
Taiwan semiconductor equipment industry overview - Aug 2008
Last update: Friday 12 September 2008
Worries about a global economic downturn have taken a toll on a number of industries, with the semiconductor industry being no exception. Players in the semiconductor industry have...
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Table of contentsTable 1: Growth forecast by equipment segment, 2007-2010 (US$ billion)
Table 2: Growth forecast by geographic region, 2007-2010 (US$ billion)
Chart 1: Taiwan demand share for global semiconductor equipment sales, 2006-2010 (US$ billion)
Table 3: Top 10 semiconductor equipment suppliers, 2007 (US$ millions)
Table 5: Centrotherm sales breakdown by region (million euros)

Taiwan motherboard industry overview - Jun 2008
Last update: Wednesday 9 July 2008
Taiwan’s motherboard industry remains dominated by four main players – Asustek Computer, Micro-Star International (MSI), Gigabyte Technology and Elitegroup Computer Systems...
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Table of contentsChart 1: Top-4 motherboard makers total shipments, 2001-2007 (million units)
Chart 2: Top-4 motherboard markers market share by shipments, 2007
Chart 3: Top-4 motherboard markers market share by shipments, 2006
Table 2: Top-4 motherboard makers shipments, 2001-2007 (million units)
Chart 4: Top-4 motherboard makers total monthly shipments, 2004-2007 (million units)
Table 3: Asustek motherboard shipments by month, 2006-2007 (million units)
Table 4: Gigabyte motherboard shipments by month, 2006-2007 (million units)
Table 5: ECS motherboard shipments by month, 2006-2007 (million units)
Table 6: MSI motherboard shipments by month, 2006-2007 (million units)
Chart 5: Top-4 makers monthly motherboard shipments, 2007 (million units)
Table 7: Top-4 motherboard makers annual non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 6: Asustek non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 7: ECS non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 7: MSI non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 9: Gigabyte non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 10: Shuttle non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 11: Biostar non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 12: VIA non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)
Chart 13: Foxconn non-consolidated revenues, 2001-2007 (NT$ million)

Taiwan notebook industry overview - Jun 2008
Last update: Wednesday 9 July 2008
The worldwide notebook market saw total shipments of 101.28 million units in 2007, an increase of 36% compared to the previous year.
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Table of contentsChart 1: Taiwan and worldwide notebook shipments, 2005-2009 (k units)
Chart 2: Taiwan notebook shipment share by maker tier, 2003-2007
Table 1: Taiwan notebook players consolidated revenues in 2007 (NT$ billion)
Table 2: Selected Taiwan notebook makers, 2007 shipments and 2008 forecast (million units)
Table 3: Taiwan ODM notebook shipments by customer, 2006-2007
Chart 3: Taiwan ODM notebook shipment share by customer, 2006-2007
Table 4: Top-3 notebook vendors global and regional shipments, 2006-2007 (million units)

Taiwan handset industry overview - Jun 2008
Last update: Wednesday 9 July 2008
The use of handsets continues to grow around the world, both in mature and emerging markets, as the communication devices become ever more ingrained in people's everyday lives. Global...
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Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
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- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
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- First-tier players may release smartphones that adopt heat pipes by the end of the year
- Chipbond ramping up testing capacity for advanced driver ICs
- Wintek to benefit from Google and Amazon touch panel orders
- CVIA: China to purchase 30 million TV panels from Taiwan makers
- Taiwan makers see booming orders for smartphone tablet accessories
- Taiwan IC design houses reducing exposure in NAND flash controller market
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Kinsus sets 2013 capex at record NT$4.5-5 billion
- Taiwan market: Handset shipments in 1Q13 hit record, says IDC
- Asustek expects 10% sequential drop in 2Q13 notebook and tablet shipments
- Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch VoIP at M+
- Mixed-signal technology to dominate global chipset market: Q&A with Dialog Semiconductor CEO Jalal Bagherli
- Taiwan market: Tablet sales in 2013 to reach nearly 2 million units, says FET executive
- SPIL expanding capacity for high-end ICs
- OLED TVs to be similarly priced as LCD TVs by 2016, say observers
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Epistar to issue 250 million new shares for private placement
- Unity Opto profits double in 2012
- New Csun solar manufacturing facility in Turkey opens door for maker
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- AMD unveils upcoming server strategy and roadmap
- Connector maker UDE to benefit from games console orders
- Digitimes Research: China touch panel makers expand their influence in the market
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- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.

















