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Tuesday 2 February 2016
ASE says planned buyout of SPIL gets anti-trust approval in Korea, Germany
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has received clearance from anti-trust authorities in South Korea and Germany for its intended buyout of Siliconware Precision Industries...
Tuesday 2 February 2016
Taiwan notebooks – 4Q 2015
Worldwide notebook shipments enjoyed a slight growth of 0.6% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2015 thanks to stable demand from the year-end holidays in Europe and North America...
Monday 1 February 2016
Digitimes Research: Worldwide notebook shipments grow slightly on quarter in 4Q15, but will drop over 16% in 1Q16
Worldwide notebook shipments enjoyed a slight growth of 0.6% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2015 thanks to stable demand from the year-end holidays in Europe and North America...
Monday 1 February 2016
Digitimes Research: Taiwan sees decreased 4Q15 shipments of small- to medium-size panels
Taiwan-based makers shipped 284.026 million small- to medium-size TFT-LCD panels in the fourth quarter of 2015, decreasing 7.5% on quarter and 20.3% on year, according to Digitimes...
Monday 1 February 2016
Taiwan market: HP to shift marketing focus from market share to profitability
Viewing that Taiwan has become a developed PC market, Hewlett-Packard (HP) will adjust its strategy through shifting focus from market share to profitability and thereby will strengthen...
Monday 1 February 2016
Asustek ranks top SIM-free smartphone vendor in Japan in 2015, says paper
Asustek Computer ranked the number one supplier of SIM-free smartphones in Japan in 2015 with a 28.6% market share, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN)...
Monday 1 February 2016
HiSilicon ramps orders to Taiwan foundry, backend service companies, says report
China-based chipset vendor HiSilicon Technologies has increased wafer and IC packaging/testing orders at Taiwan-based foundry and backend service companies as it plans to ramp output...
Monday 1 February 2016
Taiwan IC suppliers look to land more orders from Huawei, Lenovo in 2016
Taiwan-based IC design houses, particularly LCD driver IC vendors, are eyeing orders from Huawei and Lenovo to sustain sales growth and market share in 2016, according to industry...
Friday 29 January 2016
Taiwan 4Q15 economic growth estimated at -0.28%, says DGBAS
Taiwan's on-year economic growth for fourth-quarter 2015 is estimated at -0.28%, downward adjusted by 0.77pp from a previous forecast in November, according to the Directorate General...
Friday 29 January 2016
Everlight Electronics to start production at new factory in central Taiwan in 2Q16
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics is constructing a new factory in central Taiwan and will complete the first phase and begin production in the second quarter of...
Thursday 28 January 2016
Production of new 4K iPad Air to begin in 2Q16, say Taiwan makers
Apple is expected to unveil new models of its iPad Air in March 2016 and production will start in the second quarter, with General Interface Solution and TPK Holding to supply touch...
Thursday 28 January 2016
Motech to increase solar cell capacity in China
Solar cell maker Motech Industries, in order to hike production capacity in China, will shift part of its production capacity from Taiwan to its two factories in China, with the proportions...
Thursday 28 January 2016
UMC buys equipment from Lam, Tokyo Electron
United Microelectronics (UMC) has purchased a total of NT$1.96 billion (US$58.4 million) worth of equipment from Lam Research and Tokyo Electron for its 12-inch wafer fab in Xiamen,...
Wednesday 27 January 2016
Taiwan large-size LCD panels - 4Q 2015
Taiwan's share of global large-size TFT LCD panel shipments (9-inch and above) dropped in 2015 as competition from China makers intensified. Innolux managed to be the third largest...
Wednesday 27 January 2016
Digitimes Research: Taiwan large-size panel shipments increase 2.6% in 4Q15
Taiwan panel makers' shipments of large-size (9-inch and above) TFT LCD panels reached 60.14 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, up 2.6% on quarter, according to Digitimes Resea...