Taiwan-based second-tier notebook maker Clevo expects its notebook shipments in the third quarter to reach 500,000 units, growing only slightly on quarter due to tight supply of components...
Flexible PCB (FPCB) maker Career Technology is expected to see third-quarter revenues grow by 20-30% and gross margin return to 20%, driven by increased shipments of smartphones,...
Shipments of smart cellular devices (smartphones and PDA phones) by Taiwan handset makers are expected to top 12.05 million units in the third quarter of 2009, up 29% from 9.34 million...
Taiwan notebook PCB makers HannStar Board and Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) have lifted their third-quarter notebook PCB shipment goals to 15% growth due to the launch of ultra-thin...
Taiwan quartz component makers TXC and Harmony Electronics (HELE) are expected to see a 15% sequential growth in their third-quarter revenues mainly due to increasing orders for frequency...
Worldwide handset sales totaled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1% decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales surpassed...
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) expects its 3G subscribers to grow to account for 50% of all its mobile subscribers services at the end of the third quarter of 2009, according to the compan...
Chipbond Technology and International Semiconductor Technology (IST) have called for Taiwan to relax restrictions on LCD driver IC packaging and testing production in China. They...
Pixart Imaging will ship optical-touch solutions in small volumes in the third quarter, and expects the segment to be its major growth driver in 2010, according to the company.
IC design house ITE Tech is expected to see its revenues grow 15-20% sequentially in the third quarter from NT$977 million (US$29.71 million) recorded in the second quarter, buoyed...
Ralink Technology expects its shipments of WLAN chips to increase 15-25% sequentially in the third quarter of 2009 after seeing its shipments post a sequential growth of 47%, to 11.9...
Acer chairman JT Wang has commented that sales performance of ultra-thin notebooks has so far fallen short of goals, adding Acer has internally downward adjusted the segment's target...
Niching Industrial is expected to post sequential revenue growth of 10-15% sequentially in the third and fourth quarters of 2009, according to market watchers. The semiconductor material...
CCFL maker Wellypower Optronics is expanding its SMD LED chip packaging capacity from 19 lines to 37 lines, able to package 100 million LED chips monthly by the end of September 2009,...
Sequential improvements in revenues in the second quarter of 2009 recorded by the word's top-two vendors, Garmin and TomTom, signal that the global PND market has recovered from the...