After the Lunar New Year holidays, labor shortage issues have become the hottest topic among the IT industy with Chongqing City government of China even hosted a conference in Taiwan to comfort the concerns.
Last update: Friday 3 February 2012 [5 news items]
Chongqing government highlights labor supply
Feb 3, 14:57
Commenting on the usual labor shortages after the Lunar New Year holiday, Tong Xiaoping vice mayor of Chongqing, China, at a recent labor resource conference in Taiwan, pointed out...
Foxconn enjoys recruitment crowds
Feb 2, 01:20
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry), despite being named a fear factory by the US media, still attracted large amounts of people in China looking for work, and the company's...
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...
China market: Some China-based motherboard vendors to withdraw due to hiked labor costs
Jan 13, 15:26
Under pressure of continued hikes in labor costs in China, at least half of the China-based motherboard vendors are expected to withdraw from the market in 2012, leaving an estimated...
Commentary: Could automation solve labor issues for Foxconn?
Jan 10, 14:52
China has always given the impression of having a large and cheap labor force. But as the country's population structure and social values are starting to change, Foxconn Electronics...
AUO to ship AMOLED panels to Sony and HTC in June, say sources
Displays | 2min ago
Young Fast medium-size thin-film touch panels to grow 50% sequentially in 2Q12
Displays | 3min ago
Computex 202: Acer to showcase Windows 8 tablet PCs
IT + CE | 56min ago
Flytech inaugurates factory in northern Taiwan
IT + CE | 2h 12min ago
3D-IC joint development with Elpida continuing, says UMC
Before Going to Press | 22min ago
Tontek to post over 30% sales growth in 2Q12
Before Going to Press | 24min ago
Lowering Sandy Bridge prices expected to boost PC demand in emerging markets, say motherboard makers
Before Going to Press | 51min ago
On-Bright expects 2Q12 sales to rise 50-60%
Before Going to Press | 1h ago
UMC revenues to grow through 3Q12, says CEO
Before Going to Press | 1h 10min ago
Taiwan market: More China-based handset vendors to launch sub-NT$4,000 smartphones in 3Q12
Before Going to Press | 1h 12min ago
High Windows 8 licensing fee makes prices of ultrabook difficult to drop, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 1h 13min ago
Samsung, LG and Huawei mulling plans to ramp up in-house production of LTE solutions
Before Going to Press | 1h 15min ago
TPV sees LCD TV shipments down 32.6% on year in 1Q12
Before Going to Press | 2h 14min ago
China anti-dumping investigation against US, South Korea polysilicon suppliers would hurt local downstream players
Before Going to Press | 2h 29min ago
New MacBook may be launched as early as July, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | 2h 33min ago
- LCD driver IC design houses shifting more capacity to high-resolution parts for smartphone segment
- Sony to ship in-cell touch panels for next-generation iPhone, say sources
- Google 7-inch tablet PC to ship in June with initial volume of 600,000 units
- Solar wafer maker GET reports full capacity
- PC shipments may only see slight sequential growth in 2Q12
- UMC holds groundbreaking ceremony for new facilities at 12-inch fab
- Coretonic shifts focus to small- to mid-size BLUs
- Asustek denies lowering notebook shipment targets for 2Q12
- Oslux unveils LED for camera flash
- Computex 2012: ViewSonic to unveil 21.5-inch touch screen monitor
- Uncertainty causes solar firms to expand with caution
- NAND flash prices hope for rebound in 3Q12
- Lenovo FY2011 net profit hikes 73.1%
- Suntech gross profit impacted by US anti-dumping duties
- Trina Solar announces 1Q12 results
- TXC to increase TCXO capacity by 200%
- Taiwan market: HTC recaptures top handset vendor ranking in April
- TXC optimistic about 2Q12 revenues
- TPV steps up LCD TV production
- China market: Energy-saving subsidies expected to boost sales of LCD TVs
- China and Taiwan LED firms sign agreement in Zhengzhou China
- China government focuses on illegal imports of waste materials that carry polysilicon
- LED industry enjoys high capacity utilization rates in 2Q12
- Solar wafer firms inclined to follow solar cell firms to increase quotes
- PTC conservative about 2012 revenue growth
- Releases
- White papers
- Bulletin
- Step into the new era of HD surveillance - GKB to launch ForeSight Surveillance System
- Advantech Makes Testing More Effective, Advancing Intelligent Vehicle Inspection
- Vehicle access control systems
- Glass fiber reinforced plastic chassis fueling ultrabook wave; comparable to metal chassis with high price-performance ratio
- GIGABYTE unveils GeForce GTX 690 graphics cards
- 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
- Fujitsu converts Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications into a wholly owned subsidiary
- NEC reaks the speed barriers of microwave transmission with ultra high modulations
- ATO Solution to launch 256Mb SLC NAND Flash - for the first time in fabless industry
- LSI completes acquisition of SandForce
- NEC develops super-resolution technologies for fine magnification of surveillance camera images
24-May-2012 markets closed
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| TSE electronic | 271.49 | -0.45 | -0.17% |
| GTSM (OTC) | 101.99 | -1.30 | -1.26% |
| OTC electronic | 130.56 | -1.89 | -1.43% |
- Nvidia takes the wraps off Kai, a quad-core reference design tablet that will cost US$199 (May 23) - Uber gizmo
- The Google/Motorola deal is done. What now? (May 23) - Information Week
- AMD hitting the casino floor with embedded R-series (May 22) - Tom's Hardware Guide
- Apple remains most valuable global brand with 19% growth to US$183 billion (May 22) - Apple Insider
- Apple, Samsung CEOs join talks, but patent claims keep coming (May 21) - Los Angeles Times
- HP report to include major job cuts (May 21) - Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
- Europe offers to let Google settle potential antitrust case (May 21) - Mercury News
- Qualcomm hires former AMD CTO Demers (May 20) - Tom's Hardware Guide
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- Taiwan market: Sony to launch mirrorless single-lens digital camera and 6 Cyber-shot models
- Nvidia introduces new standard for HPC with Kepler-based Tesla GPUs
- New Acer F2 servers support Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2 series processors
- Nvidia launches GeForce GTX 670 with Kelper architecture
- Samsung introduces Galaxy S III smartphone
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