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Tuesday 15 January 2019
Acter to gain from makers moving production out of China
Clean room engineering specialist Acter saw its annual revenues surge 24.33% on year to hit a record high of NT$14.22 billion (US$461.47 million) in 2018, and expects to significantly...
Tuesday 15 January 2019
TV panel prices to fall further before emergence of silver lining
TV panel prices, which fell over 10% on average in the fourth quarter of 2018, will fall further in the first quarter of 2019 due to sluggish demand, but a silver lining is expected...
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Worldwide semiconductor revenues grow 13% in 2018, says Gartner
Worldwide semiconductor revenues totaled US$476.7 billion in 2018, a 13.4% increase from 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Memory strengthened its position as the...
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Chin-Poon cautious about automotive PCB demand in 2019
Taiwan-based automotive PCB specialist Chin-Poon Industrial has expressed caution about its sales performance in 2019, citing unfavorable global trade conditions and a slowdown in...
Monday 14 January 2019
Flash memory remains primary target for semi capex spending, says IC Insights
The semiconductor industry is expected to allocate the largest portion of its capex spending for flash memory again in 2019, marking the third consecutive year that flash has led all...
Monday 14 January 2019
Topco, Wahlee see revenues surge over 20% in 2018
Semiconductor material distributors Topco Scientific and Wahlee Industrial have both reported on-year increases in consolidated revenues for 2018 of 21.4% and 23.4%, respectively.
Monday 14 January 2019
Tripod enhancing high-end offering for profitability
PCB manufacturer Tripod Technology has moved to enhance its high-end lineup as it is pursuing further profit growth in 2019, according to the Taiwan-based company.
Monday 14 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: PCB makers see new applications as growth driver
Taiwan PCB makers enjoyed strong growth in 2018 in shipments of their flexible boards, rigid-flex boards and substrate-like PCBs to new application sectors of datacenter servers and...
Monday 14 January 2019
WPG, WT Micro post record 2018 revenues
IC distributors WPG and WT Microelectronics both saw their December revenues register double-digit sequential decreases, but their revenues for all of 2018 still hit record-high le...
Monday 14 January 2019
Himax secures TDDI design win from Korea smartphone vendor
Himax Technologies has secured several design wins for smartphones and other applications, including one major TDDI (touch and display driver integration) design win from a South Korea-based...
Monday 14 January 2019
Qualcomm upbeats about mmWave technology, says Digitimes Research
As millimeter wave (mmWave) is likely to serve as the first frontier technology to mobilize Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) applications in the 5G commercial market from 2019-2020,...
Friday 11 January 2019
VIS on track to expand 8-inch fab capacity in 2019
Eight-inch foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) is on track to expand production capacity by acquiring production equipment for its existing fabs in 2019, when the company...
Friday 11 January 2019
Chipmakers gearing up to develop 802.11ax chip solutions
Qualcomm and MediaTek have both introduced their new 802.11ax chip solutions to support Wi-Fi 6 devices, seeking to secure a preemptive presence in both enterprise and household network...
Friday 11 January 2019
AMD backend orders for new 7nm chips split between 3 firms
AMD has unveiled recently its 7nm CPU and GPU lineup designed for high-performance PCs, gaming and data center applications. The new processor series are all reportedly being fabricated...
Friday 11 January 2019
MediaTek posts flat 2018 revenues
MediaTek saw its consolidated revenues grow 14.6% sequentially in December, but revenues for all of 2018 slipped 0.1% on year to NT$238.06 billion (US$7.73 billion).