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Monday 22 November 2010
Taiwan testing firms turn focus to outsourcing orders from IDMs
Taiwan's King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC), Sigurd Microelectronics and Ardentec are expected to focus on gaining more outsourcing from international IDMs in 2011, according to...
Friday 17 September 2010
TSMC to benefit most from IDM outsourcing, says Digitimes Research
With its lead in advanced process capacity, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to be the largest beneficiary of increased outsourcing by IDMs, Nobunaga Chai,...
Thursday 19 August 2010
Orders from China and Japan trigger growth for TSMC, UMC
With more IDMs in Japan going fabless, and development of China's IC design industry rising toward maturity, industry watchers expect both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Tuesday 13 July 2010
Foundry quotes for mature processes rise 10-15%, says paper
Taiwan-based analog IC designers including Richtek Technology, Global Mixed-code Technology (GMT), Anpec Technology and Leadtrend Technology are willing to accept higher quotes in...
Wednesday 12 May 2010
Foundry revenues to grow 40% in 2010, says iSuppli
After a year that was decidedly skewed by macroeconomic forces impacting the entire electronics value chain, pure-play foundry suppliers will see revenues jump by 39.5% this year....
Friday 7 May 2010
TSMC, UMC seeing growing demand from IDMs
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have both revealed that demand from their IDM customers is growing.
Tuesday 20 April 2010
TSMC mulling plans to buy equipment from Japan IDM, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to strike a deal with a Japan-based IDM company, under which the foundry would acquire production equipment from the IDM and...
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Chip industry profitability hits decade high, says iSuppli
Overall semiconductor supplier operating profitability rose to 21.4% in the fourth quarter of 2009, the highest level since fourth-quarter 2000 when it reached 24.7%, according to...
Thursday 28 January 2010
Survey highlights more IC suppliers consider switch to copper wire, says SEMI
An increasing number of fabless chip companies and IDMs are considering copper wire for some new products, though a number of issues exist regarding this transition, according to SEMI...
Wednesday 6 January 2010
Lite-On Semi reports on-year revenue decline in 2009
Taiwan-based IDM Lite-On Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$804 million (US$25.23 million) for December 2009 and NT$8.67 billion for the year. Despite a 27% on-year...
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Foundry sales to increase nearly twice as fast as total IC industry, says IC Insights
Foundry IC sales will grow at nearly twice the rate of the overall IC industry over the next five years, according to IC Insights, adding that both pure-play and IDM foundry sales...
Thursday 8 October 2009
ASE 3Q09 gross margin expected to grow on more IDM outsourcing
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) is estimated to see its gross margin climb 3.3pp sequentially to 25% in the third quarter of 2009, in line with better revenue growth, according...
Tuesday 29 September 2009
IC testing house Sigurd signs new customer; EPS to grow in 2010
Sigurd Microelectronics has obtained orders for testing ICs used in consumer electronics, handsets and PCs from a US-based IDM, becoming the vendor's sole testing partner in Taiwan,...
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Chipbond August 2009 revenues hit high
Driver IC packaging and testing firm Chipbond Technology saw its monthly revenues hit a record of NT$640 million (US$19.5 million) in August, representing a 52.5% increase from NT$420...
Wednesday 2 September 2009
MEMS IDMs pressured by low-priced China electronic sensors
China's white-box handset makers have turned to use electronic sensors made by local companies instead of first-tier IDMs' MEMS sensors for their new products due to cost concern although...