Taiwan's economy will contract by 2.97% in 2009 compared to a mere 0.12% growth in 2008, according to the latest estimate by Taiwan's Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and...
WiMAX subscribers worldwide reached 2.68 million in the third quarter of 2008 – a modest 13% growth over the first quarter and a 91% increase from the same period one year earlier,...
Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology are both reportedly implementing cost reduction plans in order to weather through the economic decline, while Asustek Computer,...
With Hsu Wen-Lung, founder of the Chi Mei Group, recently commenting that the Taiwan government should take the lead and help consolidate the panel industry, Chi Mei Optoelectronics...
Revenues from global shipments of core silicon ICs-application specific standard products (ASSPs), application specific ICs (ASICs) and programmable logic devices (PLDs)-is set to...
The deck appears to be stacked against the global semiconductor industry, with six separate market forces conspiring to cause revenues to decline by nearly a double-digit margin in...
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) and ProMOS Technologies have begun launching cost reduction measures that include salary reductions and involuntary unpaid days off, but...
Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), remarked at a conference held by the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce (CNAIC) on...
Although IC design houses usually introduce new products in the fourth quarter every year, semiconductor vendors will still be cleaning out inventory of old products in the fourth...
While the world eyes the demand status for larger sized TVs, IC distributors are noting that demand for 32-inch and smaller-sized LCD TVs has rebounded, according to sources in the...
Despite the sharp drop of the Vietnam economy recently and exchange rate fluctuations, Taiwan-based notebook makers Compal Electronics and Mitac Technology have both said they will...
