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Thursday 31 January 2019
ASE expects revenues to drop in 1Q19
ASE Technology Holding expects revenues to drop in the first quarter of 2019, due to inventory correction at customers engaged in the handset- and communication-related IC sector...
Tuesday 11 December 2018
Backend houses see orders from MediaTek slow down
Taiwan-based backend firms have seen orders from MediaTek fall around 10% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2018, but expect them to start rebounding in January with substantial...
Monday 12 November 2018
ASE Technology October revenues slip
ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), has reported October consolidated...
Friday 9 November 2018
Yageo steps up investment in Taiwan
Yageo has acquired about 21,000 square meters of land in Southern Taiwan for NT$790 million (US$25.7 million) in cash, according to the passive component vendor. The land will provide...
Thursday 4 October 2018
Foxconn extending smart city deployment to Wisconsin
As part of the efforts to transform itself into a tech service group from an EMS provider, Foxconn has been actively proceeding with deployments in smart city and smart residential...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Pan International sees passive component shortages ease
Pan International, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, expects sales from its electronic manufacturing service (EMS) business to pick up in the second half of 2018 as the tight supply...
Monday 10 September 2018
Taiwan startup FootPrintKu unveils AI-based EDA cloud platform
Taiwan tech startup FootPrintKu (FPK) has newly released an AI-based EDA cloud management platform seeking to build universal standard design specs for electronics parts by leveraging...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
USI to buy stake in Poland-based subsidiary of Chung Hong
EMS firm Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a member of Taiwan's ASE group, has disclosed plans to acquire a 60% stake in the Poland-based subsidiary of Chung Hong Electronics...
Tuesday 14 August 2018
Foxconn 2Q18 revenues reach new historical high, but net profits plunge to 5-year low
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$1.07 trillion (US$34.43 billion) for the second quarter of 2018, rising 4.95% sequentially...
Friday 10 August 2018
ASE posts 5.5% revenue growth in July
ASE Technology Holding, a Taiwan-based provider of IC assembly and test services, has reported consolidated revenues for July 2018 increased 5.5% sequentially to NT$32.74 billion...
Monday 30 July 2018
ASE Industrial likely to post 20% revenue growth in 3Q18
ASE Industrial holding, the parent company of IC backend houses Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), is expected to report revenue...
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Foxconn revenues grow over 20% on year in June
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has registered consolidated revenues of NT$389.89 billion (US$12.69 billion) for June with growths of 12.32% on month and 23.71% on...
Monday 9 July 2018
Farewell to low-price business model: Q&A with Lelon president Wu Chih-min
A continued rally in MLCC prices has been pushing up prices for other passive components including capacitors, which Lelon Electronics specializes in. For Lelon president Wu Chih-min,...
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Foxconn making deployments in diverse IoT application fields
Zeroing in on multiple business opportunities associated with IoT (Internet of Things) applications, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is quietly proceeding with deployments...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
EMS firms see profits eroded by ever-rising passive component costs
Taiwan EMS firms, especially smaller ones, are seeing their profitability increasingly eroded as their downstream customers are reluctant to absorb increases in production cost driven...