Worldwide server shipments reached 3.66 million units (based on motherboards shipped) in the fourth quarter of 2017, accounting for more than a quarter of the annual volumes in 2017 mainly thanks to peak season effect.

Taiwan makers share of worldwide monitor shipments rose slightly in 2017, as their Korea-based competitors became less interested in the mature monitor market that offered weak profits.

Taiwan's handset shipments grew significantly in 2017 because of strong orders from HMD Global for Nokia-branded devices. HMD's manufacturing partner, Foxconn, benefited most.

Based on surveys Digitimes Research conducted in China in December 2017, shipments of smartphone application processors (AP) to the China market in 2017 were able to maintain positive growth. However, shipments in the first quarter of 2018 are expected to decline...

Asia overtook North America to become Taiwan LCD TV suppliers' largest market in the fourth quarter of 2017, as a result of dramatic increases in shipments to China of Foxconn-made Sharp's LCD TVs.

Based on Digitimes Research's statistics, tablet shipments worldwide totaled 45.96 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017. The better-than-expected performance was driven by strong consumer spending in the high season, which benefited tablet brands and white-box...

Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments returned to the growth track in 2017, rising 2.7% on year to reach 237.64 million units.

Taiwan's LCD panel makers were able to maintain stable shipments in the fourth-quarter 2017 traditional low season, thanks to strong demand for 18:9 smartphone applications.

China-based smartphone vendors shipped a total of 199.8 million phones to both the domestic and overseas markets in the fourth quarter of 2017, up nearly 10% on quarter but only showing a single digit growth from the corresponding period of 2016.

Worldwide notebook shipments, not including detachable 2-in-1 devices, were weaker than expected and arrived at only around 41.15 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, registering their first on-year decline after four consecutive quarters of on-year growths...

Shipments of Nokia-branded devices to HMD Global continued to buoy Taiwan's handset shipments in the third quarter of 2017. HMD's manufacturing partner, Foxconn, benefited most.

Vendors moved up smartphone AP shipments ahead of China's National Day Golden Week holiday, buoying third-quarter 2017 shipments to come to 172 million units, up 24.3% on quarter, outperforming market expectation.