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Monday 18 April 2016
Notebook-related IC suppliers expect to post 10-15% revenue growth in 2Q16
Notebook-related IC suppliers expect to see revenues grow 10-15% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016 prior to a major pick-up in the third quarter, according to industry sou...
Friday 15 April 2016
Taiwan component makers facing competition over MacBook orders
Apple is ready to launch new ultra-thin MacBooks in the second half of 2016, but Taiwan component makers are seeing increasing competition for related component orders. US-based Amphenol...
Friday 15 April 2016
MStar unit to complete merger with Ilitek on June 1
MStar Semiconductor through a wholly-owned subsidiary will complete its merger with ILI Technology (Ilitek) on June 1, 2016, according to a filing issued by its parent company MediaTek...
Friday 15 April 2016
TSMC reiterates revenue target for 2016
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) target of 5-10% growth in 2016 consolidated revenues remains unchanged, according to the pure-play foundry.
Friday 15 April 2016
CSOT to set up 11G panel fab, say reports
China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) will invest CNY50 billion (US$7.74 billion) to set up an 11G TFT-LCD panle factory in Shenzhen, southern China, for production of large-size...
Thursday 14 April 2016
PCB players turn to compete in car-use PCB market
Taiwan-based PCB players are pushing into car-use products as demand for PCs, smartphones and tablets has been weakening. Chin Poon and Tripod Technology, which have been operating...
Thursday 14 April 2016
Taiwan flexible PCB firms March revenues down on year
Taiwan-based flexible PCB (FPCB) suppliers Career Technology, Flexium Interconnect and Zhen Ding Technology Holding have reported on-year decreases in consolidated revenues for March...
Thursday 14 April 2016
UMC qualifies Cadence Virtuoso LDE analyzer for its 28HPC process
Cadence Design Systems has announced that the company's Virtuoso layout-dependent effects (LDE) analyzer has been qualified by United Microelectronics (UMC) to support the foundry's...
Thursday 14 April 2016
LCD TV panels see rising demand and prices in 2Q16
With LCD TV brand vendors including Samsung Electronics and China-based Skyworth aggressively pulling in panel orders for the second quarter, demand has been picking up recently,...
Thursday 14 April 2016
Novatek 1Q16 sales miss guidance
LCD driver IC design specialist Novatek Microelectronics saw its first-quarter revenues miss its guidance of a 5-9% sequential decline.
Thursday 14 April 2016
Kilopass, Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor announce technology development partnership
Kilopass Technology, Inc., the leading provider of semiconductor embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), and Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited (MIFS) announced...
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Taiwan consumer IC firms expect 2Q16 sales to rise over 20%
Taiwan-based consumer IC design houses are expected to see their second-quarter revenues rise more than 20% sequentially as demand picks up on seasonality, according to industry so...
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Worldwide semiconductor revenues to decline 0.6% in 2016, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor revenues are forecast to total US$333 billion in 2016, a decrease of 0.6% from 2015, according to Gartner. This is following a decline of 2.3% in 2015 due...
Wednesday 13 April 2016
IC design firm Nyquest to list on Taiwan OTC
Consumer IC design company Nyquest Technology expects to be listed on the Taiwan over-the-counter (OTC) market in early May.
Tuesday 12 April 2016
TSMC orders equipment for NT$2 billion
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has purchased engineering and facility equipment from Applied Materials, Fu Tsu Construction and Tokyo Electron for a total of about...