MILC to enjoy growth in both worldwide and Taiwan sales

May 24, 01:30

Global mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras (MILC) are expected to enjoy shipment growth as high as 20% in 2012, while the Taiwan market is expected to achieve a growth of 30%...

Nuvoton looks to strong sales in May and June

May 21, 16:19

Consumer IC design house Nuvoton Technology expects its revenues for May and June to stay flat or edge up slightly from the level recorded in April, in which revenues were up 20%...

China market: Booming sales of Windows Phones could be short-lived, say sources

May 21, 12:49

Nokia's Lumia smartphones are currently enjoying booming sales in China, but some industry sources fear the brisk sales could be short-lived.

Taiwan market: Google launches cloud computing services for business users

May 18, 15:09

Google on May 17 formally launched its cloud computing services specifically for use by enterprises in the Taiwan market, with Master Concept Technology, Kingwaytek Technology and...

IC designer Sonix expects sales to grow on easing tight capacity

May 18, 14:27

IC design house Sonix Technology has seen a rebound in orders for its MCUs, multimedia chips and consumer ICs recently and expects an easing of tight capacity at foundries will enable...

TXC expected to see robust growth in 3Q12

May 18, 14:27

Quartz crystal device maker TXC is expected to post substantial sequential growth in third-quarter sales driven by shipments to the smartphone and network communications equipment...

Worldwide mobile phone sales declined 2% in 2Q12, says Gartner

May 18, 10:41

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 2% decline from the first quarter of 2011, according to Gartner. This is...

Genesys Logic seeing sales of USB 3.0 chips expand

May 18, 01:20

IC design house Genesys Logic has seen sales generated from its USB 3.0 products including bridge controller chips, hub controllers and card reader controller ICs expand to account...

Analog IC designers seeing May sales boom

May 18, 01:05

Taiwan-based analog IC design firms are expected to see their second-quarter revenues close to their high-end targets or even beat company guidance, as sales generated thus far in...

TCL sees LCD TV sales up 78.9% in April

May 17, 10:01

TCL Multimedia recently announced the group's monthly sales volume of LCD TV in April 2012 amounted to over 1.41 million sets, up by 78.9% year-on-year, of which the sales volume...

Holy Stone hiking in-house MLCC production

May 16, 01:00

Holy Stone Enterprise, a Taiwan-based supplier of multi-layer ceramic capacitors, is increasing in-house production from 33% of its total revenues currently to a target of 40% in...

Wistron, TPV deny rumored sales of LCD TV production business

May 15, 01:10

In response to a market rumor that Taiwan-based ODM maker Wistron will sell its business to produce LCD TVs to China-based LCD display device maker TPV Technology, both Wistron and...

MediaTek 2Q12 sales expected to meet guidance

May 15, 01:00

MediaTek's consolidated revenues for the second quarter of 2012 are expected to meet the company's guidance of NT$22.4-23.5 billion (US$759-797 million), a 14-20% rise on quarter,...

Taiwan market: CHT, TWM, FET set 2012 sales goals for tablet PCs, says report

Newswatch - May 14, 11:21

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), Taiwan Mobile (TWM) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), the three largest mobile telecom carriers in Taiwan, have set targets for contract-bundled sales...

Sapphire substrate sales increase in April

May 11, 16:01

Substrate manufacturers such as Crystal Applied Technologies and Wafer Works reported increased revenues during April due to upstream sapphire substrates becoming more in demand as...

WPG, WT Micro look to post sales gains in May-June

May 11, 15:38

IC distributors WPG Holdings and WT Microelectronics have reported sequential revenue decreases for April 2012, but both expect sales to register on-month growth in May and June driven...

TCL April LCD TV sales reach 1.41 million units

May 9, 01:10

China-based TV maker TCL has announced April LCD TV sales reached 1.41 million units. LED-backlit TVs accounted for 70% of the sales.

China market: Lenovo trial sales of smart TVs fall short of expectation

May 8, 15:20

Lenovo started trial sales of smart TVs in the China market on April 26 and sales performance has fallen short of expectations due to high pricing, according to industry sources.

Holy Stone 2Q12 sales to rise 5-10%, say sources

May 8, 14:54

MLCC maker Holy Stone Enterprise is expected to post sales growth of 5-10% sequentially in the second quarter of 2012 despite a decline in revenues in April, according to market so...

Novatek, Realtek report revenue gains for April

May 8, 14:26

IC design firms Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor have reported over 5% sequential growth in April revenues, and expect their sales to continue moving higher in May...

Macronix, Winbond April sales up

May 8, 01:40

Macronix International and Winbond Electronics have reported sequential growth in April 2012 revenues of 12.6% and 3.8%, respectively.

Sales of large-sized LCD displays expected to increase in 2Q12

May 8, 01:25

Makers of large-sized LCD display (TVs and monitors larger than 10-inches) are looking to boost terminal end products' sales as markets heat up and prices stabilize in North Americ...

GaAs wafer firm VPEC to post 5% sales growth in 2Q12

May 8, 01:20

Taiwan's Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC), a manufacturer of GaAs pi-wafers made to fabricate power amplifiers (PA) or consumer technology products such as smartphones and...

ASE, SPIL post slight drops in April sales

May 8, 01:10

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have reported slight decreases in consolidated revenues for April 2012. ASE announced consolidated...

Chilisin April sales up, Yageo down

May 7, 15:47

Yageo has announced consolidated revenues slid 5.1% sequentially in April 2012 while its subsidiary Chilisin Electronics reported sales growth of 5.8% on month.

Chipbond, ChipMOS 2Q12 sales expected to grow

May 7, 15:41

LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies are expected to see their second-quarter sales register single-digit growth sequentially thanks...

China TV firms see increasing sales as domestic demand heats up

May 7, 15:28

China TV firms have overtaken Japanese and Korean ones in China's market as Chinese consumers are increasingly purchasing LCD TVs.

IC distributor Zenitron sees sales growth through 3Q12

May 4, 14:42

Zenitron expects to post a 10-15% sequential revenue increase in the second quarter of 2012. With demand coming from China's consumer electronics and smartphone sectors set to boom,...

Taiwan market: Tablet PC sales flat in 2Q12, says ViewSonic

May 4, 11:06

Sales of tablet PCs in the Taiwan market have been weak recently with monthly sales hovering around 30,000 units compared to 40,000 units sold during the peak season, according to...

Chip sales up 1.5% in March, says SIA

May 3, 15:31

Worldwide sales of semiconductors for March 2012 were up 1.5% compared to the prior month, but were down 7.9% from a year ago, according to the SIA.

Nanya, Inotera April sales up on month

May 3, 14:34

DRAM chipmakers Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories have reported growth in April 2012 revenues from the previous month of 14.3% and 19.1%, respectively.

Sigurd sales to rise on orders rebound

May 3, 01:00

Monthly sales at IC testing service provider Sigurd Microelectronics are expected to register sequential growth through June, and continue the positive momentum in the third quarter...

Silicon Motion reports 48% on-year increase in 1Q12 sales

Apr 30, 10:20

Silicon Motion Technology has announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. For the first quarter of 2012, net sales decreased 4.7% quarter-over-quarter to...