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.
Taiwan-based passive component vendor Yageo has announced plans to acquire shares of China-based BrightKing for NT$73 (US$2.46) per unit from May 4 to June 21, with a goal of fully...
Taiwan-based Chilisin Electronics has announced plans to reduce its share capital by about 91.82 million units, or 30%, to 214 million units. The amount of reduction in capital will...
Backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) has seen its order visibility extend to the third quarter of 2018, but expressed concerns that tight supplies of certain components and materials...
IC foundries, and PC and handset manufacturers continue to encounter rising costs of components and materials, and will see their gross margins come under downward pressure in 2018,...
For the upcoming Spring Computer Show 2018 in Taipei from April 27-30, Acer has unveiled several Avengers special edition notebooks partnership Marvel.
Increasingly serious shortfalls in the supply of passive components have disrupted production at some major EMS firms in Taiwan, undermining their shipments to brand clients, with...
Passive component maker Yageo has reported consolidated revenues for March 2018 surged 32.8% sequentially and 80.1% from a year earlier to a record high of NT$4.27 billion (US$146.2...
IC design house ALi, which specializes in set-top box (STB) chipset solutions, saw its net loss improve to NT$1.60 (US$0.06) per share in 2017 from NT$1.95 in 2016.
Taiwan suppliers of passive components and their downstream clients have shown divided views over when the lingering supply shortfalls and price hikes would ease. Though downstream...
The global supply of passive components is expected to remain tight through 2019, thanks to robust end-market demand, according to Pierre Chen, chairman for Yageo.
Following the footsteps of MLCC, chip resistors have evolved into the seller's market, and Taiwan suppliers have implemented a 100% hike in quotes for some specs of resistors in serious...
