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Friday 18 May 2018
Tsinghua Unigroup aggressively expanding into cloud services
China IT conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup has kicked off a spate of investment projects designed to step up the development of its cloud business and turn itself into the country's...
Thursday 17 May 2018
Most of top-15 semi suppliers register double-digit gains in 1Q18, says IC Insights
The world's top-15 semiconductor companies' sales surged by 26% in the first quarter of 2018 compared to a year ago, six points higher than the total worldwide semiconductor industry...
Thursday 17 May 2018
MLCC shortage to undermine 2Q18 shipmets by Taiwan IC designers
The ongoing shortage of MLCCs is affecting negatively shipments of Taiwan-based IC design houses, with some of the companies likely to revise downward their shipment goals for the...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Flexible PCB firm Career Tech swings to profit in 1Q18
Flexible PCB specialist Career Technology swung to net profit of NT$33.95 million (US$1.14 million) in the first quarter of 2018 from loss of NT$85.29 million a year earlier. EPS...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
OSE to downsize capital
Backend house Orient Semiconductor Electronics' (OSE) board of directors has approved a plan to reduce paid-in capital by NT$2.536 billion (US$84.75 million), or 31.47%, to NT$5.523...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
IC designers to gain from robust USB Type-C chip demand
With USB Type-C connector gaining momentum to become a mainstream interface for smartphones, PCs and notebooks, global market demand for Type-C chips is estimated to see an annual...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Panel makers likely to reduce output for TV applications as prices approach cash cost levels
Prices of LCD TV panels of all sizes have continued falling recently with quotes for some sizes likely to hit their cash cost levesl in June, which could trigger an array of production...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
WT Micro conservative about handset-related chip demand in 2Q18
IC distributor WT Microelectronics expects demand from the communications sector to fall sequentially in the second quarter citing ongoing inventory adjustments at handset companie...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Unimicron posts EPS of NT$0.12 for 1Q18
PCB maker Unimicron Technology posted operating losses of NT$457 million (US$15.3 million) for the first quarter of 2018, but net income for the quarter remained positive thanks to...
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Bitmain reportedly places DRAM orders with ESMT, Etron
Bitmain has reportedly placed DRAM orders mainly for low-capacity DDR3 chips with Taiwan-based memory design specialists Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) and Etron Technology,...
Monday 14 May 2018
Android Things to boost MediaTek IoT chip shipments
MediaTek is expected to see its shipments of IoT chips expand significantly in the second half of 2018, buoyed by Google's release of Android Things 1.0, according to industry sour...
Monday 14 May 2018
ALi posts 9th consecutive quarterly loss in 1Q18
IC design house ALi, which specializes in set-top box (STB) chipset solutions, has reported a 9th consecutive quarterly loss in the first quarter of 2018 in which net losses came...
Monday 14 May 2018
Lite-On Semi posts EPS of NT$0.30 for 1Q18
Lite-On Semiconductor has reported net profits of NT$91.89 million (US$3.1 million) for the first quarter of 2018, up 200% sequentially and 12% on year. EPS for the quarter came to...
Monday 14 May 2018
ChipMOS profits fall in 1Q18
Backend firm ChipMOS Technologies has announced net profits of NT$22.8 million (US$0.77 million) for the first quarter of 2018, down 86% sequentially and 99% on year, with EPS coming...
Monday 14 May 2018
MediaTek April revenues fall below NT$20 billion
MediaTek has announced consolidated revenues for April 2018 fell 5.5% sequentially but grew 7.1% on year to NT$19.02 billion (US$637.9 million).