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Wednesday 21 April 2010
Hotron Precision monitor cable shipments reach global share of 50% in 2009, says president
Hotron Precision Electrical Industrial shipped 84-85 million PC connector cables for LCD monitors, mostly to Taiwan-based makers Innolux Display and Qisda, in 2009, equivalent to...
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Elpida returns to profits in fiscal 2009
Elpida Memory has announced preliminary consolidated financial results for its fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. The memory chipmaker estimated net income of two billion yen (US$21.5...
Tuesday 20 April 2010
SMA wins PV inverter race in 2009, but loses ground in 4Q09, says IMS Research
The PV inverter market raced out of 2009, with record shipments of more than 8GW, 30% more than 2008, according to IMS Research. Demand rebounded strongly in the third quarter after...
Tuesday 20 April 2010
China market: Foxconn sees lower labor costs in 2009, says paper
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) had 118,700 employees in China at the end of 2009, up 9.7% from 108,200 in 2008; however, the company's total labor costs dropped...
Monday 19 April 2010
PC growth passes 24% 1Q10, says IDC
The worldwide PC market grew 24.2% in the first quarter of 2010 compared to one year ago, when the market declined by almost 7% – the lowest growth since 2001, according to...
Monday 19 April 2010
Zyxel, Cameo post mixed 2009 results
Zyxel Communications and Cameo Communications, two Taiwan-based network equipment makers, on April 16 published their audited 2009 financial reports, posting a net loss per share...
Friday 16 April 2010
Packaging material supplier Chang Wah to hand out NT$6 cash dividends for 2009
Packaging material and equipment supplier Chang Wah Electromaterials (CWE) has decided to deal out dividends of NT$6 in cash for 2009, based on the pre-tax profits of NT$564 million...
Wednesday 14 April 2010
E-paper shipments up 417% on year in 2009, says DisplaySearch
Shipments of e-paper increased to five million units in 2009, up 417% on year from 950,000 units in 2008, mainly due to the popularity of e-book readers, particularly Amazon's Kindle,...
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Taiwan market: APBT turns profitable in 2009
Asia Pacific Broadband Telecom (APBT), the only 3G mobile telecom carrier adopting CDMA2000 in Taiwan, saw its 2009 operation swing to net operating profit of NT$1.6 billion (US$48.8...
Tuesday 13 April 2010
PSC sees 1Q10 profits up 121% on quarter
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has announced net profits of NT$3.54 billion (US$112 million) for the first quarter of 2010, up 121% from NT$1.6 billion posted in the fourth...
Tuesday 13 April 2010
CPT to reduce capital by about 60%
The board of directors of Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) has decided to reduce the company's capital by NT$100 billion (US$3.17 billion), or 60.6%, to NT$65 billion from the present...
Monday 12 April 2010
Chip equipment spending down 46% in 2009, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled US$16.6 billion in 2009, a 45.8% decline from 2008, according to Gartner. In major segments, wafer fab equipment dropped...
Friday 9 April 2010
Taiwan market: Asustek ranks top in enterprise desktop market in 2009
Asustek Computer ranked top in Taiwan's enterprise desktop market in 2009 with a 27% market share, mainly due to significant orders from government and enterprise projects, according...
Friday 9 April 2010
Acer 1Q10 operating margin to be higher than 2009 average, says chairman
Acer expects its operating margin for the first quarter of 2010 to be higher than 2.67%, the average in 2009, despite recent increases in DRAM prices and appreciation of the NT dollar,...
Friday 9 April 2010
Altek to deal out 2009 dividend of NT$3 per share
Digital camera ODM Altek, will distribute a dividend per share of NT$3 (US$0.095), NT$2.8 in cash and NT$0.2 in stock, for its 2009 operations, according a decision made by its board...