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Wednesday 26 August 2009
FPCB maker Career swings to profit in 2Q09
Flexible PCB (FPCB) maker Career Technology posted a net profit of NT$20.14 million (US$611,790) for the second quarter of 2009, compared to a loss of NT$16.60 million for the same...
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Inventec sees 2Q09 profits shrinking on quarter
Notebook ODM Inventec has published its first-half 2009 financial report, with net profits of NT$936 million (US$28.5 million) for the second quarter dipping 33.7% from the first...
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Walsin turns profitable in 2Q09; utilization rebounds
Passive component maker Walsin Technology Corporation (WTC) swung back to profitability in the second quarter with revenues of NT$3.83 billion (US$116.17 million), up 38% sequentially,...
Monday 24 August 2009
Feature phones comprise overwhelming majority of handset sales in 2Q09, says NPD Group
According to The NPD Group, feature phones still rule the market, even as smartphone sales continue to increase their share of overall handset sales. Unit-sales of new feature phones...
Monday 24 August 2009
DSC maker Asia Optical posts loss of over NT$400 million for 1H09
Taiwan-based Asia Optical, which makes optical lens kits and digital cameras, has posted consolidated net loss of NT$401.1 million (US$12.2 million), or a net loss of NT$1.58 per...
Monday 24 August 2009
Taiwan economy improves in 2Q09, says government
Taiwan's GDP slipped by 7.54% on year in the second quarter of 2009, less than the decrease of 10.13% for the first quarter, according to statistics released by the government Directorate...
Friday 21 August 2009
BLU maker Radiant posts profits for 1H09
Taiwan-based backlight unit (BLU) maker Radiant Opto-Electronics has reported net profits of NT$236 million (US$7.15 million) for the second quarter of 2009, bringing the total net...
Friday 21 August 2009
ChipMOS sees improved 2Q09 on sales from LCD business
ChipMOS Technologies has announced its net loss on a US GAAP basis narrowed to NT$1.21 billion (US$36.9 million) in the second quarter of 2009, compared to a loss of NT$1.98 billion...
Thursday 20 August 2009
Overall PC market in Canada sluggish in 2Q09, says IDC
The overall client PC market (including desktop and portable PCs, but excluding x86 servers) in Canada performed very close to forecast, with shipments in the second quarter down...
Thursday 20 August 2009
LCD panel component makers Forhouse and Wah Hong post profits for 1H09
LCD panel component makers Forhouse and Wah Hong Industrial both swing back to profitability in the second quarter of 2009, more than offsetting their losses posted in the first quarter,...
Thursday 20 August 2009
POS maker Flytech profit up over 34% in 1H09
Flytech Technology, a Taiwan-based maker of POS (point of sale/service), on August 19 released its financial report for the second quarter and the first half of 2009, with January-June...
Thursday 20 August 2009
PV market shows signs of rebound in 2Q09, says IMS Research
Shipments of solar power (PV) equipment grew by 81% in the second quarter of 2009 from the first, according to IMS Research, indicating the worst of the industry's downturn may now...
Thursday 20 August 2009
Global LCD TV shipments rise 27% on year in 2Q09, says DisplaySearch
Global TV revenues fell 12% on year to US$23.7 billion while shipments fell 8% on year to 44.6 million units, according to DisplaySearch. Not all technologies fared equally though...
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Delta Electronics sees gross margin up in 2Q09
Taiwan-based Delta Electronics has released its second-quarter 2009 financial report, reporting a sequential rise of 2.7 percentage points in its gross margin to reach 21.2%.
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Taiwan IC foundry production value hikes 91.8% in 2Q09, says IEK
Taiwan's IC-manufacturing production value grew 69.2% on quarter to NT$136.2 billion (US$4.13 billion) in the second quarter of 2009, with the IC foundry service segment up by 91.8%,...