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Friday 9 January 2026
Walsin subsidiary Joyin raises prices on thermistors and varistors as silver cost surges
Taiwan's passive component industry is experiencing another round of price increases. Joyin, a circuit protection components brand under Walsin Technology, has issued price increase...
Thursday 8 January 2026
AI helps offset year-end seasonal factors; Yageo's 4Q25 revenue hits record high
Taiwan-based passive components giant Yageo announced its preliminary consolidated revenue for December 2025, which showed both year-over-year and month-over-month growth, setting...
Thursday 8 January 2026
Yageo subsidiary Pulse takes the lead in raising ferrite bead prices as silver price surges
Taiwan-based passive component giant Yageo continues to be affected by and respond to price hikes. Following Kemet's two price increases for tantalum capacitors within six months...
Monday 5 January 2026
Inpaq CEO Pei-Jen Chen launches resource realignment plan
Inpaq Technology, a passive components maker under the Walsin Technology Group, has launched an internal resource realignment plan. Newly appointed CEO and president Pei-Jen Chen...
Friday 2 January 2026
Yageo adopts co-COO structure to support global expansion
Yageo, a leading Taiwanese passive components manufacturer, announced a major executive reshuffle, naming current chief financial officer (CFO) Eddie Chen and senior executive vice...
Tuesday 23 December 2025
Chinese chip resistor makers cut production to address oversupply; Taiwan firms remain cautious
Chinese chip resistor manufacturers have cut production by 10-60% amid oversupply, but major firms haven't, limiting recovery. Taiwanese firms expect improvements by late 2026.
Monday 22 December 2025
Protection component prices stabilize: Thinking Electronic pins 2026 growth on AI

Record-high precious metal prices upstream are tightening cost pressure across the passive components industry, but the impact on protection...

Thursday 18 December 2025
Leatec faces resistor substrate price war, pivots to automotive and semiconductor applications

Leatec Fine Ceramics, an upstream supplier of ceramic materials for passive components, held an in-person investor conference on December...

Wednesday 17 December 2025
Viking raises thin-film inductor prices by 10-40% in 1Q26 amid surge in metal cost and network demand
Viking Tech, a leading automotive-grade thin-film resistor manufacturer, announced it will increase prices for its thin-film inductors by 10% to 40% starting in the first quarter...
Friday 12 December 2025
AI server demand propels MLCCs into strategic role in passive components market
As the demand for cloud artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure rapidly grows, multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) have emerged as one of the top cost contributors in AI server...
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Yageo posts record November revenue on strong AI demand, Shibaura acquisition gains

Yageo reported year-over-year and month-over-month revenue growth for November 2025, driven by the acquisition benefits from Japan-based...

Tuesday 9 December 2025
Silver shockwaves push tech suppliers to renegotiate and retrench

Since the start of 2025, silver prices have nearly doubled, far outpacing the roughly 30% rise in copper and the 60% climb in gold. The...

Saturday 29 November 2025
Taiwan left out of supercapacitors while AI server capacitor boom builds
As the surge in AI compute drives a shift in data-center power design, backup battery units (BBUs) have secured adoption from at least three cloud service providers, boosting their...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
ASUS IoT AISEHS raises intelligent security standards, helping semiconductor industry move from passive to active protection

The semiconductor sector demands stringent security and cybersecurity standards; any lapse may compromise brand reputation and operational integrity. Conventional surveillance...

Thursday 20 November 2025
China's top passive-component maker ignites 30% price surge
Price hikes are spreading across the passive component sector again. Following increases by several Taiwan-based suppliers, Guangdong Fenghua Advanced Technology (Fenghua Hi-Tech)...