Last update: Thursday 18 October 2012 [21 news items]
Capacity utilization rates at Taiwan-invested PCB plants in Thailand not high enough
Oct 18, 13:52
Although most subsidiaries of Taiwan-based PCB makers in Thailand have completely restored facilities damaged by the floods in 2011, capacity utilization rates at the factories are...
APCB expects sequentially flat revenues in 4Q12
Oct 15, 19:46
Taiwan-based PCB maker APCB expects its consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 to remain unchanged on quarter, according to the company.
PCB makers TPT, APCB entering iPad mini supply chain, say sources
Sep 18, 14:58
PCB makers Taiwan PCB Techvest (TPT) and Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) have reportedly entered into the supply chain of the much speculated iPad mini, with TPT offering main...
APCB expects Thai flood losses of US$16 million
Jan 20, 01:10
Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) has estimated that its production subsidiary in Ayutthaya, northwest Thailand, will post losses of THB493 million (US$15.6 million) related to...
APCB, Chin-Poon to resume operations in Thailand
Dec 20, 15:27
Taiwan-based PCB makers Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) and Chin-Poon Industrial have both said that operations in Thailand, which have been halted since October due to flooding...
Fire breaks out at NPC PCB plant
Oct 17, 15:21
A fire broke out at one of Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board's (NPC) factories in Kunshan, China, in the early hours of October 15. The fire was extinguished quickly with no major damage...
Taiwan PCB makers say Thailand factories unaffected by floods
Oct 12, 16:34
Taiwan-based PCB makers Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) and Chin-Poon Industrial have noted that factories in Thailand continue normal operations and have not been impacted...
PCB maker APCB looks to 5-10% sequential revenue growth for 3Q11
Jul 18, 17:07
PCB maker Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) expects its revenues to continue to grow 5-10% sequentially in the third quarter of 2011 after its revenues gained 27% on quarter to...
APCB seeing strong demand from CMOS product line
Jun 1, 13:58
Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB), which mainly supplies PCBs for notebook peripheral, LCD TV and LED lighting applications, has seen shipments of its packaging boards for CMOS...
APCB sees sequential drops in November, December sales
Nov 30, 02:00
Taiwan-based Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB), which mainly supplies PCBs for notebook peripheral, LCD TV and LED light applications, expects to report on-month consolidated...
PCB maker APCB sees modest revenue growth in 3Q10
Aug 18, 16:11
Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB), which mainly supplies PCBs for notebook peripheral, LCD TV and LED light applications, expects consolidated revenues for the third quarter of...
PCB maker APCB to take up Thailand-based CKL Electronics
Jul 22, 12:35
PCB maker Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) has announced that it plans to take over Thailand-based PCB maker CKL Electronics for US$6.76 million in order to expand its capacity...
PCB maker APCB expects revenues to stay flat in 1Q10
Feb 26, 15:33
APCB expects its consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2010 to be on par with the level recorded in the fourth quarter of 2009 when revenues hit NT$1.403 billion (US$43.72...
APCB expects 30% growth in 2010 on PCB demand from notebook segment
Jan 18, 16:26
Advence Printed Circuit Board (APCB) expects to see 30% on-year revenue growth at both of its Taiwan and China plants in 2010 on demand for notebook related PCBs, according to the...
PCB capacity to be tighter in 4Q09
Sep 11, 15:59
Taiwan-based PCB makers are seeing tight capacity mainly due to increasing demand for notebook and optoelectronics boards, and the situation is expected to become even more serious...
PCB maker APCB sees substantial profit growth in 2Q09 with increasing orders in LED and CMOS sectors
Aug 28, 16:07
Advence Printed Circuit Board (APCB) saw its second-quarter net profit grow eightfold sequentially driven by recovering demand for niche LED packaging boards and CMOS substrates....
Market watchers estimate profit growth for PCB makers
Jul 22, 15:20
Market watchers have estimated PCB makers HannStar Board and Advence Printed Circuit Board (APCB) enjoyed significant profit growth in the second quarter, whereas Unimicron Technology...
PCB maker APCB expects 8-10% revenue growth in 3Q09
Jul 20, 15:27
Advence Printed Circuit Board (APCB) expects revenues from its plants in Taiwan and China to both grow 8-10% in third-quarter 2009 mainly due to increasing demand for PCBs used in...
APCB sees growing CMOS product sales
Jun 12, 12:21
Taiwan-based PCB maker APCB has seen growing sales generated from its CMOS packaging board line on increased demand for CMOS sensors used in netbook webcams and games consoles, according...
APCB sees LED packaging board orders reach peak-season levels
May 26, 15:05
Taiwan-based PCB maker APCB has indicated that demand for LED packaging boards has been surging since April, with orders reaching peak-season levels because of growing adoption of...
APCB supplying small PCBs for CULV notebooks
May 25, 11:26
Advence Printed Circuit Board (APCB) has received small traditional PCB orders for CULV notebooks. APCB began volume shipments in April, with Wistron one of its major customers, said...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
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Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...
Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- 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...
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 tablet market
Digitimes Research remains conservative about the prospects for the period, with half-year shipments projected to reach 49.18 million units and whole-year shipments being revised downward to 88.69 million units.
- Trends in the China video market
In addition to strong potential video content demand in China, the market has developed rapidly due to government intervention and delays in establishing copyright protections.
- 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.