The price of solar products has dropped to a significant low. Digitimes recently met up with Wen-Whe Pan, president and COO of Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech to talk about...
Hard disk drive (HDD) shortages triggered by the Thailand floods will result in a 3.8 million-unit shortfall in PC shipments in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the previous...
STATS ChipPac's operations in Thailand, which have been stopped since October 17 due to recent flooding in the country, are expected to resume partially in the first quarter of 2012,...
Low demand in the LED market will likely continue throughout first-quarter 2012, according to Robert Yeh, chairman of LED packaging house Everlight. Compared with LED TV backlights,...
Hard drive supply volumes in the first quarter of 2012 are expected to increase from 110-120 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 140 million units, helping to reduce the...
Acer, Asustek Computer and Toshiba are expected to lower retail prices for ultrabooks to below US$1,000 by the end of 2011, and with a US$100 marketing subsidy from Intel, prices...
Apple reportedly is set to launch its new MacBook Air series notebooks with panel sizes of 11.6-inch, 13.3-inch and 15-inch in the first quarter of 2012 and will directly compete...
Intel has not yet launched its new server processor platform Romley and may delay the launch for about a quarter until February-March 2012, causing worries among Taiwan-based vendors...
Several local OEMs in China reportedly have started building chip stock and replenishing inventories recently as they prepare for possible labor shortages around mid-2012 following...
Foundry chipmakers have seen short lead-time orders lose momentum, according to industry sources. Short lead-time orders were a key factor contributing to their revenue growth in...
HTC is expected to see its smartphone shipments grow only 11% on year to 10.8 million units in the first quarter of 2012 as the smartphone vendor will not be able to launch new LTE-enabled...
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will become a second ODM of 7-inch Kindle Fire next to Quanta Computer and start production in the first quarter of 2012, according...
Gartner and IHS iSuppli have issued separate reports warning of a more challenging environment for semiconductor companies during the fourth quarter of 2011 and early 2012. IHS also...
Honey Hope Honesty (3H), which mainly distributes multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) for companies such as Taiyo Yuden, expects market demand to remain sluggish through the first...
The global ODM supply of PCs, due to short supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) arising from the flooding in Thailand, may be short of demand by 10% in December 2011 and the first quarter...
