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Wednesday 28 November 2018
Chin-Poon to pursue profitability in 2019
Taiwan-based automotive PCB specialist Chin-Poon Industrial expects to return to profitability in 2019 as its major factory operations in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan are returning to...
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Egistec gearing up for optical fingerprint ID market boom
Fingerprint sensor supplier Egis Technology (Egistec) has delivered samples of its optical fingerprint identification solutions to China and Korea smartphone vendors for validation,...
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Weltrend to see USB PD chip shipments double to 50 million units in 2018
Taiwan-based Weltrend Semiconductor may see its annual shipments of USB power delivery (PD) controller chips for 2018 double from a year earlier to reach 50 million units as the shipments...
Tuesday 27 November 2018
MOSFET suppliers, backend firms upbeat about 1H19
Taiwan-based MOSFET suppliers and related backend service providers are positive about their business outlook for the first half of 2019 thanks to increasing inquiries from international...
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Supply chain partners see mixed impacts from iPhone order cuts
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been little affected by a cutback in chip orders for Apple's new iPhones as many of its other fabless clients are queuing for...
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Meiko, Zhen Ding plan to expand substrate-like PCB capacities
The market for substrate-like PCBs (SLP) is likely to become an oligopoly, given that only a few leading PCB manufacturers are capable of developing related production technologies...
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Global TV panel shipments increase in 3Q18, says Sigmaintell
Global TV panel unit shipments grow 9.3% on quarter and 10.1% on year to 75.1 million units in the third quarter of 2018. In terms of area shipments, global TV panel shipments also...
Tuesday 27 November 2018
UNISOC names co-CEOs
UNISOC (formerly Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA), a subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup specializing in mobile chip development, has appointed Qing Chu as co-CEO of the company, alongside...
Monday 26 November 2018
MediaTek faces difficulty gaining 10% mobile AP shipment growth in 2019
Taiwan chipmaker MediaTek may find it a difficult job to score an estimated 10% annual growth in total mobile AP shipments for 2019, given the global smartphone market still facing...
Monday 26 November 2018
Global Unichip revenues to disappoint in 2018, says report
Taiwan-based IC design service company Global Unichip is likely to post revenue growth of 11-13% sequentially in 2018, a recent Chinese-language Commercial Times report quoted...
Monday 26 November 2018
TV panel prices to continue to fall in December
Prices of large-size flat panels, mainly TV panels, are expected to continue to fall in December due to oversupply resulting from continued capacity ramps by China-based flat panel...
Monday 26 November 2018
TSMC likely to post 14-16% revenue drop in 1Q19, report says
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is likely to post a 14-16% sequential decline in consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2019, due mainly to inventory correction...
Friday 23 November 2018
Qualcomm expands R&D team in Taiwan
Qualcomm has been expanding its local R&D team in Taiwan to bring the company closer to its Taiwan-based partners such as TSMC for the development of 5G mobile chips, according...
Friday 23 November 2018
Acter to gain from electronics production relocation amid US-China trade war
Taiwan-based clean room engineering specialist Acter expects its revenues for 2019 to grow 5-10% on year despite the global economic uncertainties caused by the escalating US-China...
Friday 23 November 2018
Advantest to acquire Test Systems from Astronics
Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest has announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which the company will acquire the commercial Semiconductor...