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Friday 18 May 2018
Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panels – 1Q 2018
Thanks to volume shipments of 18:9 smartphone panels from Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments saw only a mild drop of 5% on quarter to come...
Friday 18 May 2018
Taiwan Star reports positive EBITDA for April
Taiwan Star Telecom has seen its operations reach a milestone in April during which its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) has become positive,...
Friday 18 May 2018
Murata, Pegatron, Inventec dismiss reports about MLCC deals
Murata Manufacturing, Pegatron and Inventec have dismissed recent reports from Taiwan about deals they had allegedly struck over stable MLCC supply amid serious shortages of the passive...
Friday 18 May 2018
MOSFET shortage easing
The supply of MOSFET chips has become sufficient in the second quarter as international IDMs have moved to scale up their output for entry-level and mid-range devices, according to...
Thursday 17 May 2018
Taiwan notebooks – 1Q 2018
Taiwan makers' notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2018 performed weaker than originally expected, slipping 17.1% sequentially and 7.4% on year to reach only 27.07 million...
Thursday 17 May 2018
Taiwan startups showcasing latest applications at IoT World 2018
Five tech startups from Taiwan are showcasing their latest developments in IoT applications at the Internet of Things World 2018 held May 14-17 in Silicon Valley, seeking to enter...
Thursday 17 May 2018
Taiwan proposes new bill to attract foreign professionals
The Taiwan government has proposed a New Economy Immigration Act, drafted with an aim to attract foreign professionals and mid-level technicians to support the country's industrial...
Thursday 17 May 2018
MLCC shortage to undermine 2Q18 shipmets by Taiwan IC designers
The ongoing shortage of MLCCs is affecting negatively shipments of Taiwan-based IC design houses, with some of the companies likely to revise downward their shipment goals for the...
Thursday 17 May 2018
Korea LCD equipment firms to rely more on exports to China in 2018, says Digitimes Research
Most Korea-based LCD equipment makers saw their revenues hit high in 2017, driven by expansion projects initiated by Samsung Display and LG Display to ramp up their OLED panel production...
Wednesday 16 May 2018
EMS firms see profits eroded by ever-rising passive component costs
Taiwan EMS firms, especially smaller ones, are seeing their profitability increasingly eroded as their downstream customers are reluctant to absorb increases in production cost driven...
Tuesday 15 May 2018
ChipMOS obtains NT$12 billion syndicated loan
Backend house ChipMOS Technologies has signed a five-year syndicated loan for NT$12 billion (US$401.4 million) with 11 local banks in Taiwan, according to a company filing with the...
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Taiwan, SU to jointly host APAC Global Impact Challenge 2018
The government in Taiwan will host, for the first time, the Singularity University (SU) Asia Pacific Global Impact Challenge (GIC) 2018, in an effort to boost the country's international...
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Silicon wafer shipments hit record high in 1Q18
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments climbed to a record-high 3.084 billion square inches in the first quarter of 2018, according to SEMI. The shipments represented increases of...
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Taiwan startups gearing up to tap blockchain market potentials
Taiwan-based blockchain startups OwlTing and Star Bit Innovation are proceeding at full throttles with deployments in new tech sectors to capture the growing application business...
Monday 14 May 2018
AI may be last growth driver for Taiwan IT players, says Quanta chairman
Ongoing AI (artificial intelligence) applications may provide the last wave of huge growth in business opportunities for Taiwan IT firms, as they have done little about the development...