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Friday 27 March 2020
Taiwan equipment makers cautious about 2H20 amid pandemic
Taiwan's electronic and semiconductor equipment suppliers are cautious about their shipment prospects for the second half of 2020 if the global coronavirus pandemic fails to ease...
Friday 27 March 2020
Taiwan IC design houses land short lead-time orders for notebooks
Taiwan-based IC design houses have recently landed short lead-time orders for applications for commercial and educational notebooks and tablets, according to industry sources.
Friday 27 March 2020
Taiwan fabless chipmakers see unclear order visibility for 2Q20
Taiwan-based IC design houses remain cautious about overall customer demand in the second quarter judging from limited order visibility, according to industry sources.
Thursday 26 March 2020
NAND flash ASPs may tumble in 2H20
The spread of the coronavirus pandemic has dragged down considerably shipments for most end products in the first quarter of 2020, according to DRAMeXchange, which cut its NAND flash...
Thursday 26 March 2020
Wistron set to grow revenues from non-China production
Wistron is looking to grow revenues generated from its factories outside of China, and expects to lower revenues from its China-based sites to about 50% of company revenues in 2021,...
Thursday 26 March 2020
PCB partners unkeen on following Apple relocation
Apple is reportedly moving more of its production out of China, but Taiwanese PCB makers in the supply chain of iOS devices seem to stay conservative in following in the vendor's...
Thursday 26 March 2020
Taiwan handset sales flat in January-February
Handset sales in Taiwan, mostly smartphones, reached 507,000 units in February, down 0.4% from a year earlier, according to data compiled local retail channels.
Thursday 26 March 2020
Taiwan PCB makers to stay put in China despite pandemic
Taiwanese PCB makers, despite the coronavirus pandemic's impacts, still expect 5G handset demand to pick up later this year, and remain reluctant to move production out of China in...
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Samsung announces EUV DRAM
Samsung Electronics has shipped one million 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4 DRAM modules based on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology, according to the company. The new EUV-based DRAM modules...
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Lextar involved in Nichia patent infringement lawsuit
Japan-based Nichia has filed with Tokyo District Court a charge against IPF, a Japanese after-market automotive component sales agent, alleging LED devices used in IPF-distributed...
Tuesday 24 March 2020
NetApp to see sales growth in Taiwan in fiscal 4Q19
US-based data storage and management solution provider NetApp expects its Taiwan sales for its fiscal fourth-quarter 2019 (February-April 2020) to hike on year, judging from sales...
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Server ODMs expect shipments to pick up in 2Q20
ODMs expect shipments for servers to pick up in the second quarter, and continue to grow steadily despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to sources from the upstream supply ch...
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Memory distributors turn cautious
Memory distributors have turned cautious about demand due to the coronavirus pandemic, and are slowing down their chip purchases, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Taiwan government hosts online startup training camp
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and StanShih Foundation, established by Acer founder Stan Shih, on March 20 jointly hosted a three-day training camp on entrepreneurship...
Tuesday 24 March 2020
Taiwan February manufacturing production index down on month
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 103.97 for February 2020, decreasing 1.89% sequentially but increasing 21.12% on year, according to the Ministry...