China-based Kymco Private Equity Management (Kymco Capital), a managing company for private equity investment funds and privately offered funds, focuses investment in enterprises in the ecosystem of providing mobility services, according to company general manager and managing partner Gary Ding.
Both SMIC and HiSilicon play major roles in China's campaign to raise the country's IC self-sufficiency though TMSC has been the major foundry partner for Huawei's chipmaking arm. Now HiSilicon is giving its 14nm chip orders to SMIC, an indication of the Chinese foundry's improved competitiveness...
The coronavirus pandemic is hitting the hard the smartphone market, with components suppliers disclosing that orders from Huawei and Samsing for their high-end 5G devices have been weak. But chip vendors believe that demand for 5G smartphone solutions is recovering in China, and they are stepping up production for sub-6GHz offerings that will be the mainstream in 2020...
Demand for server applications has been strong, fueled by stay-at-home economy amid lockdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But the lockdowns may disrupt suppliers' production in Southeast Asia, creating shortages for server components...
Apart from its leadership in the foundry sector, TSMC has been making a lot of efforts developing packaging technologies with which it can offer value-added services to customers. It has recently seen an "unexpected" rise in orders demanding its CoWoS packaging services for chips that support stay-at-home needs triggered by widespread lockdowns in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic...
Denmark-based startup BluSense Diagnostics, with major investments from Taiwanese companies, has developed a diagnostic kit that can test COVID-19 in 12 minutes, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
Sharp has not supplied LCD TV panels to Samsung since 2017 following Foxconn's takeover of the Japanese firm. But that is expected to change soon, as Samsung's in-house LCD panel lines are shutting down, and need to source more LCD TV applications from outside suppliers, including Sharp...
Concerns about the NAND flash market outlook in second-half 2020 have been triggered by Samsung's reported move of striving to cut its SSD inventory, with the Korean vendor even mulling sending them in the spot market. Meanwhile, Nintendo's Switch game consoles are selling like hot cakes, thanks to increasing stay-at-home activities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic...
Undeterred by the coronavirus impacts and the cancellation of MWC 2020, China-based smartphone vendors were keen to launch their flagship 5G-enabled models online in the first quarter of 2020 in order to make preemptive presence in the segment, according to Digitimes Research.
International Digital Entertainment Creative Association (IDEA) aims to be a catalyst to integrate segments of Taiwan's digital entertainment industry to create synergy and boost its internationalization, according to IDEA chairman Ken Chen.
