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Wednesday 30 May 2018
Fabless firms to encounter rising foundry and mask costs in 2H18
Taiwan-based IC design houses have expressed caution about their gross margin performance in the second half of 2018, as they will encounter rising costs including higher quotes asked...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Microsoft holds DevDays Asia 2018 in Taiwan
Microsoft is holding DevDays Asia 2018, an annual conference introducing the company's latest technologies to local developers, in Taipei during May 28-30, with focus on AI (artificial...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Second-tier IC foundries mulling 20-30% price hike
Second-tier IC foundries based in China and Taiwan are planning to hike quotes for 8-inch capacity by 20-30% in the third quarter of 2018, according to sources in the Taiwan IC design...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
India smartphone market starts taking off in 2018: Q&A with Prince Yun, Avnet president for Taiwan and South Asia
Many new opportunities and challenges are emerging for the global electronics industries amid the trade spats between the US and China, and it is important that Taiwan's electronics...
Monday 28 May 2018
Taiwan 1Q18 economic growth estimated at 3.02%
Taiwan's on-year GDP growth for first-quarter 2018 is estimated at 3.02%, 0.02p lower than the 3.04% preliminarily estimated in April 2018, according to the Directorate General of...
Friday 25 May 2018
Unmanned stores rising as new niche sector for Taiwan IC designers
Unmanned stores are experiencing a burgeoning development worldwide, with globally leading e-commerce players or retail chains including Amazon, Walmart, Alibba, and JD.com all jumping...
Friday 25 May 2018
Backend firms to gain from strong demand for MEMS sensors
Taiwan-based backend houses are expected to significantly benefit from increasingly brisk market demand for MEMS sensors for use in smartphones and other consumer electronics devices,...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Taiwan April manufacturing production index up on year
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 103.52 for April 2018, decreasing 11.15% sequentially but increasing 9.07% on year, according to the Ministry...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Taiwan large-size LCD panels – 1Q 2018
Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments decreased 4.4% sequentially, but went up 4.6% on year in the first quarter of 2018.
Thursday 24 May 2018
China IC industry output value increases 21% in 1Q18
China's IC industry output value grew 20.8% from a year earlier to CNY115.29 billion (US$18.1 billion) in the first quarter of 2018, according to statistics released by the China...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Toshiba Memory to build new fab to expand 3D flash production capacity
Toshiba Memory (TMC) announced recently it had decided to start constructing a new fab for BiCS FLASH, the company's proprietary 3D flash memory, in Kitakami (Iwate prefecture, Japan)...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Top China, Taiwan LED makers see alarming inventory levels
Sanan Optoelectronics and HC SemiTek - the two largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers - and Epistar, their biggest counterpart in Taiwan, have seen inventories piling...
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Foundries encouraging fabless chipmakers to switch to 12-inch wafers
Pure-play foundries in China and Taiwan intend to encourage their fabless firms to transition to 12-inch wafer manufacturing as their 8-inch fab capacity has been extremely tight,...
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Taiwan smartphone sales dip in April
Sales of smartphones in the Taiwan market have continued to drop for the fifth consecutive month to 490,000 units in April 2018, according to data compiled by local retail channels...
Tuesday 22 May 2018
Taiwan April export order value up on year
Taiwan received export orders totaling US$39.11 billion in April 2018, decreasing 7.7% sequentially but increasing 9.8% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA...