IC design service provider Faraday Technology expects its revenues to increase more than 35% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012, thanks to new orders for embedded MMC (eMMC)...
In another sign of the growing prominence of mobile platforms like smartphones, handheld gaming devices and tablets, revenues in the first quarter for mobile DRAM exceeded the US$2...
Japan's Elpida Memory has reported net losses of JPY7.9 billion (US$102 million) on revenues of JPY95.7 billion for its fiscal first quarter ended ended June 30, 2011. Losses showed...
Protective component maker Polytronics Technology has posted pre-tax profits of NT$247 million (US$8.54 million) in the first half of 2011, an increase of 20.4% from a year earlier...
In the Taiwan market, shipments of external storage devices reached a total volume of 15,925TB (terabytes) and a total value of US$32.55 million in the first quarter of 2011, dropping...
Despite a design problem that forced a large-scale chipset recall, Intel in the first quarter managed to pad its dominant position in the global microprocessor business, according...
A total of 18,039 servers were shipped to the Taiwan market in first-quarter 2011, dropping 19.7% sequentially but rising 11.2% on year, according to IDC Asia/Pacific.
White-box tablet PC players are rising quickly in the tablet PC industry with related shipments already accounting for close to 20% of global tablet PC shipments in the first quarter...
There were 262 million active handset-based mobile instant messenger (IM) accounts in the China market at the end of the first quarter of 2011, rising 8.78% on quarter, according...
There were 2.13 million handsets sold in the Taiwan market during the first quarter of 2011, 940,000 or 44.1% of which were smartphones, according to industry sources.
SEMI has reported that worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached US$12 billion in the first quarter of 2011. The billings figure is 1% higher than that in the...
Global shipments of LCD TVs were 44.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 9% from the same period in 2010, according to DisplaySearch. On-year growth slowed...
Taiwan's consumption of all types of energy in the first quarter of 2011 stood at 29.96 million kiloliter oil equivalent (KLOE), growing by 4.28% on year, according to the Bureau...
Normally a cause for concern, excess inventory actually served as a boon for the global semiconductor industry in the first quarter of 2011 alleviating the severity of component shortages...
Global DRAM revenues during the first three months of 2011 amounted to US$8.3 billion, lower than the US$9 billion anticipated, according to IHS iSuppli. The first-quarter total represented...
