
Mobile, telecom, computing trends
IC, materials distributors embracing strong 1Q21
Wednesday 17 February 2021IC and materials distributors have reported strong revenue results for January 2021 and will experience a particularly strong first quarter this year thanks to downstream clients...
China handset sales rebound in January
Wednesday 17 February 2021Shipments of handsets staged a significant rebound in the China market in January, fueled by seasonal demand ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday and the rollouts of new budget 5G...
Asia Pacific spending on IoT to reach US$ 288.6 billion in 2021, says IDC
Wednesday 17 February 2021Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) spending on Internet of Things (IoT) was deeply impacted in 2020 due to the pandemic hitting major economies in the region, with spending growth descending...
Competition in 5G mmWave SoC market to heat up in 2H21
Wednesday 17 February 2021MediaTek's recently announced mmWave-enabled M80 5G modem chip is likely to fuel competition in the mmWave SoC solution market in the second half of 2021.
Pegatron January revenues hit 11-month low
Wednesday 17 February 2021Pegatron has reported consolidated revenues of NT$82.419 billion (US$2.90 billion) for January, the lowest monthly level since March 2020.
Highlights of the day: Component shortages may hurt 1Q21 notebook shipments
Tuesday 9 February 2021The performance of global notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2021 may face the challenge of component shortages...
Taiwan foundries gearing up for capacity expansions
Tuesday 9 February 2021Taiwan-based pure-play foundries are gearing up for capacity expansions in 2021 to satisfy growing customer demand, according to industry observers.
Asia Pacific Telecom develops 5G-supported smart robots via cooperation with FHnet
Tuesday 9 February 2021Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) has cooperated with Foxconn Global Network (FHnet) to develop smart robots that operate via a 5G private network under SA (stand-alone) architecture, with...
Highlights of the day: TSMC to faces challenges from political pressure
Monday 8 February 2021Following the setup of an advanced wafer fab in the US because of the US government's pressure, TSMC is now facing pressure...
PCB supply chain guardedly optimistic about Whitley-induced server replacement demand
Monday 8 February 2021Taiwan's PCB supply chain players are guardedly optimistic about business opportunities to arise from replacement demand for servers adopting Intel's new Whitley server processors,...
Taiwan telecom operators enhancing deployments in IoV market
Monday 8 February 2021Taiwan-based telecom operators, including Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET), Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and Taiwan Mobile, have enhanced their deployments in the IoV market to cash...
5G optical transceiver demand rebounding
Monday 8 February 2021Demand for optical transceiver modules for 5G base station applications has rebounded along with the continued buildups of 5G infrastructure in China, according to sources at the...
Asustek invests in Portwell for AIoT applications
Friday 5 February 2021Asustek Computer has announced to spend NT$1.5 billion (US$53.13 million) on acquiring a 30% stake in Portwell and will partner with the IPC maker to establish Embedded Foundry, an...
eCloudvalley becomes sales Taiwan agent for National Instruments
Friday 5 February 2021AWS (Amazon Web Services) premier consulting partner eCloudvalley Digital Technology has become a Taiwan sales agent for US-based National Instruments (NI), according to company founder...
China smartphone market to contract in 1Q21, says Digitimes Research
Thursday 4 February 2021Smartphone shipments to the China market are expected to fall over 10% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, after growing 19.2% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Digitimes...
HPE sees growing business opportunities from digital transformation in Taiwan
Thursday 4 February 2021Taiwanese enterprises' ongoing digital transformation is offering big business opportunities, according to Jon Wang, managing director and president of HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)...
APAC mobile communications market to grow at 6.11% CAGR during 2020-2025, forecasts GlobalData
Wednesday 3 February 2021Total revenue of mobile communications services market in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.11% between 2020 and 2025, supported by conducive government...
Foxconn to improve gross margin to 7% in 2021
Wednesday 3 February 2021Foxconn expects to improve its gross margin this year to 7% in 2021, and will continue to deepen its deployments in a spate of segments including electric vehicles (EV), robots and...
Taiwan startup develops 5G private network simulation solutions
Wednesday 3 February 2021A Taiwan-based startup is ready to launch terminal simulation systems and 5G vertical applications to help local companies accelerate related efforts to develop, build, operate and...
Highlights of the day: Automotive chip demand to further constrain foundry support
Tuesday 2 February 2021Taiwanese foundry houses' promises to devote more capacity to making automotive chips have raised concern among smaller IC designers. With the foundry capacity unlikely to see major...
Asustek seeks turnaround of handset biz in 2021
Tuesday 2 February 2021Asustek Computer is looking to turn around its handset business in 2021 with multiple approaches, including plans to launch its next-generation gaming smartphone, the ROG Phone5,...
China smartphone shipments to post annual gains in 1Q21
Tuesday 2 February 2021Chinese smartphone vendors are expected to see robust annual growths in first-quarter 2021 shipments to both the domestic and overseas markets, according to Digitimes Research.
China 1Q21 smartphone AP shipments to stay flat, says Digitimes Research
Tuesday 2 February 2021Shipments of smartphone-use application processors (AP) to China, including those for handset exports, will stay flat sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, according to Digitimes...
MediaTek unveils 5G modem with mmWave support
Tuesday 2 February 2021MediaTek has announced its new M80 5G modem which combines mmWave and sub-6GHz technologies onto a single chip.
Global server shipments to fall 1.8% sequentially in 1Q21
Tuesday 2 February 2021Global server shipments are expected to increase 5% on year and see a slight sequential fall of only 1.8% in first-quarter 2021 thanks mainly to a ramp-up in demand from datacenter...