Last update: Monday 20 May 2013 [9323 news items]
ChipMOS capex for 2013 to reach NT$2.5-2.8 billion
3h 23min ago
ChipMOS Technologies, which specializes in assembly and test services for LCD driver ICs and memory chips, expects its capex for 2013 to total NT$2.5-2.8 billion (US$83.6-93.6 million)...
Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
May 17, 16:05
Cleanroom equipment maker Acter has reported net profits of NT$114 million (US$3.82 million) for the first quarter of 2013, decreasing 33.9% from a year earlier. First-quarter EPS...
Demand for small-size panel driver ICs stays strong
May 16, 21:46
Demand for small-size LCD driver ICs has remained strong thanks to brisk smartphone sales in China, which is set to drive revenue growth for related suppliers including design houses,...
ASE to buy Toshiba backend plant in China
May 16, 11:34
IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) announced on May 15 that the company has reached a deal with Toshiba Semiconductor (Wuxi) in China to acquire its chip assembly...
Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
May 15, 14:07
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) both saw their wafer shipments increase sequentially in April 2013, thanks to rising demand for...
Japan chip firms 1Q13 sales suffer double-digit declines
May 15, 12:33
IC Insights has ranked its worldwide top 20 semiconductor (ICs, and optoelectronics, sensors and discrete devices) sales leaders for the first quarter of 2013. Of the top-20 vendors,...
Chipset players queuing up for TSMC production capacity
May 14, 22:16
International and domestic chipset vendors have begun to queue up at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in order to secure production capacity for 40nm, 28nm and more...
Mirle sales affected by slow investments in large-size LCD panel, solar energy sectors
May 13, 16:23
Equipment supplier Mirle Automation has seen its sales continue to be affected by slow investments in large-size LCD panel and solar energy sectors, according to industry sources.
Scientech looks to strong sales of reclaim wafers, semiconductor equipment in 2H13
May 13, 15:30
Semiconductor equipment distributor and wafer reclaim service provider Scientech expects demand for manufacturing equipment from the semiconductor and LED industries to continue to...
MEMC reports 1Q13 net sales down 26% sequentially
May 13, 13:54
US-based polysilicon maker MEMC has reported first-quarter 2013 financial results with net sales of US$443.6 million, down 26% on quarter and 15% on year. The firm reported first-quarter...
Chroma Ate April revenues rise 21% sequentially
May 13, 09:50
Chroma Ate, which provides integrated and customized solutions for test and measurement instruments, has announced April consolidated revenues of NT$845 million (US$28 million), showing...
Chipbond, YoungTek to expand LCD driver IC testing capacity in 2Q13
May 10, 16:03
Taiwan-based IC backend service houses Chipbond Technology and YoungTek Electronics plan to ramp up their testing capacity for LCD driver chips by 20% and 30%, respectively, in the...
TSMC to budget US$1.5 billion for R&D expenditure
May 10, 10:58
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has unveiled plans to invest a record US$1.5 billion on research and development in 2013. The spending remains focused on maintaining...
TSMC reiterates plans for 18-inch wafer manufacturing
May 10, 10:18
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reiterated plans to build its first 450mm (18-inch) pilot production lines, which will offer FinFET transistor technology at...
Top industrial electronics chipmakers suffer declining revenues in 2012, says IHS
May 10, 10:14
The eight leading suppliers of industrial electronics semiconductors suffered revenue declines in 2012, reflecting weak conditions for the beleaguered market, according to IHS iSup...
UMC meets 1Q13 guidance; sees growth in 2Q
May 8, 15:47
Foundry chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its first-quarter results come in line with its guidance, and has given its positive outlook for the second quarter.
SAS to acquire full stake in Sino Solar
May 8, 12:22
Solar wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) on May 7 announced a merger with Sino Solar, its joint venture which makes crystalline silicon solar cells, through the acquisition...
May 8, 11:10
Taiwan recorded total export value of US$25.05 billion for April 2013, decreasing 8% sequentially and 1.9% on year, while the corresponding import value of US$22.77 billion slipped...
