A scheduled visit by Yukio Sakamoto, president and CEO of Elpida Memory with officials from Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) this Friday (Nov 21) has sparked market rumors...
ProMOS Technology chairman ML Chen has urged the Taiwan government to throw a lifeline to the DRAM industry to helping it undergo fundamental changes during the current difficultie...
DRAM makers have been cutting back their production since September 2008, and a new round of major reduction in their output is expected to kick off at the beginning of next year,...
Taiwan's major DRAM makers may see their overall net profit margin fall to -72% in 2008, with combined losses of NT$112.5 billion (US$3.42 billion), according to the Industrial Economics...
Taiwan's lawmakers, economic officials and state planners held a meeting on November 10 with the purpose of developing a strategy to save the island's loss-making DRAM industry. However,...
Taiwan DRAM makers are looking for foreign support due to insufficient funds. Elpida Memory has decided to invest NT$3-4 billion (US$9.15-12.2 million), an about 5% stake in Powerchip...
DRAM maker ProMOS Technologies saw its net losses expand by 56.4% sequentially to NT$8.79 billion (US$267.7 million) in the third quarter of this year, the company's highest quarterly...
The latest speculation about Taiwan's DRAM industry is that the Taiwan government may step into the dismal memory industry with an aim to push for a consolidation among the makers...
Taiwan DRAM makers are expected to report vast losses for the third quarter of this year, with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) and Nanya Technology both seeing their losses...
ProMOS Technologies indicated today that since it has already successfully migrated all foundry products, as well as its own proprietary legacy products, from the 8-inch wafer fab...
Market watchers originally expected Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), Nanya Technology and ProMOS Technologies to see on-month revenues drops of around 10% in September,...
While it is true global DRAM makers may be glum about the state of the DRAM industry, the current market situation also represents a time of great opportunity for Taiwan makers to...
Following investigations into the present United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) chairman Stan Hung's investments in ProMOS Technologies, Robert Tsao, honorary chairman of UMC,...
Prosecutors raided the offices of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) on August 27. Industry sources suspect that the raid was part of an investigation into possible violations...
