With white-box digital still cameras (DSCs) still not emulating the success of white-box handsets in China, while showing potential for growth in Europe and North America, Taiwan-based...
IC distributor Chip Hope has developed capacitive touchscreen handset turnkey solutions, combining Spreadtrum Communications' chips and Elan Microelectronics' touch panel modules,...
KC Uppertech, one of MediaTek's handset chip distributors, is expected to record better-than-expected revenues in January 2009 thanks to rush orders from the China handset market,...
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has recently been aggressively placing rush orders with IC distributors. The orders are expected to help boost the distributors' performance...
Due to softened demand for consumer electronics products such as interactive toys, digital photo frames and digital cameras, IC distributors will not be able to ease excess inventory...
IC distributors' inventories have been lowered to healthy levels of 1.5-1.7 months, but they remain cautious about placing orders with IC designers, according to market sources.
LCD TV panel makers have placed a significant level of new orders with IC distributors in January because demand during the year-end holiday season was better than expected, according...
Because customers have placed early orders ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, IC distributors' December sales in 2008 performed better than expected. Institutional investors expect...
Consumer IC demand in the first quarter of 2009 is expected to decline 20-30% compared to previous years because distributors in China have held back from placing orders, according...
IC distributors believe that players in the upstream supply chain will have a stable January, defying market observers' previous predictions that their sales for the month would decline...
Taiwan's IC distributors have received a confidence boost about demand from the LCD TV market, as AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) have reportedly received TV...
Market observers estimate IC distributor Kuen Chaang Uppertech's (KCUC's) December sales are to recover by 10% thanks to small handset customers in China.
In order to avoid too much sales decline in 2009, IC distributors have made more deployments outside the consumer electronics, communications and computer market, such as industrial...
Dell is said to be planning to withdraw component purchasing rights from ODMs in 2009, which may impact Taiwan component suppliers, ODMs and IC distributors, according to industry...
Mitac International's acquisition of Magellan Navigation may impact Zenitron, the distributor in Taiwan for the US-based company, according to market sources.
