WPG Holdings has announced consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 met its guidance for a 6-10% sequential drop. Looking into the first quarter of 2012, the IC distributor...
IC design house MediaTek expects its consolidated revenues to decrease 10-15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012 with gross margin slipping to 42-44% from 44.2% in the fourth...
Taiwan-based fabless IC firms have recently landed an influx of short lead-time orders from clients that had been keeping inventory lean due to the uncertain market outlook, according...
Motherboard vendors including Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, in response to increases in the international price of copper and labor costs in China, are expected to hike...
Demand for 2.5G and 2.75G handset solutions is falling in China due to growth in the penetration rates for 3G and smartphones in the region, according to sources at white-box handset...
Taiwan-based LED chipmakers Genesis Photonics and Formosa Epitaxy indicate that capacity utilization rates in first-quarter 2012 should be able to reach around 70-80%. In addition,...
Wistron is expected to see its LCD TV shipments slide by 40% sequentially to 1.2 million units in the first quarter of 2012 as rival Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry)...
Sales at MediaTek are expected to register a sequential decline of more than 10% in the first quarter of 2012, due mainly to falling sales generated from its 2.5G and 2.75G chip lineup...
Acer chairman JT Wang, at the company's Lunar New Year ceremony, pointed out that the company has a very high chance to earn profits in the first quarter of 2012 after a series of...
ODM orders for Kindle Fire tablet PCs are expected to be cut by half to three million units in the first quarter of 2012, down from about six million units shipped in the last quarter...
Revenues at semiconductor packaging and testing houses will likely register a 5-10% sequential decrease in the first quarter of 2012, affected by fewer working days, according to...
The Taipei Computer Association (TCA) in December 2011 conducted a survey of Taiwan-based IT supply chain makers to attend the 2012 Computex about their general confidence for the...
Chang Wah Electromaterials, which distributes packaging materials and equipment for the semiconductor and LCD industries, expects orders for COF (chip-on-film) packaging materials...
Taiwan-based IC substrate maker Kinsus Interconnect Technology reported 2011 total revenues of NT$16.871 billion (US$563 million), up 15.05% on year. Kinsus' fourth-quarter 2011 revenues...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported NT$134.2 billion (US$4.58 billion) in net profits for 2011, down 17.1% on year but staying at a high level as compared...
