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Thursday 15 July 2010
Asia Optical expects CCMs, CIS to drive growth in 2H10 revenues
Asia Optical expects shipments of CCMs (compact camera modules) used in handsets and CIS (contact image sensors) used in MFPs to generate substantial growth in its consolidated revenues...
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Lite-On Semi upbeat about 3Q10
Lite-On Semiconductor, a CMOS image sensor (CIS) and discrete-IC specialist, has pointed out that the company's order momentum remains strong. Revenues for the third quarter will...
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Image sensor market to post record year in 2010, says IC Insights
With demand for digital cameras, camera phones, and machine-vision systems recovering, sales of image-sensor devices are forecast to grow 31% in 2010 and will reach a new record high...
Monday 31 May 2010
IC distributor Coasia secures NT$1 billion syndicated loan
Coasia Microelectronics has signed a NT$1 billion (US$31 million) syndicated loan with banks to fund operations, according to the company. The IC distributor said sales of its distributed...
Thursday 13 May 2010
Pixart Imaging looks to over 20% sequential revenue growth in 2Q10
Pixart Imaging expects its revenues for the second quarter of 2010 to increase over 20% from the NT$1.08 billion (US$34.15 million) recorded in the first quarter, according to company...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Lite-On Semi to see better-than-expected 1Q10 results
Lite-On Semiconductor has estimated that its consolidated revenues for the ongoing first quarter are likely to drop by less than 5% sequentially thanks to growing shipments of semiconductor...
Friday 5 March 2010
VIS utilization up on orders transferred from TSMC, says paper
Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has boosted its capacity utilization rate at its 8-inch Fab 2 buoyed by orders transferred from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Thursday 4 March 2010
IC design houses placing more wafer orders at second-tier or China-based foundries
Some Taiwan-based vendors of LCD driver ICs, analog ICs and CMOS sensors are increasing their orders for wafer starts at second-tier foundries or foundries in China due to tight production...
Thursday 25 February 2010
Handsets may eat away entry-level DSC market, says iSuppli
The low-end digital still camera (DSC) market is coming under intensifying competitive pressure from cell phones that are sporting increasingly high-resolution image sensors, according...
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Pixart expects revenues to stay flat in 1Q10; optical touchscreen share to lift in 2H10
Pixart Imaging expects to see revenues stay flat in the first quarter of 2010. It has estimated a 5% revenue growth for mouse related products but a 30-40% decline in the PC webcam...
Wednesday 10 February 2010
Pixart to spin off CIS design subsidiary in March
Pixart Imaging will spin off its CMOS image sensor (CIS) design subsidiary - PrimeSensor Technology - at the end of first-quarter 2010, according to Pixart chairman Huang Sen-huang...
Thursday 4 February 2010
Samsung to add 8-inch CIS fab
Samsung Electronics plans to add one more 8-inch fab for CMOS image sensor (CIS) production in 2010 to satisfy increasing market demand, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 3 February 2010
Taiwan to develop and make satellite-loaded remote sensing instrument
The National Space Organization (NSPO) under Taiwan's government-sponsored National Applied Research Laboratories (NARL) on February 2 announced the formation of a group specifically...
Monday 4 January 2010
Pixart enters handset CMOS sensor market
CMOS image sensor (CIS) supplier Pixart Imaging has teamed up with MediaTek to enter the handset CIS market, according to industry sources. Under the partnership, Pixart has begun...
Wednesday 23 December 2009
OmniVision orders for iPhone expected to rise significantly in 2010
OmniVision Technologies is expected to see CMOS image sensor (CIS) orders for Apple's iPhone devices grow to 40-45 million units in 2010 from 20-21 million estimated this year, according...