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Tuesday 7 March 2017
Taiwan IC design service and IP providers seeing robust 10nm, 16nm chip demand in China
Taiwan-based IC design service companies and silicon IP providers have recently enjoyed a ramp-up of demand for 10nm and 16nm products from their China-based customers, according to...
Tuesday 7 March 2017
Taiwan February CPI down, says DGBAS
Taiwan's February 2017 consumer price index (CPI) of 105.08 (2011 as base year) decreased 0.34% on month and 0.04% on year, while the corresponding wholesale price index (WPI) of 86.40...
Monday 6 March 2017
VMware expects demand for hybrid cloud system from Taiwan to rise
General manager of VMware Taiwan Barry Chen, citing research firm figures, pointed out that worldwide public cloud systems' information loading ratio will increase to 30% in the next...
Monday 6 March 2017
San'an Optoelectronics recruiting university graduates in Taiwan
San'an Optoelectronics, the largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker, is recruiting graduates with master's and doctroal degrees from Taiwan's universities as executives...
Monday 6 March 2017
US review lowers anti-dumping tariffs on Taiwan solar cell makers
The US Department of Commerce has reviewed anti-dumping tariffs imposed on Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers in 2014, and made an initial decision to lower rates to...
Friday 3 March 2017
Taiwan market: Asustek launches pink-colored ZenFone 3 Max
Asustek Computer has released a new pink-colored model of its ZenFonre 3 Max family products into the Taiwan market.
Thursday 2 March 2017
Digitimes Research: Taiwan top-3 foundries see combined revenues fall 7.6% on quarter in 1Q17
Combined revenues of Taiwan's top-3 foundries: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), are...
Thursday 2 March 2017
Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch gold-colored iPhone 6 32GB limited edition
Mobile telecom operator Taiwan Mobile (TWM) has begun taking pre-sale orders for a limited edition of gold-colored iPhone 6 32GB to be launched in the Taiwan market on March 10, according...
Thursday 2 March 2017
Global HDD shipments in 2016 estimated at 425.8 million units, says IDEMA Japan
There were 425.8 million hard disk drives (HDDs) shipped globally in 2016, slipping 9.2% on year, and annual shipments kept decreasing from the peak of 651.4 million units in 2010,...
Thursday 2 March 2017
Digitimes Research: Worldwide notebook shipments to enjoy on-year growth in 1Q17
Worldwide notebook shipments (not including 2-in-1 devices) surpassed 40 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, dropping only 1.2% on year. Shipments from Taiwan-based ODMs even...
Thursday 2 March 2017
Digitimes Research: Smartphone shipments by Taiwan brand vendors, ODMs to decline nearly 40% in 1Q17
Shipments of smartphones by Taiwan-based brand vendors and ODMs are expected to decline 39.6% on year to below 10 million units in the first quarter of 2017, according to Digitimes...
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Digitimes Research: Japan aims at 20% of cars to be self-driving in 2030
Japan-based automobile makers have been developing self-diving cars and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) aims at 20% of cars to be self-driving models in 2030,...
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship nearly 20 million LCD monitors in 4Q16
Taiwan-based makers shipped 19.825 million LCD monitors in fourth-quarter 2016, slipping 5% on quarter and 6.9% on year, and taking up 65.9% of the global total, according to Digitimes...
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Taiwan market: HMD to start marketing Nokia 6 in early March
HMD Global will start marketing the new Nokia 6 in the Taiwan market on March 8 after the Finland-based firm officially unveiled the model along with the Nokia 5, 3 and the iconic...
Friday 24 February 2017
Taiwan starts LWA 4G+Wi-Fi commercial operation
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), networking/communication device maker SerComm, IC design house MediaTek and smartphone vendor HTC have jointly announced the beginning of commercial operation...