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Tuesday 19 December 2017
Colorful expects rising revenues in 2017
Colorful Technology expects its revenues to rise on year in 2017 thanks to graphics card and motherboard demand from the gaming market and the cryptocurrency mining fad. As for 2018,...
Friday 15 December 2017
IC substrates distributor Niching upbeat about 2018 performance
Taiwan-based semiconductor packaging material and equipment distributor Niching Industrial is optimistic about its 2018 performance due to rising demand for memory IC substrates,...
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Motherboard makers to see shipments decline in 4Q17
Some motherboard vendors are expected to see their shipments decline over 10% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2017 as demand from the cryptocurrency mining sector has shown...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Graphics card vendors to see shipments rise in 2017
Thanks to the cryptocurrency mining fad, most graphics card vendors are expected to report shipment increases in 2017 with Asustek Computer and Micro-Star International (MSI) each...
Thursday 19 October 2017
Asustek, Gigabyte reorganization efforts to bear fruit in 1Q18
Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology have both completed their business reorganization, and are expected to see the efforts bear fruit around the end of first-quarter 2018.
Thursday 19 October 2017
Graphics card vendors upbeat about crytocurrency mining
As the values for some major cryptocurrencies continue rising and prolonging related graphics card demand, graphics card vendors, including Asustek Computer who was originally conservative...
Thursday 19 October 2017
TSMC 3Q17 profits slip
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported net profits of NT$89.93 billion (US$2.97 billion) on consolidated revenues of NT$252.11 billion for the third quarter...
Thursday 19 October 2017
Samsung completes qualification of 8LPP process
Samsung Electronics' 8nm FinFET process technology, the 8LPP (Low Power Plus), has been qualified and is ready for production, according to the company.
Monday 16 October 2017
Worldwide gaming notebook shipments to reach 5.5 million units in 2017
Worldwide gaming notebook shipments are estimated to reach around 5.5 million units in 2017 with Micro-Star International (MSI) to account for 1.1-1.2 million units and Asustek 1.3...
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Nvidia partners with Gigabyte and Leadtek for AI, says paper
Nvidia has been recruiting Taiwan-based hardware manufacturers such as Gigabyte Technology and Leadtek Research to join its alliance for artificial intelligence (AI), according to...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
AMD to launch 12nm Ryzen in February 2018, says mobo makers
AMD has informed its partners that it plans to launch in February 2018 an upgrade version of its Ryzen series processors built using a 12nm low-power (12LP) process at Globalfoundries,...
Monday 28 August 2017
Graphics card prices to be raised to reflect increasing memory costs
Consumer demand for graphics cards may be undermined by price hikes arising from GDDR memory shortage and first-tier vendors are expected to raise their Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080/1070/1060/1050...
Wednesday 23 August 2017
Rising graphics card demand to buoy backend houses profitability in 2H17
Rising graphics card demand is expected to make a positive contribution to related backend houses' profitability in the second half of 2017, according to market sources.
Friday 11 August 2017
Motherboard players see improved results in July
Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology saw strong graphics card shipments in July, while ASRock and Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) also saw improved results.
Thursday 27 July 2017
Graphics card shortages ease as cryptocurrency mining fad subsides
With the cryptocurrency mining fad starting to subside, graphics card shortages have already eased and prices dropped back to normal levels, according to sources from graphics card...