China-based touch panel makers expanding capacities

Apr 19, 14:53

China-based touch panel makers are following their rivals in Taiwan in ramping up their production and aggressively expanding capacity – a development which may trigger an oversupply...

Asustek buys touch panel modules from TPK; aiming to ship over 350,000 Transformer Prime tablet PCs in 2011

Nov 24, 01:20

Asustek Computer has added TPK Holding to its supplier list for touch panel modules in addition to current supplier Sintek Photronics, according to sources in the upstream supply...

Shipments of touch panels for Kindle Fire increasing, say sources

Oct 19, 13:51

Shipments of touch panels for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets are likely to reach a monthly average of 1.5 million units in October and November due to strong pre-sales orders, according...

Giantplus reports operating loss for 1H11

Aug 30, 12:32

Giantplus Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$6.61 billion (US$228 million) with gross margin of 2.36% for first half of 2011. Operating loss came to NT$281 million...

Giantplus to step up mid-size LCD shipments in 2012

Aug 19, 16:14

LCD panel maker Giantplus Technology will step shipments to the medium-size segment in 2012, with the company aiming to attain an overall gross margin of 15% for the year.

Giantplus growth to surpass 10% in 3Q11

Aug 15, 10:57

Small- and medium-size LCD panel maker Giantplus Technology is likely to have a strong third-quarter 2011, with on-quarter growth expected to surpass 10% due to increased orders from...

Emerging Display expanding touch module capacity

Aug 12, 17:03

Emerging Display Technologies (EDT) is expanding its monthly production capacity of small- to medium-size touch modules from 150,000 units currently to 220,000-250,000 units later...

Wintek sees increased July revenues

Aug 3, 01:20

Touch panel maker Wintek reported July revenues of NT$8,561 million (US$297 million), an on-month increase of 16% and on-year increase of 61%. Accumulated revenues from January-July...

HannStar Display to ramp up capacity for touch-panel modules and IPS panels

Jul 15, 14:16

HannStar Display will step up its production of touch-panel modules and IPS panels, with monthly capacity for touch-panel modules to top 1.5 million units at the end of 2011 and IPS...

Cando ramping up touch module production

Jun 23, 11:25

Cando will continue to ramp up the production of touch modules in the second half of 2011 while reducing the proportion of touch sensors to its overall production, according to CY...

Foxconn will not quit notebook manufacturing, says company chairman

Jun 9, 02:10

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing service (EMS) provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) chairman Terry Guo, at a recent investors meeting, stated that Foxconn...

TPK to ship 3 million touch modules for iPad 2 in June

Jun 9, 01:55

TPK Holdings is expected to ship over three million touch modules for Apple's iPad 2 in June and a total of over 6.3 million units for the second quarter, according to an estimate...

TPK sees 1Q11 net profit exceed paid-in capital

May 5, 12:35

Taiwan-based touch panel maker TPK Holding generated net profit of NT$2.470 billion (US$82.9 million) in the first quarter of 2011, 10.23% in excess of its current paid-in capital,...

TPK to introduce Touch on Lens solution in 2012

Mar 1, 15:14

To meet growing demand for light, small portable consumer electronics (CE) products, touch panel maker TPK Touch Solutions plans to introduce its latest touch panel solution, the...

Taiwan touch controller vendors eyeing growing global touch IC market

Dec 23, 14:13

Taiwan-based touch controller IC makers are gearing up efforts to dent market share from international rivals as the global controller IC segment is expected to grow by over 50% in...

Touch module maker Mutto to ramp up capacity by 250% with new capacity in November

Oct 19, 01:20

Mutto Optronics' monthly capacity is expected to rise 250% to seven million units when its second plant in Suzhou, China go online in November. The Taiwan-based company's first plant...

Sintek to invest NT$8.8 billion for second touch panel plant

Sep 27, 15:00

Color filter (CF) maker Sintek Photronic has acquired land and a factory building in Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) from HannStar Display and plans to invest NT$8.8 billion (US$280.04...