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Monday 11 September 2017
Taiwan market: Top-3 telecom operators report handsome gains for August
Taiwan's top-three telecom operators continued to post handsome profits in August, with Taiwan Mobile reporting the highest EPS of NT$0.53 for the month, followed by NT$0.42 of Chunghwa...
Monday 11 September 2017
Toshiba to break ground for new memory fab in 2018
Toshiba has announced subsidiary Toshiba Memory has selected Kitakami City in Japan's Iwate prefecture as the next location to expand its flash memory operations. Construction of...
Monday 11 September 2017
Taiwan diode maker HY Electronic to unveil new China plant in 2018
Taiwan's leading diode maker HY Electronic will inaugurate its second plant in Yangzhou, China in the first half of 2018, to support production of automotive alternator rectifier...
Monday 11 September 2017
Taiwan August export value hits 36-month high, says MOF
Taiwan export value totaled US$27.77 billion in August 2017, reaching highest monthly level since September 2014 and increasing 2.4% sequentially and 12.7% on year, while the corresponding...
Friday 8 September 2017
Taiwan market: Pre-sale orders for new iPhone to start
Taiwan will be included in the first group of markets where the next-generation iPhone devices will be made availabe after their debut on September 12, and consumers in Taiwan are...
Friday 8 September 2017
Taiwan market: Sony Mobile launches Xperia XZ1, XZ1 Compact
Sony Mobile Communications has launched its latest smartphones, Xperia XZ1 and Xperia XZ1 Compact, in the Taiwan market, priced at NT$20,900 (US$695) and NT$17,900, respectively,...
Thursday 7 September 2017
Taiwan moving to deepen high-tech cooperation with US
As part of its efforts to enforce the "Reconnect USA" policy, a delegation organized by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) had signed six memoranda of understanding on cooperation...
Thursday 7 September 2017
Taiwan memory chipmakers see August revenues increase
Mask ROM and flash specialist Macronix International has reported August revenues surged 19.5% sequentially while specialty DRAM and flash chipmaker Winbond Electronics' August revenues...
Thursday 7 September 2017
Seiko Epson aims higher share in Taiwan robot market
Seiko Epson, already a major player in the industrial robot and selective compliance articulated robot arm (SCARA) market, is further sharpening its competitiveness in the field by...
Thursday 7 September 2017
Two former Micron Taiwan employees indicted for alleged trade secrets theft
Two former employees of Micron Memory Taiwan (formerly Rexchip Electronics) have been indicted on charges of stealing trade secrets, according to prosecutors.
Thursday 7 September 2017
Equis Energy wins Taiwan PV installation project
Equis Energy (formerly Soleq), the Taiwan subsidiary of Singapore-based Equis, which is Asia's largest renewable energy developer and investor, has won an open bid for constructing...
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Touch Taiwan 2017 to kick off September 20
The Touch Taiwan 2017 trade fair will kick off in Taipei from September 20-22 featujring nine major sections and accommodating a total of 978 booths. Taiwan's major flat panel makers...
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Taiwan market: Samsung launches The Frame TVs
Samsung Electronics has launched its brand new The Frame series TV products in the Taiwan market, promising consumers a new way to experience TV content and visual art through a...
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Motech to set up 400MWp PV power stations in southern Taiwan
Solar cell maker Motech Industries has disclosed it has signed an MoU with the government of Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, for setting up PV power-generating stations with total...
Wednesday 6 September 2017
Winbond to set up new fab in southern Taiwan
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has approved specialty DRAM and flash maker Winbond Electronics' plan to set up a new fab at the Kaohsiung Science Park (KSP), southern...