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Wednesday 2 May 2018
Taiwan makers enjoy stable consumer MCU orders from IDMs
With major international IDMs including STMicroelectronics failing to ease the prolonged lead time for MCU shipments, Taiwan-based MCU makers will continue to benefit from the ensuing...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Gigabyte may ship less than 10 million motherboards in 2018
Taiwan-based Gigabyte Technology may see its motherboard shipments fall under 10 million units in 2018, halved from a peak of 20 million in 2013, due partly to abrupt shrinkage in...
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Apple reports record revenues for fiscal 2Q18
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal second-quarter 2018 (ended March 31, 2018), posting quarterly revenues of US$61.1 billion, an increase of 16% from the year-ago...
Monday 30 April 2018
Global tablet shipments to hit new quarterly low of 31.06 million units in 2Q18
Global shipments of tablets hit a new quarterly low of 33 million units in the first quarter of 2017, falling 28.2% sequentially and 14.9% on year, due partly to insufficient stimulation...
Monday 30 April 2018
ASE 2Q18 revenues to surge 6-9% on brisk demand for HPC chips, car electronics
Taiwan's leading IC backend house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) expects its revenues for the second quarter of 2018 to grow 6-9% sequentially and on year on strong market...
Monday 30 April 2018
Apple to defer new MacBook Air production to 2H18
Apple will defer the volume production of its new budget-type MacBook Air for 2018 to the second half of the year from the originally-scheduled second quarter, supply chain sources...
Monday 30 April 2018
Taiwan LCD TV shipments to grow 5% in 2Q18, estimates Digitimes Research
Shipments of LCD TVs by Taiwan's makers are expected to expand 5.15% on quarter to 6.94 million units in the second quarter of 2018 after they suffered the largest-ever sequential...
Monday 30 April 2018
Chin-Poon PCB plant fire to affect 15% of revenues
Taiwan-based PCB maker Chin-Poon Industrial, which has more than 70% of its revenues from the auto industry, has estimated that losses resulting from a deadly fire at its production...
Friday 27 April 2018
MLCC shortatges disrupting downstream production and shipments
Channel distributors of MLCCs are increasingly plagued by the growing supply shortfall of the passive component, as they can hardly find new supply sources to meet customer demand,...
Friday 27 April 2018
LG enhancing prowess in household appliance market
LG Electronics is sharpening its competitiveness in the white household appliance market by deepening the integration of AI-enabled and other smart applications with hardware products,...
Friday 27 April 2018
AUO reports better-than-expected profits for 1Q18
AU Optronics (AUO) has reported higher-than-expected net profit of NT$4.31 billion (US$145.2 million) for the first quarter of 2018, up 2.7% from a quarter earlier but down 54.5%...
Thursday 26 April 2018
Notebook vendors boosting SSD adoption for new models
Downward movement of prices for solid state drives (SSDs) and growing requirement for higher storage capacities have prompted notebook vendors such as HP and Dell to boost the adoption...
Thursday 26 April 2018
IC test, analysis players to gain from thriving IoT sector
Thanks to the booming development of IoT (Internet of Things) devices and applications, Taiwan-based specialists in semiconductor materials analysis, IC test and verification services,...
Thursday 26 April 2018
MLS enters automotive lighting market via Taiwan subsidiary
The largest China-based LED packaging service provider MLS has entered the LED automotive lighting market segment through its Taiwan subsidiary, MLS Taiwan.
Wednesday 25 April 2018
TeraPower expecting car-use chip probing orders from Japan IDMs
TeraPower Technology, a re-invested chip probing affiliate of Taiwan's memory backend service specialist Powertech Technology (PTI), is actively tapping into the automotive electronics...