Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has announced via a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) that the company has recently repurchased 30.857 million shares for...
Driver IC packaging and testing house Chipbond Technology's November sales were only NT$277 million (US$8.32 million), down 36% from October and lower than the company's breakeven...
With Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) lowering its fourth-quarter guidance closely on the heels of a grimmer outlook offered by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Logic IC testing house King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) has announced that a plan to spin off its memory testing division will be postponed to January 1, 2010 from the original...
With the global semiconductor market falling on difficult times, IC packaging and testing houses Sigurd Microelectronics and King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) expect to see a 10%...
IC testing company Thailin Semiconductor has said that it will continue to expand its logic IC testing business with prospects adding one or two new clients in the first quarter of...
Driver IC packaging and testing houses Chipbond Technology, International Semiconductor Technology (IST), and ChipMOS Technologies will see their utilization rates drop to 55-60%...
Two leading Taiwan IC testing and LCD equipment suppliers Mirle Automation and Test Research (TRI) have seen a decline in profits for the first three quarters of 2008 due to weak...
Paul Yang, CEO of Singapore-listed wafer testing company Global Testing (GT) and president of its subsidiary GT Taiwan, has resigned amid allegations of improper cash dealings with...
Wafer testing service provider Ardentec is putting on hold its capital expenditure (capex) plans for the fourth quarter due to low order visibility, according to industry sources.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) recently landed orders for wafer-level chip-scale packaging (WL-CSP) from Bluetooth chip maker CSR, according to market sources.
Taiwan packaging and testing companies performed better than expectation in general during the third quarter, but fourth-quarter sales are expected to decline sequentially, according...
With capital expenditures typically accounting for 60-70% of a testing company's total costs, companies such as Global Testing (GT) have pursued uniques strategies to minimize their...
The IC testing industry is expected to see slow growth in 2008. However, instead of waiting for the economy to recover, industry players should rely on new products and technologies...
