MediaTek Inc (
The stock gained 5.9 percent to close at NT$428 (US$13.16) yesterday, while the benchmark TAIEX index climbed 2.44 percent. Sophia Liang (
Texas Instruments Inc, the biggest maker of mobile-phone chips, and closest rival Qualcomm Inc this month both raised forecasts on stronger-than-expected demand. Growth in China, the world's biggest market for wireless phones by users, may compensate for a slowdown in the US economy.
"MediaTek will likely continue to benefit from strong handset demand from China, which is its biggest market," said Robyn Hsu (
MediaTek may ship 65 million handset chips in the first quarter, the Chinese-language Commercial Times reported, without saying where it got the information. The increase will be driven by a decline in chip inventories at MediaTek's customers in China, the newspaper said.
Qualcomm's profit, excluding costs such as stock-based compensation, will increase to between US$0.52 and US$0.53 a share in the three months ending Dec. 30, the San Diego-based company said on Thursday.
The chipmaker said last month that earnings would climb to as much as US$0.52, from US$0.43 a year earlier.
Texas Instruments said on Dec. 10 that fourth-quarter sales will increase to at least US$3.5 billion. That compares with a prediction of US$3.4 billion to US$3.68 billion made when the Dallas-based chipmaker delivered quarterly results on Oct. 22.
China added a record 8.1 million subscribers in October for a total of 531.45 million, according to government data.
Quanta Computer Inc (廣達) chairman Barry Lam (林百里) is expected to share his views about the artificial intelligence (AI) industry’s prospects during his speech at the company’s 37th anniversary ceremony, as AI servers have become a new growth engine for the equipment manufacturing service provider. Lam’s speech is much anticipated, as Quanta has risen as one of the world’s major AI server suppliers. The company reported a 30 percent year-on-year growth in consolidated revenue to NT$1.41 trillion (US$43.35 billion) last year, thanks to fast-growing demand for servers, especially those with AI capabilities. The company told investors in November last year that
Intel Corp has named Tasha Chuang (莊蓓瑜) to lead Intel Taiwan in a bid to reinforce relations between the company and its Taiwanese partners. The appointment of Chuang as general manager for Intel Taiwan takes effect on Thursday, the firm said in a statement yesterday. Chuang is to lead her team in Taiwan to pursue product development and sales growth in an effort to reinforce the company’s ties with its partners and clients, Intel said. Chuang was previously in charge of managing Intel’s ties with leading Taiwanese PC brand Asustek Computer Inc (華碩), which included helping Asustek strengthen its global businesses, the company
Taiwanese suppliers to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC, 台積電) are expected to follow the contract chipmaker’s step to invest in the US, but their relocation may be seven to eight years away, Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) said yesterday. When asked by opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Niu Hsu-ting (牛煦庭) in the legislature about growing concerns that TSMC’s huge investments in the US will prompt its suppliers to follow suit, Kuo said based on the chipmaker’s current limited production volume, it is unlikely to lead its supply chain to go there for now. “Unless TSMC completes its planned six
Power supply and electronic components maker Delta Electronics Inc (台達電) yesterday said it plans to ship its new 1 megawatt charging systems for electric trucks and buses in the first half of next year at the earliest. The new charging piles, which deliver up to 1 megawatt of charging power, are designed for heavy-duty electric vehicles, and support a maximum current of 1,500 amperes and output of 1,250 volts, Delta said in a news release. “If everything goes smoothly, we could begin shipping those new charging systems as early as in the first half of next year,” a company official said. The new
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