Taiwan-based Taiflex Scientific has announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2018 and the whole year 2018. The company saw its 2018 consolidated revenues drop from a...

IC design house Novatek Microelectronics expects to post revenues of between NT$14.6 billion (US$473 million) and NT$15 billion in the first quarter...

NAND flash prices will continue falling in the second half of 2019, but the pace will be more moderate, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO of Silicon Motion Technology.

Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects to post a revenue decrease of 8-13% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, citing inventory adjustments...

ASE Technology Holding expects revenues to drop in the first quarter of 2019, due to inventory correction at customers engaged in the handset- and communication-related IC sector...

MediaTek expects to post a revenue decline of 12-20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, and flat or slight revenue growth in all of the year.

As TSMC will surely take time digesting its iPhone AP inventory amid lingering lackluster sales of Apple's smartphones, most Taiwan IC designers are worried their gross margins in...

Micro-Star International (MSI) shipped a total of 1.2 million gaming notebooks in 2018, fending off the competitions from Asustek Computer with devices from its gaming sub-brands...

EMS provider Lite-On Technology, conservatively optimistic outlook about 2019 business, expects gross margin to improve to over 14.5% this year, with net operating profit to grow...

Taiwan-based power diode makers including Lite-On Semiconductor, Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSC), Panjit International, Eris Technology and HY Electronic will see their sales performance...

MediaTek has reported November consolidated revenues fell 10.4% sequentially to a nine-month low of NT$18.67 billion (US$604.2 million). Consolidated sales for the first 11 months...

Mosel Vitelic, a pure-play foundry specializing in power semiconductors and analog chips, has disclosed plans to raise NT$861 millon (US$27.9 million) in capital through issuing new...

Order visibility for the pure-play IC foundry sector for the first half of 2019 appears to be low. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started negotiating with its...

Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) swung to net profits of NT$256 million (US$8.3 million) in the third quarter of 2018 from losses a year ago, thanks to rising fab utilization rates...

Formosa Sumco Technology (FST), a Taiwan-based manufacturer of 8- and 12-inch semiconductor silicon wafers, is expected to continue running at full capacity in the first quarter of...

As worldwide smartphone vendors are expected to further lower prices for new models to stimulate replacement demand in 2019, global chipmakers including Qualcomm, MediaTek and UNISOC...

Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) saw its gross margin climb to a seven-quarter high of 16.72% in the third quarter of 2018, while net profits surged 10.2% sequentially to NT$237...

Memory-IC backend specialist Walton Advanced Engineering has announced net profits fell 92.6% sequentially and 93.5% on year to NT$16 million (US$0.52 million) in the third quarter...

PCB and IC substrate supplier Unimicron Technology swung to net profits of NT$982 million (US$31.8 million) in the third quarter of 2018 from losses in the prior quarter and a year...

ODM Quanta Computer saw its operating profits surge 83% sequentially to NT$4.426 billion (US$142.81 million) in the third quarter, driven by robust shipments of servers and high-end...

IC design house ALi, which specializes in set-top box (STB) chipset solutions, has reported an 11th consecutive quarterly loss in the third quarter of 2018 in which net losses came...

Lite-On Semiconductor has reported net profits of NT$335 million (US$10.8 million) for the third quarter of 2018, up 63% sequentially and 25% on year. EPS for the quarter came to...

IC distributor WT Microelectronics has reported net profits of NT$990 million (US$32.3 million) for the third quarter of 2018, up 59% sequentially and 29% on year, and hitting a record...

Battery maker Simplo Technology has reported improved earnings and gross margin for the third quarter of 2018, buoyed by optimized product mix and expanding business scale.

China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue decline of 7-9% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2018, with gross margin...