141 news items tagged tariff
Taiwan sets 2021 feed-in tariff rates for renewable energy
Friday 8 January 2021Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has announced feed-in tariffs for renewable energy in 2021, reducing the rates by 7.90-8.59% for offshore wind power and by 0.74-3.91%...
Quanta expands investments in Thailand subsidiary
Monday 16 November 2020Quanta Computer has announced an investment of THB2 billion (US$70.08 million) in QMB, a subsidiary in Thailand, to fund its purchases of production equipment.
US election outcome not to change ODM relocation plans
Friday 6 November 2020Taiwan-based notebook and server manufacturers are sticking to plans of moving production out of China according to customer requests, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential...
The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on sales of automotive power semiconductors, with falling demand for motor vehicles causing global market revenue to decline by 16% in 2020,...
ODMs asked to install additional server production capacity in Taiwan
Tuesday 25 February 2020ODMs have seen more requests from their server clients for installing additional SMT lines in Taiwan as China's coronavirus outbreak has been impacting server supply from the country,...
Global AIO PC shipments to experience double-digit drops in 1Q20
Friday 14 February 2020Global all-in-one (AIO) PC shipments totaled 3.42 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, rounding out the volumes for the whole-year 2019 at 13.25 million units, down 3.4% on...
Global server shipments to drop nearly 10% in 1Q20 due to outbreak, says Digitimes Research
Monday 10 February 2020Global server shipments went up 13.4% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019 thanks to rising demand from US large datacenter companies and China's server market. However, shipments...
Taiwan finalizes 2020 feed-in tariff for renewable energy
Thursday 2 January 2020Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has announced final feed-in tariff rates for renewable energy for 2020, with reductions from 2019 for offshore wind power generation by...
Supply chain continues moving out of China despite trade truce
Tuesday 31 December 2019The US-China trade tensions seem to be easing with both sides set to sign an agreement soon, but there is still so much uncertainty lying ahead that many IT supply chain players have...
StrongLED suffers large on-year decrease in January-September 2019 operation
Tuesday 17 December 2019LED lighting solution provider StrongLED Lighting System saw January-September 2019 consolidated revenues of NT$939.3 million (US$30.8 million) drop 31.23% on year; gross margin of...
Notebook brands mull new production practice to avoid tariffs
Tuesday 26 November 2019To avoid US tariffs on Chinese imports, notebook vendors are considering a new practice of manufacutring where production lines in China will only handle the final assembly work,...
Mitac to push into cloud computing in 2020
Tuesday 12 November 2019The Mitac Group will see three major growth drivers - edge computing, large-scale datacenters and Internet of Vehicles - in 2020 with subsidiaries Mitac Computing Technology and Mitac...
Taiwan white-box server shipments to rebound in 2020
Wednesday 6 November 2019Taiwan's white-box server shipments are expected to rebound in 2020 after public cloud datacenter players finish adjusting their inventory levels in 2019, according to sources from...
Taiwan ODMs strive to improve yield rates, costs for non-China production lines
Friday 1 November 2019Taiwan-based notebook ODMs have completed most of their plant relocation and their present focus is to improve production yield rates and reduce costs at the relocated facilities...
Global notebook shipments to drop slightly in 4Q19, says Digitimes Research
Thursday 31 October 2019Worldwide notebook shipments are forecast to drop 1.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019 after registering a nearly 2% increase in the prior quarter, according to Digitimes...
Automation demand may not recover until after mid-2020
Tuesday 15 October 2019With manufacturers starting to move some production out of China to avoid the US tariff on products imported from the "world's factory," robot and automation solution providers are...
Taiwan manufacturing environment more competitive than China in most aspects, says DBS report
Thursday 3 October 2019Singapore-based DBS Group Holdings has issued a report comparing the cost-effectiveness between manufacturing in China and Taiwan, and of the 12 categories of comparison, Taiwan leads...
Acer sees positive impact of trade war
Tuesday 1 October 2019The ongoing US-China trade disputes have given a good opportunity for notebook brand vendors to rethink and improve their risk management, according to Acer co-COO Tiffany Huang.
Notebook brand vendors accelerating production relocation out of China
Tuesday 1 October 2019The ongoing trade tensions between the US and China is prompting notebook brand vendors to have their ODMs accelerate production relocation out of China, with Compal Electronics to...
Storage market to return to growth track in 2020: Q&A with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo
Tuesday 24 September 2019Pure Storage, an all-flash array storage product vendor, has seen double-digit growths that are far stronger than those of other major vendors who mostly have only single-digit increases...
Compal turns to Taiwan for making US-bound notebooks
Thursday 12 September 2019Compal Electronics, in response to its major brand clients' requests, is moving production of their US-bound notebooks from Vietnam to Taiwan, which is expected to turn Taiwan into...
Wistron continues setting up production lines in various countries, says chairman
Wednesday 11 September 2019Wistron chairman Simon Lin believes the US-China trade dispute is unlikely to end any time soon and therefore the company will continue running production lines in different parts...
Compal, Inventec expect flat 3Q19 revenues after reporting declines for August
Tuesday 10 September 2019Compal Electronics and Inventec are on track to achieve flat sequential performances for their third-quarter revenues as expected, since clients advanced their orders originally for...
Rigid-flex boards shipments for AirPods to stay robust
Monday 2 September 2019Despite the US tariffs on China-sourced wearable devices taking effect September 1, Taiwanese PCB makers are expected to see their shipments of rigid-flex boards for AirPods remain...
Taiwan firms alter investment deployments due to US-China trade war
Monday 2 September 2019The escalating tit-for-tat tariff war between the world's two largest economies has prompted Taiwanese firms with operations in China to return home for investments while also sharply...