Global chip sales up 14% on year in January, says SIA

Mar 8, 11:13

Worldwide semiconductor sales for January 2011 were US$25.5 billion, a gain of 1.5% from the prior month when sales were US$25.2 billion, according to SIA. Sales on an annual basis...

Passive component maker Thinking posts over 30% drop in February sales

Mar 4, 01:15

Taiwan-based passive component maker Thinking Electronic Industrial has announced consolidated revenues of NT$238 million (US$8 million) for February 2011, down 35.8% sequentially...

Transcend looks to industrial memory products for growth

Feb 14, 11:27

Memory module maker Transcend Information expects its industrial-use flash modules, memory cards and solid-state drives (SSD) to account for 30% of its total revenues in 2011, compared...

Wah Hong post record high revenues for January

Feb 9, 01:05

Optical film maker Wah Hong Industrial has announced consolidated revenues of NT$875 million (US$30.26 million) for January 2011, up 2.7% sequentially and 17.84% on year, a record...

AOpen, WinMate see significant growth in 2010 revenues

Jan 12, 16:35

AOpen saw its 2010 revenues of NT$2.39 billion (US$74.6 million) rise 15.81% from 2009 mainly due to booming shipments of digital signage products, while industrial PC touch panel...

Taiwan upstream supply chain to benefit from increasing Canon DSLR orders

Jan 11, 02:10

Taiwan-based glass lens maker Kinko Optical, benefiting from increasing Canon DSLR camera orders, is expected to see its glass lens shipments in 2011 increasing 16.45% on year to...

Wah Hong posts almost 5% growth in December revenues

Jan 7, 01:35

Optical film maker Wah Hong Industrial has posted consolidated revenues of NT$854 million (US$29.19 million) for December, up 4.81% sequentially and 28.18% on year.

Software designers partner with Taiwan IPC players to enter China market

Jan 4, 02:05

Several US-based software designers such as SCALA, BroadSign and Omnivex are cooperating with Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) players to enter China's digital signage and security...

Apacer diversifying away from standard memory modules

Dec 28, 15:42

Apacer Technology expects to see more growth from what the company calls the "value-added" business in 2011. Its standard memory module business, which consists of DRAM...

IC distributor Promate conservative about 2011

Dec 28, 02:00

IC distributor Promate Electronics expects orders from the European and the US industrial PC (IPC) and LED lighting sectors to be the main profit growth driver in 2011. However, due...

Taiwan market: Netbook price dropping to a new low

Dec 28, 01:30

Strong tablet PC demand continues to impact netbook market and several brand vendors in Taiwan have dropped their netbook price further to attract consumers.

Taiwan November industrial production index hits record

Dec 24, 01:15

Taiwan recorded an industrial production (manufacturing, quarry & mining, construction, electricity/gas/water supply industries) index of 130.34 for November, the highest figure...

Chin-Poon sees automobile PCB as growth driver for 2011

Dec 17, 01:00

Taiwan-based PCB manufacturer Chin-Poon Industrial expects products used in car-use electronics to account for 50% of its overall revenues in 2011, followed by those for communication...

Wah Hong to increase investment in Jun Hong for capacity expansion

Dec 15, 02:00

The board of directors of Taiwan-based optical film maker Wah Hong Industrial has approved plans to invest NT$123 million (US$4.1 million) in Jun Hong Optronics, a joint venture between...

WPG seeing orders rebound, expects 4Q10 sales to meet guidance

Dec 3, 01:15

WPG has seen customers work down their inventory much faster than anticipated, according to the IC distributor, adding that sales along with those from recently-acquired Yosun Industrial...

SSD supplier InnoDisk gains order for POS computers

Nov 30, 01:30

Taiwan-based InnoDisk, which in-house develops and produces flash storage devices for industrial applications and embedded systems, has cut into the supply chain of Toshiba's POS...

ChangChun PetroChemical develops cholesteric liquid for display products with ITRI

Nov 24, 01:15

ChangChun PetroChemical has entered the display business in cooperation with the Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to develop cholesteric...

Taiwan October industrial production index up on month

Nov 24, 01:00

Taiwan recorded an industrial production (manufacturing, quarry and mining, construction, electricity/gas/water supply industries) index of 126.37 for October 2010, increasing 2.1%...

