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Friday 29 September 2017
Diode maker Eris looks to revenue and profit growth in 2018
Taiwan-based Eris Technology, which specializes in the manufacture of rectifier diodes, expects to enjoy another year of revenue and profit growth in 2018, driven by robust orders...
Thursday 28 September 2017
Sumitomo and Gogoro announce partnership for electric scooter sharing service in Japan
Sumitomo and Taiwan-based electric scooter vendor Gogoro have announced a joint partnership to introduce the latter's Smartscooter for use in a sharing service that will launch in...
Thursday 28 September 2017
NAND flash to reach supply-demand balance in 2018, says DRAMeXchange
The global NAND flash market will shift away from undersupply and reach a supply-demand balance in 2018, when supply bit growth is forecast to reach 42.9%, according to DRAMeXchang...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
AI and smart speaker firms keen for Computex 2018, says TCA
Taipei Computer Association (TCA) has started the online registration process for exhibiting at Computex 2018 and a few hundred Taiwan firms, including those from emerging industries...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Aurora eyeing Taiwan educational 3D printing market
Aurora, a distributor of office automation machines and office furniture in Taiwan and China, will start offering 3D printing promotional services at its outlets around Taiwan for...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
Winbond to break ground on new 12-inch fab in mid-2018
Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics, a manufacturer of specialty DRAM and NOR flash memory, expects to break ground on a new 12-inch wafer plant at the Kaohsiung Science Park (KSP),...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Smartphone sales in Taiwan remain sluggish in August
Shipments of smartphones in the Taiwan market reached 589,000 units in August, decreasing 2.48% from the previous month as consumers were waiting for the release of new models from...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Samsung ready to mass produce MRAM chips using 28nm FD-SOI process
Samsung Foundry will soon be ready to enter mass production of magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) chips built using 28nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
USB-IF to host USB Developer Days in Taipei
USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the support organization for the advancement and adoption of USB technology, has announced the USB Developer Days in Taipei, Taiwan, October 24-25...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Sigurd to enter board of Winstek
Winstek Semiconductor (formerly STATS ChipPAC Taiwan Semiconductor) is scheduled to hold a shareholders meeting on November 15 to re-elect its board of directors. Sigurd Microelectronics...
Monday 25 September 2017
Education IT spending in APEJ to surpass US$11.8 billion by 2020, says IDC
Education IT spending in the APEJ (Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan) area will increase from US$9.8 billion in 2015 to US$11.8 billion by 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
Monday 25 September 2017
Taiwan IC backend firms to enjoy strong 4Q17
A ramp-up of orders for communications chips, as well as TV panel-use driver ICs and TDDI (touch with display driver) chips, will enable Taiwan-based IC backend firms to enjoy a particularly...
Monday 25 September 2017
Taiwan fabless IC firms seeing orders pull in from China
Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers including suppliers of LCD driver ICs, consumer electronics ICs, PC peripherals, networking and communications chips, have recently seen orders from...
Monday 25 September 2017
Taiwan August unemployment rate down on year
Taiwan had 461,000 jobless citizens in August 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.89% which rose 0.05pp sequentially but dropped 0.19pp on year, according to the Directorate-General...
Monday 25 September 2017
Taiwan August manufacturing production index up
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 117.21 for August 2017, increasing 3.62% sequentially and 4.03% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic...