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Tuesday 31 March 2020
PC brands seeking new routes for delivery
With Amazon giving priority of its product delivery to daily necessities and pushing back that for PC products, most PC vendors are now seeking alternative ways to ship their devices...
Monday 30 March 2020
MSI expects small drop in 1Q20 revenues and rising sales starting April
Micro-Star International (MSI) expects revenues to drop less than 10% on year in the first quarter of 2020 and will see its sales gradually pick up starting April with the releases...
Monday 30 March 2020
E&R enjoys influx of short lead-time orders from China chipmaking sector
E&R Engineering has recently enjoyed an influx of short lead-time orders from China's semiconductor industry, which will be buoying its sales performance during the second quarter...
Monday 30 March 2020
Taiwan IC design houses see orders for servers slow down
Taiwan-based IC design houses engaged in the supply chain for servers are expected to see orders coming from the sector buoy their sales during the second quarter of 2020, but have...
Monday 30 March 2020
100 IC wafer fabs closed or repurposed since 2009, says IC Insights
Over the past decade, the IC industry has been paring down its older capacity as manufacturers have consolidated or transitioned to the fab-lite or fabless business models, according...
Friday 27 March 2020
Taiwan equipment makers cautious about 2H20 amid pandemic
Taiwan's electronic and semiconductor equipment suppliers are cautious about their shipment prospects for the second half of 2020 if the global coronavirus pandemic fails to ease...
Friday 27 March 2020
Taiwan IC design houses land short lead-time orders for notebooks
Taiwan-based IC design houses have recently landed short lead-time orders for applications for commercial and educational notebooks and tablets, according to industry sources.
Friday 27 March 2020
Taiwan fabless chipmakers see unclear order visibility for 2Q20
Taiwan-based IC design houses remain cautious about overall customer demand in the second quarter judging from limited order visibility, according to industry sources.
Thursday 26 March 2020
NAND flash ASPs may tumble in 2H20
The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has dragged down considerably shipments for most end products in the first quarter of 2020, according to DRAMeXchange, which cut its NAND flash...
Thursday 26 March 2020
Wistron set to grow revenues from non-China production
Wistron is looking to grow revenues generated from its factories outside of China, and expects to lower revenues from its China-based sites to about 50% of company revenues in 2021,...
Thursday 26 March 2020
PCB partners unkeen on following Apple relocation
Apple is reportedly moving more of its production out of China, but Taiwanese PCB makers in the supply chain of iOS devices seem to stay conservative in following in the vendor's...
Thursday 26 March 2020
Taiwan handset sales flat in January-February
Handset sales in Taiwan, mostly smartphones, reached 507,000 units in February, down 0.4% from a year earlier, according to data compiled local retail channels.
Thursday 26 March 2020
Taiwan PCB makers to stay put in China despite pandemic
Taiwanese PCB makers, despite the coronavirus pandemic's impacts, still expect 5G handset demand to pick up later this year, and remain reluctant to move production out of China in...
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Samsung announces EUV DRAM
Samsung Electronics has shipped one million 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 DRAM modules based on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology, according to the company. The new EUV-based DRAM modules...
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Lextar involved in Nichia patent infringement lawsuit
Japan-based Nichia has filed with Tokyo District Court a charge against IPF, a Japanese after-market automotive component sales agent, alleging LED devices used in IPF-distributed...