IC design house On-Bright expects sales growth in March

Mar 13, 14:28

On-Bright Electronics, an IC design subsidiary of Lite-On Semiconductor specializing in power management ICs, expects its consolidated revenues to register another sequential growth...

Acer appoints new CFO

Jan 13, 12:20

Acer held a meeting on January 12 with the board of directors and approved the appointment of Eva Ho as the new chief financial officer (CFO) and spokesperson of Acer, effective on...

Inventec assigns new president for PC business

Jan 3, 01:35

Inventec has recently assigned its executive vice president, director and general manager of Inventec Shanghai Maurice Wu as the new president of PC business.

Acer to downsize product lines by two-thirds in 2012, says chairman

Dec 15, 01:00

Acer chairman JT Wang, commenting on the company's operations in 2012, pointed out that Acer will conduct a full-scale evaluation of its product lines and will simplify them based...

Acer to simplify product lines

Dec 8, 01:30

Acer, on December 7, hosted its global internal meeting and has decided to start simplifying its product lines in 2012 to help integrate its resources and will put its focus on niche...

Acer will not give up netbook market, says VP

Nov 29, 01:35

Commenting on the recent rumors that Korea-based Samsung Electronics will stop producing 10.1-inch netbooks in the first quarter of 2012, leaving the netbook market to the top-2 players...

Component makers facing challenges managing employee schedules

Nov 28, 16:07

Employee management has become a new challenge for upstream component makers as the global economy remains in slowdown, causing component makers' order visibility to drop from about...

Cloud computing player Wyse acquisition of Trellia to benefit Inventec

Nov 24, 01:00

Cloud client computing solution player Wyse Technology's recent acquisition of cloud computing infrastructure management player Trellia is expected to benefit its major ODM partner...

Power management IC market growth slows in 2011, says IHS

Nov 23, 10:19

The market in 2011 for power management semiconductors will grow more slowly than expected, stymied by a general slowdown in consumer spending and the disruption caused by the March...

Elpida announces organizational, personnel changes

Nov 15, 11:48

Elpida Memory has merged its sales office and technical marketing group into one unit named the "Sales & Marketing Office," according to the company. Meanwhile, Yasushi...

Another executive reportedly to leave ProMOS

Nov 7, 13:58

Ben Tseng, VP of sales and marketing for ProMOS Technologies, will soon resign from ProMOS following the resignation of JT Lin, company VP of the manufacturing group, industry observers...

Acer announces key management reshuffle

Oct 27, 16:34

Acer has announce a key management reshuffle. Acer EMEA president Walter Deppeler shall lead global marketing and branding while concurrently serving as chief marketing officer. President...

Taiwan market: FET offers cloud management for cars

Sep 8, 11:53

Taiwna-based Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has launched a cloud computing-based solution for management of business-use automobiles, with small- and medium-sized businesses...

SMIC likely to face top management shake-up, says paper

Newswatch - Jul 1, 10:29

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) president and CEO David NK Wang, along with other top executives including CFO Gary Tseng, chief business officer Chris...

AUO obtains ISO 50001 for 8.5G plant

Jun 24, 10:29

Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) on June 23 announced it has obtained ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 50001 energy management standard certification...

Globalfoundries names interim CEO, new key management appointments

Jun 17, 10:20

The board of directors of Globalfoundries, along with its majority shareholder the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), has announced its new leadership.

Acer reducing 2011 tablet PC shipment target by 50%

Jun 16, 01:10

Acer, on June 15, announced that the company has reduced its annual tablet PC shipment forecast from originally 5-7 million units to only 2.5-3 million units, a drop close to 50%...

PC ODMs expect to gain share from first-tier server vendors, while vendors take the opposite view

Jun 14, 01:10

As cloud computing becoming a great business opportunity to server players, sources from PC ODMs believe that the server market, which is currently dominated by first-tier players...

KLA-Tencor intros new yield management solution for PV cell production

Jun 7, 12:36

KLA-Tencor has introduced FabVision Solar, a new integrated solution designed to help PV cell manufacturers improve production yield and profitability by enabling manufacturers to...

Computex 2011: AMD announces solution for tablet PC

Jun 2, 01:20

AMD, at its press conference at Computex 2011, announced a new 40nm Z series APU codenamed Desna to target the tablet PC market, according to Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and...

Shuttle lands Android tablet PC orders from China-based Hasee

May 26, 01:25

Mini-PC and notebook maker Shuttle has recently landed orders for Android-based tablet PCs from China-based brand vendor Hasee, according to sources from upstream component makers;...

TPK to take over control of touch sensor maker Cando

May 19, 01:30

Taiwan-based touch sensor maker TPK Holding has announced to obtain 19.9% of shareholding in Cando with a price of NT$31 (US$1.08) per share and the process will allow TPK to become...

Acer rumored to acquire Insyde, but the firm says no plans to sell currently

May 12, 01:00

In response to former CEO Gianfranco Lanci's comment that Acer lacks talent that can help to integrate software and hardware platforms for its smartphone and tablet PC products, Acer...

Asustek remains optimistic about 2Q11, despite Acer dropping forecast

Apr 21, 01:15

Although Acer recently reduced its PC shipment forecast for the second quarter, Asustek Computer remains optimistic about its revenue performance for the quarter as the company was...

Acer names two independent director candidates

Mar 29, 01:05

Taiwan-based notebook brand vendor Acer announced on March 28, two independent director candidates -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) vice chairman FC Tseng and ex-Vodafone...

Faraday reshuffles top management

Mar 24, 14:00

IC design service provider Faraday Technology has announced a shuffle of its top management, with COO Wilson Tzang being promoted to serve as president, replacing incumbent HP Lin...

AWSC to see revenues recover in March

Mar 16, 01:30

GaAs IC foundry Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) expects revenues to recover in March 2011 thanks to power amplifier (PA) maker Skyworks resuming normal orders.

VIS looks to power management IC for growth

Feb 18, 12:22

Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects power management chips (PWM IC) to account for 20% of the company's total revenues in 2011, compared to 17%...

Foxconn facing crisis over employee emotional welfare

Jan 14, 13:54

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), on January 13, confirmed that a female employee at its plants in Shenzhen, China fell to her death on January 7, while a large conflict...

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...

Sitronix to count on touch panel controllers and power management ICs in 2011

Dec 20, 15:02

LCD driver IC maker Sitronix expects its new product lines, including touch panel controllers and AC/DC power management ICs to grow in 2011.

New Micron NAND flash integrates error management

Dec 3, 02:00

By integrating error management techniques in the same NAND package, Micron Technology's new ClearNAND devices alleviate the challenges traditionally found in NAND process shrinks,...

Eversol president resigns

Dec 1, 12:07

Solar wafer maker Eversol on November 30 announced that Lin Rongsheng has resigned as company president and will be replaced by vice president Martin Kuo.

Taiwan market: HP aims at 60% MPS market share in 2013

Nov 24, 11:01

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is making more efforts to promote its managed print services (MPS) than sales of printers in the Taiwan market, and aims to increase its MPS market share from...