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...
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.
