Major chip packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) are likely to see their profits for the first quarter of 2011 halve from...
Taiwan-based flexible PCB (FPCB) makers are likely to post single-digit declines sequential in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2010, due to inventory corrections by customers later...
Sales of large-size LCD driver ICs at Taiwan-based IC design houses in the third quarter were weak, while shipments of small-size driver ICs, especially for smartphones, remained...
Despite strong demand from clients in China prior to the National Day holidays, most Taiwan-based IC design houses posted lower revenues in September than those they recorded in August...
Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 to decline significantly on quarter, due to inventory corrections by...
Taiwan-based amorphous single-junction (a-Si) and micromorphous tandem-junction (micro-Si) thin-film PV module makers have maintained their third-quarter 2010 prices of US$1.20/W...
Amid strong sales of iPad, Apple suppliers Wintek and TPK Touch Solutions are expected to see continued revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2010, while fellow touch panel makers...
MediaTek expects September 2010 revenues to improve from August's NT$10.037 billion (US$323.201 million), and third-quarter revenues should only decline slightly from the second quarter's...
With decreasing orders from Taiwan-based IC design houses, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will likely see mixed results...
Hard drive makers expect their shipments in the fourth quarter to only remain flat and they might even drop slightly by 1-2% sequentially, as weak back-to-school demand has created...
Nanya PCB (NPC) and Unimicron Technology have expressed caution about their business outlook for the fourth quarter of 2010, due to a continued slowdown in demand from the PC secto...
As IT channel retailers in China started digesting their notebook and smartphone inventories on September 20 and saw their sales pick up significantly after October 1, the first day...
Pricing of various passive components has become a major concern recently due to slowing demand from downstream sectors, and industry sources believe chip resistor prices will remain...
ASPs for standard DRAM packaging and testing are set to fall by 2-3%, or even more, sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to industry sources. The estimated price...
Leading non-volatile memory supplier Macronix International has announced that it has skipped the 90nm process node and moved directly to a 75nm technology, ahead of schedule. The...
