Lenovo pushes oversea acquisition to expand PC market share

Jul 19, 01:20

With China-based PC vendor Lenovo successfully surpassed Acer and became the third largest PC vendor worldwide in the second quarter, Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming pointed out that the...

Sharp, Foxconn to set up joint venture

Jul 18, 10:41

Sharp and Foxconn have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture in Taiwan by the end of 2011, with each to hold a 50% stake, mainly for joint procurement of components for...

Nanya, Inotera June revenues down over 10% on-month

Jul 4, 14:56

Both DRAM makers Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories have reported revenues for June 2011. Nanya's revenues dropped 20.6% to NT$3.11 billion (US$109 million) from the previous month...

OmniVision to buy wafer-level lens manufacturing unit from JV

Jun 30, 13:50

OmniVision Technologies has announced plans to buy the wafer-level lens production operations from VisEra Technologies, its joint venture with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...

Compal adds investment in joint venture case maker in China

Jun 27, 10:12

Taiwan-based notebook PC ODM maker Compal Electronics on June 24 announced the additional investment of US$26.731 million in Compal Precision Module (Jiang Su), a joint venture making...

Harvatek to set up joint venture in China

Stockwatch - Jun 27, 10:09

Harvatek, a Taiwan-based LED packaging company, will invest CNY100 million (US$15.4 million) to establish an LED packaging joint venture in Huizhou, southern China, with China-based...

AUO to expand LCD TV module capacity at joint venture in China

Jun 17, 10:07

Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) will expand monthly production capacity of LCD TV modules at BVCH Optronics (Sichuan), its joint venture with China-based vendor...

AUO may delay beginning production at China joint venture

Jun 15, 01:05

AU Optronics (AUO) in April 2011 invested US$796.25 million to set up FullVision Optoelectronics (Kunshan), a joint venture 8.5G panel plant in Kunshan City, eastern China, and originally...

Taiwan-based Senao to open 22 joint venture chain stores in China by end of July

Jun 14, 01:50

Senao International, a handset and communication device retail chain in Taiwan, in the first quarter of 2011 established Wo Senao, a joint venture in the China market with China United...

SMIC wraps up deal to share ownership of Wuhan fab

May 13, 01:35

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Hubei Science & Technology Investment Group announced on May 12 the formal signing of a joint venture agreement...

Intel, Micron open US$3 billion NAND flash facility in Singapore

Apr 22, 01:25

Intel and Micron Technology have expanded their NAND flash memory joint venture operations with the official opening of IM Flash Singapore, according to the companies.

Philips and TPV to create TV joint venture

Apr 19, 14:21

Royal Philips Electronics has announced that it has entered into a term sheet to transfer its television business into a joint venture with TPV Technology as part of a long-term strategic...

Formosa Sumco gearing up for capacity expansion

Apr 15, 01:25

Formosa Sumco Technology (FST) has revealed plans to expand its capacity for 12-inch silicon wafers to 300,000 units a month from the present 180,000. New capacity is scheduled to...

Chunghwa Telecom to set up joint venture in China, business office in Europe

Stockwatch - Mar 30, 11:55

Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has announced that it will invest US$4.8 million to establish a joint venture to provide energy-saving services in Zhenjiang with the city government...

Angel investment joint venture TMI-Labs established

Mar 25, 16:57

Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), US-based venture company WI Harper Group and China-based venture capital company Innovation Works on March...

China-based Innovation Works to setup joint venture in Taiwan

Mar 24, 15:50

Innovation Works, a China-based venture capital company, will replicate its business model in Taiwan through establishing a joint venture, TMI-Labs, with US-based venture capital...

Epistar posts net profit of NT$5.77 billion for 2010

Mar 18, 01:55

LED chipmaker Epistar has announced net profits of NT$5.77 billion (US$194.93 million) for 2010 with an EPS of NT$7.16. Revenues for the year totaled NT$19.76 billion with a 36% gross...

Tekcore and Seoul Semiconductor to form joint venture

Mar 17, 11:38

The board of LED chip maker Tekcore has approved plans to form a new sales and distribution venture with Seoul Semiconductor and the South Korean company's subsidiary Seoul Optodevice...

