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Wednesday 10 March 2010
Raydium February 2010 revenues drop 16%
LCD driver IC maker Raydium Semiconductor reported revenues of NT$688 million (US$21.64 million) in February, down 16% on month. The company has increased its wafer starts with foundries...
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Silicon MEMS microphone market set to grow strong, says The Information Network
High-Flying silicon MEMS microphone installations, which nearly doubled between 2006 and 2008, hit a head wind in 2009, according to The Information Network. However, the research...
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Arcadyan revenues soar nearly 100% on year in February
Taiwan-based network equipment maker Arcadyan Technology saw its revenues soar 98.52% on year to NT$1.152 billion (US$36.15 million) in February, according to company data. For the...
Monday 8 March 2010
Qisda reports revenues down for 2009 and February 2010
Qisda has announced fourth-quarter 2009 revenues of NT$19.57 billion (US$613.93 million) and revenues for the full year of NT$79.67 billion.
Friday 5 March 2010
LCD monitor shipments increase 3.8% in 2009, says iSuppli
Global LCD monitor shipments increased by 3.8% in 2009 to 176.5 million units, up from 170.1 million units in 2008, according to iSuppli.
Friday 5 March 2010
EDT expects touch panel revenues to reach 20% of total revenues in 2010
STN LCD panel maker Emerging Display Technologies (EDT) expects revenues from its projected capacitive touch panels to account for 20% of its total revenues in 2010, up from 10% in...
Friday 5 March 2010
Bright LED to see backlighting business account for up to 40% of total revenues in 2010
LED packaging house Bright LED Electronics expects backlighting business to account for 30-40% of its total revenues in 2010, up from 18% in 2009, according to company chairman Liaw...
Friday 5 March 2010
WiMAX subscribers up 75% in 2009, says Infonetics Research
The number of WiMAX subscribers jumped 75% in 2009 to 6.8 million worldwide, according to Infonetics Research. Worldwide vendor revenues from 802.16d and 802.16e WiMAX network equipment...
Friday 5 March 2010
Foxconn, Samsung top recipients of 2009 Taiwan-issued patents
EMS provider Foxconn Electronics obtained the most Taiwan-issued patents in 2009 among all Taiwan-based companies and organizations, while Samsung Electronics ranked first of all...
Thursday 4 March 2010
Server shipments decline in Asia Pacific in 2009, but grow in 4Q09, says Gartner
As a result of the challenging economic environment during 2009, server shipments to the Asia Pacific region showed a decline of 3.8% while vendor revenues fell 6.2% from 2008 levels,...
Thursday 4 March 2010
D-Link expects strong sales in emerging markets and North America in 2010
Network-equipment D-Link expects its sales in emerging markets as well as in North America to post healthy growth in 2010, according to company CEO and president Tony Tsao.
Thursday 4 March 2010
China handset design houses ship over 200 million handsets in 2009, say sources
China-based handset-design companies shipped a total of more than 200 million handsets in 2009, an increase of over 30% from 2008, due in part to strengthened cooperation with branded...
Thursday 4 March 2010
Taiwan market: Tsann Kuen retail chain to deal out dividend for 2009
Tsann Kuen Enterprise, which operates a retail chain in Taiwan selling computer and consumer electronics products, on March 3 announced the distribution of a dividend of NT$4.5 per...
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Taiwan market: Online advertising generates nearly NT$7 billion in 2009
Taiwan's online advertising services generated revenues of NT$6.989 billion (US$213 million) in 2009, growing 16.93% from 2008, according to the Internet Advertising and Media Association...
Wednesday 3 March 2010
China market: 25-26 million LCD TVs sold in 2009
In the China market, 25-26 million LCD TVs were sold in 2009, with local vendors having a combined market share of 70-80%, according to market sources in Taiwan.