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Tuesday 27 March 2018
Niching posts record gross margin in 4Q17
IC packaging material and tool distributor Niching Industrial saw its gross margin reach a record high of 23% in the fourth quarter of 2017. Gross margin for all of 2017 climbed to...
Thursday 22 March 2018
Gigabyte reports on-year EPS growth of 21.5% in 2017
Gigabyte Technology has announced net profit of NT$842 million (US$28.71 million) for the fourth quarter of 2017, down 23.86% sequentially, while its net profit for 2017 increased...
Tuesday 20 March 2018
IC distributor Supreme Electronics upbeat about 2018 revenues
Taiwan-based Supreme Electronics, which mainly distributes memory products and display panels for Samsung Electronics, expects its revenues to pick up steadily starting in the second...
Thursday 15 March 2018
TSMC seeing tight capacity for cryptocurrency mining chips
TSMC's 16nm and 12nm process production capacity has been tight in the first quarter of 2018 driven by strong demand for GPUs and ASICs for cryptocurrency mining, according to industry...
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Nvidia wary of possible cryptocurrency demand drop
GPU demand from the cryptocurrency mining industry is showing signs of slowdown recently and Nvidia has started taking measures to minimize possible damage, according to some market...
Friday 9 March 2018
TSMC February revenues fall to 10-month low
Consolidated revenues at pure-play foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) fell to a 10-month low of NT$64.64 billion (US$2.2 billion) in February 2018.
Thursday 8 March 2018
TSMC sales receive strong boost from Bitmain orders
In addition to orders for 7nm chips, robust orders for cryptocurrency mining ASICs from China-based Bitmain Technologies are expected to drive Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's...
Wednesday 7 March 2018
ASRock to enter graphics card market
Motherboard player ASRock reportedly will enter the graphics card market in April and focus mainly on supplying AMD-based products, according to some market watchers.
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Acer reportedly mulls buying Albatron shares
Acer is reportedly considering buying a stake in IPC developer Albatron Technology or fully acquiring the company in order to quickly gain access to the cryptocurrency mining and...
Thursday 1 February 2018
Singapore-based SpherePay to launch its own cryptocurrency
South East Asian mobile payment platform SpherePay has disclosed it is set to launch its own cryptocurrency in the coming few months. The Singapore-based company will introduce what...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Samsung 4Q17 profits surge on robust chip demand
Robust memory chip demand boosted Samsung Electronics' profitability in the fourth quarter of 2017, when the vendor's net profits surged 72.9% on year to KRW12.26 trillion (US$11.5...
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Cryptocurrency mining, AI applications to drive up demand for analog, MOSFET chips
Taiwan-based suppliers of analog ICs, MOSFET chips and protection components are braced for strong shipment growths in the first quarter of 2018 as demand for graphics cards for cryptocurrency...
Tuesday 30 January 2018
Taiwan IC packagers to cash in on mining craze in 2018
Taiwan IC backend service providers including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics (KYE), are upbeat about their...
Tuesday 30 January 2018
TSMC lands big orders for mining ASICs from Bitmain
Taiwan semiconductor firms will see major revenue boosts from the global cryptocurrency mining craze in 2018, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has landed sizable...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Gigabyte sees weak motherboard orders in 1Q18
Motherboard orders received by Gigabyte Technology so far in the first quarter of 2018 are much lower than those received during the same period of a year earlier, an apparent result...