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Tuesday 21 March 2023
Handset sales turn brisk in Taiwan
Sales of handsets in the Taiwan market have been brisk recently, defying the industry's conservative outlook for a sluggish performance on the ground of high market penetration and...
Tuesday 21 March 2023
IC Design White Paper (4): China has become the largest source of chip design talents
When analyzing the supply and demand of global semiconductor design talents in 2021, one finds US-based companies to be the main source of chip design demand. US-based companies accounted...
Monday 20 March 2023
Wistron building digital content innovation center in Taipei with ITRI
Wistron is building a digital content innovation center in northern Taiwan in cooperation with Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the facility is expected to begin...
Monday 20 March 2023
Thailand smartphone market declines by 21% in 2022 to 16.6 million units, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the Thai smartphone market declined by 21%, ending 2022 with 16.6 million shipments, marking the lowest number of units...
Monday 20 March 2023
Thermalytica backs Japan's hydrogen strategy with thermal insulation material TIISA for cryogenic hydrogen storage and transportation
Japan-based Thermalytica achieved a breakthrough in the development of a super insulation material that significantly enhances the efficiency and cost-competitiveness of transporting...
Monday 20 March 2023
Taiwan PC monitor makers experiencing declining shipments in 4Q22, says DIGITIMES Research
Taiwan PC monitor makers' shipments decreased 6.4% sequentially and 26% on year to come to less than 18 million units in the fourth quarter of 2022 as the global economy remained...
Monday 20 March 2023
Taiwan chip exports to China sputter on tensions, falling demand
Taiwan's exports of integrated circuit chips to China and Hong Kong fell for a fourth month in February as Washington-Beijing tensions simmer and demand for electronics continues...
Monday 20 March 2023
Taiwan partners to beef up backend support for Qualcomm new chips in 2H23
As Qualcomm is set to place wafer starts with TSMC for new handset APs, RF chips, networking chips, and even PC CPUs to be launched in the second half of 2023, its backend supply...
Monday 20 March 2023
TSMC’s container maker is hidden jewel of Japan’s chip industry
The world's most advanced and delicately fine-tuned semiconductors wouldn't be possible without the aid of giant steel storage tanks built by a little-known Tokyo company founded...
Monday 20 March 2023
Etron Chairman voices support for Taiwan tech industry's decentralized production strategy
It has been widely discussed that TSMC's overseas expansion may lead to soaring production costs. However, Dr. Nicky Lu, the chairman of Etron Technology, believes that it is necessary...
Monday 20 March 2023
Samsung SD loss forecast revised upwards: US$3 billion loss likely in 1Q23
Since entering 2023, performance of the memory market has been worse than expected, and the South Korean securities industry has revised the estimated operating losses of both Samsung...
Monday 20 March 2023
Taiwan IC design houses turn cautious in dealing with Chinese customers
The structural conflict between the US and China seems to be increasingly free of gray areas, and Taiwan's IC design sector, which has been least affected by the semiconductor trade...
Monday 20 March 2023
Qualcomm opens advanced engineering, testing center in Taiwan
Qualcomm has recently inaugurated its advanced engineering and testing center in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan to provide services for Taiwanese semiconductor supply chain partners, and...
Monday 20 March 2023
China develops new way of poaching South Korean talent
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...
Monday 20 March 2023
IC Design White Paper (3): Contributions from Taiwan's IC design sector to Taiwan
Taiwan is an important hub of the global information and communication technology (ICT) industry. The development of the ICT supply chain is supported by Taiwan's complete semiconductor...