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Wednesday 9 November 2022
Winbond on track to open new fab in southern Taiwan by end-2022
Specialty DRAM and flash memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics is on track to start operating its new 12-inch plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, by the end of this year but may slow...
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Taiwan invests EUR10 million in Lithuania and provides semiconductor scholarships to Central and Eastern Europe students
Taiwan is fulfilling its promise to invest in Lithuania and other Central and Eastern European countries to further enhance collaborations in the semiconductor, electric vehicle (EV),...
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Taiwan semiconductor equipment output value to exceed US$3.13 billion in 2022
The annual output value of Taiwan's semiconductor equipment industry is expected to be well over NT$100 billion (US$3.13 billion) in 2022, given that the output value for the first...
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Arbe consolidates edges in radar chip solutions with enhanced data processing power
Helping a car make the right decision is fundamental to autonomous driving. Israel-based Arbe Robotics develops chipsets enabling imaging radars to gather environment data in high...
Monday 7 November 2022
South Korea and Japan ask US to loosen EV tax credits requirements
South Korean and Japanese governments have officially offered their comments on the revised EV tax credits rules of the US. South Korea urged America to postpone the law until 2025,...
Friday 4 November 2022
US seeks to pressure allies' chip gear makers to join export control
Bloomberg quoted sources from people attending a meeting of US semiconductor equipment manufacturer representatives with US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said that...
Friday 4 November 2022
OSAT, suppliers cutting prices for DDIs to raise utilization
Taiwan's OSAT services providers and packaging materials suppliers are offering "more flexible" quotes for display driver ICs (DDIs) in a bid to raise their utilization rates, according...
Friday 4 November 2022
Server memory order pull-ins to slow down in 1Q23
Memory makers are expected to see a deceleration in order pull-ins in the first quarter of 2023 as memory demand from first-tier cloud server clients in North America has been declining...
Friday 4 November 2022
With Apple unable to prop up handset market all by itself, supply chains in Taiwan brace for slack season
Apple's iPhone 14 series has performed slightly below market expectations despite having better sales momentum than its Android counterparts. Companies in the Apple supply chain are...
Friday 4 November 2022
Tell-tale export data from Taiwan show US-China market power rebalancing
Taiwan's electronic companies such as Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron used to produce more than 90% of the laptops in China. Many scholars say the outbreaks of trade war and pandemic...
Friday 4 November 2022
Clientron Smart Virtual Onboard Unit won 31st Taiwan Excellence Award
The results of the 31st "Taiwan Excellence Award" were released recently. The Smart Virtual Onboard Unit developed by Clientron stood out among 1109 products, and won the favor of...
Thursday 3 November 2022
Japan-based Willbox to operate cloud-based logistics platform in Taiwan
Willbox, a Japan-based startup operating cloud computing-based open international logistics platform Giho in the Japanese market, will establish an operational branch in Taiwan in...
Thursday 3 November 2022
Leaders in semiconductor in 2030 (10): Golden decade vs perfect storm
MediaTek chairman Ming-Kai Tsai has noted that we often overestimate the short-term benefits and underestimate the long-term business opportunities. In 1998 when he started his business,...
Thursday 3 November 2022
Samsung new foldable smartphone sales better than expected in Taiwan
According to sources at Samsung Taiwan, sales of Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4 foldable smartphones in the Taiwan market have been higher than expected since their...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Taiwan notebooks, 3Q 2022
Taiwanese notebook makers had shipments weaker than expected in the third quarter of 2022, growing only 2.7% sequentially, far less than the double-digit increase estimated by DIGITIMES...