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Monday 4 July 2016
Pegatron pushing new car electronics products for Europe, says paper
Pegatron Technology has entered into the car electronics business beginning July 1 with a new management team. Since the European Union (EU) recently set new policies for all new...
Monday 4 July 2016
Taiwan market: Asia Pacific Telecom to set up LoRaWAN for IoT, says paper
Mobile telecom carrier Asia Pacific Telecom will deploy 500 LoRaWAN (low-power long-range wide area network) hot spots in Taipei City, New Taipei City and Taoyuan City, northern Taiwan,...
Friday 1 July 2016
Taiwan market: FET launches smart home solution
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) has launched a smart home solution featuring an all-in-one terminal equipped with IP camera, temperature and humidity sensors to monitor conditions...
Friday 1 July 2016
TSMC discloses NT$4.4 billion worth of facility construction for Nanjing site
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has spent NT$4.4 billion (US$136.7 million) on factory building construction with China Construction First Division Group Construction...
Thursday 30 June 2016
ASE buys equipment from Teradyne
Packaging and testing company Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has purchased equipment from automated test equipment supplier Teradyne for a total of NT$625.95 million (US$19.37...
Thursday 30 June 2016
UMC orders equipment for Xiamen fab
United Microelectronics (UMC) has purchased NT$562.88 million (US$17.42 million) worth of equipment from ASML for its 12-inch wafer fab in Xiamen, according to a company filing with...
Thursday 30 June 2016
Taiwan market: Acer launches new notebook, to boost share to 24% in 4Q16
Acer has unveiled its new notebook, the Aspire S13, for sale in the Taiwan market in the second half of 2016. The Aspire S13 features a 13.3-inch display, an Intel Core i5 or i7 CPU...
Thursday 30 June 2016
Tatung to complete 60MWp PV installation in Taiwan by end of 2016
Own-brand electric machinery and consumer electronics maker Tatung has so far completed PV systems with total installation capacity of 50MWp in Taiwan and will install another 10MWp...
Thursday 30 June 2016
TSMC orders equipment for NT$3 billion
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced purchases of manufacturing equipment and facilities totaling NT$3.05 billion (US$94.4 million) from Tokyo Electron,...
Wednesday 29 June 2016
IC design houses allocating 28/40nm orders to UMC, SMIC
IC design houses have allocated more of their 28/40nm chip orders to United Microelectronics (UMC) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) due to tight supply from Taiwan...
Tuesday 28 June 2016
Taiwan market: Commtiva to market Sharp smartphones starting July
Taiwan-based Commtiva Technology, a smartphone marketing arm of Foxconn Electronics, will begin to market Sharp's smartphones in Taiwan in the first half of July, according to the...
Tuesday 28 June 2016
HTC to start marketing Vive via retail shops in Japan
HTC has announced that it will hold a press conference in Tokyo on July 7 to promote sales of its HTC Vive through physical retail shops in Japan.
Monday 27 June 2016
Wistron buys back 15.46 million treasury stocks
Wistron spent NT$331.75 million (US$10.2 million) to buy back 15.46 million treasury stocks at a price point of NT$21.46 per stock on June 27, according to a company's posting on...
Monday 27 June 2016
Meaningful use cases help spur spending on IoT in CEE, says IDC
In a new update to the Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, IDC forecasts that organizations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) will invest more than US$11.2 billion...
Monday 27 June 2016
Intel to initialize 3rd wave of layoffs that could affect Taiwan suppliers
Intel will start its third wave of layoffs at the end of June, targeting mainly its worldwide sales and marketing units. The move is expected to affect players in Taiwan's supply...