Under pressure of continued hikes in labor costs in China, at least half of the China-based motherboard vendors are expected to withdraw from the market in 2012, leaving an estimated...

Notebook PCB maker Global Brands Manufacture (GBM) will start volume production at its new plant in Chongqing, China in July-August 2012, with plans to ramp up the monthly capacity...

Taiwan's solar industry has seen increases in orders reportedly from China-based firms that are trying to avoid possible tariffs resulted from the US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy...

Sales of TVs by retail channels in China's tier-1 cities totaled 1.9 million units in the first week of January 2012, representing a decline of 20% from the same period of a year...

Semiconductor process control service supplier Lumax International has indicated orders from China have been healthy with visibility extended to the third quarter of 2012. The firm...

The price of 2-inch sapphire substrates from China suppliers has fallen to around US$6/unit, with the low price adding pressure on Taiwan-based makers, according to industry source...

TV maker Konka has decided to terminate its partnership with Epistar in a joint venture running an epitaxy plant in Changzhou, China. But Epistar indicated that the exist of the China-based...

An upsurge in solar demand at the end of 2011 has brought hope to solar firms. As inventories have been cleared out, solar firms plan to increase prices slightly after the Lunar New...

Taiwan-based Cal-Comp Electronics expects its external hard drive shipments in 2012 to double from those in 2011 with global market share to reach 50%.

Eric Kuo, general manager of Taiwan-based Lite-On Semiconductor has expressed a conservative view for first-quarter 2012. Kuo noted that inventory levels in the semiconductor market...

Spreadtrum Communications has introduced its first TD-LTE baseband modem, the SC9610. Designed with 40nm CMOS silicon, the SC9610 integrates multiple communication standards into...

The global LED lighting market continues to heat up with Japan being the biggest market. According to studies, Japan's December LED light tube penetration rate reached 40%. The industry...

China-based solar firms have been hoping that the China market will overtake Germany as the biggest solar market in the world. However, industry sources pointed out the 5GW of installation...

Ingenic Semiconductor, a China-based design house of CPUs based on MIPS architecture and self-developed processor technology XBurst for use in mobile devices, has offered a 7-inch...

The average production capacity utilization rate of China-based tier-two crystalline solar module manufacturers fell to just 35% in fourth-quarter 2011, according to IMS Research...