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Friday 25 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: Diversified applications to drive growth for Taiwan optical lens makers
Taiwan-based makers of optical lens modules and lens pieces generally are optimistic that diversified applications, including multi-lens smartphone cameras, automotive lenses and...
Thursday 24 January 2019
US firms less confident about 2019 Taiwan economic outlook, says AmCham survey
Multinational business leaders are less confident about Taiwan's economic outlook for the next 12 months, with only 45.8% of those surveyed noting that they were very or somewhat...
Thursday 24 January 2019
Nintendo Switch shipments to shrink in 2019
Taiwan's upstream supply chain for Nintendo's Switch is expected to see shipments of the game console shrink 25-30% in 2019, according to industry sources.
Thursday 24 January 2019
Taiwan December manufacturing production index down on month, year, says MOEA
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 111.42 for December 2018, decreasing 1.26% on month and 1.45% on year, according to statistics released by the...
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Google purchases PV-generated power in Taiwan
Google has signed a long-term agreement to purchase electricity from a PV power station with installation capacity of 10MWp that will be established on fish culture ponds in Tainan,...
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...