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Friday 17 May 2019
Cloud enables Taiwan healthcare exports to Southeast Asia
The availability of quality medical resources is one of Taiwan's most powerful competitiveness, but how the resources can be better utilized to not only take care of the health of...
Friday 17 May 2019
First Taiwan offshore wind farm to be completed at end of 2019
Formosa 1 offshore wind farm with installation capacity of 128MW will be completed by year-end 2019, becoming the first of its kind in Asia, according to Ministry of Economic Affairs...
Friday 17 May 2019
Huawei tightening ties with Taiwan IC supply chain
China's largest telecom equipment maker Huawei and its chipmaking arm HiSilicon are ambitiously proceeding with their vertical and horizontal deployments in diverse chip solutions...
Friday 17 May 2019
Asian Edge: Competition between Korea and Taiwan in semiconductor
Samsung has a far smaller share than TSMC in the wafer foundry sector, but Samsung's technologies built from its experience in memory and Exynos series AP production are as good as...
Thursday 16 May 2019
DIY market may shrink further due to US-China trade tensions
Motherboard makers have experienced sluggish demand coming from the PC DIY market, which is likely to shrink further as the US-China trade dispute escalates, according to industry...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
ABF substrate supply remains tight
The supply of ajinomoto build-up film (ABF) substrates has been tight, and will continue to fall short of demand in the second half of 2019, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Support from supply chain hub needed for moving production out of China, says Quanta chairman
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam, commenting on the US government's announcement of extending the 25% tariff to notebooks and smartphones imported from China, has pointed out that...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
PC vendors looking to raise prices in US, says paper
With the US having raised tariffs on China-imported products from 10% to 25%, some PC brand vendors including Asustek Computer are considering increasing product prices in the US...
Tuesday 14 May 2019
GlobalWafers says revenue growth forecast remains unchanged
GlobalWafers expects the US tariff increase on Chinese goods to have an insignificant impact on its performance this year, as the silicon wafer supplier will enjoy another year of...
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Tripod Tech posts 30% profit increase in 1Q19
PCB manufacturer Tripod Technology has reported net profit surged 30.5% from a year earlier to NT$1.08 billion (US$34.7 million) in the first quarter of 2019, with EPS coming to NT...
Monday 13 May 2019
Taiwan memory module firms moving production away from China
Several Taiwan-based memory module makers have moved to urgently reshuffle the production lines between their local and China-based manufacturing to avoid the 25% of tariffs on US$200...
Monday 13 May 2019
Taiwan is best place for AI development, says Taiwan AI Lab founder
Artificial intelligence (AI) will definitely play an important role in economic activities over the next 20 years and inability to participate in the AI value chain signifies falling...
Monday 13 May 2019
Guo looking to stay on Foxconn board despite Taiwan presidential bid
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced six candidates for the company's new board of directors with incumbent chairman Terry Guo being one of them.
Friday 10 May 2019
Asustek showcasing new PCs in Taiwan
Asustek has unveiled several new notebooks and Chromebooks in Taiwan including the ZenBook S13 (UX392) with a 97% screen-to-body ratio, a 13.9-inch NanoEdge narrow-bezel display,...
Friday 10 May 2019
Tier-2 panel makers see sales up sequentially in April
Taiwan's second-tier panel makers - Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Hannstar Display and Giantplus Technology - have all reported improved sales for April as compared a month earlier...