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In a December 23 article, we cited sources at Compal Communications indicating that Motorola had cancelled some orders. The information about the cancellation came from other sources; Compal declined to comment on the news.

In a December 16 article, we stated Taiwan mobile-phone users slipped by 3,176 in number from January to October. The actual number should have 3.176 million.

In a December 17 article, we incorrectly stated in a table that Sotec is a brand of TriGem. In fact, Sotec is a separate company, though TriGem does have an equity stake in Japan-based Sotec.

November revenues for over 1,000 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in our financial section.

In a December 8 article, we misrepresented IDC data in a table showing a breakdown of IBM？ regional PC shipments. The table has been updated based on correct data from IDC.

In a December 3 article, we incorrectly spelled out the acronym CMP. CMP stands for chemical mechanical polishing.

In a December 1 article, we stated Intel delivered small volumes of its Alviso 915PM chipset to Taiwan notebook makers. In fact, Intel shipped small volumes of the 915GM chipset. Volume shipments of the 915GM are scheduled for January and the 915PM will be delivered one month later.

In a November 23 article, we have updated the screen size of the Inventec W14 notebook from 14.1-inch to 14-inch.

In a November 22 article, we incorrectly stated that iRiver expects to sell 60 million MP3 players next year. The 60 million unit forecast is for the size of the global market.

In two November 18 articles (link 1, link 2), we wrote that Corning was rumored to have revised its annual vacation at its Japan-based melting tanks, suspending operations one quarter ahead of schedule. However, the company performs maintenance every quarter and the suspension was part of this regular maintenance.

In a November 16 article, we incorrectly stated that Chant World would exit the PCB business. The company has recently experienced a change in major shareholders and continues to produce PCBs.

In a November 15 article, we incorrectly wrote that Silicon Motion is a major supplier of SanDisk memory cards. Silicon Motion is the world's largest supplier of Secure Digital (SD) memory cards.

October revenues for over 1,000 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in our financial section.

In a November 9 article on AMD Athlon 64 CPU price cuts, the currency used in the table is NT$.

In a March 25 article and a November 8 article, comments about Osram Opto Semiconductor were attributed to the company but should have been attributed to market sources.

In a November 1 article, we incorrectly stated that Fairchild generates US$7 million in revenues from China. The figure should be US$700 million and should be from the Greater China region.

We have recast the November 3 article, Taiwan LED chipmakers see strong demand for high-luminance car-use LEDs, to clarify LED shipment quantities.

In an October 27 article, we stated in the chart that the CopperWing12 chipset from STMicroelectronics is for CPE (customer premises equipment). The CopperWing12 chipset is for the central office (CO).

In an October 27 article, we incorrectly reported that 4,096 Itanium 2 CPUs are already in use at the world's top 500 companies. The 4,096 refers to the number of Itanium 2 CPUs in a single supercomputer. Also, many of the comments attributed to Jeff Richardson were in fact made by other sources.

In an October 27 article, we wrote that Frank Jiang was president of CyberTAN. David Chiang is the company president and Frank Jiang is the CEO. Chiang hosted the company investor conference on October 26.

Work has been cancelled in the North and East of Taiwan on Monday, October 25, due to the approach of Typhoon Nock-Ten. CWB track. Work cancellation (Chinese link).

In an October 15 article, we incorrectly stated BenQ aims to ship 4 million LCD monitors this year. The company plans to ship 8 million LCD monitors.

In an October 8 article we stated that AMD would be releasing four new parts for its Athlon 64 CPU line. According to AMD's website, three of the parts are already available.

September revenues for over 1,000 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in our financial section.

In a September 3 article we incorrectly implied that Mstar has satisfied US Customs requirements for the import of a new LCD controller IC. Mstar believes that its new product is non-infringing, but US Customs has not yet made a ruling.

In an October 1 article, the figures we added up in the second table were incorrect. The sum of 212 million should be 302 million.

In a September 29 article, we incorrectly stated that the S3 GammaChrome graphics chip will feature a built-in high-speed interconnect (HSI) bridge chip for PCIe connectivity. The GammaChrome chip will in fact feature native PCIe support.

In a September 15 article, we incorrectly attributed VLSI Research as a source for the table "Global semiconductor used equipment markets 2002-2006." The table is based on data from Semico and an industry source.

Due to the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday in Taiwan, our site will not be updated on Tuesday, September 28.

