Foxconn sees lackluster 1Q13 financial performance

May 15, 13:48

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) on May 14 released its financial report for the first quarter of 2013, with consolidated revenues, gross margin, net operating profit...

Computex 2013 expected to create US$25 billion in business opportunities

May 13, 16:27

Computex Taipei 2013, which will run from June 4-8, is expected to attract 40,000 international buyers and create business opportunities worth US$25 billion. The show will have about...

Advantech sees April revenues grow 16% on year

May 13, 15:19

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Advantech has reported April consolidated revenues of NT$2.529 billion (US$84 million), an increase of 16.34% compared to NT$2.173 billion reported in April...

Tsann Kuen, E-Life Mall April revenues up on month

May 10, 15:43

Tsann Kuen and E-Life Mall, two IT, communication device and consumer electronics retail chains in Taiwan, had April consolidated revenues of NT$2.171 billion (US$73.1 million) and...

Pegatron to expand workforce by 40% in 2H12

May 10, 12:19

Pegatron Technology CEO Jason Cheng, at the company's recent investors meeting, said that the company will start expanding its production workforce in mid-June with the worker number...

Pegatron sees profit growth in 1Q13

May 9, 14:07

Pegatron Technology has announced its first-quarter 2013 results with consolidated revenues reaching NT$217.6 billion (US$7.39 billion), consolidated net profits NT$3.45 billion and...

Qisda sees slightly decreased April revenues

May 9, 13:48

Taiwan-based EMS provider Qisda on May 8 reported consolidated revenues of NT$9.798 billion (US$329 million) for April 2013, decreasing 1% on month and on year, and those of NT$37.304...

Digitimes Research: Taiwan 2Q13 digital camera shipments expected to rebound sequentially

Apr 30, 09:51

Taiwan-based ODMs Ability Enterprise, Altek, Foxconn Electronics and Asia Optical will ship 6.48 million digital cameras during the second quarter of 2013, increasing 12.9% from the...

Huawei Enterprise aims at 2013 revenues of US$2.95 billion

Apr 24, 12:34

Huawei Enterprise, a business group of China-based ICT solution provider Huawei Technologies, has set target revenues of US$2.95 billion for 2013, hiking by 58.6% from 2012.

Asustek cooperates with subsidiary to launch in-car cloud computing navigation system

Apr 23, 21:48

Asustek Computer on April 23 announced the adoption of a smart cloud computing-based navigation system for 35 Toyota electric cars to be available for rent in the Sun Moon Lake scenic...

Apple reportedly stops placing Mac component orders

Apr 17, 22:26

Apple has reportedly stopped placing component orders for its Mac series products recently and related upstream suppliers so far have not yet received any word about when the US-based...

Foxconn to pay Microsoft for production of Android/Chrome devices

Apr 17, 22:06

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) on April 17 signed contracts with Microsoft to acquire authorization for patents used in the production of Android- and Chrome-based...

Testing service company Sporton to generate more revenues from handset sector

Apr 16, 22:02

Sporton International, an inductor maker and testing services provider, will see its revenues generated from testing services offered to the handset sector increase substantially...

Foxconn books DDR2 production capacity with higher prices, say sources

Apr 16, 21:24

Foxconn Electronics reportedly has booked a portion of 512Mb DDR2 production capacity at Winbond Electronics with prices 15-20% higher than the prevailing market price in order to...

Foxconn sees on-year drop in March revenues

Apr 10, 21:56

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$260.33 billion (US$8.38 billion) for March, up 10.77% on month, but down 27.28% on year,...

Compal ships 3.8 million notebooks, 400,000 tablets in March

Apr 9, 18:10

Compal Electronics shipped 3.8 million notebooks and 400,000 tablets in March, together growing 40% on month, according to the company.

Foxconn recruiting workers for plants in Zhengzhou, China

Apr 9, 15:19

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) started hiring workers for its plants in Zhengzhou, China at the end of March and some market watchers believe the recruitment is...

Wistron reports rising March revenues

Apr 9, 14:30

Notebook ODM firm Wistron saw March consolidated revenues reach NT$60.88 billion (US$2.02 billion), showing a sequential increase of 37.07% and an on-year increase of 11.18%. The...

