246 news items tagged KYEC
KYEC to raise capex to expand IC testing capacity in 2021
Thursday 24 December 2020Testing house King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) is expected to budget a higher capex for 2021 than NT$8.5 billion (US$301.8 million) in 2020 to meet robust testing orders for 5G chips...
Taiwan backend houses see surging CIS orders from OmniVision
Friday 6 November 2020Taiwan's backend houses including Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Xintec have seen orders from China-based CMOS image sensor (CIS) vendor OmniVision...
Taiwan backend houses enjoy strong pull-in of orders from China
Monday 28 September 2020Taiwan-based backend houses have seen orders pull in since early second half of 2020 for chips including base station chips, handset application processors and server-use solutions...
Keystone, KYEC enjoy revenue growth in August
Monday 7 September 2020IC test interface specialist Keystone Microtech has reported consolidated revenues surged 17.6% sequentially and 61.6% on year to a record high of NT$118 million (US$4 million) in...
Taiwan backend houses cautious about 4Q20
Monday 31 August 2020Taiwan backend houses are cautious about business prospects for the fourth quarter of the year thanks to upcoming disruptions in MediaTek shipments to China's Huawei under the latest...
KYEC, Sigurd to boost capacity support for MediaTek orders
Thursday 27 August 2020Testing houses King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics will substantially scale up their capacities for MediaTek orders in September and October, while being aware...
IC testers KYEC, Sigurd gearing up for robust MediaTek demand
Tuesday 11 August 2020IC testing houses King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics are both gearing up to satisfy robust demand for MediaTek's chips in the fourth quarter of 2020 following...
Backend demand for consumer logic chips picking up
Tuesday 11 August 2020Taiwan-based IC backend houses including ASE Technology and Powertech Technology (PTI) have seen orders placed by game console and other consumer electronics vendors ramp up since...
Taiwan OSAT providers expect Intel to step up outsourcing
Tuesday 28 July 2020Intel is expected to step up its outsourcing of chips and processors, particularly GPUs and IoT chips, for years to come, according to sources at Taiwan-based outsourced assembly...
MediaTek backend partners to see clear order visibility till 1Q21
Wednesday 15 July 2020MediaTek's backend partners in Taiwan including ASE Technology, King Yuan Electronics and Sigurd Microelectronics will see clear order visibility stretching to at least the first...
CIS backend firms tap deeper into auto field with On-Semi, Sony
Tuesday 14 July 2020With major CMOS image sensor (CIS) vendors including On Semiconductor and Sony set to put increased focus on automotive applications, Taiwan-based backend houses including Tong Hsing...
Taiwan IC testing houses poised for strong 3Q20
Wednesday 8 July 2020Taiwan's IC testing houses Ardentec, King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics are expected to see their production lines run at high capacity in the third quarter...
High-res CIS demand promising
Monday 8 June 2020The market for high-resolution CMOS image sensors is set to boom starting later in 2020, thanks to a rise in the popularity of high-spec smartphones and other mobile devices, according...
Taiwan IC testing houses see RF chips orders spike from IDMs
Tuesday 2 June 2020Taiwan-based IC testing houses including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), Sigurd Microelectronics and Ardentec have seen orders for RF chips ramp up recently from Taiwanese IC designers...
Taiwan IC backend firms gearing up shipments for new iPhone SE
Friday 17 April 2020Taiwan's IC backend service suppliers are benefitting from Apple's recent release of its second-generation 4.7-inch iPhone SE, ramping up their capacity utilization rates and revenues...
HiSilicon to ramp up 5nm chip orders with backend houses in 3Q20
Tuesday 14 April 2020Taiwan-based backend houses including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) will see orders for HiSilicon's 5nm chips for 5G base stations ramp up substantially in the third quarter of 2020...
KYEC posts record profit for 2019 on 5G infrastructure demand
Monday 16 March 2020Taiwan-based King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), dedicated to IC testing services, has reported that its net profit for 2019 shot up 69.4% on year to a record high of NT$3.04 billion (US$100.81...
Taiwan backend houses brace for coronavirus impact
Friday 31 January 2020Taiwan-based backend houses including ASE, KYEC and SPIL have instructed their employees not to make non-essential business travels to China, as part of their precautions to mitigate...
KYEC starting 2020 with robust test orders for 5G, AI, CIS chips
Friday 3 January 2020Taiwan-based testing house King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) is expected to see its first-quarter 2020 revenues hit the highest record ever for the same quarter with monthly revenues to...
TSMC, KYEC reportedly grab orders for automotive AI chips from Intel
Friday 3 January 2020Foundry house TSMC and testing house KYEC have both obtained orders for automotive AI chips from Intel, with the orders set to generate revenues starting the second half of 2020,...
MediaTek intros new-gen 5G SoC
Wednesday 27 November 2019MediaTek held a press conference on November 26 to introduce the new generation of its 5G SoC chips, with guests including TSMC VP Lora Ho, a number of high-ranking executives from...
Taiwan backend firms expanding testing capacities for 5G chipsets
Wednesday 6 November 2019Taiwan's backend specialists ASE Technology, Powertech Technology (PTI), King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics are all moving to ready additional capacities to...
IC backend service providers gearing up for AiP packaging
Wednesday 2 October 2019TSMC and other major Taiwanese IC backend service providers including ASE Technology and Powertech Technology (PTI) are ready to offer, or have exerted efforts to develop, AiP (antenna-in-package)...
PTI to invest US$200 million to expand high-end testing capacity
Wednesday 25 September 2019Backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) plans to invest up to US$200 million to expand production capacity for high-end logic chips at its Suzhou (China) plant, according to market...
Taiwan backend firms eyeing stable demand for new iPhones
Thursday 12 September 2019Taiwan-based backend houses including KYEC and Chipbond expect to see stable growth in demand for baseband chips and LCD driver ICs for Apple iPhone.