In a September 20 article, we stated that ITC sets a target date of 45 days for completing the investigation. The 45 days refers to when ITC will announce a date for completing the investigation. In same article, we stated that TSMC filed supplementary documents with the ITC on September 7, TSMC filed those documents on September 7 and 15.

In a September 16 article, we initially stated that the Pantech GI100 is the world's first handset model with built-in fingerprint sensor. NTT DoCoMo earlier announced the launch of its 505i model featuring fingerprint authentication.

In a September 13 article, we ranked Taiwan as the second largest market for Skype software downloads. According to Skype, Taiwan is ranked third.

In a September 2 article, we listed InFocus as being ranked fourth in global shipments of projectors in 2003. In fact, InFocus was the top ranking company worldwide in 2003, with 410,000 shipments.

In a September 8 article, citing Taiwan sources as indicating Samsung may halt contract manufacturing of notebooks, we have added Samsung's comments that refute the claims and question the validity of the sources.

In a September 6 article, all shipment and revenue figures for Leadis were overstated by a factor of 10.

In a September 2 article, we did not use the most recent data from TSR. The research firm has provided the updated information.

2Q results for over 1,000 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in our financial section.

In an August 20 article, we stated that Taiwan's IC manufacturing production value grew 22.3% sequentially in 2Q. In fact, the sector grew 16.9%.

Micron has denied our report that it will delay production of NAND flash.

In an August 12 article, we incorrectly stated that Dopod Communication is a venture of High Tech Computer (HTC) and is promoting HTC devices in China. We should have written that HTC chairperson Cher Wang is an investor in Dopod and market sources report that the company has been promoting HTC-designed products in China.

July revenues for over 1,000 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in our financial section.

In an August 2 article, we incorrectly reported that ALi had started mass production of a chip. Uli Electronics was the company that began mass production.

In a June 2 article, we incorrectly stated that that Novatek shipped 1.8 million LCD driver ICs in April. We should have written 18 million LCD driver ICs.

In an article yesterday, the China-based Linux distribution should have been Red Flag, not Red Hat.

We have recast a July 5 headline to include the name of Cal-Comp's customer ADB and deleted the last two paragraphs of the story, which were repeated from a June 9 article.

We have recast the July 14 article Premier Image lands order for DLP projectors from Dell to clarify the context of attributed statements.

We have updated a July 7 article with the latest LCD driver IC shipment data from Himax Technologies.

On July 6, we incorrectly reported that LG.Philips LCD cut prices of its 23-inch LCD TV panels by US$25. Prices were actually cut by US$50. In a separate article, we incorrectly quoted iSuppli's forecast MD RPTV global sales of 12 million units in 2004 and six million in 2003. The correct figures are 1.4 million in 2004 and 761,000 in 2003.

In a June 29 article, we incorrectly stated that MediaTek shipped 6.5 million consumer-use DVD player single-chip solutions last year. MediaTek shipped 43.6 million units.

We will not update our site on Tuesday, June 22, due to the Dragon Boat Festival national holiday in Taiwan.

We have updated our PDA & handset, display, optical storage, notebook and server overviews.

In a June 3 article we stated Wintek's May revenues reached NT$2.264 billion. This value is the consolidated revenues.

We have updated a May 20 article about AWSC to clarify some of the numbers and corrected the spelling of Taiflex Scientific in a May 31 article.

In a May 14 article, we incorrectly stated that ASE is validating its low-pin TSOP technologies with Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT). The original Chinese article stated that ASE is validating with Etron Technology.

In a May 12 article, we misquoted iSuppli as saying that the global semiconductor industry will grow 8% this year and less than 5% in 2006. iSuppli actually said that the industry will grow 19.8% this year and 1.7% in 2006.

In the heading of our May 10 article, we incorrectly stated that Chipbond raises capex by fourfold. Chipbond raises its capex by 750%.

In a May 5 article, we incorrectly stated that VIA would be raising the price of its P4M400A chipset. We should have written that VIA will be raising the price of the P4M266A chipset.

2004 1Q and 2003 4Q balance sheets and income statements for over 1,000 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in our financial section.

In articles on March 16 and March 17, we incorrectly stated Progate (PGC) may outsource some consumer IC production to SMIC. The company considering outsourcing to SMIC should have been Macrotech Semiconductor.

In an April 15 article, we incorrectly stated TSMC's year-end capacity at its Fab 12. The capacity should have been 20,000-25,000 12-inch wafers per month.

