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Thursday 21 December 2017
COF packaging in growing demand
With COF (chip on film) package technology increasingly emerging as a mainstream packaging method for driver ICs for smartphone-use LCD and OLED panels, Taiwan players in the IC packaging...
Thursday 21 December 2017
Taiwan foreign direct investment reaches US$6.1 billion in January-November
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 3,064 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$6.112 billion in January-November 2017, respectively...
Thursday 21 December 2017
Taiwan November export orders hit record
Taiwan received export orders totaling US$48.69 billion in November 2017, hitting the highest-ever monthly level with increases of 4.5% sequentially and 11.6% on year - the 16th consecutive...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
Taiwan IC designers stand to benefit from booming gaming market
With market demand for gaming consoles and notebooks to stay robust for a long while along with the growing popularity of e-sports fueled by increasing international competitions,...
Wednesday 20 December 2017
Taiwan market: Garmin launches Vivoactive 3
Garmin has unveiled Vivoactive 3, its first GPS smartwatch equipped with Garmin Pay contactless e-payment functions, for immediate launch in the Taiwan market at a recommended retail...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Colorful expects rising revenues in 2017
Colorful Technology expects its revenues to rise on year in 2017 thanks to graphics card and motherboard demand from the gaming market and the cryptocurrency mining fad. As for 2018,...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Taiwan MLCC makers reluctant to expand production capacity despite supply shortfall
MLCC supply has fallen short of demand since June 2017, and the shortfall is expected to last into the second half of 2018. But Taiwan MLCC suppliers such as Yageo and Walsin Technology...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Taiwan backend firms eyeing OLED driver IC opportunities
With China's LCD panel industry emerging as a major supply source worldwide and demand for panels among China brand vendors of ICT products expanding significantly, Taiwan-based LCD...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Digitimes Research: Taiwan handset shipments post gains in 3Q17
Shipments of handsets by Taiwan's brand vendors and ODMs reached 22.9 million units in the third quarter of 2017, up 11.2% sequentially and 85.3% on year, according to Digitimes Re...
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Taiwan market: Didi Chuxing recruiting taxi drivers
China-based Didi Chuxing has obtained official permission to provide ride-hailing services in Taiwan and is recruiting taxi drivers. Didi has maintained that its service is an smartphone...
Monday 18 December 2017
Taiwan market: LG, Oppo to launch new smartphones for year-end holidays
LG Electronics and Oppo both will launch new smartphone models in the Taiwan market on December 22, heating up competition for the year-end shopping season, according to sources from...
Monday 18 December 2017
Medical device, material makers cluster in Kaohsiung Science Park
Kaohsiung Science Park (KSP) under the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) has become a cluster of medical device and material makers in Taiwan, with 73 enterprises stationed there,...
Monday 18 December 2017
Taiwan LED firms develop niche products to avoid price war
Taiwan-based LED firms Epistar, Tyntek and Lextar Electronics Bright Led Electronics and Harvatek, to cope with pricing campaigns for commodity products from China-based competitors,...
Monday 18 December 2017
Taiwan finalizes 2018 feed-in tariffs for renewable energy
Taiwan's Bureau of Energy has finalized feed-in tariffs for renewable energy to be generated in Taiwan in 2018, with slight adjustments to the tentative rates announced on October...
Friday 15 December 2017
FET demonstrates new 5G base station with Ericsson
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has showcased its 28GHz 5G base station prototype system with Ericsson in Taiwan, the world's eighth such demonstration following similar events...