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Wednesday 12 February 2020
Coronavirus outbreak impact: Apple reportedly raising production in Taiwan
Production disruption in China is everyone's nightmare in the IT supply chain in the wake of the coronavirus. Many makers are raising their production outside of China, and Apple...
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Global handset sales still face steep fall even if outbreak can be contained by June
China's coronavirus outbreak is set to have far-reaching impacts on the global IT industry and could undermine global demand to a great extent if related supply chains are cut off,...
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Foxconn sees 1Q20 revenues come under pressure
Foxconn Electronics is likely to have its first-quarter revenues hit by the fallout from coronavirus, according to industry sources.
Monday 10 February 2020
MediaTek slightly lowers global 5G handset sales projection for 2020
MediaTek has adjusted downward its 2020 projection for the world's 5G handset shipments to 170-200 million units from over 200 million due to the coronavirus outbreak, with the Chinese...
Monday 10 February 2020
Silicon Motion expects sales drop in 1Q20
NAND flash device controller specialist Silicon Motion Technology expects to post a revenue decrease of 10-15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2020, with gross margin ranging...
Monday 10 February 2020
Less than 20% of employees expected to return to work in China
Less than 20% of Chinese factory employees would return to work after an extended Lunar New Year break due to the coronavirus outbreak, and many components plants in China have decided...
Monday 10 February 2020
PC and server suppliers see sales hit by coronavirus outbreak
China's coronavirus outbreak has significantly undermined local PC and server demand and is expected to affect related upstream suppliers' performances, as PC sales from China account...
Monday 10 February 2020
Materials challenges for IC substrate production: Q&A with Unimicron vice CEO CP Lee
IC substrates are set to enter a golden growth period driven by ever-increasing applications of 5G and AI chips solutions. To secure a preemptive presence in the market, Taiwan's...
Monday 10 February 2020
Winbond swings to loss in 4Q19
Winbond Electronics, a maker of specialty DRAM and flash memory, swung to its first quarterly loss in 27 quarters.
Friday 7 February 2020
Micron delivers LPDDR5 for high-performance smartphones
Micron Technology has announced mass production of what the company claims is the world's first low-power DDR5 DRAM that will be used in the soon-to-be-released Xiaomi Mi 10 smartp...
Friday 7 February 2020
China high-tech supply chain unlikely to return to normal operations on February 10
China's high-tech industry supply chains including the semiconductor sector are unlikely to return to normal operations on February 10, the date when the country's extended Lunar...
Friday 7 February 2020
Brinno little impacted by outbreak
Time-lapse camera maker Brinno has indicated that China-based suppliers for its ODM business will delay resuming production due to coronavirus outbreak but most of the production...
Thursday 6 February 2020
PCB maker Dynamic doing well to counter coronavirus impacts
Taiwan-based PCB maker Dynamic Electronics is confident of minimizing impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on its operations as it has readied sufficient raw materials and workforce...
Thursday 6 February 2020
Notebook, smartphone supply and demand in China hit by outbreak
The notebook and smartphone sectors are both expected to be undermined by China's coronavirus outbreak in the first quarter of 2020 as local consumer demand has been significantly...
Thursday 6 February 2020
Realtek remains positive
Networking IC specialist Realtek Semiconductor remains positive about its performance in the first quarter of 2020, with no substantial shifts in customer orders so far despite the...