Last update: Monday 17 June 2013 [81 news items]
Phison prepays US$40 million for NAND flash chips
May 27, 11:26
NAND flash controller IC specialist Phison Electronics, which also produces memory card readers and portable drives, has prepaid a total of US$40 million for NAND flash chips so far...
Silicon Motion net sales down 33% in 1Q09, but losses narrow
May 12, 17:07
Silicon Motion Technology, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in low-power IC solutions for consumer electronics devices, saw net sales for the first quarter of 2009 decrease...
NAND flash controller supplier 3S swings to profit in 1Q09
May 11, 12:17
Solid State System (3S), a NAND flash controller design house invested by Toshiba and Kingston Technology, swung back to profitability in the first quarter of 2009, with net income...
Kingston to invest more in Phison
May 11, 12:08
Taiwan's Phison Electronics, which specializes in NAND flash controller designs, has announced that Kingston Technology will invest NT$658 million (US$20.23 million) through private...
Hynix, Numonyx and Phison team to co-develop NAND solutions
May 7, 10:09
Hynix Semiconductor, Numonyx and Phison Electronics have announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly develop controllers for the next generation of managed-NAND...
Phison inventory value up on NAND flash price rally
Apr 30, 17:12
The recent rally in NAND flash prices has boosted the value of Phison Electronics' inventory value, according Khein Seng Pua, chairman of the NAND flash controller IC design house.
SiS subsidiary releases SSD controllers
Feb 26, 16:15
LinkVast Technologies, a subsidiary of Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), on February 25 launched two solid-state drive (SSD) controllers – LVT820 and LVT815. The new memory...
Phison sets private placement; draws more investment from Kingston
Feb 4, 16:47
NAND flash controller IC designer Phison Electronics plans to issue new shares through private placement to raise additional capital and draw new strategic partners, the company has...
Phison: Easing inventory to help improve 4Q profits, despite negative outlook for NAND flash market
Nov 11, 11:45
NAND flash controller IC design house Phison Electronics will see sequentially-improved profits in the fourth quarter of 2008, buoyed by easing low-priced inventory plus currency...
Afatech ships record amount of NAND flash controllers in 3Q08
Oct 9, 14:57
NAND flash controller maker Afa Technologies (Afatech) has said that its shipments of flash controller chips hit a record high of over 30 million units in the third quarter of this...
Kingston takes 10% stake at NAND flash controller designer 3S
Aug 11, 11:03
NAND flash controller design house Solid State System (3S) announced that Kingston Technology has taken a 10% stake in the company via a private placement as expected. By forging...
DRAM market grows up, IHS finds
Bits + chips | 9min ago
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
LED | Jun 19, 22:32
Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
IT + CE | Jun 19, 22:30
Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
IT + CE | Jun 19, 22:25
Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
Bits + chips | Jun 19, 22:03
Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and PS4
Bits + chips | Jun 19, 22:02
Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
Displays | Jun 19, 21:05
LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
LED | Jun 19, 20:55
Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
Displays | Jun 19, 20:49
GSEO sees profits in 2012
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 22:09
Acer positions Gateway and Packard Bell as mid-range/entry-level brands
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 21:51
IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 20:47
Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 20:21
Innolux expects slowdown in TV panel shipments
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 19:24
HTC to continue supplying HTC Butterfly after launch of HTC Butterfly S
Before Going to Press | Jun 19, 19:16
- Open cell business model is a threat to BLU makers, says Radiant chairman
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- Taiwan panel makers see increased orders for 5-inch qHD panels from China telecom operators
- Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
- JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
- MediaTek allocating more resources for development of tablet solutions
- China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
- Tablet IC sales to soar in 2013, says IC Insights
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- DRAM supply shortage to extend through 2015, says Inotera executive
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
- Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
- NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
- Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
- Analog IC vendors to see orders rebound in 2H13
- Sean Maloney joins SMIC as independent non-executive director
- Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
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- PowerByProxi aims to cooperate with Taiwan makers to explore wireless power market
- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- 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
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
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- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...
Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- 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.