Pricing for 6-inch polysilicon solar wafers will be quoted at US$1.60/unit in the fourth quarter of 2011, down from US$1.80-1.85 in the third quarter, according to industry sources...

Dell is set to expand its workforce at its Chengdu base from 300 currently to 3,000 soon. Dell plans to have Chengdu serve as its second operating base.

Acer will ship 40,000 notebooks by railroad across Chongqing, China and Duisburg, Germany. The shipments are expected to arrive in Europe in two weeks.

Acer, benefiting from Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) uncertainty about its PC business, has started receiving strong notebook orders from channels in Europe with volumes, as of September...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) broke ground at the site of a regional headquarters in Zhangjiang, Shanghai on September 21. Operations are scheduled to commence in 2012,...

Capacity utilization in the LED industry has been lower than expected in 2011, and the fourth quarter is likely to be moderate, said Robert Yeh, chairman of Everlight. Growth of TV...

Falling product prices have been causing solar wafer and cell firms to face shrinking gross margins and possible losses. While upstream polysilicon prices have been relatively rigid,...

Altair Semiconductor, a developer of low-power chips for LTE network deployments, has announced that following testing conducted by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

Some small- and medium-size solar cell makers reportedly have further lowered capacity utilization rates or are on the verge of suspending production after prices dropped faster than...

Following the inauguration of Taiwan-based chipmaker Epistar's plant in Changzhou, China, Lite-On has indicated it plans to cooperate with Epistar to develop new LED lighting products,...

Packaging and testing firm Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a regional headquarters in Shanghai on September 21, and is also expected...

Taiwan-based notebook ODMs may not benefit much from the Ultrabook platform, despite downstream branding partners mostly being optimistic about the new device, according to sources...

Due to government policies on providing subsidies for MOCVD equipment, China quickly become the world's leading market for MOCVD equipment in 2010. However, market conditions and...

Local TV vendors in China is bracing for stronger competition from foreign brands as the country is set to end a home appliances subsidy program for rural areas, according to industry...

The spot price of polysilicon in the Greater China region remained steady at US$49.5/kg this week. However, the spot price of 125 monocrystalline (125 Mono) wafers dropped to US$1.25/pc,...