According to Digitimes Research's statistics and analyses, the 2021 global server market has a supply-demand gap as large cloud service operators step up orders to meet the pandemic-driven demand for cloud services, WFH and online services but the IC and component shortage disrupts shipment schedules.

Taiwan's PC monitor shipments increased sequentially as expected in the third quarter, but only went up 4.6%, smaller than the 6% forecasted in August as supply of some components was still tight.

Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments are expected to increase 10.9% sequentially in the third quarter of 2021 due to seasonality.

Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments reached 73.76 million units in the third quarter of 2021, rising 2.5% sequentially.

Digitimes Research believes 2021 were a fruitful year for the global foundry industry thanks to strong order momentum and is optimistic about its outlook going into 2022.

This Asia tech industry summary will mainly focus on Samsung Electronics prioritizing NAND flash production at its P3 manufacturing line in Pyeongtaek, Hyundai Motor Group shutting down its internal combustion engine development team and shifting its focus to EV development, and Quanta expanding production capabilities at its data center server factories in the US, Southeast Asia and Europe.

This Asia tech industry summary will mainly focus on floods in Malaysia disrupting production at Japanese and Taiwanese factories in Kuala Lumpur and seven nearby states, South Korea's SK Hynix winning China's conditional approval to take over Intel NAND business after having invested US$7.5 million in Hubei Sinophorus Electronic Materials, and Taiwan Asia Semiconductor (TAS) and Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) stepping up deployments for third-generation semiconductor materials.

This Asia tech industry summary will mainly focus on Toyota changing its investment strategies for electric vehicles (EVs), the US rejecting a merger agreement between China's Wise Road Capital and South Korea's Magnachip Semiconductor, and Samsung Display lowering dependence on its parent company Samsung Electronics by supplying OLED panels for OPPO's foldable smartphones.