The worldwide PC market grew 24.2% in the first quarter of 2010 compared to one year ago, when the market declined by almost 7% – the lowest growth since 2001, according to...

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 84.3 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 27.4% increase from the first quarter of 2009, according to preliminary results by Gartner. The first...

Taiwan-based IC distributors Alltek Technology and Promate Electronics have both posted handsome profits for the first quarter of 2010 with pre-tax profits of NT$1.03 (US$0.033) and...

Intel has reported first-quarter 2010 revenues of US$10.3 billion, with an operating income of US$3.4 billion, net income of US$2.4 billion and EPS of US$0.43.

Rexchip Electronics, which was founded in 2006 as a joint venture between Elpida Memory and Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC), has received approval to list on Taiwan's Emerging...

Inotera Memories has reported net losses of NT$1.56 billion (US$49.52 million), or NT$0.36 per share, for the first quarter of 2010, mostly due to production losses incurred from...

Nanya Technology slipped back into the red in the first quarter of 2010, after reporting its first profit in 11 quarters in fourth-quarter 2009. The DRAM maker had previously hinted...

Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has announced net profits of NT$3.54 billion (US$112 million) for the first quarter of 2010, up 121% from NT$1.6 billion posted in the fourth...

Passive component maker Holy Stone has seen clear order visibility, with demand for multi-layer ceramic-chip capacitors (MLCCs) expected to help sustain revenue growth in the second...

Taiwan-based notebook keyboard makers Chicony Electronics, Sunrex Technology and Darfon Electronics have all seen revenue growth for March 2010.

The market for IC components has returned to levels of 2008, and supply is expected to remain tight through the end of 2010, according to Wen-Tsung Cheng, chairman of IC distributor...

Taiwan-based motherboard makers have all announced growth in their March 2010 revenues.

Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), which specializes in analog/mixed-signal and logic ICs, saw March revenues grow 7% sequentially to NT$1.25 billion (US$40 million). Revenues...

Backlight unit (BLU) and projector maker Coretronic has reported consolidated revenues in March 2010 rose 10% sequentially and 43% on year to NT$7.394 billion (US$234.7 million),...

Acer expects its operating margin for the first quarter of 2010 to be higher than 2.67%, the average in 2009, despite recent increases in DRAM prices and appreciation of the NT dollar,...