Notebook manufacturers Compal Electronics, Quanta Computer and Inventec have recently slashed prices significantly, in order to vie for orders from the channel, according to sources...
IC distributor WPG Holdings has posted consolidated revenues of NT$12.9 billion (US$374.83 million) for February, rising 50% from January and 38% compared to the same period of 2008...
Taiwan-based IC distributors WPG Holdings, Zenitron and WT Microelectronics all saw their February sales driven by China's stimulus program for the purchases of consumer electronics...
A Taiwan IC distributor plans to adopt CPUs from Cupertino, California-based RMI in white-box netbooks, according to market sources. RMI has a range of MIPS-based CPUs which have...
Taiwan-based IC channel distributors have said that they have already secured up to 80-90% of orders for March, with some operators forecasting that overall revenues for the industry...
Professional Computer Technology (PCT), a Taiwan-based IC distributor, has said that it expects to see sequential sales growth in the second quarter of 2009, and that growth will...
Although many companies expect the China government's subsidy program for rural areas to be an important sales growth driver, some IC distributors hold an opposing view.
Demand for set-top box (STB) chips in China has been gaining momentum as STB sales are expected to pick up in the near future amid plans by TV operators to launch more digital TV...
Yosun Industrial has reported consolidated sales of NT$111.63 billion (US$3.21 billion), representing an on-year growth of 23.4%. Net income was NT$957 billion, increasing 6.5% from...
Global IC distributor Avnet Electronics Marketing expects its Taiwan and Asia-Pacific revenues to stay flat at US$1 billion and US$3 billion, respectively, in 2009 amid challenging...
Some IC distributors are aggressively setting up their own R&D teams to provide reference designs to notebook designers and manufacturers targeting China's white-box notebook...
Asustek Computer has finally started placing orders again thanks to recent better-then-expected notebook shipments which have helped the company to clear out its inventory. However,...
Texas Instruments (TI) is looking to temporarily halt production at some of its fabs in March, according to sources with Taiwan's IC distributors. The fabs to be suspended handle...
IC distributor WPG Holdings has seen orders from China and Taiwan pick up since January and believes demand will be better than expected in the first quarter of 2009. Buoyed by steady...
