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Thursday 13 June 2019
VPEC ramping up VCSEL wafer production
Epitaxial wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) has kicked off volume production for vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) components, and is expected to...
Monday 20 May 2019
Huawei seeking capacity increases at Taiwan partners despite US ban
Huawei has reportedly promised not to cut its orders with Taiwan's upstream and downstream supply chain partners and also inquired about the possibility of increasing their production...
Friday 10 May 2019
IntelliEPI April revenues fall 23.8%
GaAs epi-wafer company Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI), which uses MBE (molecular beam epitaxy) growth technology, saw its revenues for April plunge 23.8% on month to...
Monday 7 January 2019
Transcom, IntelliEPI taps GaAs, GaSb devices into military sector
Taiwan-based compound semiconductor components suppliers including Transcom and Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI) are aggressively venturing their GaAs, GaN and GaSb devices...
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Compound semiconductor suppliers to see power amplifier demand from 5G in 2019
While being positive about the medium- and long-term prospects of the 5G industry, most Taiwan's compound semiconductor makers, with respect to the short-term outlook, expect stronger...
Thursday 6 December 2018
Business of 5G seen to bring only symbolic benefits for GaAs firms in 2019
Applications of 5G will generate only symbolic rather than substantive economic benefits to suppliers of wireless compound semiconductor components devices such as radio frequency...
Thursday 6 December 2018
Compound semiconductor firms see unclear order visibility for 1Q19
Compound semiconductor firms are conservative about order visibility for the first quarter of 2019 due partly to Apple cutting orders amid weaker-than-expected sales of new iPhones,...
Tuesday 24 July 2018
Samsung 5G smartphone rollouts to benefit power amplifier makers
As Samsung Electronics is expected to roll out smartphones packed with 5G-enabled power amplifiers (PAs) in mid-2019 at the earliest, a few Taiwan-based PA makers will manage to enter...
Friday 6 July 2018
Win Semi 2Q18 revenues meet guidance
GaAs IC foundry Win Semiconductors saw its second-quarter revenues increase 2.3% sequentially to NT$4.57 billion (US$149.5 million) which met its guidance of a low single-digit sequential...
Friday 30 March 2018
IntelliEPI to expand epi-wafer capacity by 50-60% in 2018
Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI), which supplies epi-wafers to the electronics and optoelectronics industries, is expected to see its overall production capacity expand...
Monday 5 March 2018
Compound semiconductor suppliers set to benefit from 5G
Taiwan suppliers of compound semiconductor devices are poised to gain significant growth momentum from the increasing market demand for radio frequency (RF) and power amplifier (PA)...
Monday 11 December 2017
Apple Watch 3 shipment growth to benefit Taiwan IC packagers in 2018
Shipments of Apple Watch 3 are expected to surge 20% on year to reach 23-25 million units in the coming year, which will greatly benefit Taiwan players in the supply, particularly...
Friday 6 October 2017
Win Semiconductors reportedly enters iPhone X supply chain
Win Semiconductors, one of Taiwan's top-3 GaAs PA (power amplifier) suppliers, has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.395 billion (US$144.58 million) in the third quarter of 2017,...
Tuesday 1 August 2017
Win Semi expects to post 10-15% revenue growth in 3Q17
GaAs IC foundry Win Semiconductors expects to post revenue growth of 10-15% sequentially in the third quarter of 2017 with gross margin outperforming the 37.2% recorded in the second...
Friday 14 July 2017
Skyworks seeking acquisition in Taiwan
Skyworks is evaluating the feasibility of acquiring either RF component specialist Richwave Technology or the power amplifier (PA) department of Airoha Technology, a unit of MediaTek,...