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,...

The prevailing business model for businesses on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will shift from current joint efforts to promote exports to focus on domestic sales in China in the...

Ampoc Fareast has received orders that will keep production at full capacity through the end of 2011, as clients in China and Japan step up expanding their capacities for HDI boards,...

Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar will inaugurate Epicrystal (Changzhou), its 60%-stake held LED joint venture on September 23. Epicrystal can house 60 sets of MOCVD equipment but...

Sequans Communications has announced that its LTE semiconductor technology has been officially approved by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), a government...

Brisk sales of Lenovo's A60-series smartphone in China has been boosting MediaTek's shipments of its 3.5G solution, the MT6573, according to market sources. Order momentum is expected...

Taiwan-based Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) plans to issue Chinese yuan-denominated bonds worth a total of CNY650 million (US$102 million) in Hong Kong with an aim to boost...

UK-based Picochip has been tapping the China market by providing TD-SCDMA femtocell chips for 20 local device makers, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Demand for smartphone solutions in emerging markets, particularly in China, is gaining momentum, pushing chipset vendors to compete neck and neck to grab a large piece for the growing...

Taiwan-based Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has launched its four mobile value-added service platforms in the China market through partnership with China Mobile and expects...

China's top-six TV brands shipped 2.92 million units of TV sets in July 2011, up 12.5% on month and 33.7% on year, Witsview has revealed. The six vendors' TV shipments in August and...

Taiwan-based Thinflex, a supplier of flexible copper clad laminates (FCCLs), expects utilization rates at its plants in China and Taiwan will rebound to 70% in the third quarter of...

Price negotiations held during EU PVSEC 2011 have been a battlefield between suppliers and customers. China-based first-tier solar integrated firms have reportedly quoted solar modules...

Weakening demand claimed its first victim with the bankruptcy of Evergreen Solar. Solar Power Industries in PA closed its doors in May. Spectrawatt, the solar cell manufacturer that...

Yingli Green Energy Holding, a China-based solar energy company which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar," joins effort with the Energy research Center of...