United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has been working closely with customers, including FPGA specialist Xilinx, to volume produce 45/40nm products at its 300mm (12-inch) fabs,...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) has announced an upward revision of its revenue guidance for the second quarter of 2009 thanks to robust demand in the...

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) shipped around 1.6 million notebooks in the first half of 2009 and expects annual shipments to reach four million units, down from its previous forecast...

AMD has set an internal guidance to gain back a 15% share of the global notebook market, according to sources at notebook vendors.

WT Microelectronics, Yosun Industrial and WPG Holdings still expect to achieve 10-20% sequential revenue growth in the second quarter despite lower-than-expected May revenues. Several...

MediaTek is expected to introduce a lineup of new chip solutions for WCDMA handsets and digital still cameras (DSCs) soon, with volume production slated for the latter half of 2009,...

WPG Holdings expects to see revenues for second-quarter 2009 exceed its guidance, mainly thanks to contributions from emerging markets. The IC distributor earlier estimated revenues...

Gigabyte Technology recently began to include its DualBIOS technology on all its motherboard products.

MediaTek said it currently has no plan to revise its revenue guidance for the second quarter, despite a positive outlook given by market watchers. The handset chipmaker earlier projected...

Compal Electronics president Ray Chen has said the company will not change its guidance of a 15-20% sequential increase in notebook shipments for second-quarter 2009, despite component...

Gigabyte Technology expects to ship more notebooks in 2009 than its guidance of 500,000 units, according to a Chinese-language Economical Daily News (EDN) report citing sources...

Networking IC design houses Realtek Semiconductor and Ralink Technology are expected to upward adjust their second-quarter guidance due to strong demand for WLAN chips, according...

Compal Electronics expects its second-quarter notebook shipments to grow 15-20% to 7.2-7.5 million units from 6.3 million units shipped in the first quarter, company president Ray...

Packaging and testing houses Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) saw sales continue improving in April, with narrower revenue drops...

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...