King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) has adjusted upward its capex budget for 2009 by 50% to NT$3 billion (US$91.66 million), which will be utilized for purchases of new test equipment...
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Bright LED Electronics has decided to cancel plans to expand surface-mount device (SMD) LED capacity since the company's current utilization rate...
DRAM chipmaker Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) gained approval to reset the conversion price of its US$157.85 million worth of euro convertible bonds (ECBs) during its recent...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has seen almost full utilization rates at its Kaohsiung and Shanghai plants amid demand for leadframe packaging from emerging markets, according...
Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC) has forecast its revenue ratio between the first and second halves of 2009 may be between 30:70 and 40:60, according to company president Otto Chang...
Formosa Advanced Technologies (FATC) plans to invest more than NT$1 billion (US$30.51 million) to more than double capacity of its LED chip packaging line in the second half of 2009,...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has raised its capex budget for 2009, despite an anticipated decline in revenues, according to company chairman and CEO Morris Chang...
Much like the boom-to-bust IC industry in recent decades, manufacturers of solar cells and thin films have also had a difficult time matching investments for new production capacity...
Taiwan-based network equipment maker Hitron Technologies has signed a NT$1 billion (US$30.4 million) syndicated loan agreement with a banking consortium led by First Commercial Ban...
Yageo has signed contracts with equipment makers and begun equipment installation, while Ta-I Technology plans to resume production at lines halted earlier, according to the compan...
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have started implementing their capex plans for 2009, with each placing orders for 200 wire bonders...
Green network equipment will grow to represent 46% of the US$277 billion global telecom infrastructure market by 2013, according to Pike Research, a market research and consulting...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is continuing to expand its 12-inch wafer foundry capacity, aiming at an 11% increase from 2008 and to account for 42% of its aggregate...
