Taiwan-based DRAM chipmakers may see a continued downward trend in chip prices impacting their profitability in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a Chinese-language Commercial...
Large-size TFT-LCD panel prices are expected to remain flat in the fourth quarter of 2010 and may start increasing in the first half of 2011, according to Taiwan-based panel makers...
Episil Technologies has seen its sales being buoyed by an undersupply in the epitaxy wafer market, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. Supply is currently...
Although DRAM makers are improving production yields, which should raise demand for backend services, the possible drop in memory packaging quotes is expected to slow Taiwan-based...
Memory packaging and testing companies are now facing price-cutting pressure from some upstream chipmakers, which expect to maintain profitability amid DRAM price drops, according...
As the fourth-largest global notebook maker Inventec continues to face price competition from Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), the company is abandoning orders with...
IC distributor Niching Industrial expects its revenues to grow by a double-digit rate in the fourth quarter of 2010, buoyed by increasing shipments of LCD driver ICs and products...
Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) is cautious about sales performance in the fourth quarter of 2010, and there are excessive inventories at downstream...
With orders from China ahead of the nation's long holiday picking up recently, market watchers now expect Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to post a single-digit...
Inventec saw its August 2010 notebook shipments drop 13.3% from 1.5 million units in July to only 1.3 million units, with the revenues for the month also down 11.9% on month and 23.1%...
Despite that first-tier notebook makers expect a 10% sequential growth in their notebook shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010, sources from component makers have said that their...
The outlook for IC packaging and testing throughout the second half of 2010, especially the fourth quarter, is weak, according to YL Hsu, general manager for United Test and Assembly...
Despite IT market already having entered the back-to-school season, weak notebook demand is expected to cause hard drive shipments to stay flat sequentially in the third quarter;...
Touch-panel controller IC vendors Elan Microelectronics and Egalax_Empia Technology (EETI) are likely to enjoy strong sales in the fourth quarter due to increasing demand for touch-panel...
