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Friday 8 May 2020
CCL maker Ventec posts profit surge in 1Q20
Taiwan-based niche-type CCL maker Ventec International has reported its net profit surged 53.2% from a year earlier to NT$107 million (US$3.58 million) in the first quarter of 2020...
Friday 8 May 2020
China imports of IC to drop in 2020
China's imports of ICs are set to drop below US$300 billion in value this year, due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic impacting both supply and demand, according to Wei Shaojun,...
Friday 8 May 2020
Lead time for notebook chips extended on tight foundry capacity
Delivery lead time for notebook-related chips including power management ICs, Type-C chips and other peripheral ICs have been extended by 2-3 months, due mainly to tight 8-inch foundry...
Friday 8 May 2020
ECS sees increasing orders for educational notebooks, tablets
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has seen orders increasing for educational notebooks and tablets from emerging markets in Latin America and Africa since March, with shipments scheduled...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Demand for car-use 6-, 8-inch wafers to be impacted by pandemic
Car sales in major markets have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and the negative impact is expected to extend to upstream demand for 6- and 8-inch silicon wafers used to...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Everlight, Opto Tech fully using invisible LED production capacities
LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics and vertically-integrated LED firm Opto Tech are fully utilizing production capacities for infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV)...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Taiwan FPCB makers see demand turn strong for Apple devices in 2Q20
Taiwan's flexible PCB makers in the supply chain of Apple devices have seen demand turn strong in the second quarter of 2020 to support robust sales of second-generation iPhone SE,...
Thursday 7 May 2020
IDMs gearing up to outsource IC test business amid pandemic
IDMs in Europe, the US and Japan are keenly moving to farm out their operations, particularly backend IC testing, to Taiwan OSAT firms, thanks to their plants in the regions and in...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Backend specialists uncertain about 3Q20
Most Taiwan's backend specialists remain uncertain about their business prospects for the third quarter of the year, as whether demand for devices enabling remote working and learning...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Global OEM TV shipments fall nearly 30% in 1Q20
Global shipments of OEM TVs by the world's top-14 OEM makers plunged 28% on year to 13.8 million units in the first quarter of 2020, as the production, shipments and sales of the...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Advantech expects significant revenue surge in 2Q20
Industrial PC maker Advantech expects to post revenue growth of 20-25% sequentially in the second quarter of 2020, thanks to recovery in labor return rates and factory utilization...
Thursday 7 May 2020
Taiwan notebooks, 1Q 2020

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Thursday 7 May 2020
Taiwan TV shipments fall below 5 million units in 1Q20, says Digitimes Research
Shipments of LCD TVs by Taiwan-based makers fell 45.2% sequentially to 4.65 million units in the first quarter of 2020, affected mainly by seasonality and the outbreak of the coronavirus...
Thursday 7 May 2020
ChipMOS expects flat sales growth in 2Q20
Backend house ChipMOS Technologies expects stable growth in sales generated from the memory sector in the second quarter, while sales of its display driver IC segment will register...
Wednesday 6 May 2020
Gudeng uncertain about 2H20 business
Semiconductor-use mask and wafer handling solution provider Gudeng Precision Industrial has indicated that business operation in second-quarter 2020 is considerably healthy but order...
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Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research