Zhuhai-based Actions Semiconductor Company, a fabless semiconductor company that provides mixed-signal system-on-a-chip and multimedia digital signal processing solutions for portable consumer electronics, has begun shipping samples of its new Series 2 product family to customers for evaluation.

According to reports in Taiwanese local media, Taiwan's economic agencies will begin in July 2009 to discuss possibilities to lift limits on Taiwanese companies' investments in mainland China's high-end semiconductor industry.

Samsung has adopted the VIA Nano processor, made by Taiwan's VIA Technologies, in the new Samsung NC20 mini-notebook.

Chi Mei Group, the Taiwan-based LCD panel manufacturer, has announced that it made net losses of USD923 million in the fourth quarter of 2008, which is the greatest quarterly loss of an individual company in the history of the panel industry.

According to the two major Taiwanese chip foundries, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and United Microelectronics Corporation, both of the two companies' revenue decreased by about 60% in January 2009.

Legend Silicon Corporation has unveiled a single-chip solution for the China Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting System Standard (GB20600-2006).

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world, has started production on Shanghai's first 12-inch wafer fab.

Taiwanese company Himax Technologies has introduced its new generation single chip display driver for TFT-LCD handsets, the HX8352.