Due to the recent declining exchange rate of the Euro against the US dollar, Acer, which focus mainly in Europe, is monitoring the fluctuation closely as its recent sales in Europe...
Taiwan-based notebook makers are currently facing a dilemma over their inventory preparations as their downstream partners have started to place short-term orders to avoid the risk...
IC distributor WT Microelectronics expects revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 to be between NT$15 billion (US$492 million) and NT$16 billion, down 7-12% on quarter. Gross margin...
Taiwan-based chip-resistor makers in general saw October revenues fall 5-10% sequentially due to fewer working days in the month, and the fourth quarter could see a revenue decline...
As Japan-based optical disc maker Taiyo Yuden was recently reported to have cut its CD and DVD production by 40% due to the rising Japan exchange rate, market watchers believe the...
Thanks to growing capacitive touch panel production, Emerging Display Technologies (EDT) turned in a net profit of NT$20.9 million (US$686,202) or NT$0.11 a share. Third-quarter revenues...
TFT-LCD panel makers are not worried about the recent appreciation of the NT dollar but they have to take precautions to avoid any further impact on their profits. They are also worried...
Taiwan-based chip packaging and testing houses are predicting the US dollar to NT dollar exchange rate to reach 1:30.50 by the end of 2010, which could erode their fourth-quarter...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have both said they will not increase contract manufacturing prices despite the strengthening...
Acer founder Stan Shih, at a summit in Taiwan, commenting on Taiwan's increasing exchange rate, said that it is normal for exchange rates to fluctuate and since other countries are...
As the New Taiwan dollar (NT$) exchange rate to the US dollars has risen 2.4% over the past month, sources from Taiwan-based notebook makers pointed out that the increase will directly...
Power supply maker Delta Electronics indicated that profits from currency exchange rates in the first half of 2010 came to NT$275 million (US$8.86 million), and since the company...
Although Taiwan currently only has two makers, Ritek and CMC Magnetics, manufacturing Blu-ray discs, as the Japanese Yen exchange rate appreciates, Japan-based makers are starting...
Speculative trading took place in the DRAM spot market this week (June 21-25) as some China-based traders/brokers realized that the weakening US dollar against the Chinese yuan allowed...
