China-based passive component makers have been expanding their business scale and production capacities at a gradual pace, and are set to pose a growing threat to their bigger Taiwan-based...

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$1.07 trillion (US$34.43 billion) for the second quarter of 2018, rising 4.95% sequentially...

IC design house ALi, which specializes in set-top box (STB) chipset solutions, has reported a 10th consecutive quarterly loss in the second quarter of 2018 in which net losses came...

Passive component vendor Yageo has disclosed net profits of NT$15.06 billion (US$491.9 million) for the first half of 2018, with EPS reaching NT$42.95.

Global tech supply chains have seen overwhelming price hikes in 2018, ranging from DRAM, silicon wafer, and passive components to discrete devices MOSFET, diode, as MCU, as well as...

A continued rally in MLCC prices has been pushing up prices for other passive components including capacitors, which Lelon Electronics specializes in. For Lelon president Wu Chih-min,...

Speculation has circulated in the industry that Korea- and Taiwan-based passive component suppliers plan to raise their MLCC prices in July.

Passive component maker Walsin Technology has ramped up its investments in capacity expansion quarter by quarter since the beginning of 2018, with the investments to drive up capacity...

As suppliers of passive components are mulling further price hikes in July amid the sustained supply shortfalls seen through the end of 2018 at least, Taiwan notebook ODMs including...

Passive component maker Yageo has reported consolidated revenues for May 2018 surged 151% from a year ago to a record high of NT$6.35 billion (US$213.6 million).

Yageo has seen its supply of MLCCs fall short of demand, which will likely persist through 2019, according to company chairman Pierre Chen.

Murata Manufacturing, Pegatron and Inventec have dismissed recent reports from Taiwan about deals they had allegedly struck over stable MLCC supply amid serious shortages of the passive...

Taiwan EMS firms, especially smaller ones, are seeing their profitability increasingly eroded as their downstream customers are reluctant to absorb increases in production cost driven...

LCD driver IC specialist Novatek Microelectronics expects to post revenue growth of 19-23% sequentially in the second quarter of 2018, citing growing demand for smartphones.

Passive component makers Yageo and Chilisin Electronics have reported sequential increases in April consolidated revenues of 13.3% and 6.5%, respectively.