Global inventories held by semiconductor suppliers surged to their highest level in two-and-a-half years during the fourth quarter of 2010, a development that could spell trouble...

Worldwide demand for pico projectors grew from 134,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2009 to over 268,000 units in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to Pacific Media Associates...

Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker E Ink Holdings (EIH) has announced revenues of NT$9.73 billion (US$331.29 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, a record high for quarterly...

Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$16.59 billion (US$565.64 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, down 15.2% sequentially and 2.2% on year.

The contract manufacturing volume from Taiwan's TV SIs reached 10.84 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010, up by 19.6% sequentially, a record high quarterly growth in 2010,...

Passive component maker Holy Stone saw its consolidated revenues grow 5.75% sequentially to NT$1.38 billion (US$47.83 million) for January as some clients took deliveries in advance...

Global DRAM revenues declined to US$8.64 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, down 20% from US$10.78 billion in the third quarter, according to DRAMeXchange. Chip contract prices...

Plasma TV panel shipments increased 1% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2010 and 9% on year to 5.2 million units, according to DisplaySearch. Major plasma makers operated at...

Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has announced estimated graphics chip shipments and suppliers' market share for the fourth quarter of 2010.

There were 27,642 projectors shipped to the Taiwan market in the fourth quarter of 2010, increasing 16.55% on quarter but decreasing 51.75% on year. The shipments of 104,422 projectors...

Second-tier Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker HannStar Display shipped 4.103 million 19-inch panels in equivalent in the fourth quarter of 2010, decreasing by 6.3% on quarter and consisting...

Taiwan posted an economic growth rate, on-year growth in real GDP, of 6.48% for the fourth quarter and that of 10.47% for the whole year of 2010, 1.78pp and 0.49pp respectively higher...

MediaTek is expected to see its gross margin drop another 1-2 percentage points in the first quarter of 2011 from the level recorded in the fourth quarter of 2010 and its first-quarter...

Memory module maker Adata Technology has announced net losses of NT$171 million (US$5.88 million), or NT$0.76 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2010 due to a 50% drop in DRAM chip...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has announced net profits for the fourth quarter of 2010 climbed 43.8% on year to NT$4.96 billion (US$171 million). Net profits for the whole...

Winbond Electronics earned net profits of NT$30 million (US$1.03 million) in the fourth quarter of 2010, down significantly from NT$1.9 billion in the prior quarter. Revenues slid...

Canalys has announced strong PC industry growth of 19% in the fourth quarter of 2010, with Apple climbing to third place in the market, thanks to impressive iPad and Mac sales, as...

Samsung Electronics has announced revenues of KRW41.87 trillion (US$37.67 billion) on a consolidated basis for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 7% increase year-on-year. For the quarter,...

STATS ChipPAC, a Singapore-based provider of semiconductor testing and assembly services, has announced net profits soared to US$108 million in 2010 from US$10.1 million in 2009....

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced consolidated revenues and net profits for 2010 both hit all-time highs. Consolidated sales for the last quarter of...

AU Optronics (AUO) today posted consolidated revenue of NT$102,605 million (US$3,521 million), down 17.5% from the previous quarter. Gross profit was negative NT$4,537 million, with...

LG Electronics has announced net profit of KRW256 billion (US$229.53 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, up from KRW8 billion in the third quarter but down from KRW362 billion...

China-based web portal Baidu dominated the online search market in China in fourth-quarter 2010 with a 75.5% share of total revenues, according to Analysys International.

Hynix Semiconductor has announced net profits of KRW110 billion (US$98.7 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, down 90% sequentially and the lowest quarterly level in five quart...

Acer has announced its 2010 preliminary financial results, achieving record highs in consolidated revenues of NT$629.7 billion (US$19.9 billion) representing 9.7% (or 14.2% assessed...