Chip packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has reported net profits of NT$4.61 billion (US$144 million) for the second quarter of 2010, up 36% sequentially and topping market watcher estimates of NT$4.11-4.13 billion.

Micro-Star International (MSI) has announced two new notebooks, the GX660 and GX660R, the latest G series notebooks for the gaming market.

Gigabyte Technology expects its shipments in the third quarter to return to the level of the first and to reach its goal of 19 million units for the whole year amid recovering demand in Europe, and seasonality in China, according to company chairman...

Sony has announced net profits of 25.7 billion yen (US$289 million) for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 ended June 30, with operating income totaling 67 billion yen for the quarter. Overall revenues reached 1.66 trillion yen for the quarter, up 3.8%...

MediaTek has posted net income of NT$9.03 billion (US$282.52 million) for the second quarter of 2010, a decline of 18.9% from the prior quarter, and also down 1.4% on year. Second-quarter EPS was NT$8.34, compared with NT$10.28 in the prior quarter a...

Taiwan handset makers are forecast to ship 21.32 million units and 25.49 million units in the third and fourth quarters of 2010, respectively, up 28.2% and 53.4% on year to account for 6% of global shipments in the second half.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to remain as the leading notebook vendor in 2011 shipping over 50 million units, followed by Acer with around 47 million units. HP's OEM partners for 2011 include Quanta Computer with 22-24 million orders, and Foxconn...

Samsung Electronics has announced net profits of 4.28 trillion won (US$3.61 billion) on consolidated revenues of 37.89 trillion won for the second quarter. Operating profits for the quarter were 5.01 trillion won, topping the previous high of 4.41 tr...

Fiber glass fabric maker Baotek Industrial Materials plans to install an additional 120 weaving machines in the first quarter of 2011 to ramp up its capacity, according to the company.

Chimei Innolux (CMI) expects LED-backlit LCD TV panel monthly shipments to reach one million units in the fourth quarter of 2010 or in the first quarter of 2011, according to market sources.

Mobile handset sales in India are forecast to reach 138.6 million units in 2010, an increase of 18.5% over 2009's 117 million units, according to Gartner. India's handset market is expected to show steady growth through 2014 when end-user sales surpa...

Rexchip Electronics has posted net profits of NT$9.09 billion (US$284.06 million), or an EPS of NT$3.09, for the first half of 2010, making it the most profitable among Taiwan's DRAM chipmakers.

Cooling module maker Forcecon Technology will start volume shipments of LED light bulbs through its invested subsidiary Ecomaa Lighting in the second half of 2010, while fellow maker Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industrial has developed a cooling fan...

Passive component maker Prosperity Dielectrics is expected to ship a total of 3,000 tons of ceramic dielectric powders to MLCC makers in 2010, accounting for 11% of the global ceramic dielectric powder market, according to the company.

Operators of online games in the China market generated total revenues of 25.6 billion yuan (US$3.75 billion) in 2009, and the annual total figure will keep increasing by 30% in 2010 and to more than 50 billion yuan in five years, according to the or...

Driven by government subsidies and soaring demand from new applications such as LCD TV backlighting and general illumination, China's LED market is set to more than double from 2009 to 2014, according to iSuppli.

Powertech Technology (PTI), a major Taiwan-based memory packaging and testing house, has announced net profits for the second quarter of 2010 increased 90.8% on year and 12% sequentially to NT$1.99 billion (US$62 million). Consolidated revenues for t...

Hong Kong-based Sandmartin International Holdings will be able to ship five million set-top boxes (STBs) in fiscal 2011 (from July 2010 to June 2011) after the company shipped 4.5 million units in fiscal 2010, according to an estimate by industry sou...

The HTC Droid Incredible smartphone carries a bill of materials (BOM) of US$163.35, according to iSuppli.

Despite shortages in upstream LED supply, Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) believes global LED-backlit TV market share will surpass 20% in 2010, while AUO expects its LED-backlit TV panel shipment share to reach 30% of its total TV...

HTC has appointed former Sony Ericsson executives Ron Louks and Kouji Kodera as chief strategy officer and chief product officer, respectively.

HTC expects its smartphone shipments to reach 6.5 million units in the third quarter of 2010, an increase of 132% from a year earlier, while revenues will grow 15.7% sequentially and 106% on year to NT$70 billion (US$218.8 million) in the same period...

A former executive from Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) has agreed to plead guilty and to serve jail in the US for participating in a global conspiracy to fix the price of TFT LCD panels, the US Department of Justice announced on July 28.

Taiwan digital camera ODM Altek, reported a net EPS of NT$1.80 for the first half of 2010 at an investors conference on July 29.

BenQ on July 29 launched a digital camera, the T1260, in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail price of NT$5,990 (US$186).

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has revised upward its capex target for 2010 to US$5.9 billion, emerging as the world's second-largest semiconductor industry capital spender trailing only Samsung Electronics. TSMC has also raised it...

AU Optronics (AUO) expects global LCD TV shipments to grow 26% on year to reach 181 million units in 2010, said the company's executive VP of global business unit Paul Peng, despite inventory issues in the market.

BandRich, a Taiwan-based maker of 3G/3.5G Internet-access products, has stopped production of 3.6-7.2Mbps HSPA network interface cards and shifted to 21Mbps HSPA+ network interface cards and HSPA+ mobile routers for market niches, according to the co...

Elpida has reported net profits of 30.7 billion yen (US$352 million) for the first quarter of its fiscal 2010, compared with a 44.4 billion yen loss a year earlier. This also marked its third profitable quarter in a row.

As Intel plans to ship its next-generation 6-series chipsets (Cougar Point) in the week 42 of 2010 (October 2010), sources from motherboard makers believe Intel will officially announce its new Sugar Bay desktop platform at CES 2011 in the US, but th...

Medium- to large-size touch panel shipments in the second half of 2010 are expected to increase 88% compared to the first half of the year due to the strong demand for the iPad, as well as launches of new all-in-one PCs, LCD monitors and notebooks su...

Taiwan's National Communications Commission (NCC) on July 28 passed a regulatory amendment to shift the pricing rights for voice calls from fixed-line telephones to mobile phones to fixed-line telecom carries beginning 2011, according to NCC.

Memory controller IC supplier Phison Electronics expects contract quotes for NAND flash chips to move upward in the third quarter, which will help push its third-quarter revenues, according to company chairman Khein Seng Pua.

Digital camera chassis maker AVY Precision Technology expects its revenues in the third quarter to grow 15% from NT$1.17 billion (US$36.46 million) in the second quarter, benefiting from Japan vendors expanding their outsourcing to Taiwan makers, acc...

Unimicron Technology in the second quarter of 2010 posted revenues of NT$16.626 billion (US$519.214 million) and after-tax profits of NT$2.318 billion or NT$1.48 a share, both new quarterly records, according to the Taiwan-based PCB maker.