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...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has announced an equipment purchase worth NT$620.06 million (US$18.8 million) from Lam Research, according to a company filing with the Taiwan...
Nanya Technology has announced via filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) two purchases of machinery equipment from unspecified equipment makers. The total transactions amounted...
Nanya Technology has announced via filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) two purchases of machinery equipment from unspecified equipment makers. The total transactions amounted...
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) has disclosed that its first-quarter capital expenditure (capex) totaled NT$4.7 (US$140 million), down 13.8% on year. Of the capex, 73.6% was on fixed network...
Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) is optimistic about the current panel industry and will increase its 2009 capex to NT$50-60 billion (US$1.48-1.78 billion) from...
Tatung InfoComm, one of the six WiMAX licensees in Taiwan, aims to solicit up to one million WiMAX subscribers in five years. The company will officially launch its commercial WiMAX...