Taiwan passive component makers gear up to cultivate car electronics market

Nov 18, 11:14

Chip resistor suppliers Yageo and Walsin Technology, and protective component makers Thinking Electronic Industrial and Polytronics Technology have all geared up to enhance their...

WPG completes merger with Yosun

Nov 16, 01:45

IC distributor WPG has officially merged with Yosun Industrial on November 15 and has begun operations on a paid-in capital of NT$14.53 billion (US$480 million). After the merger,...

Fiber glass fabric maker Baotek sees price competition erode 3Q10 profits

Nov 2, 10:49

Baotek Industrial Materials, which makes fiber glass yarn and fabrics for PCB bonding sheets and laminates, has disclosed its third-quarter net profits were almost halved from the...

WPG to see 6-10% growth in 4Q10 sales

Oct 29, 01:55

IC distributor WPG Holdings expects fourth-quarter 2010 consolidated revenues to be between NT$71 billion (US$2.3 billion) and NT$74 billion, up 6-10% on quarter and hitting a company...

Taiwan September industrial production index down on month

Oct 26, 11:04

Taiwan recorded industrial production (manufacturing, quarry & mining, construction, electricity/gas/water supply industries) index of 123.79 for September 2010, decreasing by...

Nanya PCB to get more FC substrate backend orders from Intel on better yields

Oct 21, 01:10

Nanya PCB (NPC) is actively improving its production yield rates for CPU-use flip-chip (FC) substrate packaging in order to gain a larger share of orders from Intel, according to...

ASE core ATM business posts 7% growth in 3Q10 sales

Oct 7, 02:00

Chip packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) saw sales of its ATM (assembly test and material) division grow 7.3% sequentially to NT$34.02 billion (US$1.1 billion) in the...

IC distributor Weikeng expects revenues to grow 5-10% in 3Q10

Oct 1, 11:21

Weikeng Industrial, which distributes semiconductors and other electronic components for brands such as Spansion, AMD, Hitachi GST, Lattice Semiconductor and Cypress, expects its...

Cost gap between 3D and 2D LED TVs at US$150

Sep 28, 01:15

The cost gap between 46-inch and 55-inch 3D and 2D LED TVs is at US$150, according to Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), adding that the difference is still too great...

Taiwan August industrial production index down slightly on month

Sep 24, 01:10

Taiwan recorded an industrial production (manufacturing, quarry & mining, construction, electricity/gas/water supply industries) index of 128.22 for August 2010, decreasing 0.5%...

Lanner announces embedded system with 6 Gigabit Ethernet ports for vision control applications

Sep 23, 14:28

Lanner Electronics has released the LEC-2026, an embedded system with a specialized focus on network capabilities. The LEC-2026 is driven by the N270 Intel Atom CPU and the Intel...

Acer releases shareholding in Yosun

Sep 21, 01:45

Acer has announced, on September 20, it will release its shareholding in Yosun Industrial and the sale will generate a profit of NT$217 million (US$6.86 million) in the company's...

Protective component makers Thinking and Mag.Layers see declines in August revenues

Sep 8, 15:31

Protective component maker Thinking Electronic Industrial has reported consolidated revenues of NT$392 million (US$12.26 million) for August, down 5.9% sequentially due to declining...

Wah Hong monthly revenues exceed NT$900 million in August

Sep 7, 15:19

Optical film maker Wah Hong Industrial has posted consolidated revenues of NT$903 million (US$28.32 million) for August 2010, increasing 3.77% sequentially and 36.33% on year.

IC material distributor Niching sees sequential revenue growth in 2H10

Aug 31, 14:05

IC material distributor Niching Industrial has remarked that its revenue outlook for the second half of 2010 remains positive, buoyed by new orders from the memory sector and growing...

Taiwan industrial production index hits record in July

Aug 24, 10:09

Taiwan recorded industrial production index of 128.62 for July 2010, hitting a record for the fifth consecutive month, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic...

Advantech posts net profit for 2Q10

Aug 20, 15:29

Industrial PC maker Advantech has posted net profits of NT$938 million (US$29.41 million) for second-quarter 2010. Consolidated revenues for the quarter totaled NT$5.96 billion. For...