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Monday 18 January 2021
Ralec stops taking resistor orders
Taiwan-based resistor maker Ralec, a subsidiary of Chilisin Electronics, has stopped its distributors in the Greater China region from accepting new thick-film chip resistor orders...
Wednesday 30 December 2020
Yageo sees inventory stay below healthy levels
Yageo now has about two months of MLCC inventory, which is unlikely to reach healthy levels until after the Lunar New Year break, thanks to difficulty in recruiting new production...
Tuesday 15 December 2020
TSMC to see 20% rise in 5nm shipments in 1H21
TSMC is expected to have an about 20% sequential increase in wafer shipments for 5nm process in first-half 2021, according to industry sources who have dismissed speculation that...
Thursday 8 October 2020
Yageo, Walsin see capacity utilization stay above 80%
Passive component specialists Yageo and Walsin Technology have both seen their capacity utilization rates stay above 80%, and are confident they will see on-year shipment growths...
Friday 28 August 2020
Polarizer maker CMMT sees improving utilization rate
Polarizer Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT) has seen its capacity utilization rate improve substantially and orders surpass its available capacity by about 10%, according to company...
Friday 21 August 2020
IntelliEPI to start trial production of GaN epi wafers in September
Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI), which supplies compound semiconductor epitaxial wafers, will start trial production of GaN epi wafers in September, seeking to tap the...
Thursday 30 July 2020
UMC expects flat 3Q20
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its wafer shipments and ASPs to stay flat sequentially in the third quarter of 2020, with its capacity utilization rate remaining...
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Unitech to see capacity utilization rise to 90% in 3Q20
Rigid-flex PCB specialist Unitech Printed Circuit Board expects to see its capacity utilization rebound to 70-80% in July and rise further to 90% in the latter part of the third quarter,...
Friday 29 May 2020
Chassis specialist Ju Teng upbeats about 3Q20 orders
Chassis maker Ju Teng International expects the prevailing robust demand from the notebook sector to last into the third quarter of 2020, having experienced strong order pull-ins...
Thursday 23 April 2020
Eternal sees robust orders for dry-firm photoresist
Taiwan-based Eternal Materials currently sees full utilization of its dry-film photoresist production capacity, while that of its paper phenolic copper clad laminate is at between...
Monday 20 April 2020
IPC makers concerned about weakening sales in 2020
Despite strong rebounds in March revenues, industrial PC (IPC) makers are still cautious about demand for IPCs for the rest of 2020, according to sources from the upstream supply...
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Cooling module makers see sharp declines in February revenues
Taiwan-based cooling module makers including Power Logic, Sunonwealth Electric Machine and Forcecon Tec all saw their February revenues suffer wider declines both monthly and yearly...
Tuesday 25 February 2020
MLCC, chip resistor prices set to rise through 2020
Prices for MLCCs and chip resistors are expected to rise through the fourth quarter of 2020 as supply will increasingly fall short of demand for 5G applications while fallouts of...
Tuesday 25 February 2020
ODMs asked to install additional server production capacity in Taiwan
ODMs have seen more requests from their server clients for installing additional SMT lines in Taiwan as China's coronavirus outbreak has been impacting server supply from the country,...