With Samsung Electronics' Galaxy smartphone sales having been seriously impacted recently, Taiwan component makers' orders for the Galaxy S5 have greatly reduced to only 15 million units for the third quarter, down from 21 million in the second, while the Galaxy S4's orders also dropped from six million units to five million, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report citing sources from the upstream supply chain.

Taiwan-based component suppliers such as TXC, Merry, Giantplus, Capella Microsystems, HannsTouch Solution, Young Fast, Unimicron Technology, Tripod Technology and Silitech Technology are expected to be affected by the reduced orders, the paper added.