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Monday 10 September 2018
TSMC August revenues up, UMC down
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) saw its August revenues climb 22.4% sequentially, while fellow foundry company United Microelectronics' (UMC) revenues slipped 8.1%...
Monday 10 September 2018
DJI launches two camera drones in Taiwan
China-based Da-Jiang Innovations Science and Technology (DJI) has unveiled two latest camera drone models, Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, in Taiwan at recommended retail prices of...
Monday 10 September 2018
Taiwan startup FootPrintKu unveils AI-based EDA cloud platform
Taiwan tech startup FootPrintKu (FPK) has newly released an AI-based EDA cloud management platform seeking to build universal standard design specs for electronics parts by leveraging...
Monday 10 September 2018
Taiwan August export value up on year
Taiwan's export value totaled US$28.30 billion in August 2018, slipping 0.2% sequentially but growing 1.9% on year, while imports totaled US$23.77 billion, down 9.0% sequentially...
Monday 10 September 2018
Taiwan biotech can take off by overcoming challenges, says Frank Kung, founder of Vivo Capital
Having started three businesses, two of which successfully went public, founder of Vivo Capital Frank Kung set foot in the biotech sector in the 1970s. Thanks to Kung's decades of...
Friday 7 September 2018
Taiwan PCB firms post revenue growth in August
Taiwan-based PCB manufacturers Compeq Manufacturing and Unitech Printed Circuit Board, and flexible PCB specialists Zhen Ding Technology and Flexium Interconnect have all posted sequential...
Friday 7 September 2018
Sumco halts production after quake hits Hokkaido
Semiconductor silicon wafer provider Sumco has suspended production at its local plant in Hokkaido, Japan where a magnitude-6.7 earthquake hit on September 6 causing landslides and...
Friday 7 September 2018
ITRI, SEMI, Taiwan universities team up to develop flexible hybrid electronics technology
To promote precision sports, ITRI, SEMI, Chang Gung University (CGU), and National Taiwan Sport University (NTSU) have signed an agreement to jointly develop flexible hybrid electronics...
Friday 7 September 2018
Backend firm Amkor to expand capacity in Taiwan
Amkor Technology will soon start operating a new factory at its manufacturing site in Longtan, northern Taiwan for wafer-level packaging (WLP) and wafer test services. The arrival...
Friday 7 September 2018
Shin-Etsu discloses JPY110 billion plan to expand silicone materials capacity
Shin-Etsu Chemical has announced plans to invest nearly JPY110 billion (US$990.6 million) to expand silicone materials production capacity over the next two to three years.
Thursday 6 September 2018
Dell EMC unveils AI ready solutions in Taiwan
Dell EMC has introduced its AI ready solutions into the Taiwan market. The solutions, co-developed with Nvidia and Intel, are empowered by integrated server and storage capabilities...
Thursday 6 September 2018
Innovation to drive future semiconductor market growth, says Morris Chang
Speaking at a forum during the ongoing Semicon Taiwan 2018, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) founder Morris Chang said the semiconductor industry will outgrow global...
Thursday 6 September 2018
Seiko Epson launches continuous ink inkjet printers in Taiwan
Seiko Epson has unveiled two monochrome (black and white) continuous ink inkjet printers, Epson M1120 and Epson M2140, and two color continuous ink inject printers Epson L3110 and...
Thursday 6 September 2018
RAC to supply electric buses to southern Taiwan firm
RAC Electric Vehicles has disclosed it has signed a contract with South Taiwan Bus, a public bus service operator Kaohsiung, to supply 14 low-floor electric buses totaling NT$138.9...
Thursday 6 September 2018
Global semiconductor sales increase 17% in July, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$39.5 billion for the month of July 2018, an increase of 17.4% compared to the July 2017 total of US$33.6 billion, according to the Semiconductor...