ITE Technology Inc (
ITE gained 7 percent to NT$82.80, while ENE climbed 6.9 percent to NT$91.50 at the close of trade in Taipei.
The Taiwanese companies will start shipping the orders in the second quarter, United Daily News said on its Web site today, without saying how it got the information.
"We don't discuss agreements or relationships with suppliers," Dell spokesman Rajiv Ahuja said in an e-mail.
Round Rock, Texas-based Dell is developing more products for local markets to cut costs and accelerate the introduction of new models. Steve Felice, president of Dell Asia, said in June the company will give its manufacturing partners more power to purchase components, moving away from a centralized model.
"We're in talks to supply to Dell, but nothing has been confirmed," Dylan Chung (鍾文凱), chief financial officer at Hsinchu-based ENE, said by phone. "We may know during the first or second quarter."
Dell isn't yet a customer of ENE, which supplies chips used to control power and keyboards for use in notebooks sold by Hewlett-Packard Co and Acer Inc, Chung said.
"The company hasn't said that it has already received orders from Dell," ITE said in a statement to the stock exchange today, without elaborating. The company is an affiliate of United Microelectronics Corp (
Intel Corp chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan (陳立武) is expected to meet with Taiwanese suppliers next month in conjunction with the opening of the Computex Taipei trade show, supply chain sources said on Monday. The visit, the first for Tan to Taiwan since assuming his new post last month, would be aimed at enhancing Intel’s ties with suppliers in Taiwan as he attempts to help turn around the struggling US chipmaker, the sources said. Tan is to hold a banquet to celebrate Intel’s 40-year presence in Taiwan before Computex opens on May 20 and invite dozens of Taiwanese suppliers to exchange views
Application-specific integrated circuit designer Faraday Technology Corp (智原) yesterday said that although revenue this quarter would decline 30 percent from last quarter, it retained its full-year forecast of revenue growth of 100 percent. The company attributed the quarterly drop to a slowdown in customers’ production of chips using Faraday’s advanced packaging technology. The company is still confident about its revenue growth this year, given its strong “design-win” — or the projects it won to help customers design their chips, Faraday president Steve Wang (王國雍) told an online earnings conference. “The design-win this year is better than we expected. We believe we will win
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
SK Hynix Inc warned of increased volatility in the second half of this year despite resilient demand for artificial intelligence (AI) memory chips from big tech providers, reflecting the uncertainty surrounding US tariffs. The company reported a better-than-projected 158 percent jump in March-quarter operating income, propelled in part by stockpiling ahead of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. SK Hynix stuck with a forecast for a doubling in demand for the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) essential to Nvidia Corp’s AI accelerators, which in turn drive giant data centers built by the likes of Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc. That SK Hynix is maintaining its