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Tuesday 15 October 2019
Powerchip eyeing return to Taiwan stock market
Powerchip Technology, in line with its corporate restructuring, has transferred all its fab and business assets to its 8-inch foundry subsidiary Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Tuesday 15 October 2019
Taiwan chipmaking industry gearing up for next stage growth
Taiwan's chipmaking industry, led by TSMC, is gearing up to enter its next stage of growth as chip demand for 5G applications is set to start ramping up substantially next year, according...
Monday 14 October 2019
Global smartphone shipment forecast, 2020 and beyond
Global smartphone shipments will continue to decline for the second year in 2019. Although emerging markets have demand coming from feature phone users switching to smartphones, it...
Monday 14 October 2019
Taiwan to auction off 5G spectrum in December
Taiwan's government will start the bidding process for the release of related frequency bands to telecom operators for 5G services on December 10, and the auctions would likely to...
Monday 14 October 2019
Charging station standard crucial to Taiwan electric car market, says CharIN Asia head
The establishment of a charging station standard is necessary for a market to see broader adoption of electric cars, according to Jacques Borremans, head of Charging Interface Initiative...
Monday 14 October 2019
Taiwan revving up to introduce AI talent from India
Taiwan is gearing up to introduce AI talent from India to address shortages of high-end R&D engineers in the IT industry, as part of its efforts to deepen partnerships with 18...
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Furukawa, Lemtech team up for smartphone thermal solutions
Japan's Furukawa Electric and Taiwan-based Lemtech have teamed up to develop stainless steel-based ultra-thin vapor chamber cooling solutions for smartphones.
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Taiwan sees significant rise in chipmaking equipment imports
Taiwan's imports of semiconductor equipment shot up 65.1% on year to US$2.5 billion in September and surged 32.2% to US$15.5 billion for the first three quarters of 2019, according...
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Seiko Epson unveils 4 business-use digital printers
Seiko Epson has unveiled three Epson SureCore business-use digital printers - SC-F530, SC-T5430M and S6067L/S8067L - and an inkjet digital label press, Epson SurePress L-6534VW, for...
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Taiwan sets up IoT-based air pollution monitoring network
Taiwan's environmental protection authority has been installing air quality sensors around the country to form an IoT-based network of monitoring air pollution mainly caused by fac...
Tuesday 8 October 2019
Intel CEO Bob Swan in Taiwan to meet suppliers
Intel CEO Bob Swan is in Taiwan meeting with the chip vendor's supply chain partners, tightening relationships and talking about future development directions.
Tuesday 8 October 2019
Qualcomm joins Taiwan 5G Alliance
Qualcomm has recently joined Taiwan's 5G Alliance and will partner with Taiwan's OEM/ODMs and academies to conduct 5G research, according to Alex Orange, senior director of Government...
Tuesday 8 October 2019
WPG, WT Micro to discontinue sale of TI products
Taiwan-based IC distributors WPG Holdings and WT Microelectronics have disclosed that they will discontinue their Texas Instruments (TI) chip and component offerings starting from...
Tuesday 8 October 2019
Taiwan September exports down
Taiwan recorded exports totaling US$28.1 billion in value in September 2019, dropping 2.4% sequentially and 4.6% on year, while imports reached total value of US$24.97 billion, up...
Monday 7 October 2019
Pegavision expanding capacity in Taiwan
The Pegatron Group's contact lens manufacturing affiliate Pegavision is expanding production capacity in Taiwan, eyeing strong growth in the maket.