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Friday 20 March 2009
AUO is optimistic for 2009 outlook
LJ Chen, president and CEO of AU Optronics (AUO), has struck an optimistic note about the LCD panel market in 2009, saying the industry does not need to be pessimistic because of...
Thursday 19 March 2009
TSMC and UMC see rising orders for AMD GPUs for 2Q09, says paper
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have landed combined orders of 30,000 wafers (12-inch equivalent) for new AMD graphics...
Thursday 19 March 2009
Driver IC packaging firms see capacity utilization improve on China demand
Driver IC packaging and testing companies Chipbond Technology, International Semiconductor Technology (IST) and King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) have seen their recently capacity...
Thursday 19 March 2009
LED chipmakers have better order visbility and utilization rates
Taiwan LED chipmakers Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy, and Opto Tech have all reported sequential increases in their February revenues, with their order visibility and utilization rates...
Thursday 19 March 2009
Career shipping FPCBs to smartphone client in North America
Taiwan-based flexible handset PCB maker Career Technology will begin shipping flexible PCBs (FPCBs) to a smartphone vendor in the North America market starting this month. Shipments...
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Gold Circuit Electronics runs China PCB facility to nearly full capacity
PCB maker Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) has said that its Changshu plant (Jiangsu Province, China) is running at almost full utilization, thanks to rising shipments for netbooks...
Tuesday 17 March 2009
First-tier panel makers to see higher-than-expected utilization rates in 1Q09, say sources
The utilization rates at Taiwan's first-tier TFT LCD panel makers, AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), will be higher than what the companies had expected for the...
Monday 16 March 2009
Compal utilization rate expected to reach 90% in 2Q09, says paper
Compal Electronics' utilization rate for notebook manufacturing has a good chance of reaching 90% in the second quarter as current order visibility is clear, according to a Chinese-language...
Friday 13 March 2009
Second-tier foundry VIS lifts guidance for 1Q09
Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), an affiliate of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has revised its first-quarter guidance thanks to rush orders, according...
Friday 13 March 2009
TSMC and UMC to see 2Q09 orders grow by double-digits, utilization to rise
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) are expected to receive a substantial number of new orders for the second quarter of...
Tuesday 10 March 2009
TSMC and UMC utilization climbing on rush orders
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) both have seen utilization rates grow to 50-60% at some of their fabs, sources at the...
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Innolux 5G utilization rate up to 80-90%
Taiwan-based LCD panel and system maker Innolux Display has indicated that the utilization rate at its 5G production line has returned to 80-90% from 50-60% at the end of 2008 due...
Monday 9 March 2009
Notebook PCB makers see increased utilization rate and sales in February thanks to strong netbook demand
Demand for notebook PCBs has been gaining momentum, especially for netbooks PCBs, thanks to rush orders and inventory buildup from customers. Taiwan's leading notebook PCB makers...
Thursday 5 March 2009
IC backend suppliers see utilization recovering on white-box handset demand
IC packaging houses Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), and testing specialists Sigurd Microelectronics and King Yuan Electronics...
Wednesday 4 March 2009
IC backend suppliers see sales rebound on resumed orders
IC substrate makers Phoenix Precision Technology (PPT) and Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), and packaging house Greatek Electronics are all seeing improved utilization rates thanks...
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