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Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan justifies high feed-in tariff for offshore wind farms
The Office of Energy and Carbon Reduction (OECR) has defended the government's feed-in tariff of NT$6 (US$0.198)/kWh set for offshore wind power generation against criticism that...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
PTI expects another quarter of record revenues in 4Q17
Robust demand for flash memory chips will buoy further sales performance at Powertech Technology (PTI) in the fourth quarter of 2017, said the memory backend specialist at an October...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan September unemployment down
Taiwan had 445,000 jobless citizens in September 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.77% which dropped 0.1pp sequentially and 0.22pp on year, according to the Directorate-General...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan market: iPhone 8 devices best-selling smartphones in September
Though demand for the iPhone 8 series has been weaker than expected, the new Apple smartphones still recorded the best sales in Taiwan in September, making Apple the top smartphone...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan forms Green Energy Research Consortium
Taiwan government-sponsored National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) has announced the establishment of Green Energy Research Consortium to integrate resources from research...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan September manufacturing production index up on year
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 114.10 for September 2017, decreasing 2.71% sequentially but increasing 5.36% on year, according to the Ministry...
Monday 23 October 2017
Taiwan OSAT firms busy packaging AMD GPUs for new iMacs
While Apple has started to release more orders to AMD for high-end GPUs needed for new iMac series since September 2017, Taiwan-based outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT)...
Monday 23 October 2017
Taiwan September export order value hits record
Taiwan received export orders totaling US$45.92 billion in September 2017, hitting the highest-ever monthly level with increases of 12.6% sequentially and 6.9% on year, according...
Monday 23 October 2017
Taiwan groups ink MoU with Germany-based WPD
CR Classification Society, Metal Industries Research & Development Center, and Taiwan Institute of Economic Research have jointly signed an MoU with WPD, a Germany-based developer...
Monday 23 October 2017
Taiwan market: Heraeus becomes largest PV silver paste supplier
Germany-based Heraeus has become the biggest vendor of PV silver pastes in the Taiwan market, Chinese-language Economic Daily News cited company Photovoltaics president Andreas...
Friday 20 October 2017
Taiwan foundries seeing brisk demand from fabless firms
Taiwan-based IC foundries including 8-inch ones have seen orders from their local fabless clients grow, which would indicate a particularly strong fourth quarter for Taiwan's IC industry,...
Friday 20 October 2017
Colorful motherboard shipments to reach 2.8 million units in 2017, 3 million in 2018
China-based Colorful is expected to ship 2.8 million motherboards globally in 2017 and the volumes are estimated to rise to three million in 2018, fueled by its entry into South Korea's...
Friday 20 October 2017
Taiwan market: Xiaomi launches new flagship smartphone
China-based Xiaomi has launched its new Xiaomi Mix 2 smartphone in Taiwan, featuring an all-screen 18:9 ratio 5.99-inch display, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 processor, 6GB memory and...
Friday 20 October 2017
Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of US$5.2 billion in January-September
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 2,494 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) with a total value of US$5.186 billion in January-September 2017,...
Friday 20 October 2017
Taiwan market: Perobot sets up first Pepper Lab
Perobot, a general sales agent for Pepper service robots in the Taiwan market, has set up a Pepper Lab, the first of its kind in Taiwan, at National Chengchi University in Taipei...