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Wednesday 22 January 2014
AMD to launch FS1B processors in February, say motherboard makers
AMD will launch FS1B series processors consisting of the quad-core A6-5350 (2.05GHz), A4-5150 (1.05GHz), E2-3850 (1.3GHz) and dual-core E1-2650 for sale at US$30-60 in February, according...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Taiwan December unemployment rate drops, says DGBAS
Taiwan had 469,000 jobless citizens in December 2013, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 4.08% which dropped by 0.08 ppt sequentially and 0.10 ppt on year, according to the Directorate-General...
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan ODM handset shipments flat in 4Q13
Handsets shipped by Taiwan-based ODMs stayed flat in the fourth quarter of 2013, with Compal Communications and Arima Communications seeing their shipments decline significantly on...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Taiwan IC suppliers to land more customized orders from China-based smartphone, tablet vendors
Taiwan's IC suppliers for LCD driver ICs, accelerometers (G-sensors), light ambient light sensors and power management (PWM) ICs are expected to land more customized orders from China-based...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
China maintains antidumping tariffs on polysilicon imports from US, Korea
China's Ministry of Commerce has announced its final decision to maintain the antidumping tariff rates meted out in July 2013 against solar-grade polysilicon produced by some US-...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Taiwan LCD driver IC firms to expand offerings for high-resolution smartphone displays
Taiwan-based IC design houses including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax technology, Orise Technology, ILi Technology (Ilitek), Raydium Semiconductor and Sitronix Technology are gearing...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Taiwan sees US$4.9 billion in foreign direct investment in 2013, says MOEA
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 3,206 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$4.933 billion in 2013, respectively increasing by 17.09%...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Taiwan component makers considering moving production out of China
Taiwan-based component makers are mulling relocating their production lines in China to Brazil, Mexico and Southeast Asian countries, and some are even considering moving back to...
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Inventec to expand workforce in Taiwan, says chairman
Inventec will recruit 1,000 people to increase the number of employees in Taiwan from 6,000 to 7,000 in 2015, according to company chairman Richard Lee.
Monday 20 January 2014
Taiwan December export order value hits record for second straight time, says MOEA
Taiwan received export orders worth US$42.31 billion in total in December 2013, hitting a monthly record for the second consecutive time and increasing by 3.1% on month and by 7.4%...
Monday 20 January 2014
Chin-Poon to expand capacity in Taiwan
Taiwan-based PCB maker Chin-Poon Industrial will soon begin construction of its second factory in northern Taiwan as well as to replace equipment and remove bottlenecks in the manufacturing...
Monday 20 January 2014
Korea market: Local handset vendors dominate LTE smartphone segment
The launch of LTE Advanced (LTE-A) services by Korea-based telecom operators has further enhanced the leading market position of Korea-based handset vendors in their home market,...
Monday 20 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers see small- to medium-size panel shipments increase 0.2% on year in 4Q13
Taiwan panel makers' shipments of small- to medium-size panels reached 369 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, down 2.6% on quarter and up 0.2% on year, according to Digitimes...
Monday 20 January 2014
Lenovo likely to resume ThinkPad ODM production
Lenovo shifted 60% of the production for its enterprise ThinkPad notebook series from Wistron and other ODMs to LCFC (Hefei) Electronics Technology, its joint venture with Compal...
Friday 17 January 2014
Digitimes Research: Taiwan to ship over 34.6 million notebooks in 1Q14
Taiwan-based ODMs/OEMs will ship 34.623 million notebooks for a global market share of 85% during the first quarter of 2014, with shipments decreasing 11.2% on quarter and 4.3% on...