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Friday 16 March 2012
Ardentec sees sales bottom out in 1Q12
IC testing house Ardentec expects sales to start growing after hitting bottom in the first quarter of 2012, as orders, particularly those placed by Europe-based customers, pick up...
Tuesday 17 January 2012
Taiwan IC testing houses to post single-digit sales drop in 1Q12
Taiwan-based IC testing specialists including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Ardentec are likely to see their first-quarter revenues decrease 5-10% sequentially affected by clients'...
Thursday 12 January 2012
SPIL chairman sees chip market at bottom
The semiconductor market should hit bottom in the first quarter of 2012, and is expected to begin climbing out of the trough afterwards, according to Bough Lin, chairman for Siliconware...
Wednesday 28 December 2011
KYEC chair highlights short-term challenges
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), a Taiwan-based firm specializing in IC testing, has pointed out a number of factors which the prospect for its 2012 business operation will depend on.
Thursday 22 December 2011
KYEC reportedly lands order from Toshiba
Taiwan-based King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) recently landed testing orders for chips used in Sony's PS Vita handheld, with shipments kicking off in December, according to a...
Friday 2 December 2011
Sigurd 4Q11 sales to drop 5-10%
IC testing specialist Sigurd Microelectronics expects to post on-month drops in both November and December revenues. Sales are being affected by supply-chain disruptions caused by...
Friday 25 November 2011
Ardentec to post better-than-expected 4Q11 results
Wafer probing service provider Ardentec is expected to post flat sequential growth in fourth-quarter revenues, beating its internal forecast of a 5-10% decrease, according to market...
Wednesday 23 November 2011
ThaiLin to provide long-term IC testing services for Japan-based AKM
ThaiLin Semiconductor, a Taiwan-based provider of memory and logic IC testing services, on November 22 signed with Japan-based Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM) for testing the latter's...
Wednesday 28 September 2011
KYEC expects revenue drops in 4Q11, 1Q12
IC testing service provider King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) expects its revenues to remain unchanged or slightly rise sequentially in the third quarter of 2011, but then drop...
Wednesday 7 September 2011
IC testing capacity utilization drops to 50-60%, says KYEC president
The semiconductor industry is working through excessive inventory coupled with unusual slowness in the third quarter of 2011, which has caused the average capacity utilization rate...
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Sigurd to buy back stock
Taiwan-based testing company Sigurd Microelectronics plans to buy back three million shares of its common stock at a price range between NT$15 (US$0.52) and NT$25 per share from August...
Wednesday 24 August 2011
IC testers KYEC, SCT suffer large sequential decrease in 2Q11 profits
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and STATS ChipPAC Taiwan Semiconductor (SCT), providers of IC testing services, saw net profits for the second quarter of 2011 drop 52.0% and 31.0% seq...
Thursday 26 May 2011
KYEC lands new order for FRAM
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) has obtained orders from Ramtron International, a supplier of non-volatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM), according to the chip assembly and...
Thursday 19 May 2011
KYEC expects rebound in 2H11
IC testing firm King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) expects a rebound in the second half of 2011 following a weaker-than-expected second quarter. Orders have picked up since mid-May, according...
Monday 25 April 2011
IC testing firm Thailin to control packaging house ChipMOS Shanghai
IC testing house Thailin Semiconductor will spend US$39.95 million to take up the control of ChipMOS Technologies (Shanghai) through the purchase of Modern Mind Technology, which...