Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) saw its gross margin increase to reach 14.3% in the fourth quarter of 2010, up 0.1pp sequentially and beating market estimates. The chip packager...

Corning has announced revenues of US$1.77 billion for the fourth quarter of 2010, a 10% sequential increase and 15% on-year increase. EPS for the quarter was US$0.66.

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has announced record revenues and shipments for 2010, despite seeing weaker sales in the last quarter of the year.

Revenues of LED lighting accounted for 14% of the total lighting revenues of Philips in the fourth quarter of 2010, while its LED subsidiary Lumileds indicated that the LED lighting...

Macronix International saw its fourth-quarter 2010 gross margin reach 54% and operating margin 26%, beating its guidance. The company credited the better-than-expected results to...

Board of directors of Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Arima Optoelectronics on January 24 announced it will reduce capital by 25% to make up for losses. Arima will...

Diffusion sheet maker Entire Technology has announced net profit of NT$204 million (US$7.01 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, down about 8% from net profit of NT$223 million...

Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories have posted a combined loss of about NT$25.69 billion (US$884 million) for 2010. Affected by continuous drops in DRAM prices, the pair saw their...

HTC projects shipments of 8.5 million smartphones and consolidated revenues of NT$94 billion (US$3.2 billion) for the first quarter of 2011, decreasing by 6.9% and 9.6% respectively...

LG Display has reported sales for the fourth quarter of 2010 decreased 3% to KRW6.48 trillion (US$5.77 billion) from KRW6.7 trillion in the third quarter of 2010, but increased by...

AMD has announced revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 of US$1.65 billion, net income of US$375 million, or US$0.50 per share, and operating income of US$413 million. The company...

In China, 67.598 million GSM, CDMA and 3G handsets were sold in fourth-quarter 2010, increasing 5.0% sequentially and 38.6% on year, according to Analysys International.

Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories are likely to post a combined loss of more than NT$25 billion (US$858 million) in 2010, market sources have estimated. Both DRAM makers suffered...

The leading equipment beneficiary during 2010 was Applied Materials with strong process tool supply to tier-1 cell manufacturers, supplemented by deferred revenue recognition from...

Young Fast Optoelectronics has said that it will report lower-than-expected gross margin for the fourth quarter of 2010 due to worse-than-expected shipments of medium- to large-size...

Intel has reported full-year revenues of US$43.6 billion, operating income of US$15.9 billion, net income of US$11.7 billion, and an EPS of US$2.05, all company records. The company...

Acer shipped 9.775 million PC products in the fourth quarter of 2010, down 17% on quarter and 15% on year due to a slowdown in netbook shipments, according to IDC. As a result, Acer's...

Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel makers are likely to see operating losses in fourth-quarter 2010 and first-quarter 2011, with lower losses in the latter.

Mini coaxial cable maker Wanshih Electronic reported NT$491 million (US$16.9 million) in December 2010 consolidated revenues, down 5.82% sequentially and 19% on year due to higher...

International pricing for optical-grade polycarbonate and tetrafluoro-propanol (TFP), which are used in optical discs, started seeing a drop in the fourth quarter of 2010, and with...

AOpen saw its 2010 revenues of NT$2.39 billion (US$74.6 million) rise 15.81% from 2009 mainly due to booming shipments of digital signage products, while industrial PC touch panel...

IC design house MStar Semiconductor saw consolidated revenues slip 12.9% sequentially to NT$8.2 billion (US$268 million) in the fourth quarter of 2010, missing an estimated 5% decrease...

IC distributor WPG Holdings' fourth-quarter revenues of NT$70.1 billion (US$2.4 billion) missed the company's forecast of NT$71-74 billion. The company pointed to a new focus on profit...

AMD has announced that its board of directors has appointed senior vice president and CFO Thomas Seifert as interim CEO following the resignation of Dirk Meyer as president, CEO and...

Chimei Innolux (CMI) has announced its consolidated TFT-LCD related revenues of NT$44.7 billion (US$1.53 billion) in December, a decrease of 0.5% sequentially. CMI shipped 12.1 million...