Taiwan-based passive component makers, Yageo and Walsin Technology Corporation (WTC), have both unveiled expansion projects for 2011 with capacity ramp-up plans focusing on MLCC and other niche market products.

Yageo will also focus on the development of smaller-size products with high capacitance and low-resistance, and plans to venture into the production of MLCC powders in the first quarter of 2011, according to company chairman Pierre Chen.

WTC's capex budget for 2011 will be more than the NT$2 billion (US$65.22 million) projected for 2010, according to company president TL Tsai.