Last update: Friday 21 September 2012 [49 news items]
China Mobile 1H12 revenues up 6.6% on year
Aug 17, 13:50
China Mobile, a TD-SCDMA mobile telecom carrier in China, on August 16 released its financial report for the first half of 2012, with operating revenues of CNY266.530 billion (US$42.19...
Raydium posts EPS over NT$5 for 1H12
Newswatch - Aug 17, 11:00
LCD driver IC vendor Raydium Semiconductor has reported net profits of NT$370 million (US$12.33 million) on revenues of NT$5.05 billion for the first half of 2012.
Tripod posts 1H12 net EPS of NT$3.10
Stockwatch - Aug 16, 12:13
Tripod Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of TFT-LCD PCBs, on August 15 released its financial report for the first half of 2012, recording net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$3.10.
TSMC to allocate US$2.4 billion to grow advanced technology capacity
Aug 15, 10:18
The board of directors of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on August 14 approved capital appropriations totaling about US$2.41 billion for expanding and upgrading...
Giga Solar reports 1H12 gross margin of 31%
Aug 15, 01:30
Solar cell conductive paste maker Giga Solar has reported first-half 2012 financial results with net profits of NT$421 million (US$14 million) and gross margin at 31%. The firm's...
Alpha Networks posts 1H12 net EPS of NT$0.78
Aug 14, 11:56
Alpha Networks, a Taiwan-based maker of networking/communication devices, has reported consolidated revenues of NT$13.16 billion (US$446 million), net profit of NT$398 million and...
TCL Communication sees 1H12 revenues up, profit down
Aug 13, 15:08
TCL Communication Technology Holdings, a China-based maker of handsets and networking/communication terminal devices for sale under own brands TCL and Alcatel One Touch, has reported...
Acter reports profit and revenue drops in 1H12
Aug 13, 14:54
Cleanroom and turn-key equipment supplier Acter has reported decreases of 3% and 10%, respectively, in consolidated revenues and net profits for the first half of 2012. Gross margin...
Adlink posts 1H12 net EPS of NT$0.68
Aug 10, 15:50
Industrial PC maker Adlink Technology recorded consolidated revenues of NT$2.776 billion (US$94.1 million), net profits of NT$107 million and net EPS of NT$0.68 for the first half...
China rolls out 535 million handsets in 1H12, says report
Aug 10, 11:25
China produced 535 million handsets in the first half of 2012, increasing 5.5% on year. 457 million units or 85.4% of the total were exported, rising 17.7% on year, according to China-based...
Motech reports 1H12 net loss of NT$3.2 billion due to suspension of AEP
Aug 7, 15:07
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Motech has announced first-half 2012 financial results. Revenues from operations in Taiwan reached NT$5.915 billion (US$197.6 million) but net losses...

Shanghai Unitech swings to profits in 1H12
Aug 3, 01:25
Shanghai Unitech Electronics, a PCB-making subsidiary of Taiwan-based Unitech Printed Circuit Board, has said it managed to return to profitability in the first half of 2012 with...
IC distributors Promate, Weikeng post mixed earnings results for 1H12
Aug 2, 01:30
IC distributors Promate Electronic and Weikeng Industrial have posted mixed results for the first half of 2012, with the former seeing its pre-tax profits increase 33.5% to NT$271...
Asia Tech Image nets NT$2.15 per share for 1H12
Stockwatch - Aug 1, 11:44
Asia Tech Image, a Taiwan-based maker of contact image senor modules mainly for MFPs (multi-function peripherals), recorded net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$2.15 for the first half...
- LED business revenues to exceed NT$20 billion in 2013, says Lite-On Group chairman
- Pegatron expects 10% growth in 2Q13 shipments
- Windows RT facing pressure from being isolated
- Winbond, Macronix shipping NOR flash chips for Xbox One and PS4
- Taiwan market: HTC launches HTC Butterfly S and HTC Desire 600
- Formosa Epitaxy may see 3Q13 revenues grow 20-30% sequentially, says company chairman
- Digitimes Research: TSMC expanding in China
- Lite-On Technology to deal out 2012 cash dividend of NT$2.35
- Innolux not to be largely affected by subsidies ending in China, says company president
- Genius Electronic to expand lens capacity by 60%
- AUO likely to turn around performance in 2013, says company chairman
- DRAM market grows up, IHS finds
- Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
- Winbond looks to rising SDRAM prices in 2H13
- Large-size panel shipments grow 4% in May, says WitsView
- Blue filter glass in short supply due to white-box smartphone demand
- Emerging solar market growth dominates Solar Taiwan 2013 forum
- Accton obtains ODM orders with shipments scheduled until October
- Samsung sales of midrange large-size smartphones to affect China-based brands
- Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
- China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- IC distributor WPG to see quarterly revenues exceed NT$100 billion in 2Q13
- Taiwan market: ViewSonic to launch Full HD projectors by end of 2013
- IDC lowers forecast growth for monitors while average screen size increases
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- Chilisin eyes strong prospect of tablet market, expects strong growth
- PowerByProxi aims to cooperate with Taiwan makers to explore wireless power market
- AZZURRO demonstrates high-yield production for GaN-on-Si voltage wafers
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- Japan exports rise by most since 2010 (June 19) - BBC News
- 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
- 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

Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...

Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...

Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...

Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 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 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.
- 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.

















