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Monday 2 March 2020
Taiwan OEMs losing price bargaining chips
Taiwan-based makers' bargaining power for international OEM quotes is diminishing, especially those in traditional manufacturing industries, mainly because they have long relied on...
Thursday 27 February 2020
Supply chain set to breach shipment contracts amid outbreak
Supply chain players with operations in China, besides suffering production delays and labor shortages from the coronavirus outbreak, may face possible violations of supply contracts...
Thursday 27 February 2020
CIS backend firm Tong Hsing to double capacity by end-2020
Taiwan-based Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, dedicated to backend services for CMOS image sensors (CIS), has disclosed plans to double monthly production capacity to 150,000-160,000...
Thursday 27 February 2020
Semiconductor unit shipments to exceed 1 trillion devices in 2020, says IC Insights
Annual semiconductor unit shipments including integrated circuits and optoelectronics, sensors and discrete (O-S-D) devices are forecast to rise 7% in 2020 and surpass one trillion...
Wednesday 26 February 2020
Innolux TV assembly biz gaining momentum
Innolux's TV assembly business is gaining momentum, reporting significant shipment growth in 2019 when global OEM TV shipments dropped.
Wednesday 26 February 2020
Walsin sees non-China production lines run at full capacity
Walsin Technology, a maker of MLCCs and resistor chips, has said its production lines in Taiwan and Malaysia are operating at full capacity and those in China at 70%, with shipments...
Wednesday 26 February 2020
More IT brands gearing up for gaming monitor market
Competition in the gaming monitor sector is set to become keen in 2020 as more notebook and monitor brands enter the race for market share, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Highlights of the day: Components prices rising
The coronavirus outbreak is disrupting production at both assembly plants and their upstream suppliers, with components prices rising. Now MLCC...
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Notebook makers cautious about components replenishment amid price hikes
Notebook makers are turning cautious about purchasing some specific components such as MLCCs and chip resistors that are running low in inventory and facing price hikes, as the purchases...
Monday 24 February 2020
International car makers production in China hit by coronavirus outbreak, says Digitimes Research
Several international automobile manufacturers' production at joint ventures in China has been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, with General Motors, Volkswagen and Honda Motor...
Monday 24 February 2020
Samsung begins mass production at new EUV manufacturing line
Samsung Electronics has announced that its new cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, Korea has begun mass production.
Monday 24 February 2020
HTC eyes growing VR market in 2020
HTC is optimistic about its VR business in 2020 expecting the global VR industry to have potential to surge by 50% in terms of market demand that will emerge from both the consumer...
Friday 21 February 2020
Highlights of the day: MediaTek likely to see weaker growth in 2020
Everyone in the ICT sector had expected the 5G era to get off to a flying start in 2020 when the coronavirus hit. Major players continue to make deployments for 5G, but cannot be...
Friday 21 February 2020
Sporton to see 2020 revenues grow on testing 5G applications
Mobile device testing and certification service company Sporton International is expected to regain its revenue growth momentum in 2020 from growing 5G applications after experiencing...
Friday 21 February 2020
Tablet demand in China gaining momentum from epidemic
Tablets demand in the China market is picking up inadvertently in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that is fueling needs for remote work and learning, but their ODMs' production...