With Micron Technology cutting capex and scaling back output amid a gloomy outlook for its operations, other memory chipmakers are expected to follow suit. Such developments are welcomed by memory backend companies, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

International semiconductor players are enforcing layoffs and other drastic control measures amid lingering market headwinds, but Taiwan's IC design houses are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward whether to follow suit, according to industry sources.

Contract prices for DRAM and NAND flash chips have limited room for further drops, having registered over 20% falls for the second consecutive quarter in the third quarter of 2022, according to sources at Taiwan-based memory module makers.

The industrial and public displays market has been growing from 7.6% of total market share in 2020 to 8.5% in 2021, and is expected to grow to 8.7% in 2022. Chinese panel makers have taken the lead for industrial display, in which Tianma tops the first place with 37% share in 2022, followed by BOE, AUO, Innolux and Truly, according to Omdia.

LED chip and Si-based sensor maker Tyntek continues adjusting its inventory levels by offloading more of its legacy and substandard chips, according to company sources.

Though demand for LCD panels has nosedived in 2022, automotive displays will drive global LCD panel output value to continually increase to over US$70 billion in 2030, according to DIGITIMES Research director Tony Huang.

Worsening macroeconomic conditions have led to a reduction in the outlook for global smart home device shipments according to IDC. Worldwide shipments of smart home devices are now expected to decline 2.6% in 2022 to 874 million units with smart speakers and video entertainment devices such as TV and streaming devices facing the brunt of the decline.

Wistron has decided to reshuffle its management, with Jeff Lin to become president and CEO.

In a multi-cloud environment, heavy WAN (wide area network) traffic has resulted in low efficiency in network management and information security risks. Software-defined (SD) WAN with additional virtual network paths to existing ones is an optimization solution that can improve both networking quality and information security, Alex Chen, the Taiwan vice president for Aruba Networks, told DIGITIMES in a recent interview.

Wireless communication and power management device maker Billion Electric focuses on products for niche-market application to avoid competition with giant fellow makers, according to company president Greg Chen.

As India is grappling with a slow economy that has hit the smartphone market, a surge in COVID cases in China may further impact the world's second-largest smartphone market.

Huawei Technologies has secured an extension to a patent licensing deal with Nokia, suggesting the Chinese company continues to lead in networking technology despite years of punishing US sanctions.