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Tuesday 24 March 2009
Taiwan chip resistor makers see utilization rates increase to 95%
Ta-I Technology and Ralec Electronics, two Taiwan-based makers of chip resistors, have seen their utilization rates climb to 95%. First-quarter shipments are likely to be better than...
Tuesday 24 March 2009
LED packaging house Para Light sees utilization rate rebound to 60% in March
Taiwan-based LED packaging house Para Light Electronics has seen their utilization rate return to 60% in March, and the order visibility extend to April because of growing demand...
Tuesday 24 March 2009
Giantplus expects utilization rate to exceed 90% in April
Taiwan-based small- to medium-size LCD panel maker Giantplus Technology expects its utilization rate to exceed 90% in April amid recovering demand from China's handset market, according...
Monday 23 March 2009
TSMC resumes production as orders surge
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has returned to almost full production, buoyed by a surge in short lead time orders for handset chips, telecom products and graphics...
Monday 23 March 2009
IC substrate makers see utilization increase to 50%
IC substrate makers Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board (NPC), Phoenix Precision Technology (PPT) and Unimicron Technology have all seen their order visibility extend to mid-April and utilization...
Friday 20 March 2009
HannStar 5.3G plant to reach full capacity in April
LCD panel maker HannStar Display's utilization rate at its 5.3G plant is expected to be fully-loaded in April as shipments of medium-size netbook panels and large-size LCD monitor...
Friday 20 March 2009
AUO is optimistic for 2009 outlook
LJ Chen, president and CEO of AU Optronics (AUO), has struck an optimistic note about the LCD panel market in 2009, saying the industry does not need to be pessimistic because of...
Thursday 19 March 2009
TSMC and UMC see rising orders for AMD GPUs for 2Q09, says paper
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have landed combined orders of 30,000 wafers (12-inch equivalent) for new AMD graphics...
Thursday 19 March 2009
Driver IC packaging firms see capacity utilization improve on China demand
Driver IC packaging and testing companies Chipbond Technology, International Semiconductor Technology (IST) and King Yuan Electronics Company (KYEC) have seen their recently capacity...
Thursday 19 March 2009
LED chipmakers have better order visbility and utilization rates
Taiwan LED chipmakers Epistar, Formosa Epitaxy, and Opto Tech have all reported sequential increases in their February revenues, with their order visibility and utilization rates...
Thursday 19 March 2009
Career shipping FPCBs to smartphone client in North America
Taiwan-based flexible handset PCB maker Career Technology will begin shipping flexible PCBs (FPCBs) to a smartphone vendor in the North America market starting this month. Shipments...
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Gold Circuit Electronics runs China PCB facility to nearly full capacity
PCB maker Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) has said that its Changshu plant (Jiangsu Province, China) is running at almost full utilization, thanks to rising shipments for netbooks...
Tuesday 17 March 2009
First-tier panel makers to see higher-than-expected utilization rates in 1Q09, say sources
The utilization rates at Taiwan's first-tier TFT LCD panel makers, AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), will be higher than what the companies had expected for the...
Monday 16 March 2009
Compal utilization rate expected to reach 90% in 2Q09, says paper
Compal Electronics' utilization rate for notebook manufacturing has a good chance of reaching 90% in the second quarter as current order visibility is clear, according to a Chinese-language...
Friday 13 March 2009
Second-tier foundry VIS lifts guidance for 1Q09
Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), an affiliate of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has revised its first-quarter guidance thanks to rush orders, according...
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