GaAs wafer foundries Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) and Win Semiconductor are likely to enjoy another month of record sales in September, thanks to continued-strong...
Taiwan-based vendor HTC will ship an estimated 7-8 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2010 and 9-10 million units in the fourth quarter, and its second-half 2010 smartphone...
LED-backlit models are expected to account for 15% of the LCD TV market in Taiwan at the end of 2010, and the market share for LED-backlit TV for the whole year will remain at lower...
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), Sigurd Microelectronics and Ardentec, three Taiwan-based providers of IC testing services, expect their revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 to decrease...
Touch panel maker Young Fast Optoelectronics will start shipping resistive touch panels to Nokia in the fourth quarter of 2010, and start shipping capacitive touch panels in the first...
Contract prices for NAND flash memory are likely to decline further in the fourth quarter of 2010, as there are still uncertainties in the market, according to industry sources. Chip...
Gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafer foundry Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) is expected to post a sequential decline in revenues in September 2010 as well as in the third quarter...
Polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) contract prices for the fourth quarter of 2010 have increased from around US$55/kg in the third quarter to US$60/kg, largely due to a rising spot...
DRAM maker Powerchip Technology will be able to reduce its per-chip production costs by 25% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2010, as the company significantly ramps up chip...
Market watchers now expect Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to see its consolidated revenues drop by 4-5% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2010, better than...
Macronix International has announced plans to skip the 90nm manufacturing process node for NOR flash memory, and move directly to a 75nm technology. The company said it is now sampling...
Despite the dropping panel prices, which may help to generate panel orders, LCD monitor vendors have turned conservative about their sales targets for the traditional peak season...
Samsung Electronics is set to start volume producing 2Gb DDR3 chips using 36nm process technology in the fourth quarter of 2010, continuing efforts to shrink process geometries far...
Strong demand for some end market devices, including smartphones and a complete series of products from Apple will help maintain sales momentum of the IC industry in the fourth quarter...
Taiwan-based IC packaging/testing service provider Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has seen better orders than originally expected due to strong demand for handsets and consumer...
