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Wednesday 23 November 2016
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers to ship over 20 million LCD monitors in 4Q16
Taiwan-based ODMs and OBMs will together ship 20.158 million LCD monitors in the fourth quarter of 2016, decreasing 2.5% on quarter and 5.3% on year and accounting for 65.2% of the...
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Taiwan makers poised to use IR LED in biometrics
Taiwan-based epitaxial wafer and chip makers and LED packaging service providers have developed IR LED chips or devices for biometric applications, mainly iris and facial recognition,...
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Taiwan October manufacturing production index up, says MOEA
Taiwan recorded a manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 110.97 for October 2016, increasing 2.10% on month and 5.67% on year, according to statistics released by the...
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Taiwan notebooks - 3Q 2016
Taiwan-based notebook makers saw significant increases in their shipments in the third quarter of 2016, as clients prepared for the year-end holiday shopping season. The fourth quarter...
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Taiwan market: Canon unveils EOS M5
Canon has unveiled EOS M5, a digital mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera (MILC), for launch in the Taiwan market, according to Canon Marketing (Taiwan).
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Taiwan market: Lenovo to launch Moto Z-series smartphones
Lenovo has announced that it will introduce its Moto Z-series smartphones and related accessories, Moto Mods, into the Taiwan market on November 30 - a move, which will mark the reentry...
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Taiwan market: HTC unveils HTC 10 evo for high-end segment
HTC has unveiled a new high-end smartphone, the HTC 10 evo, in the Taiwan market, aiming at ramping up its smartphone business for the fourth quarter of 2016. The company will start...
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Digitimes Research: Top-5 vendors, top-3 Taiwan ODMs October notebook shipments down 22%, 12% on month
The five largest notebook vendors together shipped 10.19 million Windows units equipped with Intel processors in October, decreasing 22% on month, while the three largest Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Japan chip gear orders rise 7% in October, says SEAJ
Japan-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted JPY139.3 billion (US$1.3 billion) in orders in October 2016 (three-month average basis), up 7.3% from JPY129.85 billion in...
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Taiwan October unemployment rate down on month, up on year, says DGBAS
Taiwan had 464,000 jobless citizens in October 2016, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.95% which dropped 0.04pp point on month but rose 0.05pp on year, according to statistics...
Tuesday 22 November 2016
China firms headhunting talent from Taiwan fabless and DRAM companies
China's emerging memory companies have been aggressively headhunting talent from Taiwan-based fabless and DRAM firms, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Taiwan aims at prevailing fixed-line Internet download speed of 2Gbps in 2025
The Taiwan government has set up a target prevailing download speed of 1Gbps for fixed-line broadband Internet-access services for 2020 and 2Gbps for 2025, according to industry so...
Monday 21 November 2016
Taiwan October export order value slightly down on month, up on year, says MOEA
Taiwan received export orders worth US$42.68 billion in total in October 2016, decreasing 0.7% on month but increasing 0.3% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry...
Monday 21 November 2016
Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of nearly US$10.3 billion in January-October, says MOEA
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 2,838 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) with a total value of US$10.291 billion in January-October 2016,...
Monday 21 November 2016
Gigabyte partners with Blizzard to launch customizable PCs in South Korea
Gigabyte Technology is cooperating with game developer Blizzard Entertainment to release customizable gaming PCs under both Blizzard's Overwatch and Gigabyte's Aorus dual-brands and...