Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has again raised his forecast for chip market growth in 2010. Speaking at a shareholders meeting...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has decided to boost its 2010 capex to US$600-700 million from US$450-500 million it earlier planned, said company COO Tien Wu at a recent...
DRAM maker Inotera Memories plans to migrate to a 42nm process in September 2010, two months ahead of its original schedule, according to company chairman Jih Lien. Lien also confirmed...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has begun construction of a new factory (K12) in Kaohsiung, which is scheduled for completion in November 2011, according to the company....
DRAM makers Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories are planning to raise their capex again this year to come close to a combined total of NT$100 billion (US$3.1 billion), according...
Powertech Technology (PTI) has said it is mulling plans to revise upward its capex budget for 2010 to NT$10-12 billion (US$31.19-38.63 million) in order to ramp up its capacity. The...
Inotera Memory, a DRAM-manufacturing joint venture between Micron Technology and Nanya Technology, recently announced three separate purchases totaling around NT$5.69 billion (US$177...
Protective component maker Polytronics Technology Corporation (PTTC) will raise NT$60 million (US$1.88 million) through a capital expansion project to raise its production capacity...
The film deposition equipment market for chip manufacturing was down 38% in 2009, but on a sector-by-sector basis, sales dropped between 8.7% to 71.7%, according to The Information...
Samsung Electronics' recently-unveiled capex plans for its memory-chip business in 2010 suggest that the memory chip vendor has foreseen a return to boom times in the PC sector, according...
United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC) has seen its plants in Singapore, Shanghai (China) and Thailand reach full capacity, according to company CEO Lee Joon Chung. Meanwhile, its...
Quartz component maker TXC plans to invest up to NT$1.64 billion (US$51.74 million) in 2010 to ramp up its capacity, according to company president Peter Lin.
IC and LED backend service provider Youngtek Electronics has decided to raise its capex budget for 2010 to NT$820 million (US$25.93 million) from the NT$600-650 million as originally...
Elpida Memory saw its net income for the year ended March 31, 2010 reach 3.1 billion yen (US$33 million), higher than its preliminary estimate of two billion yen. Consolidated revenues...
Inductor maker Chilisin Electronics has set aside a capex budget of NT$600 million (US$18.97 million) for capacity ramps in 2010, according to the company.
