Last update: Monday 6 May 2013 [340 news items]
TSMC to adopt solar equipment from Taiwan suppliers
Sep 21, 01:05
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to adopt automation systems from Taiwan-based equipment suppliers for producing CIGS thin-film solar cells, according to Rick...
UMC solar cell subsidiary set to expand capacity
Sep 17, 02:05
While seeing order visibility to the end of 2011, solar cell maker Topcell Solar International is looking to expand its annual capacity to 450MWp in early 2011 and further to 800MWp...
TSMC aims to be top-5 PV module maker within five years
Sep 17, 01:20
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) aims to become one of the world's top-five solar cell makers within the next five years, said Rick Tsai, president of the company's...
GTOC to start production at China subsidiary at the beginning of 2011
Sep 17, 01:10
Optical glass processing services provider G-Tech Optoelectronics (GTOC), an affiliate of the Foxconn (Hon Hai) Group, is scheduled to start operating its reinforced glass production...
Customer service provider DYXnet works with Dell and VMWare for cloud computing
Sep 16, 01:50
Hong Kong-based customer server provider DYXnet has recently announced cooperation with Dell and VMWare to cut into the cloud computing services market in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China,...
Grace names new president and CEO
Sep 14, 16:33
China's Grace Semiconductor has announced that its board of directors has approved the resignation of company president and CEO Ulrich Schumacher. The board decided to have executive...
Acer inclined to adopt Android for tablet PCs, says company executive
Sep 8, 11:05
Acer has taken a positive attitude to develop and launch tablet PCs and believes that Android-based tablets will be competitive with the iPad, said the company's Taiwan president...
TI expects shipments of DLP 3D Ready chips to reach 2-3 million units in 2011
Sep 2, 17:01
Texas Instruments (TI) vice president of DLP business Kent Novak at a conference has commented that the company's shipments of DLP 3D Ready chips will increase to 2-3 million units...
PC replacement trend for enterprise market to appear in 1Q11, says Asustek
Sep 2, 16:59
Asustek Computer vice president Kevin Lin has commented that most enterprises recently started to finish their budget planning for PC replacements, and are expected to start in the...
Compal to see 3Q10 notebook shipments drop up to 10% on quarter
Sep 2, 16:50
Compal Electronics has reduced its third-quarter 2010 notebook shipment forecast from a growth of 5% originally to a single-digit percentage drop on quarter, according to company...
Compal president pessimistic about non-Apple tablet PC shipments in 2011
Sep 2, 16:46
Compal Electronics president Ray Chen at a company investors conference on September 1, commented that he expects shipments of non-Apple tablet PCs to not exceed 15 million units...
CMI, CPT to reduce utilization rates by 20%, say sources
Aug 27, 16:36
Chimei Innolux (CMI) and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) are expected to reduce their utilization rates by 20% in response to dropping panel demand, according to market sources.
ECS files lawsuit against Shuttle president and employees
Aug 23, 15:40
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has filed lawsuits against Shuttle president David Chen and several employees who previously worked for ECS.
Entire to start volume production of polystyrene-based LGPs in 4Q10
Aug 6, 14:58
Diffusion sheet maker Entire Technology will begin volume production of polystyrene-based light guide plates (LGP) in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to company president Wang...
Intel Taiwan says CEO visit yet to be confirmed
Aug 5, 17:10
Clarifying comments by Acer chairman JT Wang that Intel CEO Paul Otellini will visit Taiwan in October to explain the company's actions in closing its WiMAX office, country manager...
Macronix to spend NT$30 billion on 12-inch fab over two years, says president
Jul 28, 11:54
Macronix International will invest a total of almost NT$30 billion (US$936 million) in its recently-acquired 12-inch wafer fab at the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), northern Taiwan in...
Asustek chairman sends internal note to boost morale
Jul 8, 15:42
Asustek Computer chairman Jonney Shih recently sent an internal note to the company's employees to strengthen team morale as the company has been impacted by rumors president and...
Asustek refutes CEO resignation rumor; share price continues dropping
Jul 2, 11:16
Asustek Computer used a posting with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) to refute an industry rumor that company CEO and president Jerry Shen had resigned his position on July 1 due...
Prospects of hybrid HDDs in notebook market: Q&A with Seagate's Teh Ban-seng
Jun 21, 16:39
Seagate Technology on May 24, 2010 unveiled Momentus XT drive, a hybrid hard disk drive (HDD) series that combines 7,200rpm hard disk platters and a 4GB SSD (solid-state drive) made...
NOR flash supply gap reaches 20%, says Winbond president
Jun 21, 14:52
NOR flash supply is currently short of demand by around 20%, according to Tung-Yi Chan, president of Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics. Prices for the memory chip will continue going...
