9691 news items tagged Taiwan
NARLabs to invest NT$570 million in supercomputer projects in 2020
Thursday 12 December 2019National Center for High-performance Computer under stated-owned National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) is planning to invest NT$570 million (US$18.63 million) in 2020 to...
Laster, Excellence Optoelectronics to set up factories in Taiwan
Thursday 12 December 2019Laster Tech will invest NT$450 million (US$14.8 million) to build a plant making components of smart LED automotive lighting modules in northern Taiwan and will begin trial production...
HP eyeing bigger share in Taiwan notebook market
Thursday 12 December 2019Hewlett-Packard (HP) is looking to expand its share in Taiwan's notebook market in 2020 to a double-digit percentage, according to Jon Wang, managing director of HP Enterprise Taiw...
Taiwan IC design houses see increases in orders for 5G phones
Thursday 12 December 2019Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen significant increases in orders for related ICs for 5G phones recently, particularly from first-tier Chinese handset brands, with the ramp-ups...
US, Taiwan deepening cooperation in digital economy development
Thursday 12 December 2019US and Taiwanese firms have been doing well in cooperative development of tech innovations in 5G, IoT and big data analysis, but it requires more efforts from both sides to facilitate...
Global semiconductor equipment sales to rebound in 2020
Thursday 12 December 2019Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales will drop 10.5% to US$57.6 billion in 2019 from last year's historic peak of US$64.4 billion but stage a 2020 recovery and set a...
XFail 2019 Conference to open in Taiwan
Wednesday 11 December 2019XFail 2019 Conference, an occasion for entrepreneurs to share their experiences of failure to improve startups' chance of success, will open in Taipei on December 14.
Taiwan handsets – 3Q 2019
Wednesday 11 December 2019Taiwan makers shipped 14.21 million handsets in third-quarter 2019, up 3% sequentially but down 34.8% on year.
Taiwan telecoms face challenges bidding for 5G bands
Tuesday 10 December 2019Taiwan's telecom operators face new challenges beginning December 10, the day when they join open bidding for securing frequency bands for the launch of 5G services: The auction will...
Taiwan November exports up on year
Tuesday 10 December 2019Taiwan's exports totaled US$28.58 billion in value in November 2019, dropping 1.4% sequentially but rising 3.3% on year, while the corresponding imports reached total value of US$24.30...
Taiwan gearing up to build smart biomedical ecosystem
Tuesday 10 December 2019Taiwan's government will step up the development of smart biotech ecosystem by fostering more startups and introducing more international funds, technologies and talent through Hsinchu...
Taiwan urged to ease rules to attract AI talent
Monday 9 December 2019To tackle ongoing brain drain, Taiwan businesses are keen on adopting AI solutions to accelerate operation upgrades and transformations, but what counts more is how they can attract...
Taiwan poised to strive in global micro LED market, says PIDA executive
Monday 9 December 2019Taiwan has opportunities to strive in the global micro LED market by leveraging its technological advantages in the LED, semiconductor, and backend industries, according to Louis...
Winbond slowing down new fab construction
Monday 9 December 2019Specialty DRAM and flash memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics is slowing down constructing and equipping its new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, according to company...
Taiwan assigns 4.8-4.9GHz as dedicated 5G band for special purposes
Friday 6 December 2019The Taiwan government has decided to designate frequency band of 4.8-4.9GHz with bandwidth of 100MHz as a 5G band dedicated to use by the public and private sectors for special purposes...
Taiwan IC backend sector to see growth in 2H19 thanks to 5G, says Digitimes Research
Friday 6 December 2019Despite the ongoing US-China trade tensions, Taiwan's IC packaging and testing industry is still expected to see second-half 2019 revenues grow from the first half thanks to rising...
Taiwan IC design houses see orders slow down from China
Friday 6 December 2019Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen their China-based customers start slowing down their pace of orders due to year-end inventory checks at the clients, which may drag down revenues...
Lian Hong sees opportunity in notebook hinge business
Thursday 5 December 2019Although the global notebook market's annual shipments have remained at around 160 million units for the past several years, Taiwan-based notebook hinge maker Lian Hong still sees...
Taiwanese IC designers seeking closer partnerships with Chinese foundries
Thursday 5 December 2019More Taiwan-based IC design houses are moving to strengthen partnerships with foundries in China so as to land more orders from Chinese brand vendors seeking to cut reliance on US...
Powerchip seeing strong demand for smartphone sensors
Thursday 5 December 2019Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC), a foundry subsidiary of Powerchip Technology, has enjoyed robust demand for smartphone-use sensors which is filling its 12-inch fab ca...
Taiwan PC monitor shipments to stop growing in 4Q19
Thursday 5 December 2019Taiwan's PC monitor shipments registered increases of 8.2% sequentially and 5.8% on year in the third quarter of 2019, according to Digitimes Research. But shipments are unlikely...
Taiwan supply chain eye orders for mini LED-backlit iPad Pro
Wednesday 4 December 2019Taiwan-based supply chain makers including Epistar, General Interface Solution (GIS), Taiwan Surface Mounting Technology (TSMT), Zhen Ding Technology and Flexium Interconnect are...
China, Taiwan chipmakers step up deployments in automotive NOR flash
Wednesday 4 December 2019China's GigaDevice, and Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics and Macronix International have been aggressively expanding their automotive NOR flash offerings eyeing a bigger share in...
Taiwan LCD monitors – 3Q 2019
Tuesday 3 December 2019Taiwan PC monitor shipments continued to grow on-year in the third quarter of 2019 at 5.8% to arrive at 23.73 million units.
Relocation not easy for components suppliers
Tuesday 3 December 2019System integrators have been relocating their assembly lines out of China in the wake of the trade war between the world's two superpowers, but many of their upstream component suppliers...
- Panasonic to sell its chipmaking business to Taiwan's Nuvoton Tech: Nikkei (Nov 28) - Reuters
- Apple Xinyi A13 opens in Taipei (Jun 15) - Company release
- Taiwan's Foxconn readies chip boss to succeed Gou as chairman: sources (May 13) - Reuters
- Samsung Galaxy Fold to be equipped with Qualcomm AP (Mar 11) - BusinessKorea
- Apple supplier in Japan looks to Taiwan for bailout after iPhone XR letdown (Jan 22) - Wall Street Journal
- Taiwan arrests 6 people on suspicion of leaking BASF technology (Jan 7) - The Financial Times
- UMC to scale down chip project with Chinese partner (Jan 4) - Nikkei Asian Review
- TSMC tells execs to park the Mercedes and take a Toyota instead (Dec 6, 2018) - Nikkei Asian Review
- Sign a free-trade deal with Taiwan (Dec 2, 2018) - Wall Street Journal
- TSMC to challenge Intel data center dominance with IBM win (Nov 19, 2018) - Nikkei Asian Review