Sony Group Corp. is projected to sell fewer than 300,000 PlayStation VR2 headsets in its first weeks on the market, a slow start for company efforts to take a leading role in development of the metaverse.
According to TrendForce, NAND flash ASPs will continue to fall but at a slower 5-10% rate in the second quarter of 2023, and whether prices continue to fall in 2H23 will depend on demand.
Consumer MCU specialists Holtek Semiconductor and Nuvoton Technology are both looking to expand their deployments in non-Chinese markets, while anticipating overall market demand will gradually pick up later this year.
Electronic connector specialist CviLux said its customers are making progress on inventory corrections and expects demand for notebooks to rebound between May and June.
LemTech, specializing in heat dissipation solutions and precision metal stamping parts, has disclosed plans to invest US$5 million to build a new manufacturing site in Queretaro, Mexico, catering to the emerging opportunities from electric vehicles (EV) and autonomous driving sectors.
China-based memory module maker Longsys Electronics has actively developed its industrial and automotive storage offerings, eyeing a bigger presence in the high-end market segment.
The position of China as the world's largest manufacturing base can hardly be shaken in the short term despite the ongoing global supply chain restructuring and the emergence of short chains under the intensifying US-China trade and tech wars, according to market observers.
Light guide plate maker Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) will significantly ramp up its investments in 2023, with plans to build a new factory in Vietnam to expand its production capacity.
Acer ITS, a subsidiary of Acer for smart traffic solutions, expects its efforts to grow businesses overseas to bear fruit this year, increasing annual revenue by 50-100% on year.
The companies that participated at Taipei International Machine Tool Show (TIMTOS) 2023, which was hosted from March 6-11, primarily focused on showcasing innovations revolving around three major themes: eco-friendly designs, digital twin, and automation, according to DIGITIMES Research's observations of the show.
Samsung Electronics continues to promote its large-capacity SSD offering while major rival Kioxia expects automotive SSD demand to remain strong with no plans to cut its output for the category.
Jentech Precision Industrial, an insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) power module provider with water-cooling solutions, has expressed optimism about demand for electric vehicle (EV) IGBTs.
Chinese automakers are attempting to negotiate cheaper bids with component suppliers as they face strong pricing competition in the local market, according to industry sources.
Dell now has over 1,000 AI products and solutions on hand, indicating that the AI industry has reached a tipping point, according to Terence Liao, GM of Dell Technologies Taiwan.
LED automotive lighting module maker Excellence Optoelectronics (EOI) has secured module orders for 11 new car models thus far in the first quarter, with prospects to push its operations back to a growth track in 2023.
Shipments of next-generation PCIe Gen5 SSDs are unlikely to see a substantial rise until the second half of 2024, according to flash device controller specialist Phison Electronics.
Collaborative robot (cobot) maker Techman Robot has expressed optimism about its operations in 2023, during which the company will promote its AI-capable offering.
EMS provider Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a subsidiary of ASE Technology (ASEH), expects to strengthen the company's automotive antenna manufacturing capability with its planned acquisition of a TE Connectivity unit.
GaAs (gallium arsenide) foundries are considering cutting their quotes to land power amplifier (PA) orders from RF IDMs, which are looking to replenish their inventories, according to industry sources.
On January 14, Pegatron Corporation, the leading contract manufacturer, held an investor conference. The company released the financial reports for 2022Q4 and the entire 2022, as well as voiced its outlook for 2023. Pegatron believes that business prospects will continue to be affected by macro-environmental factors in 2023, with many variables beyond its control at play here. The revenue in 2023 is expected to be about the same as the previous year or decline slightly. As for the highly anticipated automotive electronics market, Pegatron aims to increase its share of the revenue from the current single-digit percentage range to over 10% within two years.
EMS provider Universal Scientific Industrial, a subsidiary of ASE Technology (ASEH), is considering acquiring TE Connectivity's automotive solutions business for an estimated US$48 million.
China's approach to obtaining South Korean technological secrets seems to have evolved in recent years. In the past, Chinese entities poached engineers and acquired businesses from South Korea. Now they are setting up research and development subsidiaries in South Korea, where they directly hire local engineers and obtain local technological secrets legally.
R&D is the bedrock upon which an enterprise's commercial triumphs are built. Any disappointing outcome or inefficiency originating therefrom can spell out the company's economic demise in our cutthroat capitalist coliseum. Competitivity of goods and services could dwindle, leading to a sharp decline of revenue, gross and net operating profits.
