Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have both revealed that demand from their IDM customers is growing.
The top ten contract manufacturers of cell-phones will experience a difficult 2010 following a year that upended their longstanding business models and dealt them unprecedented losses,...
A-Data Technology has reached a long-term supply contract with an unspecified upstream vendor, under which it would pay a certain amount in advance for DRAM chips. The contract will...
Elpida Memory is expected to outsource a total of 140,000 wafers a month to subsidiary Rexchip Electronics, Winbond Electronics and ProMOS Technologies at the end of 2010, a 40% rise...
Taiwan Mobile, a Taiwan-based 3G service provider, will launch on February 24 an own-brand Android-powered smartphone rolled out by Quanta Computer, according to a Chinese-language...
Asustek Computer recently decided to slow down its outsourcing expansion plans and has already switched some of its orders from Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) back...
Taiwan-based LCD TV makers are expected to account for a large portion of the OEM orders from Sony as the vendor plans to increase its outsource volume, especially Sony's three existing...
Fujitsu expects to increase its notebook outsourcing to Taiwan makers from 30% originally, to 50% of the company's total shipments in 2010, according to sources from Fujitsu.
Fei-Jain Wu, chairman of driver-IC backend house Chipbond Technology, has predicted that demand for wafer probe testing will exceed supply in March 2010. Wu also believes a similar...
Memory module maker Kingston Technology has moved to quash recent rumors that suggested the company is looking to acquire its outsourcing partners Panram International and Orient...
Pegatron Technology recently paid visits to first-tier notebook makers Acer and Dell, as well as first-tier motherboard makers Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI)...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to no longer add new capacity for wafer testing, and increase its outsourcing to backend partners Ardentec and STATS ChipPAC...
Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) acquisition of Dell's PC plant in Poland is unlikely to help boost its notebook shipments significantly in the short term since...
Kingston Technology will increase its supply of DRAM modules and NAND flash devices through outsourced production to Taiwan-based Panram International and Orient Semiconductor Electronics...
Taiwan panel makers are expected to see more outsourcing orders from Samsung Electronics if the US justice department finds that Samsung violated patent rights belonging to Sharp,...