GET, Motech, Taiwan Polysilicon to set up joint venture maker of solar-grade wafers

Mar 15, 01:05

Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries and polycrystalline silicon (material)...

Quanta to set up touch panel joint venture with 3M

Mar 11, 01:45

Quanta Computer has announced plans to set up a joint venture with US-based 3M in Singapore for developing projected capacitive touch technology in order to gain profits from the...

Surging demand changes small- to medium-size panel industry

Mar 2, 01:35

Amid the surging demand for smartphones and other applications for small- to medium-size panels, the overall small- to medium-size industry is changing with NEC to turn wholly owned...

Ju Teng DSLR camera chassis shipments to double or triple on year in 2011

Feb 22, 01:30

Digital camera chassis maker Ju Teng International Holdings is expected to see its DSLR camera chassis shipments to double or triple on year in 2011 and the company will also have...

Compal, CPT to set up glass processing joint venture in China

Feb 17, 11:41

Notebook maker Compal Electronics on February 16 announced the establishment of Hwallar Optoelectronics (Fuzhou), a China-based joint-venture with LCD maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes...

Digital camera chassis makers to see shipment growth more so than profit growth

Feb 15, 01:55

Digital camera chassis makers will see their shipment volume increase in 2011 benefiting by Japan-based digital camera vendors releasing production to their Taiwan-based OEMs; however,...

Delta Electronics, Epistar to set up LED joint venture in southern China

Feb 14, 10:53

Taiwan-based Delta Electronics and Epistar will establish a joint venture maker of LED epitaxial wafers and chips, tentatively named Guangzhou Crystalrich Lighting, in Guangzhou City,...

NEC-Lenovo PC joint venture unlikely to affect order status at Taiwan contract makers

Jan 28, 13:50

The Lenovo-NEC PC joint venture is unlikely to affect current order status at the two companies' PC contract makers in Taiwan, with Micro-Star International (MSI) in particular having...

Lenovo announces joint venture with NEC

Jan 28, 11:55

China-based PC vendor Lenovo, on January 27, announced it will establish a joint venture, NEC Lenovo Japan Group, with NEC. Lenovo will hold a 51% stake in the newly formed company...

Samtek, Supreme to form joint venture to market Samsung products in China

Jan 20, 01:25

Taiwan-based IC distributor Supreme Electronics and its Korea-based counterpart Samtek reportedly will set up a 50:50 joint venture to exclusively market and sell Samsung Electronics...

Groupon, Tencent to set up joint venture to tap collective buying market in China, says paper

Jan 19, 01:25

Deal-of-the-day website Groupon, and Tencent, one of the largest web portals in China, will establish a joint venture to operate online collective buying services in the China market,...

CES 2011: Lite-On IT joint venture PLDS to showcase Blu-ray Disc drives, SSDs

Jan 5, 01:30

Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS), a joint venture of Lite-On IT and Philips will exhibit three Liteon Blu-ray Disc (BD) drives, Plextor BD drives and SSDs at the upcoming...

Arima Optoelectronics receives CNY120 million in licensing fee from China joint venture

Jan 4, 14:23

Arima Optoelectronics has received the first installment of CNY120 million (US$15.45 million) in patent licensing charge from its joint venture in Shanxi, China, and after tax, Arima...

Compal sets up joint venture with Sitronix to develop power management ICs

Dec 31, 01:15

Compal Electronics and Sitronix Technology have set up a joint venture IC design house to develop and manufacture power management ICs for tablet PCs. The joint venture is capitalized...

Compal to use new panel plant for in-house tablet PC development

Dec 30, 14:37

Taiwan-based notebook maker Compal Electronics has announced will spend NT$1.4 billion (US$47.67 million) to acquire Chunghwa Picture Tubes' (CPT's) 4.5G color filter (CF) plant via...

Intel personnel change sparks speculation about future of Micron

Dec 30, 14:22

Michael Chen, director of Intel's Asia-Pacific embedded sales and ultra-mobility group, has reportedly resigned from the company. The news comes after comments were made by the CEO...

SZS to establish a joint venture in China for metal product manufacturing

Dec 23, 15:06

Taiwan-based notebook hinge maker Shin Zu Shing (SZS) has announced plans to establish a joint venture with its partners in Tianjin, China for manufacturing and selling metal products...