Aptina has announced the opening of a new enginnering center in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in response to growing demand for its products and solutions from the Asia Pacific market.
The recent earthquake in Japan is impacting the production of CMOS image sensors at two facilities in the country, affecting the supply of these parts to the mobile phone market,...
The supply of CMOS image sensors (CIS), 1.3-megapixel models in particular, will remain tight in the China market until June, according to industry sources.
Toshiba has closed down its plant that produces logic ICs and CMOS image sensors (CIS), including those for handsets, in Iwate, Japan because of the power failure caused by the March...
Toshiba, Sony and Sony Semiconductor Kyushu (SCK) have executed definitive agreements based on the non-binding MOU signed earlier between Toshiba and Sony for the transfer from Toshiba...
Lite-On Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$720 million (US$25 million) for January 2011, almost flat from NT$717 million in December. The figure showed a 15% decline...
Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer will start pilot production for Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) orders at its plants in Chongqing, China in March with a volume of 40,000-60,000...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been forced to revise downward its notebook shipment goal for January due to a delay in shipments of some key parts and components from upstream suppliers,...
Lite-On Semiconductor, a CMOS image sensor (CIS) and discrete IC specialist, continued to see a sales drop sequentially in December. However, sales for the whole of 2010 still showed...
Vendors from the smartphone, tablet PC, CMOS image sensor and touch panel sectors have begun booking flexible PCB (FPCB) capacities for 2011, pushing FPCB suppliers to ramp up their...
The light may be fading for CCD image sensors as digital cameras, their principal application, switch to a less expensive and more efficient rival technology, according to iSuppli...
Taiwan-based digital camera maker Asia Optical saw its operating incomes swing from losses to profits of NT$99 million (US$3.24 million) in the third quarter of 2010 mainly benefited...
Lite-On Semiconductor recently announced that the company's plant in the Philippines has discontinued manufacturing of compact camera modules (CCM) for a major client, as the segment's...
Asia Optical has upward adjusted the 2010 shipments goal for its CIS (contact image sensors) from 18.5 million units originally to 20 million units, increasing 42.9% form 2009, due...
Taiwan's Pixart Imaging, which specializes in CMOS image sensors, has announced revenues for the second quarter of 2010 grew 9.8% on quarter to NT$1.18 billion (US$37 million). The...
