Lighting equipment supplier China Electric expects LED lighting applications to share more than 3% of its total revenues in 2009, according to the Taiwan-based company.
Camera chip maker Syntek Semiconductor expects its business operations to swing to profits in 2009, after three consecutive years of losses, amid demand for white-box DSCs and notebook...
Taiwan makers' share of LCD TV panels shipped to the China market in the first quarter of 2009 is estimated at 55%, compared to 45% for full-year 2008, according to Displaybank.
The worldwide DRAM bit growth rate will decelerate to less than 16% in 2009, compared to 50-60% in 2008 and 90% in 2007, according to ProMOS Technologies. Despite the conservative...
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$288.5 million in orders in May 2009 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.74, according...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has raised its capex budget for 2009, despite an anticipated decline in revenues, according to company chairman and CEO Morris Chang...
Intel recently notified its partners plans to EOL (end of life) several CPUs in the second half of 2009 and first quarter of 2010. CPUs to be phased out include the Core 2 Extreme...
The top-five TFT-LCD panel makers are expected to account for 89.2% of the total large-size (10-inch and larger) TFT-LCD panel production by area in 2009, a big leap from the 74.8%...
Total global TV shipment forecast is 200.4 million units in 2009, down 3% on year, while LCD TV is still poised for shipment growth, according to DisplaySearch. This is the first...
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will possibly fail to attain the goal of one million subscribers of its MOD (multimedia on demand) by the end of 2009, for the number of subscribers has increased...
MediaTek is expected to introduce a lineup of new chip solutions for WCDMA handsets and digital still cameras (DSCs) soon, with volume production slated for the latter half of 2009,...
AU Optronics (AUO) expects 5% of its total TV panel shipments will be LED back-lit ones by the end of 2009, and 10% by the end of 2010, according to company vice chairman HB Chen.
Taiwan-based solar cell maker E-Ton Solar Tech signed five MOUs (memorandum of understanding) with potential clients at the photovoltaic (PV) trade fair Intersolar 2009 in Munich,...
The outlook for the semiconductor equipment industry is beginning to improve, as it appears capital equipment spending has bottomed out in the second quarter of 2009, according to...
Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) expects to ship 6-7 million LCD TV panels in 2009, doubling from 3-3.5 million units in 2008, while its small- to medium-size...
