US-based sapphire substrate firm, Rubicon Technology, has announced financial performance for first-quarter 2011. Compared with the previous quarter, revenues increased to US$37.97...

Manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD) are expected to receive a late-year boost during the holiday season as shipments rally during the fourth quarter, according to market research...

Research in Motion (RIM) is scheduled to introduce its tablet PC, the PlayBook, in the North America market in the first quarter of 2011 and then worldwide in the second quarter,...

Elpida Memory has estimated its operating profits for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 at 23.1 billion yen (US$287 million), down almost 48% from the 44.4 billion yen posted in...

Taiwan-based LED sorting and semiconductor testing company YoungTek Electronics (YTEC) has posted net profits of NT$628 million (US$20.48 million) for the first three quarters of...

Auras Technology has received more cooling module orders from the workstation and graphics card segments, helping to stabilize its revenues and profitability as well as turning its...

There were 221,733 inkjet SFPs (single-function printers) and MFPs (multi-function peripherals) as well as 55,020 laser SFPs and MFPs shipped in the Taiwan market during the second...

The cost of manufacturing DRAM in the second quarter of 2010 saw a rise for the first time since the third quarter of 2006, raising concerns about production expenses in the memory...

Asustek Computer became the second-largest notebook brand in China in the second quarter of 2010 with a market share of 11.5% and notebook shipments of 800,000 units, behind Lenovo...

Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$9.11 billion in the second quarter of 2010, according to SEMI. The billings figure is 22% higher than that in the...

Sony increased its unit share of flat panel TVs to 27.1% in the second quarter of 2010 and took top share position in the India market, according to the DisplaySearch. The total TV...

Overall TV shipments continued to show resilience, bouncing back from dismal 2009 levels, but there were some indications of trouble in key markets. Global TV unit shipments rose...

Quanta Computer has published consolidated revenues of NT$547.64 billion (US$16.67 billion), a growth of 58% on year; net profit of NT$10.43 billion, a growth of 12% on year; and...

Acer has reported a gross margin of 9.85%, net operating profit of NT$8.52 billion (US$259 million) over consolidated revenues of NT$312.39 billion with net profits of NT$6.921 billion...

DRAM maker ProMOS Technologies remained unprofitable in the second quarter of 2010, but saw net losses for the quarter narrow significantly compared to losses in the prior quarter...

Taiwan-based Acer grabbed top-spot positions in both desktop and notebook segments of the Russian PC market in the second quarter of 2010, said International Data Corporation (IDC)...

LED packaging company Unity Opto Technology has announced consolidated net profit of NT$661.728 million (US$20.65 million) with an EPS of NT$2.15 for the first half of 2010.

Qisda has announced net profit for the quarter of 2010 totaled NT$900 million (US$28.117 million) with an EPS of NT$0.47.

LCD TV maker Amtran Technology has announced net profits of NT$490 million (US$15.301 million) for the second quarter with an EPS of NT$0.62.

Aluminum capacitor maker Teapo Electronic posted net profits of NT$95 million (US$2.97 million) in the second quarter, offsetting a loss of NT$36 million recorded in the first quarter...

Passive component maker Walsin Technology Corporation (WTC) expects its capex spending in 2011 to be higher than the NT$2 billion (US$62.47 million) projected for 2010, according...

Touch-panel controller IC maker Egalax_Empia Technology (EETI) is expected to see its revenues expand robustly in the third and fourth quarters of 2010 as a number of notebook vendors...

Networking IC design houses Realtek Semiconductor, Ralink Technology and IC Plus all expect continued revenue growth in the third quarter of 2010, partly due to increasing demand...

Chip suppliers are reporting rising inventory, but the swelling stockpiles do not represent a cause for concern in the industry at present with demand expected to increase during...

The 32-inch segment accounted for 41% of the total LCD TV panel shipments in China in the second quarter of 2010, followed by the 26-inch segment with 15%, according to WitsView.