Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan's unemployment rate dropped by 0.08 of a percentage point to 4.32% in September, reported the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) yesterday (Oct. 22). A DGBAS official noted ...
Tags: unemployment rate, LED, DRAM, Nan Ya Technology, Huga Optotech
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--Inotera Memories Inc. recently announced its board of directors has approved a proposal to increase investment in 30nm process with the aim of migrating all of its monthly capacity of 120,000 wafers to the ...
Tags: Inotera Memories Inc, 30nm process, chips for servers, chips, DRAM
Samsung has almost doubled its profits in its third quarter of 2012,thanking the performance of its smartphone division for the significant rise. Net profit for the three-month period hit KRW6.56tn(GBP3.7bn),which represented a ...
Tags: Samsung, smartphone sales, Net profit, KRW26.25tn, Nokia
Computerworld-There will be a sea change in the non-volatile memory(NVM)market over the next five years,with more dense and reliable technologies challenging dominant NAND flash memory now used in solid-state drives(SSD)and embedded in ...
Tags: Non-Volatile Memory, software, flash memory, SSD
Taipei,Oct.4,2012(CENS)--Affected by the global economic downturn,layoff and unpaid leave is spreading in Taiwan's electronics industry,affecting some 3,000 persons,mainly in the fields of DRAM(dynamic random access memory),LED(light ...
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Taipei, Sept. 24, 2012 (CENS)--Nanya Technology Corp. and Inotera Memories Inc., both of which are DRAM makers under the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), failed to realize seasonal surge in August, and instead saw their revenues for the month ...
Taipei,Sept.12,2012(CENS)--By the end of August,PowerChip Semiconductor Corp.'s(PSC's)debt/asset ratio spiked to 102%,making its net value slip below zero and triggering fears that its stock will be delisted from Taiwan's Over-the-Counter ...
Tags: PowerChip Semiconductor Corp, Industrial Equipment, Processing Machinery
Taipei,Sept.7,2012--Nanya Technology Corp.plans to exit commodity DRAM(dynamic random access memory)manufacturing to focus on niche memory chips for consumer electronics in one year,according to the newly appointed president,Charles Kao. ...
Tags: DRAM, memory chips, consumer electronics, Nanya Technology Corp.
2013 may be another golden year for fab equipment spending,says SEMI,with growth of 17%to almost $43bn. The last two golden years were 2007 and 2011,says SEMI:"Although spending in 2012 will decline,it may still turn out to be the third ...
Tags: SEMI, NAND, DRAM, fab equipment
TSMC will lead the foundry pack by a massive 4x margin over No.2 GloFo, says IC Insights. The top ten players in 2012 will be, says IC Insights: $bn TSMC 16.7 GloFo 4.3 ...
Tags: TSMC, Samsung, Apple, IC Foundry
The CAGR of the semiconductor market for 2011-16 will be double that of the preceding five years, says IC Insights. Memory will drive the accelerated growth rate. NAND flash is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 16.6% until 2016 and DRAM is ...
Tags: CAGR, Wireless Devices, Semiconductor, Market Conditions
Aixtron's revenue rebounds by 10%; non-LED activities gaining traction Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that, for second-quarter 2012, its revenues and orders have stabilized at the levels of Q1/2012. ...
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Backlog at Electro Scientific Industries swells to a six-year high on new design wins,prompting 20%stock bounce. ESI stock:up 20%on positive outlook Electro Scientific Industries(ESI),the provider of laser systems used in a variety ...
Tags: ESI, Laser, semiconductor, consumer electronics, LED
Cymer reports improved EUV optics performance 25 Jul 2012 New coating on collector for extreme ultraviolet source increases effective lifetime by 50%. Bull run:Cymer hits long-term high Lithography light source provider Cymer has ...
Tags: Cymer, EUV optics, effective lifetime, lithography light source
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany has received a multi-tool order for its next-generation QXP-8300 atomic layer deposition(ALD)system from a leading Korean DRAM manufacturer.The production system for sub-30nm ...
Tags: ALD, Korean Customer, Deposition equipment