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NEWS TAGGED 3Q09
Monday 17 August 2009
Clevo to ship 500,000 notebooks in 3Q09
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...
Monday 17 August 2009
FPCB maker Career may see 30% revenue growth in 3Q09
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,...
Monday 17 August 2009
Taiwan handset makers to ship over 12 million smartphones in 3Q09, says paper
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...
Monday 17 August 2009
Notebook PCB makers more optimistic about 3Q09
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...
Friday 14 August 2009
Taiwan quartz component revenues expected to grow 15% in 3Q09
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...
Friday 14 August 2009
Worldwide handset sales decline 6% while smartphones grow 27% in 2Q09, says Gartner
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...
Friday 14 August 2009
Taiwan market: CHT expects 3G users to make up 50% of mobile phone user base at end of 3Q09
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...
Friday 14 August 2009
Chipbond and IST urge relaxation of driver-IC backend restrictions in China
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...
Friday 14 August 2009
Pixart to begin small-volume shipments of optical-touch solutions in 3Q09
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.
Thursday 13 August 2009
IC designer ITE to see revenues grow 15-20% sequentially in 3Q09
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...
Thursday 13 August 2009
Ralink looks to 15-25% sequential growth in WLAN chip shipment in 3Q09
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...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Acer lowers ultra-thin sales target for 2H09
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...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
IC material distributor Niching Industrial to enjoy sales growth through 4Q09
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...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Wellypower to double SMD LED capacity in 3Q09
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,...
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Global PND market recovering from slump, say sources
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...