Last update: Friday 15 March 2013 [10 news items]
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,...
Long LED lighting certification time becomes market entry barrier, says UL Taiwan
Dec 12, 21:45
To enter the US market, LED components need to pass LM-79 LED luminaire testing, which can take up to nine months, according to UL Taiwan. LED lighting firms have been facing difficulties...
Taiwan-based motor maker Kuo Shuay obtains UL certification for motor efficiency lab
Nov 9, 15:37
Taiwan-based motor maker Kuo Shuay Industrial has obtained certification from Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and became the fifth firm in the world to obtain certification for its...
UL provides Japan S Mark certification testing in Taiwan
Oct 22, 14:46
The government in Japan has been encouraging domestic home appliance firms to produce products that can save energy. Products that fit the requirements of Japan's safety measure,...
UL launches virtual LED road show
May 18, 11:25
UL (Underwriters Laboratories) recently announced its "UL Virtual LED Road Show," a web-based eLearning program designed to help users gain easy access to the latest in...
AUO gains Underwriters Laboratories PV certification
Aug 5, 12:11
AU Optronics (AUO) has announced that its PV QRA lab has received certification from Underwriters Laboratories' Witnessed Test Data Program (WTDP), allowing AUO to self examine its...
UL signs MOU with ITRI to develop safety requirements for electric vehicles
Mar 18, 14:53
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a product safety testing and certification service provider, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research...
PV testing services taking off in Taiwan
Nov 13, 12:35
Germany-based TUV Rheinland, US-based Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Intertek Taiwan (set up by UK-based Intertek Group Plc) and the Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology...
Taiwan Electric Research & Testing Center signs MOU with Underwriters Laboratories on green energy
Oct 16, 15:13
The Taiwan Electric Research & Testing Center (Tertec) has signed an MOU with Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for cooperation to provide product testing and certification services...
Underwriters Laboratories to help Taiwan PV module makers set up certification labs
Apr 8, 14:22
Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a US-based provider of testing and certification services, will help Taiwan PV module makers, as well as related research organizations, set up their...
Digitimes Research: China touch panel makers expand their influence in the market
Displays | 21min ago
Taiwan market: Handset shipments in 1Q13 hit record, says IDC
Mobile + telecom | 23min ago
MediaTek-MStar merger yet to receive China approval
Bits + chips - Newswatch | 27min ago
Netronix aims to become largest e-book reader ODM in 3 years, says paper
IT + CE - Newswatch | 54min ago
PCB equipment makers Csun, Ampoc 2Q13 sales to rise
Bits + chips | 1h 24min ago
Alltop expects 20-30% growth in non-notebook businesses
IT + CE | 2h 55min ago
Chipbond expects sales to peak in 3Q13
Bits + chips | 2h 58min ago
Taiwan market: Sony to launch Handycam camcorder GW88V
IT + CE | 3h 45min ago
Simplo, Dynapack approve 2012 dividends
IT + CE - Stockwatch | 3h 48min ago
Spreadtrum raises sales guidance for 2Q13
Bits + chips | 3h 55min ago
Taiwan optical supply chain facing challenges from China players
Before Going to Press | Jun 17, 22:11
- First-tier players may release smartphones that adopt heat pipes by the end of the year
- CVIA: China to purchase 30 million TV panels from Taiwan makers
- Taiwan makers see booming orders for smartphone tablet accessories
- Taiwan IC design houses reducing exposure in NAND flash controller market
- Mixed-signal technology to dominate global chipset market: Q&A with Dialog Semiconductor CEO Jalal Bagherli
- Taiwan market: Tablet sales in 2013 to reach nearly 2 million units, says FET executive
- SPIL expanding capacity for high-end ICs
- OLED TVs to be similarly priced as LCD TVs by 2016, say observers
- ODMs promoting convertible notebooks to brand vendors
- Chunghwa Telecom breaks ground for data center in northern Taiwan
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Digitimes Research: Competition in the AMOLED panel industry continuing to heat up
- Wistron, Inventec unlikely to see notebook revenue proportion drop below 50% in the short term
- Acer, Asustek to continue posting losses in smartphone business
- Epistar to issue 250 million new shares for private placement
- Order visibility from BlackBerry extends to 2-3 quarters, say suppliers
- Unity Opto profits double in 2012
- Taiwan market: Vibo Telecom mulls partnership for 4G investment
- LED packaging houses face rising technological challenge
- New Csun solar manufacturing facility in Turkey opens door for maker
- Rising demand for large-size TVs beneficial to polarizer makers: Q&A with Ho Jau-yang, chairman of CMMT
- Digitimes Research: China mobile AP market to expand in 2013
- Asustek expects 10% sequential drop in 2Q13 notebook and tablet shipments
- Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch VoIP at M+
- Coolpad becomes top 3G handset vendor in China
- Releases
- White papers
- Bulletin
- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- FIC partners with Cluster Wireless to deliver Intelligent M2M Solutions
- 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
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- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- 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
- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row

Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...

Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...

Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...

Singapore-based Gajah International Pte Ltd (Gajah) has won several Computex 2013 Design and Innovation...
- 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.


















