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Friday 1 June 2018
Taiwan LCD TVs – 1Q 2018
Taiwan's LCD TV shipments decreased 33.8% sequentially and 4.9% on year to come to only around 6.6 million units in the first quarter of 2018, the sharpest sequential decline Taiwan's...
Thursday 31 May 2018
Taiflex optimistic about flexible PCB market
Taiwan-based Taiflex Scientific, which supplies flexible copper clad laminates (FCCL), expects the flexible PCB (FPCB) market to continue growing.
Thursday 31 May 2018
Gudeng enjoys ramp-up of FOUP orders from 12-inch foundries
Gudeng Precision Industrial has enjoyed a ramp-up of front opening unified pod (FOUP) orders from 12-inch IC foundries in China and Taiwan, while shipments of its extreme ultraviolet...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Taiwan LCD monitors – 1Q 2018
Taiwan makers' monitor shipments dropped below the 20 million mark in the first quarter of 2018, decreasing 6.3% sequentially, but annually the shipments rose 1.4%.
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Acer announces new servers powered by Nvidia Tesla GPUs
Acer has announced the new Altos R880 F4 GPU server ahead of GTC Taiwan 2018. It can host up to eight Nvidia Tesla V100 32GB SXM2 GPU accelerators, where every GPU pair includes one...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Gogoro launches new electric motorcycle models in Taiwan
Electric motorcycle vendor Gogoro has launched Gogoro S2 and Gogoro 2 Delight in the Taiwan market.
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Signify launches EyeComfort LED light bulbs in Taiwan
Signify (renamed from Philips Lighting) has launched EyeComfort series LED light bulbs in the Taiwan market.
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Fabless firms to encounter rising foundry and mask costs in 2H18
Taiwan-based IC design houses have expressed caution about their gross margin performance in the second half of 2018, as they will encounter rising costs including higher quotes asked...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Microsoft holds DevDays Asia 2018 in Taiwan
Microsoft is holding DevDays Asia 2018, an annual conference introducing the company's latest technologies to local developers, in Taipei during May 28-30, with focus on AI (artificial...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
Second-tier IC foundries mulling 20-30% price hike
Second-tier IC foundries based in China and Taiwan are planning to hike quotes for 8-inch capacity by 20-30% in the third quarter of 2018, according to sources in the Taiwan IC design...
Tuesday 29 May 2018
India smartphone market starts taking off in 2018: Q&A with Prince Yun, Avnet president for Taiwan and South Asia
Many new opportunities and challenges are emerging for the global electronics industries amid the trade spats between the US and China, and it is important that Taiwan's electronics...
Monday 28 May 2018
Taiwan 1Q18 economic growth estimated at 3.02%
Taiwan's on-year GDP growth for first-quarter 2018 is estimated at 3.02%, 0.02p lower than the 3.04% preliminarily estimated in April 2018, according to the Directorate General of...
Friday 25 May 2018
Unmanned stores rising as new niche sector for Taiwan IC designers
Unmanned stores are experiencing a burgeoning development worldwide, with globally leading e-commerce players or retail chains including Amazon, Walmart, Alibba, and JD.com all jumping...
Friday 25 May 2018
Backend firms to gain from strong demand for MEMS sensors
Taiwan-based backend houses are expected to significantly benefit from increasingly brisk market demand for MEMS sensors for use in smartphones and other consumer electronics devices,...
Thursday 24 May 2018
Taiwan April manufacturing production index up on year
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 103.52 for April 2018, decreasing 11.15% sequentially but increasing 9.07% on year, according to the Ministry...