VIA forms IC joint venture with Shanghai Alliance Investment

Jan 17, 18:45

VIA Technologies has announced that it has set up an IC design house jointly with Shanghai Alliance Investment Company targeting the growing chip market in China.

SMIC announces breakthrough in backside-illuminated image sensors

Dec 20, 20:36

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced a breakthrough in its development of backside-illuminated (BSI) CMOS image sensor (CIS) technology. The complete BSI...

Compal, Inventec to increase notebook shipments from inland China in 2013

Dec 19, 22:08

Facing strong pressure from rising labor costs in China, notebook ODMs will accelerate their pace in shifting production to inland China in 2013 with Compal set to move all its notebook...

Acer cancels joint press conference with Alibaba to unveil smartphone in Shanghai

Sep 14, 10:31

Acer originally planned to hold a joint press conference with China-based Alibaba Group in Shanghai on September 13 to debut CloudMobile A800, a smartphone based on the Alibaba-developed...

Quanta aiming to move all notebook production lines to Chongqing by 2014

Aug 16, 01:25

Quanta Computer is aiming to move all its notebook production lines except those for Apple's products to Chongqing, China within two years and estimates that its notebook shipments...

Shanghai Unitech swings to profits in 1H12

Aug 3, 01:25

Shanghai Unitech Electronics, a PCB-making subsidiary of Taiwan-based Unitech Printed Circuit Board, has said it managed to return to profitability in the first half of 2012 with...

Fairchild opens global resource center in Shanghai

Jun 27, 14:45

Fairchild Semiconductor has announced the establishment of its global mobile resource center (GMRC) located in Shanghai, China. The center offers mobile technology designers access...

Oerlikon opens China headquarters in Shanghai

Jun 21, 16:41

Switzerland-based Oerlikon announced the official opening of its new headquarters in Shanghai. The China-based headquarters will consolidate the firm's eight offices currently in...

Taiwan market: HP unveils five new ultrabooks

May 15, 01:45

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled five new ultrabooks under its Envy 4 and Envy 6 series in Taiwan with a chassis design that combines a metal-based bezel with a plastic-based bottom;...

HP unveils ultra-like models in Shanghai

May 14, 12:28

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled a series of ultrabooks priced at US$999.99 onwards as well as a number of ultra-like models priced from US$600-700 in Shanghai.

Foxconn to construct China headquarters in Shanghai

May 9, 16:26

Foxconn will hold a groundbreaking ceremony on May 10 to begin construction of its China operational headquarters on a 10,000 square meter (2.47 acre) site located in the east of...

eMemory, Shanghai Huali partner to offer 55nm HV process

Mar 22, 15:25

Embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) silicon IP developer eMemory Technology has announced its One Time Programmable (OTP) technology, NeoBit, has completed silicon IP verification...

Aurora sets up logistics center in Shanghai

Feb 16, 11:58

Aurora, a Taiwan-based vendor of office automation devices and furniture, is establishing a logistics center in Shanghai, eastern China, with investment of CNY30 million (US$4.76...

Acer, HP to expand notebook shipments from Chongqing, China in 2012

Feb 2, 01:05

As total notebook shipments from Chongqing, China increased to 15.74 million units in 2011 with production volume also growing more than 1,000 fold to US$5.15 billion, Acer and Hewlett-Packard...

Inventec assigns new president for PC business

Jan 3, 01:35

Inventec has recently assigned its executive vice president, director and general manager of Inventec Shanghai Maurice Wu as the new president of PC business.

Notebook ODMs picking up the pace in inland China production

Dec 20, 01:15

Notebook ODMs such as Quanta Computer and Compal Electronics have both recently picked up their pace in production in inland China with Compal's plants in Chengdu set to produce 10...

Samsung unveils new smartphones in Shanghai

Nov 11, 01:25

Samsung Electronics has unveiled two new high-end smartphones, the Galaxy Note and Galaxy Nexus, in Shanghai, China. The Galaxy Note, which comes with a 5.3-inch display, integrates...

