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Wednesday 21 March 2018
China Big Fund unlikely to invest in SAS
Rumors have claimed China's Big Fund is looking to invest in Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) in order to secure wafer supply, but sources close to the semiconductor...
Tuesday 20 March 2018
IC distributor Supreme Electronics upbeat about 2018 revenues
Taiwan-based Supreme Electronics, which mainly distributes memory products and display panels for Samsung Electronics, expects its revenues to pick up steadily starting in the second...
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Touch panel maker Higgstec reports earnings for 2017
Industrial-control touch panel maker Higgstec has reported net profits of NT$94.2 million (US$3.23 million) or NT$2.69 per share on revenues of NT$1.25 billion in 2017.
Tuesday 20 March 2018
ODMs mulling price hike, says Compal president
Computing device ODMs are in talks with their customers about raising their contract quotes to reflect rising materials costs, according to Compal Electronics president Ray Chen.
Tuesday 20 March 2018
TSMC to enter 7nm chip shipments for new Xilinx ACAP in 2019
Xilinx has introduced a new product category called adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) - a highly integrated multi-core heterogeneous compute platform - for big data and...
Tuesday 20 March 2018
COF demand to receive boost in 2H18, says JMC
Chip-on-film (COF) packaging demand will start to grow substantially in the second half of 2018, driven by the arrival of new smartphones featuring an edge-to-edge display, according...
Monday 19 March 2018
AI, 5G may drive global IC revenues to US$500 billion, says SEMI president
After soaring 22.3% on year to hit a 7-year annual high of US$420 billion in 2017, the global semiconductor revenues will enter a new round of growth mainly driven by AI and 5G technologies...
Monday 19 March 2018
Powerchip posts profit growth for 2017
Foundry chipmaker Powerchip Technology has reported net profits climbed 23% on year to NT$8.08 billion (US$276.8 million) in 2017, with EPS reaching NT$3.54. The year also marked...
Monday 19 March 2018
Phison posts record profit for 2017
NAND flash device controller IC supplier Phison Electronics has reported net profits of NT$5.82 billion (US$199.2 million) for 2017 hitting a record high. EPS for the year reached...
Friday 16 March 2018
3S expects revenues and gross margin to fall in 1Q18
Solid State System (3S) expects to post sequential decreases in revenues and gross margin for the first quarter of 2018, due to a seasonal slowdown in orders for NAND flash device...
Friday 16 March 2018
Catcher to buy stake in Career Tech
Metal-alloy chassis maker Catcher Technology has announced plans to subscribe to new shares of PCB firm Career Technology for NT$38 (US$1.30) each or a total of about NT$1.13 billi...
Friday 16 March 2018
IC Insights raises 2018 chip market growth forecast
IC Insights has raised its IC market growth forecast for 2018 to 15% from 8% estimated previously. The revision was made due to higher-than-expected output value of the DRAM segmen...
Friday 16 March 2018
IC distributors seeing upbeat demand for niche-market apps
Robust demand for niche-market ICs particularly high-speed transmission chips and FPGAs will be driving related IC distributors' revenue growth in 2018, according to industry sourc...
Thursday 15 March 2018
ASMedia posts record profit for 2017
ASMedia Technology has decided to distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$6 (US$0.21) for 2017 when it reported record net profits of NT$432 million, according to the company's...
Thursday 15 March 2018
IC designer Weltrend to enforce 20% capital reduction in June
Taiwan-based IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor has announced a plan to trim its paid-in capital by 20% or NT$445 million (US$15.225 million) from its current level of NT$2.226...