Last update: Thursday 3 January 2013 [49 news items]
Powder maker Prosperity Dielectrics cuts into Japan supply chain
Sep 23, 16:52
Taiwan-based Prosperity Dielectrics (PDC), which mainly supplies powder materials to multi-layer ceramic-chip capacitor (MLCC) maker Walsin Technology (WTC), has recently become a...
Newswatch - Aug 27, 12:24
The price of high-capacitance multi-layer ceramic-chip capacitors (MLCCs) has stabilized as market demand has been improving since the second quarter, according to industry sources...
Prosperity Dielectrics sees profits from growing sales of ceramic dielectric powders
Aug 26, 12:20
Powder material supplier Prosperity Dielectrics Company (PDC) has said it remained profitable in first-half 2009, despite losses in the first quarter. The company said sales proportion...
Walsin turns profitable in 2Q09; utilization rebounds
Aug 26, 12:08
Passive component maker Walsin Technology Corporation (WTC) swung back to profitability in the second quarter with revenues of NT$3.83 billion (US$116.17 million), up 38% sequentially,...
Holy Stone reports revenue growth in June
Jul 8, 11:24
Passive component maker Holy Stone has announced that June revenues reached almost NT$1.08 billion (US$32.66 million), up 8% sequentially and 9.8% on year. On a consolidated basis,...
Nichidenbo seeing online games boost passive component orders
Jul 6, 15:13
Taiwan-based Nichidenbo, which chiefly distributes passive components from Japan, has reported revenues of NT$155 million (US$4.71 million) for June, up 17.4% due to increased demand...
Yageo, Walsin to maintain profits due to tight supply of high-end MLCCs
Newswatch - Jun 2, 17:08
Taiwan multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) makers Yageo and Walsin Technology Corporation (WTC) are expected to maintain profits in third-quarter 2009 as demand for high-end MLCCs...
Prosperity Dielectrics takes orders from MLCC makers outside of PSA group
May 25, 16:06
Powder material supplier Prosperity Dielectrics Company (PDC) is taking more orders for powders used in multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) from makers outside of the Passive System...

Passive component makers Yageo and Walsin expected to return to profitability in 2Q09
May 21, 16:01
Taiwan-based passive component makers Yageo and Walsin Technology are expected to swing to profits in the second quarter of 2009, thanks to improved utilization rates as well as stabilizing...
Powder maker Prosperity Dielectrics March sales up 44% on MLCC demand
Newswatch - Apr 15, 14:58
Powder material supplier Prosperity Dielectrics Company (PDC) has announced that March consolidated revenues grew 44.1% sequentially to NT$209 million (US$6.21 million) largely due...
MLCC profits impacted as prices remain low
Newswatch - Mar 13, 16:52
Multi-layer ceramic-chip capacitor (MLCC) suppliers Walsin Technology Corporation (WTC), Yageo and Holy Stone may see margins decline in the first quarter despite reports of strong...
Passive components maker Walsin braces for 10-15% decline in 4Q orders, says paper
Newswatch - Dec 2, 11:46
Walsin Technology estimates its fourth-quarter order volume to decline 10-15% from the third quarter, and in the first quarter next year to stay flat or have another 5-10% drop because...
Depreciating Korean won driving down MLCC prices
Dec 1, 12:12
The depreciating Korean won has been benefiting Korean passive component exports while driving prices down in the passive components market, according to industry sources.
Passive component sales to drop 30% in November, says paper
Newswatch - Nov 26, 14:15
Passive component makers Yageo, Walsin Technology and Holy Stone have seen orders shrink in November. Industry players estimate passive component sales this month are to drop 20-30%...
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
- Innolux, AUO differ in strategies for tapping China smartphone panel market
- Asustek unveils Intel 8 series motherboards
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- PCB firm Apex 2Q13 sales to rise over 10%
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Touch screen notebook shipments reach 4.57 million units in 1Q13, says Displaybank
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- Mobile DRAM revenues slip 5% in 1Q13, says DRAMeXchange
- 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
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- BlackBerry to offer BBM on Android and iOS platforms
- New generation iPhone may adopt sapphire crystal glass for home button
- Ledlink to begin LED lighting shell volume production in May-June
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
- Soft-World sees over 50% of 1Q13 profit from 3 subsidiaries
- Corning introduces Lotus XT Glass
- Synnex Technology reports profits for 1Q13
- HannStar Display posts 1Q13 profits
- Taiwan market: HTC, Samsung optimistic about May sales
- Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
- Digitimes Research: Battery technologies regain focus as energy storage demand rises
- Digitimes Research: LED light bulb prices in Japan fall in April
- Digitimes Research: Sapphire 2-inch substrate prices to be around US$8/unit in 2013
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 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.

















