King Core Electronics said it is watching the passive-component industry's price-hike discussions as silver costs soar, acknowledging that its own chip beads, inductors, and coils also consume significant volumes of silver paste. But with a far smaller scale than Yageo and Tai-Tech Advanced Electronics, the company does not plan to raise prices in 2025, while leaving open the option to follow peers if raw-material costs continue to climb.
Taiwan's major materials distributors — Niching Industrial, Wah Lee Industrial, Topco Scientific (TSC), and Chang Wah Electromaterials (CWE) — have released their latest earnings reports and outlooks for the fourth quarter of 2025. Many are benefiting from booming demand in semiconductor packaging and testing, with heat sinks and lead frames driving double-digit annual growth for Niching in October.
Flexible copper-clad laminate (FCCL) manufacturer Asia Electronic Materials (AEM) said at an investor conference on November 10 that strong seasonal orders from the traditional electronics sector, coupled with a higher proportion of high-value products, helped the company swing back to profit in the third quarter of 2025.
