Last update: Wednesday 3 April 2013 [132 news items]
Major Taiwan PV players see July revenues up
Aug 11, 11:35
Many of the players in Taiwan's photovoltaic (PV) industry have reported sequential increases in their revenues for July. They include solar cell makers Motech Industries, E-Ton Solar...
TSMC board meeting likely to discuss solar energy acquisition plans
Aug 6, 11:28
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is to hold a regular board meeting on August 10 during which its board of directors is likely to discuss plans to venture into solar...

TSMC CEO says internal goal for green energy more aggressive
Jul 31, 16:25
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has internally set a more ambitious goal for its freshly-established New Business Development Organization (NBDO), led by former...

Neo Solar Power said to be seeing strong sales of Supercell
Jul 30, 11:27
Neo Solar Power, a Taiwan-based maker of crystalline silicon solar cells, is seeing strong sales of Supercell, its new model of polycrystalline silicon solar cells with an energy...
Taiwan solar cell makers see capacity utilization rates rising from June
Jul 9, 15:01
Taiwan's leading solar cell makers Motech Industries, E-Ton Solar Tech, Gintech Energy, Solartech Energy and Neo Solar Power have seen utilization rates significantly increasing from...
Neo Solar Power to raise more capital for capacity expansion
Jun 26, 10:01
Neo Solar Power, a Taiwan-based maker of crystalline silicon solar cells, will issue 30 million new shares to raise around NT$800 million (US$24.6 million) specifically for expanding...
Neo Solar open to potential investors, says chairman
Jun 22, 11:49
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Neo Solar Power is open to opportunities of introducing new shareholders who could offer strategic alliances complementary to the company's business...
Taiwan solar cell makers see increasing utilization
Jun 18, 10:41
Major Taiwan-based solar cell makers Motech Industries, E-Ton Solar Tech, Gintech Energy, Neo Solar Power and Solartech Energy have recently seen significant increases in utilization...
Foxconn dismisses speculation on investing in Neo Solar Power
Jun 2, 11:32
Recent rumors about Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) executives having paid a visit to solar cell maker Neo Solar Power have triggered speculation on the possibility...
Neo Solar claims success in developing poly-Si solar cells with 16.8% energy conversion
May 26, 12:11
Taiwan-based Neo Solar Power on May 25 announced the successful trial production of Supercell, a polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) solar cell with an energy conversion rate of 16.8%...
Silicon wafer maker SAS and solar cell maker Neo Solar Power post mixed April results
May 7, 12:03
Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) and Neo Solar Power on May 6 reported revenues for April, with the former's revenues slipping by 2.19% and the latter's rising by...
Solartech sees profits in 1Q09 while Neo Solar records loss
Apr 29, 11:53
Solartech Energy and Neo Solar Power, two Taiwan-based makers of crystalline silicon solar cells, have reported gross margins of 7.66% and negative 13.75%, respectively, for the first...
Taiwan solar cell maker Neo Solar Power records gross margins of 8.03% in 2008
Feb 25, 12:27
Neo Solar Power, a Taiwan-based maker of crystalline silicon solar cells, in a February 24 filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange, released its financial report for 2008: revenues...
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Neo Solar Power lists on TSE
Jan 12, 14:08
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power (NSP), on January 12 shifted its listing from the emerging stock market to the main board of the Taiwan Stock Exchange...
Solar cell maker Motech sees November sales slide on falling solar cell prices
Dec 10, 01:15
Motech Industries recorded a sequential revenues drop of almost 15% in November, due to falling solar cell prices. According to company CFO Norman Shen, Motech expects to maintain...
PSC exits from solar-cell maker board, to focus on DRAM
Nov 25, 15:05
Wafer Works announced on November 24 that stake-holder Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has resigned from its board of directors. Wafer Works specializes in semiconductor-grade...
Taiwan solar cell maker Neo Solar still in growth stage
Oct 14, 11:29
Neo Solar Power (NSP), a maker of crystalline silicon solar cells, inidcated that its third quarter revenues totaled NT$3.27 billion, up 31.7% on quarter.
Neo Solar secures second contract from Italy-based Solarday
Oct 7, 16:26
Neo Solar Power announced on October 6 that it has signed a five-year contract with a total value of US$2.1 million with Solarday SpA to supplying solar cells to the latter during...
Neo Solar secures 8-year solar wafer supply from Wafer Works
Oct 1, 01:20
Solar cell maker Neo Solar Power has agreed an eight-year contract with Wafer Works to supply solar wafers worth US$534 million for the period from January 1, 2009 to December 31,...
Neo Solar Power enters into US$450 million silicon wafer supply deal with REC
Sep 25, 16:47
Taiwan's Neo Solar Power has entered into a new long-term agreement for supply of multi-crystalline silicon wafers from Renewable Energy Corporation (REC), with the agreement running...
Neo Solar Power eyes 20% solar cell conversion rate with Centrotherm partnership
Aug 20, 12:30
Neo Solar Power signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with equipment vendor Centrotherm Photovoltaics on August 19, aiming to form a partnership that will boost the power conversion...
Aug 14, 15:17
Neo Solar Power held the opening ceremony for its new crystalline solar cell fab in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on August 13. Operation will be started as scheduled, and the company has also...