Walton generates more revenues from specialty DRAM, says report
Newswatch - May 7, 10:16
Packaging and testing company Walton Advanced Engineering, which long focused on the PC DRAM market, has seen sales generated from the orders for specialty DRAM (SDRAM) chips account...
VIS expects to post 10-13% shipment rise in 2Q13
May 6, 21:55
IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), which specializes in analog/mixed-signal and logic chips, expects to report 11-13% sequential growth in wafer shipments for...
Global chip sales up slightly in 1Q13, says SIA
May 6, 11:31
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has reported that worldwide sales for the first quarter of 2013 were 0.9% higher from those generated a year earlier.
Intel signs another foundry customer
May 6, 11:30
Microsemi has announced it is leveraging Intel's foundry technology for the development of advanced high-performance digital ICs and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions using Intel's 22nm...
Worldwide semiconductor assembly and testing revenues up 2% in 2012, says Gartner
May 3, 15:13
The worldwide semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) market totaled US$24.5 billion in 2012, a 2.1% increase from 2011, according to Gartner.
Chipbond to buy COF substrate supplier
May 2, 22:28
Chipbond Technology has said it will acquire Simpal Electronics, a Taiwan-based COF substrate supplier, through a share swap.
TSMC reportedly to grab 100% of AP orders for 2014 model iPhone
May 2, 21:43
Apple is expected to contract TSMC to manufacture all the application processors (APs) used in the 2014 model of its iPhone slated to launch in the second half of the year, industry...
Spansion to buy Fujitsu MCU and analog unit
May 2, 16:20
Spansion on April 30 announced that the company had reached a deal with Fujitsu Semiconductor, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu, to acquire the microcontroller and analog business...
Supply for high-end IC packaging to fall short in 2H13, says SPIL chair
May 2, 14:49
Supply for high-end IC packaging is likely to fall short of demand during the second half of 2013, according to Bough Lin, chairman for Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL). SPIL...
May 2, 12:16
What would happen if half of all global production for DRAM, two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70% of the world's tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market?...
PTI expects 2Q13 revenues to improve sequentially
May 2, 10:58
Memory IC packaging and testing service provider Powertech Technology (PTI) expects its second-quarter 2013 consolidated revenues to significantly increase on quarter mainly due to...
Samsung making 20nm 4Gb LPDDR3 DRAM for mobile devices
Apr 30, 15:48
Samsung Electronics has announced that it is now producing 4-gigabit (4Gb) low-power DDR3 (LPDDR3) mobile DRAM chips using 20nm-class process technology.
Apr 30, 15:28
Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC), a Taiwan-based supplier of GaAs epi-wafers for fabricating power amplifiers (PA), saw its first-quarter profits soar 94.1% sequentially with...
Equipment supplier Csun expects strong 2Q13
Apr 30, 12:13
A rebound in orders lifted Csun Manufacturing's book-to-bill ratio to 1.52 at the end of the first quarter, indicating that the company's shipments and revenues will grow robustly...
Win Semi expects smartphone PAs to drive revenue growth
Apr 30, 10:34
GaAs device foundry Win Semiconductors has seen demand for smartphone-use power amplifiers (PA) strengthen, and expects the pull-in of orders to buoy its sales performance in 2013.
Taiwan 1Q13 economic growth rate adjusted to 1.54%, says DGBAS
Apr 30, 09:55
Taiwan's economic growth rate, on-year growth in GDP, in the first quarter of 2013 has been downward adjusted from 3.26% estimated in February 2013 to 1.54%, according to estimates...
Infineon, Globalfoundries team on 40nm embedded flash process
Apr 29, 21:58
Infineon Technologies and Globalfoundries have announced a joint technology development and production agreement for 40nm embedded flash (eFlash) process technology.
Nvidia has introduced Tegra 4 for smartphones, tablets, gaming devices, auto infotainment and navigation systems, and PCs. Previously codenamed Wayne, Tegra 4 features 72 custom...
