Taiwan-based Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) on April 14 announced plans to create two independent companies by spinning off its semiconductor wafer and LED sapphire substrate...
Two Taiwan-based sapphire substrate makers Crystal Applied Technology and Tera Xtal Technology plan to deal out handsome dividends for their performance in 2010, according to a Chinese-language...
Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) saw monthly sales of its patterned sapphire substrates exceed NT$100 mbillion (US$3.5 million) for the first time in March 2011, according to...
Major producers of bismaleimide-triazine (BT) resin, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC) and Hitachi Chemical, are recovering faster than expected from the suspension of operations caused...
Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has estimated that sales of its patterned sapphire substrates will top NT$2 billion (US$68 million) in 2011, and growth in the high-margin product...
The supply of sapphire substrates will not be affected by the Japan earthquake as the facilities of the top-2 Japan-based makers - Kyocera and Namiki - were not damaged by the quake,...
Taiwan-based LED heat sink substrate makers Tong Hsing Electronic Industries and Viking Tech both plan to ramp up their capacities to accommodate rising demand coming from the LED...
Corning Display Technologies Taiwan (CDTT) president Alan Eusden has indicated that glass substrate demand growth for the mobile PC segment will reach 18% in 2010-2014, exceeding...
Wafer Works Optronics, a sapphire substrate subsidiary of silicon wafer maker Wafer Works, saw its revenues surge 123% sequentially to a record high of NT$73.1 million (US$2.5 million...
Pricing for sapphire substrates has stopped increasing and is showing a gradual decrease due to dropping demand and seasonality. Current prices for 2-inch sapphire substrates have...
Ceramic substrate supplier Leatec Fine Ceramic plans to increase chip-resistor substrate prices with current capacity full, order visibility reaching the end of the second quarter...
Tong Hsing Electronic Industries is expected to enjoy profit growth of 57% in 2011, thanks to rising sales of its high-margin ceramic substrate product line, according to a Chinese-language...
Chip-resistor substrates are expected to see constrained supply later in 2011 due to rising demand combined with a lack of capacity ramps by producers, according to industry sources...
Quartz crystal component maker TXC has acquired 10 sets of equipment for slicing monocrystalline sapphire ingots and will begin production soon, with monthly shipments expected to...
Prices of sapphire substrates are expected to drop 10-15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2011, an increase from a previous 5-10% quarterly decrease in 2010, but the decrease...
