Taiwan-based Chipbond Technology has commented that reducing the number of the local LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses to three through acquisitions or mergers will help...
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is possibly eyeing the LED industry for its next acquisition, having seen its LCD panel subsidiary Innolux Display enter into a merger...
Asustek Computer is considering plans to aid its goal of ranking as the global top-three notebook vendor in 2011 through acquisitions; Toshiba's notebook business has been identified...
The acquisition of Innolux Display and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) will not impact Himax Technologies, a subsidiary of CMO, according to the LCD driver IC design house. Himax expects...
Passive component maker Cyntec has announced that it will become a 100%-owned subsidiary of its parent company Delta Electronics, and will delist from the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE)...
Electrophoretic display (EPD) maker Prime View International (PVI) has posted net profit of NT$56.85 million (US$1.75 million) for the third quarter of 2009, according to data from...
Wistron announced on October 28 that its board of directors has officially approved the company's 12 million euro (US$17.76 million) investment made to acquire Holland-based e-paper...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) will invest up to 6.9 billion yen (US$76.28 million) to acquire the outstanding shares of UMC Japan (UMCJ), company CEO Shih-Wei Sun announced...
Toshiba is estimated to have grabbed a 13.2% share of the global hard disk drive (HDD) market following its takeover of Fujitsu's hard drive operations, according to industry sourc...
Taiwan-based DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) is mulling the possibility of buying back a portion of the Rexchip Electronics shares it has sold to Japan-based...
Elpida Memory on October 14 announced that it has acquired a larger shareholding in Rexchip Electronics in order to strengthen the management of the consolidated subsidiary's operations...
MEMS accelerometer supplier Kionix and Japan-based Rohm have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Rohm will acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock...
IC distributor WPG Holdings has clarified that it has made no moves to acquire Yosun Industrial, in the wake of media reports claiming the two companies had reached a stock-swap merger...
Three leading IC and IT distributors – US-based Arrow Electronics and Taiwan-based WPG Holdings and Synnex Technology International – are all eyeing the possibility of...
Innolux Display and TPO Displays have announced a merger deal through a share swap to strengthen competitiveness in the small- to medium-size LCD panel market.
