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Friday 16 March 2018
ChipMOS optimistic about COF packaging, demand for NOR and niche-market DRAM
ChipMOS Technologies expects to see tight production capacity for COF (chip-on-film) packaging in 2018, and is optimistic about demand for NOR flash and niche-market DRAM memory.
Friday 16 March 2018
Pegatron upbeat about 1H18
Pegatron expects its performance in the first half of 2018 to outperform that seen a year ago, and is optimistic about demand for consumer electronics devices this year.
Friday 16 March 2018
Acer to reach third stage of business transformation
Acer chairman Jason Chen, at the company's supply chain conference on March 14, said that Acer's business transformation will soon enter the third stage where the goal is to maintain...
Friday 16 March 2018
IC distributors seeing upbeat demand for niche-market apps
Robust demand for niche-market ICs particularly high-speed transmission chips and FPGAs will be driving related IC distributors' revenue growth in 2018, according to industry sourc...
Thursday 15 March 2018
Garmin Pay launched in Taiwan
Garmin has launched Garmin Pay e-payment platform combining electronic ticket cards and credit cards based on smartwatches or wristbands in the Taiwan market through cooperation with...
Thursday 15 March 2018
IC designer Weltrend to enforce 20% capital reduction in June
Taiwan-based IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor has announced a plan to trim its paid-in capital by 20% or NT$445 million (US$15.225 million) from its current level of NT$2.226...
Thursday 15 March 2018
Advantech to buy 25% stake in Turkey distributor Alitek
Taiwan-based IPC player Advantech has announced plans to acquire a 25% stake in Alitek, the largest channel distributor in Turkey, and will continue increasing the shareholding each...
Thursday 15 March 2018
Top-5 notebook vendors see slight shipment growth in February, says Digitimes Research
The worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments in February increase slightly on a sequential basis, reaching 8.08 million units, led mainly by US-based vendors....
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Wistron expects better profits in 2018
Wistron, having survived the difficult times over the past two to three years, is seeing rapid growths for its high-margin products and expects its gross margins and operating profit...
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Synnex posts strong profit for 2017
IT and consumer electronics channel distributor Synnex Technology International has reported fourth-quarter 2017 consolidated revenues of NT$106.968 billion (US$3.65 billion), with...
Wednesday 14 March 2018
ARM-based IPC opportunities: Q&A with Jason Liu, director of Intelligent Solution and System, Avalue
Avalue Technology is one of Taiwan's veteran industrial PC (IPC) players, having been in the sector since 2000. Although it is not as big as some of the first-tier players, Avalue...
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Diode makers striving for more wafer supplies
Diode makers are striving to secure more supplies from their upstream wafer providers, as well as production capacities at their foundry partners, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 14 March 2018
IC analyzer iST sees 5G, AIoT, car electronics as major growth drivers
Taiwan-based Integrated Service Technology (iST), specialized in offering semiconductor materials analysis and IC debugging services, will see revenue growth driven by five major...
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Nvidia wary of possible cryptocurrency demand drop
GPU demand from the cryptocurrency mining industry is showing signs of slowdown recently and Nvidia has started taking measures to minimize possible damage, according to some market...
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Falling prices to accelerate SSD adoption in notebooks
SSD suppliers have recently cut prices to promote their 64- and 72-layer 3D devices, which is expected to accelerate the adoption of SSDs in notebooks, according to DRAMeXchange.