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Friday 6 May 2016
Global Unichip net profits rise over 40% in 1Q16
IC design services provider Global Unichip has reported net profit of NT$159 million (US$4.9 million) for the first quarter of 2016, up 43.6% from a year earlier. EPS for the quarter...
Thursday 5 May 2016
PCB firm Apex reports increased April revenues
PCB maker Apex International has reported revenues of NT$693 million (US$21.4 million) for April 2016, up 9.4% on month and 9.4% on year. Revenues totaled NT$2.53 billion for the...
Thursday 5 May 2016
TPK Holding revenues decrease in April
TPK Holding has reported consolidated revenues of NT$5.672 billion (US$175.25 million) for April 2016, representing a 17.88% drop on month and 27.48% drop on year.
Thursday 5 May 2016
Realtek Semiconductor reports increased revenues for April
Realtek Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.477 billion (US$107.43 million) for April 2016, representing a 1.03% increase on month and 31.27% increase on year.
Thursday 5 May 2016
CMOS image sensors expected to set record-high sales for another 5 years, says IC Insights
CMOS image sensors are in the middle of an unprecedented string of record-high annual sales thanks to the rapid spread of embedded digital-imaging technology into a wide range of...
Thursday 5 May 2016
Maturing smartphone market signals falling growth for wireless semiconductors, IHS says
Revenues associated with the wireless competitive landscape continued to serve as a bright spot in the larger semiconductor market in 2015, growing almost 4% on year to over US$56...
Wednesday 4 May 2016
FocalTech looks to double-digit shipment growth in 2Q16
FocalTech Systems, which designs and develops touchscreen and LCD driver IC solutions for smartphones and other mobile devices, expects to post a double-digit sequential increase...
Tuesday 3 May 2016
Global semiconductor sales increase slightly in March, says SIA
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has announced worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$26.1 billion for the month of March 2016, a slight increase of 0.3% compared...
Tuesday 3 May 2016
China smartphone vendors ramping chip orders, sources say
China-based smartphone vendors including Huawei, Xiaomi and TCL have stepped up their pace of placing chip orders in the second quarter of 2016, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 3 May 2016
Apple increases chip orders for iPhone SE in 2Q16
Apple has increased orders for its low-priced iPhone SE in the second quarter of 2016, according to industry sources. The second-quarter outlook for related chip orders has been revised...
Tuesday 3 May 2016
MediaTek looks to higher revenues but lower gross margin in 2Q16
MediaTek expects to post revenue growth of 24-32% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016. However, gross margin for the quarter is likely to fall further, according to the smartphone-chip...
Friday 29 April 2016
MediaTek posts lower revenues and gross margin for 1Q16
MediaTek has reported gross margin for the first quarter of 2016 fell further to 38.1% while consolidated revenues decreased 9.4% sequentially to NT$55.91 billion (US$1.73 billion)...
Thursday 28 April 2016
Silicon Motion posts record revenues and profits for 1Q16
Silicon Motion Technology has announced net income (non-GAAP) of US$24.3 illion or US$0.68 per diluted ADS on net sales of US$112.7 million for the first quarter of 2016. The results...
Wednesday 27 April 2016
Apple drives entire foundry sales increase at TSMC in 2015 says IC Insights
IC Insights has released its 2015 top IC foundries (pure-play and IDM) ranking. TSMC, by far, was the leader with US$26.4 billion in sales last year.
Wednesday 27 April 2016
Global LCD TV panel capacity in 2Q16 to grow 8.8%, says Sigmaintell
Global production capacity for LCD TV panels in the second quarter of 2016 will reach 42.6 million square meters, increasing 8.8% on quarter, according to China-based Sigmaintell...