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NEWS TAGGED 1Q12
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Motherboard vendors adjust shipment forecasts for 1Q12, says paper
Affected by Europe's financial uncertainty and hard drive shortages, motherboard vendors Asustek Computer, ASRock and Gigabyte have all adjusted their motherboard shipment forecasts...
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Taiwan IC designers seeing orders pick up
Customer orders have been perking up recently, according to Taiwan-based IC design houses, adding that the upcoming international IT fairs are also expected to see new orders flow.
Wednesday 22 February 2012
DRAM firms expected to post narrower losses in 1Q12
With DRAM prices stabilizing and starting to rise, chip suppliers that operated in the red in the fourth quarter of 2011 are expected to see their quarterly losses narrow sequentially...
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Compal Communications expects 20% sequential growth in 1Q12 smartphone shipments
Compal Communications, in view of increasing orders for Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) smartphones from Nokia and orders for Android smartphones from Lenovo and Motorola Mobility, expects...
Tuesday 21 February 2012
IC designer Asix to see sales rise over 20% in 1Q12
Network IC design house Asix Electronics is expected to see its first-quarter revenues increase more than 20% sequentially, driven by a ramp-up in orders from the ultrabook sector,...
Tuesday 21 February 2012
VIS sees falling shipments, utilization rate in 1Q12
Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects its wafer shipments to decrease 4-6% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012, with the utilization rate edging lower.
Monday 20 February 2012
Unimicron conservative about 1Q12
Unimicron Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of PCBs and IC substrates, holds a conservative outlook for the first quarter of 2012 due to uncertainty about market demand, cost of materials,...
Monday 20 February 2012
Global tablet PC shipments down 30%, says Digitimes Research
Vendors will ship 14.97 million tablet PCs in the first quarter of 2012, dropping 30.6% on quarter but rising 77.6% on year, according to forecasts by Digitimes Research.
Monday 20 February 2012
Flytech expected to see growing monthly revenues in 1Q12
Flytech Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of POS (point of sale) equipment, had revenues of NT$655 million (US$21.7 million) for the fourth quarter of 2011 decreasing 3.39% on quarter...
Monday 20 February 2012
Faraday expects robust sales in 1Q11
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)...
Friday 17 February 2012
Passive component makers conservative about 1Q12 due to falling revenues
Taiwan-based passive component makers expect low demand to continue throughout the first quarter of 2012, as their clients remain reluctant to replenish inventory, according to company...
Friday 17 February 2012
Walton says 1Q12 revenues to hit bottom
Walton Advanced Engineering expects sales to register sequential growth starting the second quarter after hitting bottom in the first. The memory-IC backend service provider has also...
Thursday 16 February 2012
SPIL chair sees chip market rebound
The global semiconductor market is expected to stage a quick recovery after hitting bottom in the first quarter of 2012, Silicon Precision Industries (SPIL) chairman Bough Lin said...
Wednesday 15 February 2012
ALi expects 9-17% sequential growth in 1Q12 revenue, Himax foresees 5% drop
ALi and Himax Technologies, two Taiwan-based IC design houses, expect revenues for the first quarter of 2012 to increase 9-17% and decrease 5%, respectively, on quarter, according...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Price of small- and medium-size products to fall 20% in 1Q12
The price of small- and medium-size LED products is expected to fall by 20% in first-quarter 2012.