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Tuesday 23 May 2017
Taiwan April manufacturing production index down on month, up on year, says MOEA
Taiwan recorded a manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 104.11 for April 2017, decreasing 10.02% on month but increasing 0.79% on year, according to statistics released...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Taiwan market: Alliance Digital Tech to boost mobile e-payment services
Alliance Digital Tech, a TSM (trusted service management) company jointly established by five local mobile telecom carriers and EasyCard Corp., will promote mobile e-payment services...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
China outpaces Taiwan in IC design, backend industry output value
The output value of both China's IC design and backend industry sectors has already outpaced that of their counterparts in Taiwan. According to the China Semiconductor Industry Association...
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Taiwan market: FET offers rental online consulting services
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has teamed up with Soluto to launch online consulting services regarding use of handsets and connected consumer electronics for its subscribers,...
Monday 22 May 2017
Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of US$1.462 billion in January-April, says MOEA
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 991 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) with a total value of US$1.462 billion in January-April 2017, respectively...
Monday 22 May 2017
Taiwan April export order value down on month, up on year, says MOEA
Taiwan received export orders worth US$35.61 billion in total in April 2017, decreasing 13.4% on month but increasing 7.4% on year which was on-year growth for the ninth consecutive...
Monday 22 May 2017
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship nearly 21 million handsets in 2Q17
Taiwan-based ODMs, OBMs (own-brand manufacturers) and JDM (joint-design manufacturers), but not including OEMs (such as for the iPhone), will together ship 20.92 million smartphones...
Monday 22 May 2017
Taiwan April unemployment rate down
Taiwan had 432,000 jobless citizens in April 2017, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.67% which dropped 0.11pp sequentially and 0.19pp on year, according to the Directorate-General...
Monday 22 May 2017
Northland Power, Yushan Energy jointly propose offshore wind farm project in Taiwan
Canada-based Northland Power and Singapore-based Yushan Energy have jointly proposed a project to establish wind power-generating facilities some 50km off Taiwan's west coast, according...
Friday 19 May 2017
Volta and Vega: With increased integration, what's left for Taiwan vendors to customize?
Last week's Nvidia GTC event was - from the hardware point of view, at least - all about the new Volta GPU generation, and its expected leadership in AI (Artificial intelligence)...
Friday 19 May 2017
Tripod disposes of factory and land in China
Taiwan-based PCB firm Tripod Technology announced on May 18 the company had disposed of a factory and land located in Zhejiang province of China for CNY73.99 million (US$10.7 milli...
Friday 19 May 2017
Apple to ship 5-6 million 10.5-inch iPad Pro tablets in 2017, say Taiwan makers
The upstream supply chain's shipments for Apple's new 10.5-inch iPad Pro have been increasing recently and the device's monthly shipment volume is expected to grow to 600,000 units...
Friday 19 May 2017
Taiwan handsets – 1Q 2017
Taiwan's handset shipments have improved significantly thanks to feature phone orders from HMD Global.
Thursday 18 May 2017
Taiwan market: Sony Mobile launches Xperia XZ Premium smartphone
Sony Mobile Communications has launched its latest flagship smartphone, the Xperia XZ Premium, in the Taiwan market, featuring a 5.5-inch 4K HDR display. It is the world's first smartphone...
Thursday 18 May 2017
Taiwan market: Readmoo offers e-book reader mooInk
Readmoo, the largest traditional Chinese e-book platform and channel in Taiwan, has announced the cooperation with e-book reader ODM Netronix and e-paper maker E Ink Holdings to offer...