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Tuesday 11 April 2017
CPT, HannStar Display see sequential growths in March panel shipments
Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) has disclosed it shipped 122,000 large-size TFT-LCD panels and 29.56 million small- to medium-size units in March, with the former increasing 8.6% on...
Tuesday 11 April 2017
E Ink, Sony Semiconductor Solutions to set up joint venture
EPD (electrophoretic display) e-paper maker E Ink Holdings (EIH) and Sony Semiconductor Solutions (SSS) have announced the establishment of a joint venture for combining the former's...
Monday 10 April 2017
Phison looking to maintain tie with Toshiba memory-chip business
Phison Electronics will be seeking to maintain its tie with Toshiba's flash memory business even if the ownership of the business is transferred, according to Khein Seng Pua, chairman...
Monday 10 April 2017
MediaTek 1Q17 revenues fall 18%
MediaTek's first-quarter revenues fell 18% sequentially but came in line with the company's guidance.
Monday 10 April 2017
Egistec March revenues down, FocalTech up
Fingerprint sensor supplier Egis Technology (Egistec) saw its March revenues decrease 13.4% sequentially to NT$335.14 million (US$10.95 million) while fellow company FocalTech Systems'...
Monday 10 April 2017
Elan 1Q17 revenues beat guidance
IC design house Elan Microelectronics, which specializes in touchscreen controller chips, saw its first-quarter 2017 revenues decrease 3.5% sequentially and beat the company's estimate...
Monday 10 April 2017
WiseChip Semiconductor showcases flexible PMOLED panels at Finetech Japan 2017
PMOLED (passive matrix OLED) panel maker WiseChip Semiconductor showcased 1.36- and 1.8-inch flexible PMOLED panels with radii of less than 40mm and thickness of 0.3mm at Finetech...
Monday 10 April 2017
Taiwan MCU and consumer IC firms post brisk March revenues
MCU and consumer IC design house Holtek Semiconductor saw its March revenues climb to a new record high, while revenues at fellow companies Generalplus Technology and Weltrend Semiconductor...
Friday 7 April 2017
Realtek March revenues rise 12%
Networking IC design company Realtek Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$3.42 billion (US$111.7 million) for March 2017, up 12.3% sequentially but down 0.6% on...
Friday 7 April 2017
Digitimes Research: Samsung Display, LG Display keep expanding small- to medium-size AMOLED panel capacities
Samsung Display and LG Display, in view of large potential growth in demand, will continue their expansion of small- to medium-size AMOLED panel production, with combined annual capacity...
Friday 7 April 2017
Digitimes Research: China IC design industry output value to rise 16.9% in 2017
China's IC design industry output value climbed to US$24.75 billion in 2016 from US$5.66 billion in 2010 which reached a CAGR of 27.9% during the five-year period, according to Digitimes...
Thursday 6 April 2017
IC distributor WT Micro to acquire Maxtek
WT Microelectronics has agreed to acquire fellow Taiwan-based IC distributor Maxtek Technology for NT$27 (US$0.89) per share, or a total of NT$1.897 billion, according to the compa...
Thursday 6 April 2017
TSMC orders equipment for nearly NT$5 billion
Pure-play foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on April 5 disclosed a total of nearly NT$5 billion (US$164.4 million) spent on machinery equipment from ASML and...
Thursday 6 April 2017
MediaTek smartphone-chip shipments to fall below 100 million units in 1Q17
MediaTek will see its smartphone-chip shipments fall below 100 million units in the first quarter of 2017 and rebound only slightly to 110-120 million in the second quarter, according...
Thursday 6 April 2017
Apple signs 2-year OLED panel supply contract with Samsung Display, say reports
Apple reportedly has signed a two-year contract with Samsung Display for the supply of KRW10 trillion (US$9 billion) worth of small-size curved OLED panels, according to Korea-based...