Huge ramps in semiconductor equipment purchases by leading foundries and IDMs in July and August will result in the equipment market ending 2009 dropping 40% instead of 46% previously...

Qisda has announced consolidated revenues of NT$7.07 billion (US$215.27 million) for August, decreasing 5.3% from NT$7.47 billion for July and 15.9% from NT$8.4 billion for August...

Taiwan-based network equipment makers Accton Technology and Alpha Networks both saw their revenues decline in August 2009 both on month and on year, according to data released by...

Global location-based service (LBS) revenues will grow at 156% from US$1.7 billion in 2008 to US$2.6 billion in 2009 and will surpass US$14 billion by 2014, according to ABI Resear...

Sony on September 3 unveiled two Cyber-shot series digital camera models, DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1, for launch in the Taiwan market at a recommended retrial price of NT$12,980 (US$395)...

Acer is expected to see its notebook shipments for 2009 top 30 million units, surpassing its original target of 28 million units, according to sources at Taiwan OEM makers, who cited...

Japan-based Brother Industries on September 2 announced expanded operations in the Taiwan market for laser printers and MFPs (multi-function peripherals).

Nokia has announced three new multimedia handsets, the N97 mini, X6 and X3, at Nokia World 2009 being held in Stuttgart, Germany.

VIA Technologies has posted revenues of NT$365 million (US$11.09 million) for August, a drop of 11.38% on month and 49.94% on year. Combined revenues for the first eight months of...

Sigurd Microelectronics has announced its decision to revise its capex for 2009 to NT$500-600 million (US$15-18 million), up from its original budget of NT$200 million. The Taiwan-based...

Chassis maker Ju Teng International Holdings has pointed out that Compal Electronics' contribution to its revenues are expected to increase from 12-13% in 2008 to more than 30% in...

Inventec is expected to have shipped 2.2 million notebooks in August 2009, an around 10% growth compared to two million units shipped in July, while Compal Electronics is expected...

Taiwan-based notebook maker Compal Electronics has landed orders for 100,000 Booklet 3G mini notebooks (netbooks) from Nokia with shipments to be fulfilled before the end of 2009,...

TPV Technology has posted revenues of US$3.1 billion for the first half of 2009, a drop of 37% on year, while net profits also dropped 43.6% to US$54.65 million.

There were 702.65 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of July 2009, growing by 1.07% on month and by 15.50% on year, according to statistics...