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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...
Monday 21 November 2016
Foxconn Group to ship over 30 million Luna phones in 2016, says paper
The Foxconn Group is expected to ship over 30 million Luna-branded smartphones in Korea and Indonesia in 2016, targeting the medium- to high-end segments, according to a Chinese-language...
Monday 21 November 2016
Booming notebook orders to last until 1Q17, say Taiwan makers
Shipments of notebooks from Taiwan-based ODMs will remain strong in the first quarter of 2017 as some brand vendors have been pulling in more orders on short supply of some key components,...
Friday 18 November 2016
Taiwan large-size LCD panels – 3Q 2016
Shortages in the large-size panel market sent prices climbing and device vendors stocking up extra panel inventory in the third quarter of 2016. But demand for large-size panels will...
Friday 18 November 2016
ASE-SPIL merger still under review in China and US
A proposed merger between Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) is still being reviewed by anti-trust authorities in China and the US...
Friday 18 November 2016
China investment funds wooing Taiwan IC vendors
More semiconductor investment funds backed by local governments in China have stepped up their contact with Taiwan-based IC vendors, aiming to lure them to establish IC-design companies...
Thursday 17 November 2016
TUV NORD provides complete supply chain solutions to help Taiwan makers grasp automobile electronics opportunities
In response to the rapid advancement and increasingly sophisticated functions of automobile electronic systems, ISO 26262 standard, which was released in 2011, provides a complete...