Jun 21, 14:07
HTC president Peter Chou has commented that mid-range to high-end smartphones are still the mainstream in the US and Europe, which are the Taiwan-based company's main sales markets...
CMI appoints personnel to strengthen relation with equipment maker Contrel
Jun 18, 16:40
An executive from Chimei Innolux (CMI) has been appointed president of Taiwan-based LCD inspection-equipment maker Contrel Technology, with the two companies expected to tighten their...
Qisda is not part of the AUO price fixing investigation
Stockwatch - Jun 11, 12:16
Qisda has responded to the indictment against its president Hui Hsiung for TFT-LCD panel price fixing by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), saying that Qisda is not part of the investigation...
Jun 11, 11:54
Corning is optimistic about the global LCD market in the third quarter of 2010 and will continue to establish inventory in the supply chain for the peak season in the second half...
AUO urges Taiwan government to speed up China investment approval
Jun 10, 11:59
AU Optronics (AUO) CEO and president LJ Chen has urged the Taiwan government to speed up the process of allowing its makers to set up LCD fabs in China, as it is crucial for the development...
Speculation arises about possible ProMOS-Elpida partnership for China plant
Jun 8, 11:53
Industry sources in Taiwan speculate ProMOS Technologies will partner with Elpida Memory for a new manufacturing plant in Chongqing, Sichuan province (China). The speculation comes...
Computex 2010: AMD in no hurry enter tablet PC market
Jun 3, 15:03
While PC players are aggressively pushing tablet PC products at Computex 2010, AMD senior vice president and general manager of Products Group Rick Bergman pointed out that the company...
Alcatel-Lucent to set up LTE ecosystem with Taiwan makers
Jun 3, 13:45
Alcatel-Lucent, in view of large market potential for LTE, will team up with Taiwan-based makers of networking/communication equipment to set up an LTE ecosystem, according to the...
Computex 2010: Compal has done more than said in cloud computing development, says president
Jun 2, 16:45
In response to the questions that Compal Electronics appears to have made fewer efforts in cloud computing than fellow makers Quanta Computer and Inventec, Compal president Ray Chen...
DRAM and driver ICs buoying 12-inch wafer demand, says PSC president
Jun 2, 14:29
Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) is seeing tight capacity at its 12-inch fabs, buoyed by brisk demand for DRAM memory, according to company president Alex Wang. Meanwhile,...
Acer to launch netbook and tablet PCs with MeeGo preloaded
Jun 2, 14:21
Acer president Gianfranco Lanci at Intel's e21FORUM 2010 meeting at Computex 2010 pointed out that Acer will launch netbooks and tablet PCs that adopt Intel's latest Atom processor...
Computex 2010: WiMAX medicare use demonstrated to Taiwan president
Jun 2, 11:11
Chairman JT Wang for both Acer and the Taipei Computer Association, one of the organizers of Computex, and chairwoman Lin Kuo Wen-yen for Tatung InfoComm, one of the six WiMAX operators...
ARM president believes 50% of future tablet PCs to be ARM based
Jun 1, 11:45
ARM president Tudor Brown, at the company's pre-Computex 2010 press conference on May 31, emphasized the idea that over 50% of future tablet PCs will be based on ARM platforms.
AMD hires ex-ECS motherboard business president as the VP of global sales
May 24, 15:05
AMD has recently hired Yang Shu-Kan (transliterated from Chinese), the ex-general manager of Elitegroup Computer Systems' (ECS') motherboard business, to work as the vice president...
Inotera names new executive VP
May 19, 12:22
Scott Meikle will begin as executive vice president of Inotera Memories on June 1, 2010, and his predecessor Michael Sadler will return to Micron Technology's US headquarters, the...
Colley Hwang, president of Digitimes, speaking at Microsoft's 20 years anniversary
Colley Hwang, president of Digitimes, said during his speech at Microsoft's 20 years anniversary event that Taiwan IT players are one of the most important parts of the IT industry...
Photo: Terry Ku, Digitimes, Jan 5.
IDF San Francisco: Intel CEO displayed a silicon wafer built on 22nm process
Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini has displayed a silicon wafer containing its first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory...
Photo: Monica Chen, Sep 24.
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset market, Broadcom's mobile solutions have found their way into the supply...
Touchscreen offers new opportunity for PC brands: An interview with Acer president
The PC industry saw several major developments in 2012, such as the rise of ARM-based products that greatly weakened the influence of the Wintel platform and Microsoft's launch of...
