Mediatek plans to acquire 40% to 48% of MStar through the offer Taiwanese semiconductor giant MediaTek has agreed to acquire smaller rival MStar Semiconductor in a combination of stock and cash deal worth $3.8bn. MediaTek is offering ...
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Even though sales of some mobile devices are booming,overall confidence in the tech sector continues to erode as economic weakness puts downward pressure on the computer market. The Nasdaq Computer Index slumped Friday afternoon,hitting ...
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Due to the global economic downturn, demand for LED lighting has been weakening. Meanwhile, efficiency and price-performance ratio have been increasing, and the penetration rate of the LED lighting market is expected to continue rising. ...
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Due to the global economic downturn,demand for LED lighting has been weakening.Meanwhile,efficiency and price-performance ratio have been increasing,and the penetration rate of the LED lighting market is expected to continue rising.Market ...
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In response to China-based LED maker Sanan Optoelectronics' investment of NT$2.35 billion (US$80.4 million) in Formosa Epitaxy, some players in Taiwan's LED supply chain have expressed their worries that Formosa Epitaxy may benefit from the ...
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Chip designer ARM has unveiled a new series of 64-bit microprocessors intended to drive the company into the server market. The launch comes a day after Intel's rival in desktop and server computing microprocessors, AMD, revealed its plans ...
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Amazon may be entering the semiconductor business.The company is in talks with TI about buying TI's wireless chip business. TI supplies the chip-sets for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.It is thought that TI's wireless chip business could be ...
Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--MediaTek Inc.became the world's No.3 supplier of smartphone processors in the first half of this year mostly thanks to strong market for low-priced smartphones of mainland China,where the Taiwanese fabless company ...
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Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar will issue new shares in order to obtain a 100% stake in Huga Optotech, the firm announced on September 28. Huga Optotech has been officially acquired by Epistar. According to Biing-Jye Lee, chairman of ...
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Even though an upbeat U.S.government jobs report caused shares of some companies to jump Friday,tech vendor stocks faltered on the back of mixed quarterly reports. Tech vendor financial reports this week painted a portrait of the state of ...
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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 ...
Industrial laser glass processing holds promise for an increasing range of applications, including biomedical and solar panel manufacturing. Higher-power and higher-beam-quality lasers continue to emerge on the marketplace, and industry ...
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The upstream LED chip market has been in oversupply causing the price of MOCVD equipment to drop 30-40% compared to the price two years ago. According to Digitmes Research, Asia accounted for 80% of global demand for MOCVD equipment in ...
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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.
The LED chip market continues to experience oversupply problems.However,in first-half 2012,most tier-one LED firms in Taiwan were operating with full capacity,which has led to the possibility of expanding capacities.LED chipmaker Epistar ...
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