Taiwan flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) makers expect strong demand from the smartphone market in 2009, as High Tech Computer (HTC), Research In Motion (RIM), Palm and Appls...
Taiwan flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) makers are expected to benefit from Global Flex's (Suzhou), a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Global Flex Holdings, application to the Wuzhong...
Ichia Technologies and Flexium Interconnect saw significant growth in their sales from flexible printed circuit board (FPCBs) thanks to rush orders generated by China's subsidy program...
The bankruptcy filing in the fourth quarter of 2008 by Japan-based flexible PCB (FPCB) player Maruwa, and ongoing profit shrinkage by Japan's two remaining players Nippon Mektron...
IPC has announced that rigid PCB shipments in North America were down 14.2% and bookings were down 24.5% on year in December 2008. For 2008, rigid PCB shipments were up 0.9%and bookings...
During the current weak season in the flexible PCB (FPCB) market, orders for smartphone applications are mostly for short-term and rush orders and being placed by first-tier smartphone...
Although the global financial crisis has impacted overall handset demand, the smartphone segment is performing relatively better. Thanks to healthy orders from the smartphone segment,...
Flexible PCB (FPCB) maker Uniflex Technology will see losses this year because orders have dropped 50% in the fourth quarter. In response the company is adjusting its structure with...
Flexible PCB (FPCB) maker Flexium Interconnect has had significant sales growth since September and continues to have strong orders in November, according to the company. Flexium...
Although Semiconductor distributor Niching Industrial has seen sales growth in 2008 thanks to strong shipments of memory module and memory card substrates, profits have declined due...
Flexible PCB (FPCB) specialist Career Technology is expected to enjoy revenues growth of 20-25% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2008, buoyed by increasing orders from smartphone...
Compeq Manufacturing hit record consolidated revenues of NT$2.981 billion (US$90 million) in October 2008 mainly due to booming sales of rigid-flex PCBs and handset PCBs. But orders...
Research firms Prismark and NTI were invited by the Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA) to deliver speeches during a PCB managers meeting on October 23. At the event Prismark...
Wu Yung-Hui, general manager of Taiwan leading flexible PCB (FPCB) supplier Career Technology, pointed out that strong shipments of smartphones in 2008 have been the demand driver...
Japan is still a more major market than Taiwan for raw materials for flexible PCB (FPCB), but Taiwan, with less than 10% self-sufficiency on ductile solder mask, has been striving...
