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Monday 15 March 2010
Memory module house Transcend to hire 1,000 staff for new plant
DRAM module and NAND flash device maker Transcend Information plans to recruit a total of 1,000 employees for its soon-to-be-open Taiwan plant, which will be dedicated to producing...
Friday 12 March 2010
Semiconductor firms step up hiring of new employees
Major Taiwan-based foundries and backend suppliers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Advanced Semiconductor...
Wednesday 10 March 2010
SMIC to cut 10% of employees
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company (SMIC), China's top foundry chipmaker, plans to downsize 10% of its workforce in a move to accelerate its progress towards profitability,...
Monday 8 March 2010
ASE to expand workforce
The Export Processing Zone Administration under Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has revealed that Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) plans to hire around 300 staff...
Monday 22 February 2010
Southern China seeing labor shortage of 2 million, says paper
Guangdong Province, a large manufacturing cluster in southern China, is seeing a labor shortage of an estimated two million workers following the Lunar New Year, according to a Chinese-language...
Friday 22 January 2010
Taiwan employment rate falls in December 2009
Taiwan had 632,000 jobless citizens in December 2009, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 5.74%. Figures were down 0.12pp on month but up 0.71pp on year, according to statistics...
Friday 15 January 2010
TSMC to recruit over 3,000 new employees in 2010
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has said it plans to hire more than 3,000 employees in 2010. The new recruits will be mostly engineers and technical staff but will...
Tuesday 5 January 2010
ECS loses over 100 members of its notebook staff
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has seen more than 100 employees from its notebook business resign since the second quarter of 2009, with nearly half transferring to Shuttle, according...
Wednesday 30 December 2009
ProMOS denies layoff rumors
DRAM maker ProMOS Technologies has issued a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) dismissing rumors of pending layoffs, saying it currently has no plans to cut jobs.
Wednesday 25 November 2009
MSI reportedly to layoff 10-20% of employees in early 2010
Micro-Star International (MSI) reportedly plans to lay off employees in early 2010 with the number accounting for 10-20% of its current personnel, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 4 November 2009
UMC to offer more incentives to employees
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has decided to distribute performance bonuses among its employees as an incentive to reinforce loyalty. The foundry also plans to sell treasury...
Thursday 22 October 2009
Asustek to hire more workers
With high tech companies beginning to report their third quarter results, it appears that the global economy is warming slightly from its previously gloomy conditions, and recent...
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Jabil looking to recruit handset R&D talent in Taiwan, say sources
EMS provider Jabil Circuit is reportedly following the steps of rival company Flextronics International of seeking to recruit R&D staff from handset ODMs in Taiwan to strengthen...
Tuesday 29 September 2009
Former TSMC R&D executive joins Samsung
Samsung Electronics has employed Mong-Song Liang, who formerly served as senior director of the Logic Technology Platform Division at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC),...
Tuesday 29 September 2009
TSMC veteran resumes R&D helm
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on September 28 announced the appointment of Shang-Yi Chiang, a former TSMC vice president of R&D, as its senior VP of R&D...