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Monday 26 September 2022
LGES partners with 3 Canadian suppliers for key battery materials
LG Energy Solution (LGES) has signed separate partnership agreements with three major critical mineral suppliers in Canada. The latest arrangements to secure lithium and cobalt from...
Monday 26 September 2022
Mazda sees no return path to production in Russia, Yomiuri says
Mazda Motor is considering a permanent exit from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine put a halt on the Japanese carmaker's production in the country.
Monday 26 September 2022
Winbond specialty DRAM cuts into largest e-bike supply chain in Europe
Taiwan's memory maker Windbond Electronics has cut into the supply chain of Europe's largest e-bike maker with its specialty DRAM, and is also actively developing sales of its flash...
Monday 26 September 2022
Taiwan PCB equipment makers upbeat about 2H22
Taiwan's PCB equipment makers are all optimistic about their shipments for the second half of the year, as they are busy fulfilling orders mainly from IC substrate makers to support...
Monday 26 September 2022
Samsung's ups and downs (9): Its role on the international stage
In the medium to long term, the most likely candidate that could beat TSMC is not Samsung Electronics, but Intel. South Korea, like Taiwan, sees its advantage in hardware manufacturing...
Friday 23 September 2022
Key supplier in international IPC market: Q&A with KC Liu, chairman of Advantech
Since the start of the trade war between the US and China in 2018, the global industry has been rethinking the need for globalization and regionalization planning. The pandemic has...
Friday 23 September 2022
Taiwan PCB sales growth bolstered by IC substrate, HDI, FPCB segments
Aggregate first-half 2022 revenues of Taiwan's PCB manufacturers surged 18% on year to NT$419.7 billion (US$13.256 billion), due mainly to strong shipments of IC substrates that have...
Friday 23 September 2022
Arm mulls partnership with Samsung, potentially on near-memory computing
SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son raised the possibility of a strategic alliance between Arm and Samsung on September 22, according to several media outlets, as falling technology...
Friday 23 September 2022
Samsung's ups and downs (8): Samsung's handset strategy
Samsung Electronics is trying to direct the mainstream of the handset market towards foldable phones, hoping to increase the unit price of sales, and to drive its own production of...
Friday 23 September 2022
AUO sets up solution R&D center in southern Taiwan
AU Optronics (AUO) has inaugurated an R&D center in southern Taiwan as part of a wider plan to accelerate its biaxial "Go Premium, Go Vertical" transformation strategy and build...
Thursday 22 September 2022
Taiwan speeds up EV power charging pile installations
The number of electric vehicle (EV) power charging piles installed in public places around Taiwan will increase from 2,099 curently to 7,167 in 2025, according to Ministry of Economic...
Thursday 22 September 2022
Taiwan August smartphone sales drop
There were 343,000 new smartphones sold in Taiwan in August 2022, the lowest monthly level so far in 2022 with decreases of 17.5% on sequentially and 9.5% on year, according to retail...
Thursday 22 September 2022
Qualcomm announces new innovation center and 5G education initiative in Southern Taiwan
Qualcomm announced on September 21 to establish the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Southern Taiwan located at Kaohsiung's Yawan 5G AIOT Innovation Park to support local industries and...
Thursday 22 September 2022
Samsung's ups and downs (7): The future direction of the memory industry
Memory is Samsung Electronics' main source of profit, so of course, Samsung needs to explore its future strategy in the context of memory. Basically, non-memory and DRAM focus on...
Thursday 22 September 2022
USI steps up deployment in automotive, industrial, and AR fields
Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a subsidiary of Taiwan's ASE Technology Holding, has stepped up its deployment in the automotive, industrial, and AR device fields.