Qisda currently ships more than 10,000 e-book readers per month and expects shipments to increase significantly starting in June-July to enable a yearly volume of 400,000 units in...
Smartphone maker HTC projects second-quarter shipments to reach 4.5 million units, up 36% sequentially, and first-half shipments should rise by 40% on year to 7.8 million units. The...
Quotes for edge-type LED backlight units (BLUs) are expected to drop in 2010, with prices of such BLUs or 40-inch TVs to fall by 42.9%, according to Displaybank.
Taiwan-based polarizer maker Optimax Technology will reduce its paid-in capital by 46.45% to NT$2.714 billion (US$85.96 million) mainly to write off a net loss of NT$1.595 billion...
Some global top-10 notebook vendors including Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell in 2009 dropped their notebook ASPs by over 8%, while Acer only had a less than 6% drop. But Asustek Computer...
Analog/mixed-signal and logic IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has announced revenues of NT$ 1.17 billion (US$36.8 million) for February 2010, representing a...
Acer expects its notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2010 to stay flat sequentially, but increase 40-45% compared to the same period a year ago. Meanwhile, the company expects...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) recently launched a mainstream traditional notebook, the Compaq 516, with a price of 3,599 yuan (US$527), less than China's average notebook ASP of 4,500-5,000...
AU Optronics (AUO) expects small- to medium-size panel shipments for the first quarter of 2010 to drop about 7% from 60.08 million units in the fourth quarter of 2009 due to seasonality,...
Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has estimated wafer shipments and capacity utilization rates for the first quarter to grow from the fourth quarter...
Nanya Technology, currently Taiwan's top DRAM maker by revenues, has expressed concerns that it may see ASPs drop sequentially in the first quarter of 2010 due to weakness in DDR2...
Plans announced recently by Taiwan-based component makers to raise capex and ramp up capacity for MLCC devices in 2010 are unlikely to cause a decline in ASPs due to strong demand...
Chip resistor substrate ASPs will not see large fluctuations as demand remains high, according to market sources. Alumina substrate supplier Leatec Fine Ceramics has resumed all of...
The niche memory IC market has bottomed out with improving order volume as well as average selling prices (ASPs), said Etron Technology chairman Nicky Lu.