ASE seeking US$200 million syndicated loan, says paper

Newswatch - Oct 17, 15:53

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Taiwan's largest IC packaging and testing firm, is applying for a US$200 million syndicated loan to fund its operations in China, according...

ASE looks to expand

Sep 23, 01:05

IC packaging and testing service provider Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) expects its consolidated revenues to top US$30 billion in 2020, and is eyeing a 30% global market...

ASE breaks ground on China headquarters

Sep 22, 01:00

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) broke ground at the site of a regional headquarters in Zhangjiang, Shanghai on September 21. Operations are scheduled to commence in 2012,...

Taiwan PC supply chain players facing bankruptcy crisis in China

Aug 4, 01:10

Taiwan-based PC supply chain players are facing a crisis of being bankrupted in China as the China government started executing new social insurance policies in July which will significantly...

Pegatron receives orders for 15 million iPhone 5s from Apple

Jul 5, 01:10

Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is estimated to have landed orders for 15 million iPhone 5s (iPhone 4S) from Apple and is set to start shipping in September of 2011,...

HP, Acer, Asustek to raise supply proportion from Chongqing in 2H11

Jun 30, 01:30

Global notebook brand vendors Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer are set to significantly increase their notebook supply proportions from Chongqing, China in the second half of 2011 with...

Nichia to set up LED factory in China

May 27, 12:12

Japan-based Nichia, the world's largest producer of LED chips, will invest US$16 million to establish LED chip production and packaging lines with an annual capacity of 2.7 billion...

PCB maker Shanghai Unitech sees seasonal demand pick up

May 13, 01:15

Shanghai Unitech Electronics, a China-based subsidiary of Unitech Printed Circuit Board, has said it is seeing a seasonal boost in demand which has arrived earlier than usual. Shanghai...

IC testing firm Thailin to control packaging house ChipMOS Shanghai

Apr 25, 15:58

IC testing house Thailin Semiconductor will spend US$39.95 million to take up the control of ChipMOS Technologies (Shanghai) through the purchase of Modern Mind Technology, which...

Electric car solution developed by Delta, Wistron, Qisda revealed in China

Apr 21, 01:40

An electric car solution developed by Taiwan-based upstream supply chain players including Delta Electronics, Wistron and Qisda, has recently been revealed at an automobile exhibition...

IC packager ASE steps up investment in China

Apr 21, 01:20

Taiwan-based IC packaging and testing firm Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has revealed plans to invest a total of US$1.2 billion on manufacturing facilities in Shanghai,...

Chunghwa Telecom sets up subsidiary in Shanghai, China

Mar 28, 16:44

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) on March 25 announced the establishment of a wholly owned subsidiary, Chunghwa Telecom (China), in Shanghai, eastern China, for promoting CHT's intelligent...

Surging demand changes small- to medium-size panel industry

Mar 2, 01:35

Amid the surging demand for smartphones and other applications for small- to medium-size panels, the overall small- to medium-size industry is changing with NEC to turn wholly owned...

Pegatron to see strong 2011

Jan 25, 01:45

Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is confident about its sales performance in 2011 thanks to the CDMA-based and the new-generation iPhone orders, which should total...

Shanghai Huali 12-inch fab pilot run delayed to end of 2011, says China media

Jan 17, 16:58

Construction of a 12-inch wafer fab by Shanghai Huali Microelectronics, which is majority-owned by the Shanghai government, has experienced delays, according to China media reports...

Transcend moves global production base back to Taiwan from China

Jan 11, 01:05

Memory module maker Transcend Information has moved its global manufacturing base from China back to Taiwan. The new facilities in Taipei are equipped with 20 production lines and...

Digital China cooperates with Quanta Computer to set up data center in China

Dec 16, 01:35

China-based IT service provider Digital China at TecMall Forum in Taiwan, revealed that the company is in cooperation with Quanta Computer to establish a data center in Shanghai....