Taiwan-based makers shipped 15.81 million handsets (excluding shipments from pure EMS assembly) in the first quarter of 2012, slipping 20.1% on quarter and 24.5% on year, Digitimes...

Taiwan's Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC), a manufacturer of GaAs (gallium arsenide) epi-wafers made to fabricate power amplifiers (PA) for consumer technology products such...

Analog IC design houses, including Capella Microsystems, Macroblock and On-Bright Electronics, are expected to post an EPS of over NT$1 (US0.034) for the first quarter of 2012 due...

Revenues at Taiwan's second-tier packaging-and-testing houses Giga Solution, Greatek Electronics, Lingsen Precision Industries and Thailin Semiconductor all registered single-digit...

Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) saw its March shipments rise substantially buoying company revenues for the month.

MLCC makers Yageo and Holy Stone Enterprise have reported growth in March 2012 revenues from the previous month of 27.5% and 15.3%, respectively. The substantial on-month growth could...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$105.51 billion (US$3.57 billion) for January through March 2012, which came within the...

Consolidated revenues at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) registered declines of 7.1% sequentially and 6.3% on year in the first quarter of 2012. Sales of its core IC assembly...

Memory IC packaging and testing firms have reported mixed results for the first quarter of 2012. Walton Advanced Engineering and Formosa Advanced Technologies (FATC) both saw their...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China's top contract chipmaker, has announced upward revisions to its revenue and gross margin guidance for the first...

United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its first-quarter revenues decrease 2.7% sequentially, in line with company guidance.

Revenues at King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) slid 3.5% sequentially in the first quarter of 2012. The IC testing firm expects to report mild growth for the second quarter.

IC design service providers Faraday Technology and Global Unichip have posted mixed results for the first quarter of 2012, with the former registering 39% growth on quarter and the...

TPK Holding has announced consolidated revenues of NT$13.29 billion (US$450.22 million) for March, up 2.7% sequentially and 27.2% on year. For the first quarter of 2012, revenues...

IC design house ALi has announced consolidated revenues of NT$616 million (US$20.9 million) for March 2012, up 30% sequentially and hitting the highest monthly level in eight years...