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Tuesday 15 February 2011
Protective component makers announce positive 2010 results
Taiwan-based protective component makers Thinking Electronic and Polytronics Technology have announced unaudited financial results for 2010. Hampered by exchange rate volatility in...
Tuesday 15 February 2011
High copper price damaging profitability of notebook component makers
Taiwan-based makers of notebook components such as connector, cable, power supply and cooling modules are seeing their profitability drop as the recent global copper price is hovering...
Thursday 10 February 2011
Rising exchange rates of Asia currencies benefits US PC vendors
US-based PC vendors such as Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and Apple are gaining advantages as exchange rates of Asia Pacific currencies to the US dollar are rising quickly, according...
Thursday 20 January 2011
Optical lens makers see hard times raising product prices
Taiwan-based optical lens makers including Largan Precision, Genius Electronic Optical and Asia Optical are facing dropping gross margins because of Taiwan's rising exchange rate;...
Thursday 13 January 2011
Kinpo-Compal Group aiming to achieve 20% on-year revenue growth
Kinpo-Compal Group chairman Rock Hsu, at the company's year-end banquet, pointed out that the group is aiming to achieve a growth over 20% on-year in 2011, rising from US$5.6 billion...
Thursday 13 January 2011
Compal successfully raises OEM quotes for 1Q11, says president
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen, on January 12, revealed the company recently reached an agreement with its clients and has successfully raised OEM quotes for the first quarter...
Tuesday 11 January 2011
IC distributor WPG 4Q10 revenues miss forecast
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...
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Fierce optical drive price competition to pose pressure on makers in 1Q11
Taiwan-based optical drive makers are expected to continue to face pressure in the first quarter of 2011 despite market watchers giving an optimistic forecast that optical drive and...
Thursday 30 December 2010
Simplo expects production at new plants to start in August 2011
Chairman of notebook battery maker Simplo Technology, Sung Fu-Hsin, at a forum in China, has said labor shortages in 2011 are expected to be very serious, but Simplo's new plant in...
Thursday 16 December 2010
Rising Taiwan exchange rate to pose significant risk for IT industry in 2011, says Wistron chairman
Wistron chairman Simon Lin, at TecMall Forum in Taiwan, pointed out that the notebook manufacturing industry will continue to face rising labor and material costs in 2011, but these...
Wednesday 15 December 2010
TSMC takes strengthening NT dollar into consideration for 2011 quotes
With the NT dollar continuing to strengthen against the US dollar, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has taken currency fluctuations into consideration when negotiating...
Wednesday 15 December 2010
IC packaging houses see little impact from strong NT dollar in 4Q10, less certain about 1Q11
The NT dollar began to strengthen against the US dollar at the end of the third quarter of 2010, and on December 14, the US dollar-to-NT dollar exchange rate temporarily fell below...
Wednesday 15 December 2010
Siward increases stake in optical light filter subsidiary
Quartz component maker Siward Crystal Technology has raised its stake in China-based optical light filter company Apex Optech to 69%, according to Siward.
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Taiwan battery makers see mixed November
Taiwan-based battery module makers Simplo Technology, Dynapack International Technology and Celxpert Energy have posted mixed results for their November 2010 revenues.
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Keyboard maker Darfon sees decline in November
Taiwan-based notebook keyboard maker Darfon Electronics has announced consolidated revenues of NT$2.17 billion (US$71.9 million) for November, down 6.59% on month and 16.93% on year...
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