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Thursday 24 May 2018
Taiwan large-size LCD panels – 1Q 2018
Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments decreased 4.4% sequentially, but went up 4.6% on year in the first quarter of 2018.
Thursday 24 May 2018
China IC industry output value increases 21% in 1Q18
China's IC industry output value grew 20.8% from a year earlier to CNY115.29 billion (US$18.1 billion) in the first quarter of 2018, according to statistics released by the China...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Toshiba Memory to build new fab to expand 3D flash production capacity
Toshiba Memory (TMC) announced recently it had decided to start constructing a new fab for BiCS FLASH, the company's proprietary 3D flash memory, in Kitakami (Iwate prefecture, Japan)...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Top China, Taiwan LED makers see alarming inventory levels
Sanan Optoelectronics and HC SemiTek - the two largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers - and Epistar, their biggest counterpart in Taiwan, have seen inventories piling...
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Foundries encouraging fabless chipmakers to switch to 12-inch wafers
Pure-play foundries in China and Taiwan intend to encourage their fabless firms to transition to 12-inch wafer manufacturing as their 8-inch fab capacity has been extremely tight,...
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Taiwan smartphone sales dip in April
Sales of smartphones in the Taiwan market have continued to drop for the fifth consecutive month to 490,000 units in April 2018, according to data compiled by local retail channels...
Tuesday 22 May 2018
Taiwan April export order value up on year
Taiwan received export orders totaling US$39.11 billion in April 2018, decreasing 7.7% sequentially but increasing 9.8% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA...
Monday 21 May 2018
Taiwan OSAT firms keen to develop FOPLP with good yield rate
Lagging behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the development of fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) technology, Taiwan's main OSAT (outsourced semiconductor...
Monday 21 May 2018
Taiwan makers gearing up to develop IGBT devices for EV use
Viewing that IGBT components and modules are as crucial to hybrid and pure electric vehicles as CPUs to computers, Taiwan firms engaged in the power discrete devices segment are following...
Monday 21 May 2018
Taiwan LCD monitor shipments down 6.3% sequentially in 1Q18
Taiwan's shipments of LCD monitors dropped 6.3% sequentially to below 20 million units in the first quarter of 2018 although the quarterly figures were higher than the levels seen...
Friday 18 May 2018
Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panels – 1Q 2018
Thanks to volume shipments of 18:9 smartphone panels from Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments saw only a mild drop of 5% on quarter to come...
Friday 18 May 2018
Taiwan Star reports positive EBITDA for April
Taiwan Star Telecom has seen its operations reach a milestone in April during which its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) has become positive,...
Friday 18 May 2018
Murata, Pegatron, Inventec dismiss reports about MLCC deals
Murata Manufacturing, Pegatron and Inventec have dismissed recent reports from Taiwan about deals they had allegedly struck over stable MLCC supply amid serious shortages of the passive...
Friday 18 May 2018
MOSFET shortage easing
The supply of MOSFET chips has become sufficient in the second quarter as international IDMs have moved to scale up their output for entry-level and mid-range devices, according to...
Thursday 17 May 2018
Taiwan notebooks – 1Q 2018
Taiwan makers' notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2018 performed weaker than originally expected, slipping 17.1% sequentially and 7.4% on year to reach only 27.07 million...