In a March 9 article, we incorrectly stated that BenQ's DW1600 16x DVD burner would write discs at 100,000rpm instead of 10,000rpm.

We have added comments from Ferro to a March 4 article regarding MLCC powder capacity.

In a February 13 article, we incorrectly stated that company GM Victor Tsao said that Linksys may consider partnering with Taiwanese suppliers and Chinese makers to support WAPI. This information was supplied by sources in the industry and not by Tsao.

In an April 2 interview we incorrectly stated that Nanya's 12-inch wafer capacity this year will increase 50% from 2003. The company's overall output in bits will grow 50%. In the same article, we stated the company's year-end capacity would reach 90,000 8-inch equivalent wafers. The number should have been 73,000.

In a March 25 interview we quoted Micron's RLDRAM output at 100,000 wafers per month instead of 100,000 units per month.

In a March 19 article we incorrectly stated that Infineon would delay mass production using its 0.11-micron process to late 2004 or early 2005. The company started using the process for mass production in 2003.

In a March 12 article we quoted Corning's estimates of glass substrate demand in square feet instead of square meters.

A March 18 article incorrectly said Taiwan mobile phone makers would receive over 90% of orders from international vendors, it should have read 90% of international vendors are now working with Taiwan makers.

On March 17, we incorrectly stated that SMIC would list on Nasdaq instead of NYSE and we wrongly classified Asustek's A716 as a PDA phone, when it is just a PDA.

In a March 16 article, we incorrectly stated that "China should see 60 million to 100 million new broadband connections in 2004," the range in the original Chinese article was 6 million to 10 million ADSL connections.

February revenues for 1,069 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in our financial section.

Starting March 4, scroll down the home and section pages to see what's coming up in our preview of the day's news. Full stories and briefs will be available by 6pm Taiwan time every day.

In a March 2 article, we incorrectly stated that GemTek's current monthly capacity is 1 million WLAN devices and that 30% of its production is outsourced. Its capacity is 1.5 million devices per month, with no production outsourced.

In a March 1 article, we incorrectly stated that Intel's desktop-use 3GHz Prescott will be available in a 775-pin package, it will become generally available in a 478-pin package. DigiTimes sources stand by the delay in availability of this CPU to the channel.

In a February 26 article, we incorrectly termed AMD's Newcastle CPU the "new Athlon 64 FX" and stated that it will "boast 256KB of L2 cache." It should be the new Athlon 64 with a 512KB L2 cache in common with the Athlon 64 3000+ (reduced from the 1MB L2 cache in the Athlon 64 3200+).

In a February 10 article, we mistakenly said Innolux Display planned to increase monthly capacity at its 5G TFT LCD line to 65,000 substrates from 60,000 now. Both figures are plans for future designed capacity.

For a February 12 article, ProMOS has updated us on its January DRAM output from the 20 million 256Mbit-equivalent units that it told us at the time.

January revenues for 1,065 of Taiwan's IT companies are now available in the new financial section.

In a February 2 article, instead of the 2Q, we mistakenly reported that Winbond would begin building its first 12-inch fab in March. The company has since announced it would break ground in the 3Q.

During the Chinese New Year holiday (January 21-27), we will not update our site or send daily emails. Happy New Year!

In a January 12 article, we reported that Asahi Glass Company would add four million square meters of glass substrate capacity this year. The figure only covers the company's Taiwan operations.

In a January 14 article, we mistakenly reported that a new Kyocera subsidiary called Kyocera SLC Technologies would use technology from Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT). The subsidiary is Kyocera Display Institute, and it will use technology from Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO).

In a January 12 article, we reported different figures for Asustek's December motherboard shipments in the table and text. The correct figure is 3.02 million units.

In a January 9 article, we incorrectly stated Philips would invest NT$3.5 billion in its Kaohsiung packaging plant. The correct amount is NT$2.3 billion. In the same article, we incorrectly stated Philips would output 65 billion packaged chips in Kaohsiung this year. Philips will output 65 billion I/O counts in Kaohsiung.

In a January 7 article, we incorrectly stated PSC's foundry and commodity DRAM output grew 20% in December. The growth was in foundry and non-commodity DRAM output.

From 9am on Sunday, January 4 (Taiwan time), we will be upgrading our database. News on the site will be inaccessible during the upgrade period. Apologies for any inconvenience.