IC design service provider Faraday Technology expects its revenues to increase more than 35% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012, thanks to new orders for embedded MMC (eMMC)...

In another sign of the growing prominence of mobile platforms like smartphones, handheld gaming devices and tablets, revenues in the first quarter for mobile DRAM exceeded the US$2...

Japan's Elpida Memory has reported net losses of JPY7.9 billion (US$102 million) on revenues of JPY95.7 billion for its fiscal first quarter ended ended June 30, 2011. Losses showed...

Protective component maker Polytronics Technology has posted pre-tax profits of NT$247 million (US$8.54 million) in the first half of 2011, an increase of 20.4% from a year earlier...

In the Taiwan market, shipments of external storage devices reached a total volume of 15,925TB (terabytes) and a total value of US$32.55 million in the first quarter of 2011, dropping...

Despite a design problem that forced a large-scale chipset recall, Intel in the first quarter managed to pad its dominant position in the global microprocessor business, according...

A total of 18,039 servers were shipped to the Taiwan market in first-quarter 2011, dropping 19.7% sequentially but rising 11.2% on year, according to IDC Asia/Pacific.

White-box tablet PC players are rising quickly in the tablet PC industry with related shipments already accounting for close to 20% of global tablet PC shipments in the first quarter...

There were 262 million active handset-based mobile instant messenger (IM) accounts in the China market at the end of the first quarter of 2011, rising 8.78% on quarter, according...

There were 2.13 million handsets sold in the Taiwan market during the first quarter of 2011, 940,000 or 44.1% of which were smartphones, according to industry sources.

SEMI has reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$12 billion in the first quarter of 2011. The billings figure is 1% higher than that in the...

Global shipments of LCD TVs were 44.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 9% from the same period in 2010, according to DisplaySearch. On-year growth slowed...

Taiwan's consumption of all types of energy in the first quarter of 2011 stood at 29.96 million kiloliter oil equivalent (KLOE), growing by 4.28% on year, according to the Bureau...

Normally a cause for concern, excess inventory actually served as a boon for the global semiconductor industry in the first quarter of 2011 alleviating the severity of component shortages...

Global DRAM revenues during the first three months of 2011 amounted to US$8.3 billion, lower than the US$9 billion anticipated, according to IHS iSuppli. The first-quarter total represented...

DisplaySearch anticipates that shipments of 3D LCD TV panels will account for 16.8% of total LCD TV panels shipped in the fourth quarter of 2011, and 12.3% for all of the year.

In the first quarter of 2011, worldwide server shipments grew 8.5% on-year, while revenues increased 17.3%, according to Gartner.

A total of 19.91 million smartphones were sold in the China market in irst-quarter 2011, rising 4.7% sequentially and 88.3% on year, according to Analysys International.

In China, B2C online shopping operators generated total sales of CNY47.07 billion (US$7.15 billion) in first-quarter of 2011, according to Analysys International.

Taiwan's flat panel display (FPD) industry generated production value of NT$353.63 billion (US$11.4 billion) in first-quarter 2011, decreasing 7.8% sequentially, according the government-sponsored...

Rising consumer interest in media tablets like Apple's iPad is beginning to take a toll on the global PC market, with shipments of desktops and notebooks in the first quarter of 2011...

In the China market, web portals of B2B services generated total transaction value of CNY2.22 billion (US$337 million) in first-quarter 2011, growing 6.1% on quarter and 37.0% on...

Operators of online gaming services in the China market generated total revenues of CNY8.498 billion (US$1.29 billion) in first-quarter 2011, rising 6.1% on quarter and 8.7% on year,...

IC Insights has issued its revealed ranking of the top semiconductor suppliers in the first quarter of 2011. Intel remained firmly in control of the number one spot in the ranking,...

Worldwide mobile communication device sales to end users totaled 427.8 million units in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 19% from the first quarter of 2010, according to...