PCB maker Unitech Printed Circuit Board is looking to break even in the fourth quarter of 2012, thanks to rising sales of high-margin products such as any-layer HDI boards and rigid-flex...
Utilization rates at Taiwan's top-3 IC foundries will average 84.8% in the fourth quarter of 2012, down from 94.8% in the prior quarter, according to Digitimes Research's latest findings...
Taiwan's economic growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2012 has been upward adjusted from 2.83% estimated in late October 2012 to 2.97%, according to advance estimates released by...
Power Quotient International (PQI) is set to reduce its exposure to the DRAM module market, and focus on the sale of wireless peripherals and accessories used in consumer technology...
According to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK), Taiwan's total LED industry output value in the third quarter of 2012 was NT$24.2 billion (US$830 million), representing...
Sales at IC design house MediaTek are set to register a sequential decrease in November, due to pressure to cut EDGE-chip inventories, as well as tight supplies of panels under 4-inch,...
Protective component makers Polytronics Technology and Thinking Electronic Industrial will continue to enjoy strong sales in the fourth quarter of 2012, as booming sales of smartphones...
LCD driver IC vendors Novatek Microelectronics and Himax Technologies both are expected to see their sales remain strong in the fourth quarter of 2012 despite the impact of seasonality,...
Taiwan-based handset ODMs and component suppliers, including Arima Communications, Compal Communications, Merry Electronics and Ichia Technologies, all expect to see their revenues...
The production value of Taiwan's IC packaging and testing industry sectors registered sequential growth of 2% and 2.3%, respectively, in the third quarter of 2012, according to data...
Demand for notebook PCBs still remains weak in the fourth quarter of 2012 despite the launch of Windows 8, making 2012 a year in which total sales of notebook PCBs will be lower than...
Semiconductor materials distributor Wah Lee Industrial is expected to see its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 stay flat or drop in a range below 5% from NT$5.57 billion (US$190.88...
Apple's suppliers, including contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) which have entered the vendor's...
Holy Stone Enterprise, a Taiwan-based supplier of multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC), is expected to see its consolidated revenues drop in a smaller range than a 5-10% sequential...
Mixed signal IC design house Parade Technologies expects its revenues to decline 23-29.5% sequentially to US$34-37 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, due to product transitions...
