for notebook applications...
Chip inductor suppliers have no capacity expansion plans; will continue to develop new products
Dec 30, 15:58
Both King Core Electronics and Cyntec are pessimistic about their fourth-quarter performances and currently have no plans to expand capacity.
Passive component maker Cyntec's November sales drop over 30%
Dec 8, 12:06
Passive component maker Cyntec has reported consolidated November revenues of NT$341 million (US$10.17 million), representing a 33.27% decline from October, and marking the first...
Passive component demand falls sharply in November
Nov 25, 14:53
Passive component makers expect to see large sales declines in the fourth quarter because of sharply decreasing demand.
Passive component sales to decline over 11% sequentially in 4Q
Nov 13, 13:53
Combined revenues of Taiwan-based passive component makers are expected to decline 11.5% sequentially in the fourth quarter as slow sales of end products have squeezed demand for...
Nov 6, 15:33
Passive component maker Cyntec has reported record sales in October thanks to strong shipments of power chokes, despite that October is traditionally a weak month for the segment.
Cyntec reports record net income thanks to healthy shipments in 3Q
Oct 28, 12:22
Passive component maker Cyntec has reported third-quarter net income at NT$271 million (US$8.07 million), up 76.4% sequentially and up 20.4% on year with NT$1.48 earning per share...
Passive component players seek to reduce burden of China workforce
Oct 24, 16:24
Japan-based leading passive component maker TDK is planning to cut about one-third of its workforce in China, according to market sources, meanwhile Taiwan-based Yageo and Cyntec...
Passive component suppliers Cyntec and Polytronics report record sales in September
Oct 7, 12:13
Due to the peak season effect, passive component makers Cyntec and Polytronics Technology both reported record sales in September; Yageo and Walsin Technology Corporation (WTC) are...
Passive component maker Cyntec sales to peak in October
Aug 19, 16:07
Passive component maker Cyntec holds an optimistic view about the second half of 2008, with the company indicating its 01005 chip resistors (R-chips) will be used in an international...
- 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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- 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
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- 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
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MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
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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...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- 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.

















