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Monday 30 April 2018
China smartphone vendors gearing up for Taiwan market
China-based smartphone vendors including Oppo, Huawei and Xiaomi Technology are gearing up their promotion campaigns in Taiwan aiming to further ramp up their local market shares,...
Monday 30 April 2018
Taiwan LCD TV shipments to grow 5% in 2Q18, estimates Digitimes Research
Shipments of LCD TVs by Taiwan's makers are expected to expand 5.15% on quarter to 6.94 million units in the second quarter of 2018 after they suffered the largest-ever sequential...
Monday 30 April 2018
ASE Industrial begins trading on TWSE mainboard
ASE Industrial Holding, the parent holding company of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), started trading on the main board of the...
Monday 30 April 2018
Taiwan 1Q18 economic growth estimated at 3.04%
Taiwan's on-year GDP growth for first-quarter 2018 is preliminarily estimated at 3.04%, 0.27pp higher than 2.77% estimated in February, according to the Directorate General of Budget,...
Friday 27 April 2018
Taiwan supply chain eyeing orders from Xiaomi
More Taiwan-based players in the IT supply chain, including Foxconn Electronics, Inventec, Largan Precision and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), are eyeing orders...
Thursday 26 April 2018
Taiwan remains largest consumer of semiconductor materials
With its large foundry and advanced packaging base, Taiwan was the largest consumer of semiconductor materials for the eighth consecutive year in 2017, according to a recent SEMI...
Thursday 26 April 2018
MLS enters automotive lighting market via Taiwan subsidiary
The largest China-based LED packaging service provider MLS has entered the LED automotive lighting market segment through its Taiwan subsidiary, MLS Taiwan.
Wednesday 25 April 2018
TeraPower expecting car-use chip probing orders from Japan IDMs
TeraPower Technology, a re-invested chip probing affiliate of Taiwan's memory backend service specialist Powertech Technology (PTI), is actively tapping into the automotive electronics...
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Micron gearing up for 10nm-class DRAM production in Taiwan
Micron Technology is gearing up to expand production of 10nm-class DRAM chips at its Taiwan-based fabs between 2018 and 2019.
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Realtek posts profit growth in 1Q18
Networking IC design specialist Realtek Semiconductor has reported net profits for the first quarter of 2018 increased 5.4% sequentially and 65.8% from a year earlier to NT$841 million...
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Taiwan graphic card makers to see shipments plunge 40% in April
Taiwan-based graphics card makers including Gigabyte Technology, Micro-Star International (MSI) and TUL are expected to see their shipments for April plunge over 40% on month, as...
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Ritek to produce business-use optical discs for Japan Disc
Blank optical disc maker Ritek will undertake outsourced production of business-use blank CD-R and DVD-R discs for Japan Disc for three years, according to Chinese-language newspaper...
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Desktop renewals in commercial space drive stabilization in the EMEA PC market, says IDC
The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) recorded slight growth in the first quarter of 2018, with the market growing...
Tuesday 24 April 2018
StarVR debuts on Taiwan emerging stock market
StarVR, a VR device joint venture between Acer and Sweden-based Starbreeze, started trading on Taiwan's emerging stock market on April 23. On the first day of trading, StarVR's share...
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Taiwan March manufacturing production index up
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 119.75 for March 2018, increasing 25.77% sequentially and 3.20% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic...