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Wednesday 25 September 2013
Win Semi to see revenues hit bottom in September
GaAs IC foundry house Win Semiconductors is expected to see its revenues hit the lowest level for 2013 in September affected by waning global demand for high-end smartphones, according...
Thursday 22 August 2013
A GaAs foundry success: Q&A with Win Semi chairman Dennis Chen
Win Semiconductors was named the world's top pure-play gallium arsenide (GaAs) IC foundry in 2009, nine years after the company became the first Asia-based foundry capable of supplying...
Wednesday 14 August 2013
GaAs foundry Win Semi expects 3Q13 revenues to slip 20%
GaAs IC foundry house Win Semiconductors expects its consolidated revenues to decline 20% sequentially in the third quarter of 2013, as a slowdown in sales of high-end smartphones...
Monday 22 July 2013
VPEC aims at 50% global market share
Taiwan-based Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC), which supplies GaAs epi-wafers for fabricating power amplifiers (PA), aims to increase its global market share to 50% from the current...
Thursday 4 July 2013
GaAs IC foundries post mixed June results
Win Semiconductors saw its June sales increase 6.2% while fellow company Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company's (AWSC) revenues declined 35.3% from a year ago.
Thursday 13 June 2013
GaAs IC foundries vying for orders from China PA startups
An increasing number of China-based fabless companies specializing in smartphone power amplifiers (PA) has drawn the attention of GaAs IC foundries, such as Win Semiconductors, which...
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Win Semi expects 4Q sales to hit peak for 2013
Gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafer foundry Win Semiconductors' 2013 consolidated revenues are set to peak in the fourth quarter, buoyed by a ramp-up of orders from the smartphone sector,...
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Win Semi expects to post double-digit revenue growth in 2013
Gallium arsenide (GaAs) wafer foundry Win Semiconductors expects to post double-digit revenue growth in 2013 thanks to its complete product portfolio and broader client base.
Tuesday 30 April 2013
VPEC 1Q13 profits jump 94%
Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC), a Taiwan-based supplier of GaAs epi-wafers for fabricating power amplifiers (PA), saw its first-quarter profits soar 94.1% sequentially with...
Tuesday 30 April 2013
Win Semi expects smartphone PAs to drive revenue growth
GaAs device foundry Win Semiconductors has seen demand for smartphone-use power amplifiers (PA) strengthen, and expects the pull-in of orders to buoy its sales performance in 2013.
Thursday 28 March 2013
GaAs device revenues grow in 2012, says Strategy Analytics
Growth in the fourth quarter of 2012 pulled GaAs device revenues to a slight gain for 2012, according to Strategy Analytics. It also presents the revenue performance of leading GaAs...
Wednesday 27 March 2013
MMMB power amplifiers difficult to replace discrete ones, says Win Semi
Demand for multimode multiband (MMMB) power amplifiers (PA) used in handsets has risen since 2012, generating concerns that the integrated multiband solutions can erode the conventional...
Thursday 14 March 2013
GaAs firms post mixed results in February
GaAs IC foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC) have both reported decreased revenues for February, while upstream epi-wafer supplier Visual Photonics...
Thursday 24 January 2013
Putting solar on anything that can be moved, carried or worn: Q&A with Alta Devices
GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron...
Monday 7 January 2013
Win Semi, VPEC December sales rise
GaAs foundry Win Semiconductors and Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC), a supplier of GaAs epi-wafers, have both reported sequential growth in sales for December 2012.