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Friday 17 May 2019
Japan vendor reportedly seeking to sell automotive IGBT production lines
A Japan-based vendor reportedly is looking for a buyer for its automotive IGBT manufacturing lines from among makers in Taiwan and China, according to industry sources.
Friday 17 May 2019
HannStar Board braces for impact from US tariffs against China
Taiwan PCB maker HannStar Board sees little impact from the US hiking tariffs from 10% to 25% on US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports starting May 10, but may face significant...
Friday 17 May 2019
Huawei tightening ties with Taiwan IC supply chain
China's largest telecom equipment maker Huawei and its chipmaking arm HiSilicon are ambitiously proceeding with their vertical and horizontal deployments in diverse chip solutions...
Thursday 16 May 2019
DIY market may shrink further due to US-China trade tensions
Motherboard makers have experienced sluggish demand coming from the PC DIY market, which is likely to shrink further as the US-China trade dispute escalates, according to industry...
Thursday 16 May 2019
Microcontroller market growth drops to nearly zero in 2019, says IHS
Following two years of expansion, the global microcontroller (MCU) market is set to stall in 2019 because of a combination of factors including a downturn in the wider electronics...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Support from supply chain hub needed for moving production out of China, says Quanta chairman
Quanta Computer chairman Barry Lam, commenting on the US government's announcement of extending the 25% tariff to notebooks and smartphones imported from China, has pointed out that...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Chipmakers gearing up for transition to 90/96-layer 3D NAND process technology
Major memory chip vendors are on track to enter mass production of 90/96-layer 3D NAND products in the second half of 2019, according to industry observers.
Wednesday 15 May 2019
China smartphone sales fall to 71.7 million units in 1Q19, says Digitimes Research
Sales of smartphones in the China market tumbled by 31.3% on quarter and 16.7% on year to 71.7 million units in the first quarter of 2019, Digitimes Research has estimated, as consumer...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
China makers to set up EV battery plants abroad
China-based lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery makers Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), Farasis Energy (Ganzhou) and Hefei Guoxuan High-tech Power Energy will set up overseas plants...
Tuesday 14 May 2019
China-made LED lighting prices to rise 5-8% in US due to tariff hike
As the US has hiked punitive tariffs on China-made products from 10% originally to 25%, retail prices in the US market for China-made LED lighting products are estimated to rise 5-8%,...
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Tripod Tech posts 30% profit increase in 1Q19
PCB manufacturer Tripod Technology has reported net profit surged 30.5% from a year earlier to NT$1.08 billion (US$34.7 million) in the first quarter of 2019, with EPS coming to NT...
Monday 13 May 2019
Asian Edge: China to focus on memory and foundry businesses?
China at the moment has as many as 30 semiconductor fabs under construction - the most ambitious investment plan the global semiconductor industry has ever seen. China's memory industry...
Monday 13 May 2019
Taiwan memory module firms moving production away from China
Several Taiwan-based memory module makers have moved to urgently reshuffle the production lines between their local and China-based manufacturing to avoid the 25% of tariffs on US$200...
Monday 13 May 2019
China Internet users over 828 million at end of 2018
The number of Internet users in China increased to 828.51 million at year-end 2018, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
Friday 10 May 2019
Asian Edge: China semiconductor self-sufficiency
The different sectors of the semiconductor industry are clearly defined with specific work, and therefore each sector's self-sufficiency rate must be looked at in their own right...