Taiwan-based graphics card makers including Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and TUL are expected to see their shipments for April plunge over 40% on month, as...

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) recorded slight growth in the first quarter of 2018, with the market growing...

StarVR, a VR device joint venture between Acer and Sweden-based Starbreeze, started trading on Taiwan's emerging stock market on April 23. On the first day of trading, StarVR's share...

SK Hynix has reported operating profits of KRW4.37 trillion (US$4.2 billion) for the first quarter of 2018, up 77% from a year earlier, while consolidated revenues increased 39% on...

Taiwan-based CPU IP provider Andes expects to see shipments of its silicon IP chips hit the 800 million mark in 2018, according to company president Frankwell JM Lin.

The global semiconductor packaging materials market reached US$16.7 billion in 2017, according to a report by SEMI and TechSearch International. While slower growth of smartphones...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have received requests from customers in the cryptocurrency mining sector to defer shipments of mining ASICs amid lackluster replacement demand for mining...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported net profits of NT$89.79 billion (US$3.06 billion) for the first quarter of 2018, down 9.6% sequentially but up 2.5%...

Taiwan IC designer MediaTek will see its 2018 chip shipments for smart voice assistant surge at least 50% from 2017 as it has secured stable orders from heavyweight clients such as...

Nanya Technology expects its DRAM bit shipments to increase 48% in 2018, an upward revision from its previous estimate of 45% growth. The company also revised its bit demand growth...

Increasingly serious shortfalls in the supply of passive components have disrupted production at some major EMS firms in Taiwan, undermining their shipments to brand clients, with...

With the gaming notebook markets in China, Europe and the US becoming saturated, vendors including Asustek Computer, Dell and Lenovo have all moved to target the Southeast Asia market...

Young Optics saw its consolidated revenues grow 69.95% on month and 72.1% on year to a four-year high of NT$507 million (US$17.31 million) in March thanks to increased shipments of...

Chip demand from China-based handset companies is picking up and will buoy sales performance at related chip suppliers, such as application processor designer MediaTek and LCD driver...

Wistron has registered consolidated revenues of NT$70.29 billion (US$2.39 billion) for March, up 4.35 on month and 9.31% on year, with EPS of NT$0.29, while its first-quarter consolidated...

Quanta Computer has reported consolidated revenues of NT$71.85 billion (US$2.45 billion) for March, up 11.75% on month, but down 2.65% on year with consolidated revenues for the first...

MediaTek has reported revenues of NT$49.65 billion (US$1.7 billion) for the first quarter of 2018, down 17.8% sequentially and 11.5% on year. Nevertheless, revenues for the quarter...

Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have reported sequential increases in March consolidated revenues of 4.2% and 25.8%,...

Asustek Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$99 billion (US$3.38 billion) for the first quarter of 2018, down 9% on year with revenues for March increasing 51% on month...

ASIC supplier Bitmain has postponed shipments for its Ethereum ASIC miner, the Antminer E3, from April to mid- or late-July due to the circuit's weaker-than-expected performance,...

Passive component maker Yageo has reported consolidated revenues for March 2018 surged 32.8% sequentially and 80.1% from a year earlier to a record high of NT$4.27 billion (US$146.2...

Notebook ODMs Compal Electronics and Inventec both saw their March revenues surge more than 30% sequentially as shipments started picking up at the end of the first quarter.

Backlight unit (BLU) supplier Radiant Opto-Electronics saw its consolidated revenues increase 21.06% sequentially to NT$3.655 billion (US$124.93 million) in March thanks to a rebound...

In response to Nvidia's GeForce Partner Program (GPP), Asustek Computer has planned a new gaming brand series, Ares, to market its AMD-based gaming products, while its Republic of...

IC testing solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$279 million (US$9.55 million) for March 2018, up 31.2% sequentially and 3.4%...