The challenge for mobile telecom carriers: Q&A with FET president Yvonne Li
Along with increasing use of smartphones, competition among mobile telecom carriers is changing and they are faced with a big challenge to transform themselves into total solution...
Asustek Computer's Zenbooks, Transformer tablets and the Nexus 7 have helped expand its brand recognition, raising its share in the North America notebook market from 7% in the second...
Developing innovative energy technology: Q&A with Siemens president and CEO Peter Loscher
Germany-based Siemens introduced an environmental portfolio in 2011 to help reduce gas emissions by 317 million tons. According to Peter Loscher, president and CEO of Siemens, climate...
- AUO aims at 20% market share for eTP touch panels for notebooks in 2013
- Digitimes Research: US new solar installations may only reach 3.5GW in 2013
- Solar cell prices may increase to US$0.43/W in Taiwan
- Sony Mobile to extend cooperation with ODM firms, says marketing executive
- Senao expanding retail chain in eastern China
- UDE likely to obtain orders from 2 game console vendors
- Lenovo 1Q13 net profit hikes 90% on year
- Phison warns several backend firms of possible patent infringement
- Facebook sets up OCP Taiwan
- Computex 2013: Memory module firms to showcase new SSDs
- Asia to be largest LTE market, says Nokia Siemens Networks greater China head
- ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
- TPV Technology suffers 1Q13 net loss of over US$10 million
- Digitimes Research: Seoul Semiconductor may see 2013 revenues up 40.3% on year
- Taiwan April manufacturing production index down, says MOEA
- Polarizer makers under price-cut pressure from clients
- AUO to supply panels for use in 2nd-gen Nexus 7, say sources
- US fab-tool book-to-bill stays above parity, says SEMI
- Intel, MediaTek and Elan taking up 60% of global touchscreen controller market
- HannStar to reach 95% utilization in 2Q13
- Windows 8 expected to take up 5-8% of global tablet shipments in 2013, say Taiwan makers
- Digitimes Research: Global LED tube light shipments to reach 220 million units in 2013
- Nvidia introduces GeForce GTX 780 GPU for gaming
- Quartz component maker TXC expects sales to rise through 4Q13
- Global LCD monitor OEM shipments down 14% on year in 1Q13, says TPV
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- GIGABYTE Launches the BRIX Ultra Compact PC Kit
- AEWIN Introduces Newest Multiplayer Gaming System SGA-5010
- Carry Technology Highlights Thunderbolt and Wi-Fi Card Reader Series
- Imagination says third party IP becoming a key driving force for silicon vendors
- EverFocus launches ECOR960 X1 16CH with better image quality and more affordable price
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
- ATO Solution Co., Ltd. to launch 1Gb SLC NAND Flash after 256Mb/512Mb mass production for the first time in Fab-less industry
- Chilisin's miniature power inductor in 0603/0805 sizes
- Chilisin introduces Thin-film chip inductor 0201 size
- Chilisin at 2012 electronics Munich A5/159 & 260
- Chilisin sunken-type molded power inductor for MXM Graphic application
24-May-2013 markets closed
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| TAIEX (TSE) | 8209.78 | -28.05 | -0.34% |
| TSE electronic | 310.89 | -0.43 | -0.14% |
| GTSM (OTC) | 118.64 | -0.71 | -0.59% |
| OTC electronic | 143.77 | -0.29 | -0.2% |
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
- China economy to stay commodity-oriented, says JPMorgan (April 16) - Bloomberg
- S Korea in US$15.3 billion stimulus bid to spur economic growth (April 16) - BBC News
- Gold hit by sharpest tumble in 30 years (April 16) - CNN
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2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto's cafe booth
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Delta LED light bulbs
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Apr 8.
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2013 Taiwan Internationbal Lighting Show: Epistar applications for agricultural lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Everlight residential LED lighting
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
2013 Taiwan International Lighting Show: Edison Opto LED strip lamp
Photo: Jackie Chang, DIGITIMES, Mar 29.
Opportunity lies for MEMS energy harvesting: Q&A with Holst Centre general manager Bert Gyselinckx
Digitimes recently interviewed Bert Gyselinckx, general manager of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, to...
Returning with stronger competitiveness: Q&A with Lu Li-Cheng, Chaintech chairman
Chaintech, a motherboard/graphics card maker, which quit the market once and returned recently, has...
MEMS-enabled energy harvesting: Q&A with MIG executive director Karen Lightman
Digitimes recently spoke with Karen Lightman, the executive director of MEMS Industry Group (MIG),...
Complete mobile platform solutions: Q&A with Broadcom executive VP Robert Rango
In a relentless competition against rivals including Qualcomm, Nvidia and Media in the smartphone chipset...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.