Neo Solar Power secures new solar wafer supply
Aug 5, 12:01
Neo Solar Power announced that it has secured a new batch of solar wafer from a top-three polysilicon supplier based in Europe. With the new supply, the solar-cell maker plans for...
Neo Solar Power optimistic about demand in Italy
Aug 1, 16:04
Neo Solar Power believes Italy has the potential to be the next solar-cell demand driver, since Spain is about to end its governmet subsidy program, while demand from Japan is also...

Neo Solar Power sales soar in 1H08; capacity trails behind demand
Newswatch - Jul 7, 11:40
Having already seen sales soar by over 200% on year in the first half of 2008, Neo Solar Power indicated that its capacity is trailing behind demand while utilization rate remains...
New LDK Solar polysilicon plant to benefit Taiwan solar-cell vendors
Jul 3, 11:12
The recent equipment installation at LDK Solar's new polysilicon plant in China is good news for Taiwan's solar-cell makers, as they are expected to benefit from increased material...
Neo Solar Power to add fourth solar cell production line
Jun 17, 11:56
By adding a fourth production line, Neo Solar Power is expected to see its overall solar cell production capacity to more than double during year-end 2008.
TSMC presence in advance process market remains strong
Bits + chips | 3h 11min ago
Chicony seeks growth from non-notebook product lines
IT + CE | 4h 6min ago
Taiwan April export order value slightly down on month, year, says MOEA
Bits + chips | 4h 15min ago
Global large-size panel shipments exceed 65 million units in April 2013, says WitsView
Displays | 4h 16min ago
Supply chain to begin volume shipments of new Xbox console orders in 3Q13
IT + CE | 4h 18min ago
MediaTek 2Q13 sales likely to beat guidance
Bits + chips | 4h 31min ago
Taiwan makers expected to benefit from Lenovo targeting smartphones in 2013
Mobile + telecom | 4h 33min ago
Digitimes Research: Taiwan LCD driver IC shipments rise 22% in 1Q13
Bits + chips | 4h 35min ago
Taiwan panel makers lower pricing for Ultra HD TV panels
Displays | 4h 37min ago
Taiwan April export order value slightly down on month, year, says MOEA
Before Going to Press | 4h 29min ago
Global large-size panel shipments exceed 65 million units in April 2013, says WitsView
Before Going to Press | 4h 33min ago
Touchscreen IC, LED driver IC suppliers to post strong May
Before Going to Press | 4h 34min ago
Win Semi expects to post double-digit revenue growth in 2013
Before Going to Press | 4h 35min ago
TPK expected to see decline in touch screen notebook panel shipments during 2Q13
Before Going to Press | 4h 35min ago
Demand for large-size driver ICs to boom in 2H13, say backend firms
Before Going to Press | 4h 38min ago
Epistar expects revenue proportion for LED used in lighting to rise to 30%
Before Going to Press | 4h 38min ago
HTC cooperates with KDDI to launch HTC One in Japan market
Before Going to Press | 4h 40min ago
Innolux expected to ship 1 million TOD units in 2013
Before Going to Press | 4h 50min ago
- Trial production of 5th-generation iPad to begin soon, say Taiwan makers
- Handset vendors in discussion over producing 6-inch and larger phones
- Taiwan component makers conservative about growth in 2H13 notebook shipments
- Taiwan-based analog IC suppliers facing increasing competition from rivals in China
- Commentary: High-end LED lighting in demand
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- More firms provide crystal-less USB 3.0 device controllers
- BLU makers report different results in 1Q13
- ChipMOS capex for 2013 to reach NT$2.5-2.8 billion
- BIOS designers feel the impact from weak PC market
- Apple MacBook orders to rise 20% sequentially in 2Q13
- Capella tops analog IC suppliers with highest EPS in 1Q13
- LED firms to lower prices through improved technology
- Digitimes Research: Europe solar trade tariffs may slow down market growth
- Getac aims at expanding ruggedized PC market share to 30%
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- 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
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
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- DIGIEVER partnership with EverFocus for better professional network surveillance solutions
- 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
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- 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
20-May-2013 markets closed
| Last | Change |
| TAIEX (TSE) | 8377.05 | +8.86 | +0.11% |

| TSE electronic | 316.79 | +0.62 | +0.2% |

| GTSM (OTC) | 119.74 | +0.18 | +0.15% |

| OTC electronic | 144.06 | +0.15 | +0.1% |

- 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
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...

MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...

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.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.

















