More Taiwan-based passive makers are venturing into the production of chip resistors in the smaller 01005 size (0.4 x 0.2 x 0.1mm) due to increasing demand from the smartphone sectors,...
Walsin Technology Company (WTC) expects demand for its passive components to top 45-46 million units in 2011, increasing 18-20% from a year earlier, according to company president...
Passive component maker Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics has reported net profits of NT$78 million (US$2.7 million) for the first quarter of 2011, decreasing 5.9% from the previous...
Taiwan-based Acme Electronics, which produces mainly ferrite cores, has reported an explosion at its plant in Miaoli County, northern Taiwan. Seven employees were injured.
Yageo will delist from the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) after venture capital firm Orion Taiwan completes its tender offer to acquire the passive component maker, according to Yageo...
Most passive component makers and upstream raw material suppliers have reported strong sales for March 2011 due to a low base in February and inventory build-up by downstream clients...
Passive component maker Yageo has announced that it has received a public tender offer from venture capital firm Orion Taiwan to acquire 100% of its outstanding common shares at NT$16.1...
Taiwan-based Thinking Electronic, which mainly makes protective components for power supplies, has reported that consolidated revenues for March 2011 rose 60.5% sequentially to NT$382...
Aluminum foil maker Liton Technology and Leatec Fine Ceramic, a supplier of chip resistor substrates, are both seeing increases in orders amid uncertainty over the supply line from...
Passive component maker Mag.Layers Scientific-Technics has announced plans to expand capacity for both assembly- and molded-type power chokes in 2011, as it acknowledges that demand...
Passive component makers Yageo and Walsin Technology (WTC) have both reported a decline in revenues for February due to reduced work days and impact of Intel's chipset problem.
Taiwan-based passive component maker Thinking Electronic Industrial has announced consolidated revenues of NT$238 million (US$8 million) for February 2011, down 35.8% sequentially...
Chip-resistor substrates are expected to see constrained supply later in 2011 due to rising demand combined with a lack of capacity ramps by producers, according to industry sources...
Passive component distributor Podak is expected to see its revenues decline over 20% sequentially in February 2011 due to weak demand from the notebook sector and reduced working...
Since Apple's iPad 2 reportedly will not incorporate ALD/SLD polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) resistors, Taiwan's protective component makers will not be able to...