Gigabyte sees growth in March revenues

Apr 9, 13:50

Gigabyte Technology has announced consolidated revenues of NT$4.43 billion (US$147.54 million) for March, up 30.3% on month and 8.96% on year, while revenues reached NT$12.4 billion...

Commentary: Labor shortages, rising wages in China push notebook component firms toward automation

Apr 1, 11:10

China continues to increase minimum wages but labor shortages along the coast continue sending the notebook supply chain moving inward to central China. The lack of labor is notebook...

Arbor Technology expects growing revenues from medical applications

Mar 29, 13:56

Taiwan-based industrial PC (IPC) firm Arbor Technology has reported that revenues from medical applications accounted for 38% of total revenues in 2012. According to company CEO,...

Inventec sees clients asking to place server orders directly

Mar 28, 12:27

As placing orders directly to ODMs is gradually becoming a trend among large Internet players, Inventec has revealed that a few clients have been asking about directly placing orders,...

Wistron, Inventec post profits for 2012

Mar 27, 12:19

Wistron has reported consolidated revenues of NT$657.84 billion (US$22.26 billion), gross margin of 4.85%, net operating profit of NT$8.22 billion, net profit of NT$6.67 billion,...

Embedded system makers eyeing medical applications

Mar 26, 14:05

Taiwan-based embedded system makers such as Advantech, ICP Electronics, Arbor Technology, Avalue Technology, and Unitech have been aggressive in developing the medical application...

Brand vendors cautious about Microsoft when it comes to hardware design

Mar 25, 22:46

Notebook brand vendors have turned cautious about revealing their new products' industrial designs for next-generation Windows as they are concerned that Microsoft may use their designs...

Acer, Asustek, Lenovo to participate in next-generation Windows development

Mar 25, 22:19

Microsoft has recently finished the preparation for its integrated development program (IDP) for the next-generation Windows operating system and several brand vendors including Acer,...

Intel, LCD TV brands to push full adoption of WiDi

Mar 25, 22:17

Intel is set to promote its Wireless Display (WiDi) technology in 2013 for the technology to become one of the standard PC specifications and LCD TV players including LG, Samsung...

TPV announces 2012 financial results

Mar 25, 16:05

LCD display OEM TPV Technology has announced that its 2012 comprehensive income amounted to US$12 billion, up 8.5% on year.

FIH posts heavy losses in 2012

Mar 25, 12:23

Foxconn International Holdings (FIH), the Hong Kong-based handset arm of Foxconn Electronics, has reported net losses of US$316 million or US$0.043 per share on revenues of US$5.24...

Commentary: Foxconn does not need Sharp Mexico plant

Mar 22, 16:29

According to Japan-based media, Sharp originally wanted to sell its LCD TV plant in Mexico to Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), and the negotiation was...

Pegatron to deal out 2012 cash dividend of NT$1.50

Stockwatch - Mar 22, 11:30

Pegatron Technology will distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$1.50 for 2012, according to a decision made by the company's board of directors on March 21.

Government will abolish Nuke 4 project if experts label it unsafe, says Taiwan Premier Jiang

Mar 18, 15:10

Approximately 200,000 people joined Taiwan's anti-nuclear protest on March 9, 2013. Some statistics showed that 50-60% of people surveyed were against using nuclear power to generate...

Chicony, Inventec pass UL testing for India market

Mar 15, 11:23

Taiwan-based makers Chicony Electronics and Inventec have passed tests conducted by Underwriter Laboratories (UL) for their IT products to be available for sale in the India market,...

Foxconn to issue JPY corporate bonds

Mar 14, 15:58

Taiwan-based EMS provider Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced that Foxconn (Far East) Limited, its wholly owned subsidiary, will issue 3-year unsecured...

ASRock nets NT$9 per share in 2012

Mar 14, 11:12

Taiwan-based motherboard vendor ASRock has posted consolidated revenues of NT$10.658 billion (US$361 million) for 2012, with net EPS reaching NT$9 for 2012.