Shipments of solar junction boxes and connectors currently account for about 15-20% of Leatec Fine Ceramics' revenues, according to industry sources. Leatec is also a major supplier...
With its lead in advanced process capacity, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to be the largest beneficiary of increased outsourcing by IDMs, Nobunaga...
With the Japanese yen rising to a 15-year high, Japan-based solar companies have increased outsourcing to Taiwan-based solar cell makers for cost reasons. Among Taiwan's solar cell...
With more IDMs in Japan going fabless, and development of China's IC design industry rising toward maturity, industry watchers expect both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Japan-based brand notebook vendors Toshiba, Sony and Fujitsu are all expected to increase the ratios of outsourced notebooks to Taiwan-based ODM makers in 2011 in order to strengthen...
Taiwan-based ODM makers Compal Electronics and Wistron have each set a challenging shipment goal of 10 million LCD TVs for 2011, with each expecting orders for seven million units...
As Fujitsu plans to push US$400-600 notebooks in North America and Asia Pacific markets, and increased its outsourcing proportion to Taiwan makers from only 30% in 2009 to close to...
Chimei Innolux (CMI) is considering a new strategy for its component supply chain and will have 70% of its component supplies produced in-house with the other 30% outsourced, according...
As the company has recently started shipping LCD TVs to a new client, Compal Electronics expects its monthly LCD TV shipments to reach 500,000-600,000 units or higher in the second...
Renesas Electronics has raised its orders to Powerchip Technology for its LCD driver ICs, and also grown its outsourcing to backend partner Chipbond Technology, according to a recent...
Delta Electronics has begun producing power supply units (PSUs) for LED-backlit LCD TV vendors based in Japan, South Korea, Europe and Taiwan, according to company CEO Yancey Hai.
Japan-based solar companies including Sanyo Electric, Sharp and Kyocera are expected to increase outsourcing and procurement of solar cells, and Taiwan's manufacturers, strategically...
Skyworks Solutions, a component supplier for the iPhone 4, is expected to significantly increase its outsourcing to contract partner Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC)...
Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) has quietly been phasing out its motherboard business, after losing orders from its largest contract customer Lenovo, according to sources from...