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Computex 2012: ASRock reveals the new Z77 Extreme9 motherboard
The Z77 Extreme9 motherboard combines materials and overclockable configurations. The LED design is clad in air-channeling heatsink and south bridge, delivering heat dissipation...
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Maxim Newport smart meter reference design
The Maxim Newport reference design is a fully running electricity meter. With this reference design Maxim can demonstrate how it can make the core chip, as well as all the chips that...
Photo: Michael McManus, May 10.
Maxim's Chris Neil, senior VP, Industrial and Medical Solutions Group
Security is a pretty serious issue for smart meters, because unlike mechanical meters, smart meters have a relay in them and thus can be turned on and off remotely, whereas an old...
Photo: Michael McManus, May 10.
Ravi Subramanian, CEO of EDA firm Berkeley Design Automation
If you define mixed signal as being where more than 30% of a die is doing analog or RF work, we are seeing a dramatic rise in mixed-signal designs. Over the next year, it has been...
Photo: Michael McManus, May 10.
The next 50 years: Q&A with Rohm CEO Satoshi Sawamura
Rohm Semiconductor is looking to go beyond traditional practices and strategies while insisting on its original purpose "quality first" to provide best products and services,...
Global EDA industry prospering: Q&A with Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics
The global EDA (electronic design automation) market has been growing at a rapid pace since the 2008 financial crisis, sustaining a growth rate higher than the industry's average...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifications for its green buidlings. Digitimes recently sat...
Gearing up for growing MEMS market: Q&A with Multitest VP of sales and marketing James Quinn
MEMS (microelectromechanical system) applications are finding their way into a broader range of devices, with the market expected to grow fast over the next several years, according...
Division of work still common in industry supply chain: Q&A with Simon Segars of ARM
Digitimes recently had the opportunity to talk with Simon Segars, executive VP and GM of ARM's physical IP division, about market trends and development, and how ARM responds...
- Trial production of 5th-generation iPad to begin soon, say Taiwan makers
- Handset vendors in discussion over producing 6-inch and larger phones
- Taiwan component makers conservative about growth in 2H13 notebook shipments
- Taiwan-based analog IC suppliers facing increasing competition from rivals in China
- Commentary: High-end LED lighting in demand
- AUO supply of iPad mini panels in 2Q13 expected to slip sequentially
- More firms provide crystal-less USB 3.0 device controllers
- BLU makers report different results in 1Q13
- ChipMOS capex for 2013 to reach NT$2.5-2.8 billion
- BIOS designers feel the impact from weak PC market
- Apple MacBook orders to rise 20% sequentially in 2Q13
- Capella tops analog IC suppliers with highest EPS in 1Q13
- LED firms to lower prices through improved technology
- Digitimes Research: Europe solar trade tariffs may slow down market growth
- Getac aims at expanding ruggedized PC market share to 30%
- Ruggedized PC vendors eyeing 7- to 8-inch tablet market
- Wintek to reportedly set up joint venture 6G touch panel factory in China with Nanjing Panda Electronics
- China market: Several smartphone components in short supply
- Taiwan LED firms to attend Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2013
- Asia Pacific leads worldwide mobile phone sales growth in 1Q13, says Gartner
- SMA Technology sees 1Q13 revenues fall on year
- SunPower announces fiscal 2013 financial guidance
- LED plant factory market to reach US$1.2 billion in 2013, says PIDA
- Suntech agrees on new forbearance agreement with converible note holders
- Equipment maker Acter sees profits down in 1Q13
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- Advantech Redefines Entry Level Network Application Platforms
- WD shipping world's first 5 mm 2.5-inch hard drive
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- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
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- 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
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
- FBI probes Boston 'terror' blasts (April 16) - BBC News
- China GDP growth slows to 7.7% (April 14) - Wall Street Journal
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
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.
- 4Q12 trends in the Greater China touch panel industry
In the second half of 2012, the market focus is on the iPhone 5, which uses in-cell touch screen technology. Due to the integration of display panels and touch panel functions, the high technological threshold will mean Taiwan touch panel makers are unable to enter the iPhone supply chain.