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Thursday 30 November 2017
Taiwan market: LG sees growing profits from OLED TV sales
LG Electronics expects earnings from sales of OLED TVs in the Taiwan market to grow significantly in 2018 as compared to those recorded in 2017, according to sources at LG Taiwan.
Thursday 30 November 2017
Samsung starts mass production of 10LPP process
Samsung Electronics announced recently that its foundry business has commenced mass production of system-on-chip (SoC) products built on its second generation 10nm FinFET process...
Thursday 30 November 2017
Coopetition and coexistence in IC industry: Q&A with ASE COO Wu Tien-yu
The global semiconductor industry is experiencing faster quantitative and qualitative changes along with the increasingly fierce coopetition among wafer foundry, IDM (integrated advanced...
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Canadian Solar to set up PV module plant in Taiwan, says newspaper
Canadian Solar (CSI) has applied for approval by Taiwan's Investment Commission to set up a PV module factory, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News.
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Taiwan market: Xiaomi to accelerate business operation
Xiaomi Technology will further enhance its presence in the Taiwan market in 2018 by expanding the number its retail shops and introducing more smart household appliances into the...
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Taiwan motherboard makers stop accepting low-margin desktop OEM orders
Some Taiwan-based motherboard makers who provide desktop OEM/ODM services to brand PC vendors have decided to stop taking low-margin OEM orders, and instead have either reduced their...
Monday 27 November 2017
Booming automobile electronics business to benefit Taiwan backend IC service firms
Taiwan-based IC backend service firms including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Etrend Hightech, Lingsen Precision Industries and GEM Services are to benefit from the ongoing...
Monday 27 November 2017
China and North America TV shipments fall sharply in 3Q17, says IHS Markit
The impact of higher LCD TV panel prices at the beginning of 2017 continued to weigh on retail demand for LCD TVs into third-quarter 2017 by way of slower retail price erosion, particularly...
Monday 27 November 2017
Taiwan 3Q17 economic growth estimated at 3.10%
Taiwan's economic growth for third-quarter 2017 is preliminarily estimated at 3.10%, 1.21pp higher than the 1.89% estimated in August, according to the Directorate General of Budget,...
Friday 24 November 2017
Taiwan October manufacturing production index up
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 113.87 for October 2017, increasing 0.33% sequentially and 3.10% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic...
Friday 24 November 2017
WirForce 2017: Gaming product vendors to unveil innovations
WirForce 2017, one of the major e-sport events in Asia, is taking place in Taipei November 23-26 and gaming product vendors including Gigabyte Technology, Asustek Computer and Micro-Star...
Friday 24 November 2017
Lenovo assigns new head for Taiwan office
Lenovo has appointed Benjamin Lin, its ex-head of the large enterprise PC business group, as general manager of its Taiwan branch office. Lin had worked for Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard...
Friday 24 November 2017
Taiwan market: Huawei launches Mate 10 series smartphones
Huawei has launched its Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones in the Taiwan market with the availability to begin on November 28. The Mate 10 carries a price tag of NT$20,900 (US$697),...
Thursday 23 November 2017
Automation market full of opportunities, says Aurotek executive
Aurotek, founded in 1981, was one of the earliest automation equipment component suppliers in Taiwan. The company started the business as a distribution agent of mechanical equipment...
Thursday 23 November 2017
Western Europe printer market declines in 3Q17, says IDC
The Western European printer and multifunction (MFP) market decreased by 3.2% on year in unit terms in third-quarter 2017, accordinng to IDC. There were negative sales performances...