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Wednesday 16 November 2022
Taiwan IC substrate suppliers to ramp up capex in 2023
Taiwan-based IC substrate suppliers are expected to continue ramping up their capital expenditures (capex) next year to build additional production capacities for ABF substrates,...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Taiwan Cement active in operation of green energy
Taiwan Cement has shifted operational focus from cement production to green energy business and has been actively setting up renewable energy generating facilities and energy storage...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Acer fighting economic downturn with three strategies in Asia Pacific
Acer, facing the worsening global economy, is mainly pushing three strategies for the Pan Asia Pacific region – focusing on the gaming and enterprise sectors, promoting the...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Foxconn JV breaks ground for new EV plant in Thailand
Horizon Plus, a joint venture between Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group and Thailand's state-run energy group PTT, broke ground recently for a new electric vehicle (EV) production...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Cleanroom equipment maker Acter upbeat about sales prospects in 4Q22
Cleanroom and turnkey equipment provider Acter continued to enjoy strong demand from Taiwan's and China's chipmaking sectors in the third quarter, when revenue and net profit climbed...
Monday 14 November 2022
PC brands turn to Asia Pacific for sales in 4Q22, says Acer executive
PC brand vendors are gearing up product promotions in Asia Pacific, where end demand is not undermined by the inflation as seriously as in Europe and North America and some vendors...
Monday 14 November 2022
iKala appoints GM for Japan branch, hoping to build Asia's largest influencer database
Taiwan-based international AI company iKala has appointed Ryuji Tsuchiya as its Japan branch's GM. The listings on its influencer data platform KOL Radar will massively expand to...
Monday 14 November 2022
SEA roundup: Taiwanese firms plan PHP3.88 billion investment in Philippines
Global tech companies are actively expanding their manufacturing bases to Southeast Asian countries. Companies, such as Samsung, Chimei, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE),...
Friday 11 November 2022
Ford, GM in talks with Posco Chemical on battery metal hubs
Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., and Stellantis NV are in talks with South Korea's Posco Chemical Co. about potentially investing in plants producing electric-vehicle battery materials...
Friday 11 November 2022
Tokyo Electron cuts outlook on US chip curbs, memory slump
Key chip equipment supplier Tokyo Electron Ltd. slashed its full-year outlook after memory makers cut spending and the US ramped up restrictions on cutting-edge chip-gear exports...
Friday 11 November 2022
SMIC expects over 10% revenue drop in 4Q22
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue decline of 13-15% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2022, with gross margin...
Friday 11 November 2022
Japan to launch chip firm to mass produce sub-2nm chips in 5 years, says NHK
NHK, the Japanese public broadcasting company, has reported that a new semiconductor company will be jointly funded by eight Japanese conglomerates to develop cutting-edge logic se...
Friday 11 November 2022
Nintendo Switch sales turn weak, FY2022 shipment downgraded to 19 million units
In its latest financial predictions, Nintendo stated that in fiscal year 2022 (April 2022 to March 2023), the shipment estimates for the Switch series consoles have been downgraded...
Thursday 10 November 2022
Honda and Nissan move financial forecasts upward as Yen stays weak
While semiconductor shortages remain a tricky issue for automakers, Japanese companies have offset the impact on their financial performance due to the weakening Yen. On Wednesday,...
Thursday 10 November 2022
Fujitsu will leverage TSMC's foundry for its 2nm CPU
At a press conference on November 8, Japanese technology conglomerate Fujitsu mentioned that its power-saving CPU will be produced with the 2nm processing node technology, and will...