Taiwan's industrial output slid 11.35% on year in June, representing the smallest drop over the previous nine months, according to Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) of the Ministry...
Taiwan's exports in June grew 4.8% sequentially to an eight-month high of US$16.95 billion, although the figures still represented a decline of 30.4% from a year earlier, according...
Taiwan's industrial output slid 18.31% on year in May 2009, following an annual slip of 19.88% in the prior month, according to Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) of the Ministry...
The worst for the global semiconductor industry is already over, but full recovery is not expected till 2012 when the market may return to the 2008 levels, according to Morris Chang,...
Taiwan's economy shrank by a record 10.24% in the first quarter of 2009, with the manufacturing sector down 28.6%, according to data released by Taiwan's Directorate-General of Budget,...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has asked all laid-off employees to return to work to make amends for what company chairman Morris Chang describes as "regrettable...
As consumers' disposable incomes dwindle, they are flocking to buy low-cost netbook PCs, driving global shipments up by 68.5% in 2009 and by a 2,424% in 2008, according to iSuppli.
Cash-strapped consumers and an economy in recession are bad news for sales of most products, but that may not apply to netbooks, according to ABI Research. Several characteristics...
Taiwan's exports decreased 35.7% on year to US$15.59 billion in March 2009, according to Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). Exports...
The Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) Group plans to relocate part of its production facilities in China back to Taiwan later this year, the group's chairman Terry Gou said during...
The credit crisis came home to roost for the global PC market in the fourth quarter of 2008, ending a sustained period when sales seemed to defy economic gravity, according to iSup...
Optical film maker Efun Technology has said that in consideration of the current state of the global economy, the company has decided to revoke its planned convertible bond issue,...
IDC has forecast a further revenue decline of 22% in the global semiconductor market in 2009, due to double digit declines in unit shipments of key system markets, low utilization...
The global semiconductor industry will likely experience negative growth in 2009, but will start to rebound at an annual growth rate of 4-5% from next year, according to Morris Chang,...
