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Wednesday 23 January 2019
Cisco offers Taiwan enterprises help in biz transformation
Cisco has hosted Cisco Connect TPE 2019 in Taipei, sharing its ideas about cloud computing. Cisco Taiwan president George Chen, during his keynote speech, ointed out that the company...
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Japan to kick off 5G commercial pre-service in 2019
Japan is pushing its development of 5G networks at full throttle, with its top-three telecom operators - NTT Docomo, KDDI au and SoftBank - set to kick off 5G commercial pre-service...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
China, Taiwan LED makers face big challenge in 2019
China- and Taiwan-based LED firms generally saw prices drop due to weak demand and oversupply in 2018, and in 2019 they are facing probably the biggest challenge in 10 years, as oversupply...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Taiwan 2018 direct investment hits 10-year high
Taiwan approved 3,621 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) totaling US$11.440 billion in 2018, respectively increasing 6.03% and 52.37% on year, with the value hitting...
Tuesday 22 January 2019
Taiwan December export orders down
Taiwan's export orders totalled US$43.38 billion in December 2018, down 10.5% on year, the largest decline since May 2016, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic...
Monday 21 January 2019
Senao to recruit workers for new Taiwan plant
Taiwan-based communications equipment maker Senao Networks is planning to significantly boost monthly pays for new production workers in order to smoothen recruitment of new workforce...
Monday 21 January 2019
Acer eyes 50% on-year revenue growth from gaming PCs in 2019
Acer is planning to focus on promoting its gaming PCs in 2019, eying to boost related revenues by 50% on year, according to company president of the Pan Asia Pacific region Andrew...
Monday 21 January 2019
Taiwan LCD driver IC production value increases 17% in 2018, says Digitimes Research
Taiwan's production value of LCD driver ICs is expected to grow 17% on year in the fourth quarter of 2018 driven by rising unit shipments and prices propelled by growing demand for...
Friday 18 January 2019
Taiwan Mobile cooperates with Asus Cloud for cloud storage business, says paper
Taiwan Mobile has announced to partner with Asus Cloud, a cloud computing service affiliate of Asustek Computer, to offer storage cloud services to Taiwan's small- to medium-size...
Friday 18 January 2019
Wistron pushing into autonomous driving development, says paper
Wistron and its partners from an autonomous driving development team including several IT and bus companies in Taiwan and National Taiwan University (NTU), have unveiled their latest...
Friday 18 January 2019
Taiwan IC vendors may see profits fall on foundry supply loosening
As TSMC will surely take time digesting its iPhone AP inventory amid lingering lackluster sales of Apple's smartphones, most Taiwan IC designers are worried their gross margins in...
Friday 18 January 2019
Taiwan PV FIT scheme has room for improvement room, says Motech president
Taiwan began to adopt a feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme to boost PV power development about two years ago, much later than many other countries, and therefore the scheme has considerable...
Friday 18 January 2019
Taiwan makers keen to develop auto-use MOSFET, industry IGBT
As international IDMs still dominate the market for IGBT, the core power component for new energy vehicles and hybrid vehicles, Taiwan makers of discrete power devices are keen to...
Friday 18 January 2019
Acer founder expects elderly consumers to be opportunity for Taiwan IT industry
Acer founder Stan Shih has pointed out that Taiwan's IT sectors should work together to pursue the business opportunity from the elderly consumer group and can leverage the success...
Friday 18 January 2019
Rapidz introducing decentralized payment solutions into Taiwan
Taiwan's electronic payment market is entering a new development stage, with crypto coins emerging as a new payment tool for B2B and B2C transactions, according to Paul Wei, sales...