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Friday 28 August 2020
Startup FlowView raises new funds
FlowView Tek, a startup business spun off from Taiwan's government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), has attracted investments from Taiwan's National Development...
Thursday 27 August 2020
KYEC, Sigurd to boost capacity support for MediaTek orders
Testing houses King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics will substantially scale up their capacities for MediaTek orders in September and October, while being aware...
Thursday 27 August 2020
Taiwan makers poised to scale up AiP substrate shipments in 2021
Taiwan-based IC substrate makers Unimicron, Nan Ya PCB and Kinsus Interconnect are expected to significantly scale up their AiP (antenna-in-package) substrate shipments in 2021, driven...
Thursday 27 August 2020
Samsung share in Taiwan smartphone market hits 7-year high
Samsung Electronics saw its smartphone sales in the Taiwan market hit a seven-year high of 30.3% in July, up nearly 9pp from the level seen a year earlier, according to data compiled...
Thursday 27 August 2020
Taiwan IC design houses likely to post gross margin decreases in 4Q20
Taiwan-based IC design houses will see their gross margins come under downward pressure in the fourth quarter of 2020, due to falling chip ASPs in China, according to industry sour...
Thursday 27 August 2020
Leading Taiwan makers keen on overseas expansions
Leading Taiwan-based supply chain makers have been keen on investing in India and Southeast Asia, in response to the world's changing economic influence in next three decades or so,...
Thursday 27 August 2020
Winbond gearing up to build IoT security ecosystem in Taiwan
Taiwan-based mobile and specialty DRAM maker Winbond is aggressively making deployments in IoT information security seeking to pioneer the establishment of a related ecosystem in...
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Taiwan science parks record revenues of over NT$1,368 billion for 1H20
Government-developed Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) and Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) generated revenues totaling NT$1,368.105 billion (US$46.38...
Tuesday 25 August 2020
STSP expects 2020 revenues growth of 15.7% on TSMC 5nm fab production
Government-developed Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) expects its revenues for 2020 to grow 15.7% on year to NT$860 billion (US$29.3 billion), mainly driven by TSMC ramping up...
Tuesday 25 August 2020
Taiwan July manufacturing production index up
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 116.35 for July 2020, increasing 1.68% sequentially and 2.64% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic...
Tuesday 25 August 2020
TSMC steps up factory site expansion in southern Taiwan
TSMC has stepped up its expansion at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), having acquired several factory buildings, with the latest being a plant from an LCD panel maker.
Tuesday 25 August 2020
Spirox, Molsentech jointly develop COVID-19 rapid test system
Taiwan-based Spirox and Molecular Sensoring Technology (Molsentech) have announced their joint development of a MOSFET-based COVID-19 rapid test system, which is slated for launch...
Monday 24 August 2020
Human collaboration required for self-driving trials in Taiwan
Autonomous driving tests in Taiwan are required to have human drivers onboard the vehicles to take over steering when occasion arises, according to Statute for Experiments of Technological...
Monday 24 August 2020
Taiwan ICT makers stand chance of entering car supply chains
With automakers having little time to undergo digital transformation jointly with their supply chain partners amid quick and revolutionary changes in the industry, Taiwan-based ICT...
Monday 24 August 2020
Taiwan IC designers to see growing pressure from China homegrown competitors
Taiwan's IC designers have benefited the most from China's de-Americanization campaign, but they will have to brace for new competition pressure from Chinese chipmakers aggressively...