Taiwan-based Formosa Epitaxy has received LED chip orders from LG Display (LGD) for TV backlighting, according to industry sources.

Network equipment maker Cameo Communications expects its shipments of broadband products, including ADSL CPE, cable, WLAN and VoIP products, to top three million units in 2009 compared...

The US, not China, will lead the semiconductor industry out of recession, according to a recent report released by The Information Network.

Worldwide sales of semiconductors were US$14.7 billion in March 2009, a gain of 3.3% from the prior month when sales were US$14.2 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry...

Wistron forecasts its notebook shipments for the second quarter of 2009 to grow 10-15% sequentially to 5.8-6.1 million units, up from 5.3 million units in the first quarter, according...

Corning chairman and CEO Wendell P Weeks has described 2008 as a year with a "split personality," as he recalled how the company was heading towards record-breaking performance...

As consumers' disposable incomes dwindle, they are flocking to buy low-cost netbook PCs, driving global shipments up by 68.5% in 2009 and by a 2,424% in 2008, according to iSuppli.

Barry Lam, Chairman of Quanta has commented that netbooks will continue to see the fastest growth among all types of notebooks in 2009 and beyond.

Network equipment maker D-Link plans to shift its focus to the development of 3G related devices such as network data cards, and other products supporting EV-DO and WCDMA technologies,...

STATS ChipPAC has posted its second straight quarterly loss in the first quarter of 2009, joining fellow packaging and testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). Its...

Shipments of mini-notebooks (netbooks) in Asia-Pacific will reach four million units in 2009, growing by a robust 82% over 2008, according to Gartner. Growth will stabilize at 20%...

Taiwan-based Inventec has landed several CULV-based ultra-thin notebooks orders from Acer including 13.3-inch models, which will start shipping in May-June this year, 15.6-inch models,...

Chimei, a brand operated by Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), shipped 42,000 LCD TVs to the Taiwan market in the first quarter of 2009, up 30% on year, according to Cheng Liang-Bin,...

Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) remained the biggest LCD TV panel supplier to China vendors in the first quarter, with one third of its total TV panels shipped to the China market,...

FC Tseng, vice chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Tuesday said that the decline in the global semiconductor market this year is expected to narrow to 20%,...