Debuts of new PC OS from Microsoft always have generated double-digit percentage increases in quarterly DRAM shipments - until 2012, when the rollout of Windows 8 is not expected...
Net profits at Ardentec grew 10.7% sequentially to NT$245 million (US$8.4 million) in the third quarter of 2012, hitting the highest quarterly level since the fourth quarter of 2010...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), the largest Taiwan-based IC packaging and testing houses, expects its shipments in the fourth quarter of 2012 to increase on quarter by 3-5%...
GaAs foundries Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) and Win Semiconductors, and GaAs wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) are expected to see their sales...
CyberLink, a Taiwan-based provider of digital multimedia software solutions, expects its consolidated revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 to increase on quarter by 2-6% and the...
Despite its losses in the third quarter of 2012, LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) is holding an optimistic outlook for 2013, as demand from the market will grow faster than capacity...
IC substrate supplier Nanya PCB (NPC) has expressed caution about its sales performance during the fourth quarter of 2012, citing limited visibility for the remainder of the year...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) expects its consolidated revenues to decrease about 8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2012, followed by another modest dip...
Significant shipments of small- to medium-size LCD driver ICs will limit Novatek Microelectronics' sequential decline in revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 to a moderate 4-6%...
Revenues in the fourth quarter are likely to be flat, according to Warren Chen, CEO of Lite-On Technology. Chen added that orders from notebook firms have been decreasing slightly...
Semiconductor materials distributor Topco Scientific expects its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2012 to stay flat or decline within a range of 5% from the level recorded in the...
Taiwan-based Solid State System (3S) has internally developed single-chip MEMS microphone products, and will start shipping them to China-based branded and white-box vendors of tablets...
MediaTek is expected to post revenues of NT$9.5-10 billion (US$323.9-341 million) for October, the second highest thus far in 2012 despite fewer days for shipments to China in the...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) will perform relatively strongly in the fourth quarter of 2012 thanks to 28nm orders from Qualcomm...
LCD-driver-IC packaging and testing house Chipbond Technology is expected to post a sales drop of about 5% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared to the double-digit...
