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Friday 13 April 2018
CHT teams up with Samsung to launch 5CA services in Taiwan
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will team up with Samsung Electronics to launch 5CA (carrier aggregation) services in Taiwan starting June, utilizing Samsung's Galaxy S9-series devices, according...
Friday 13 April 2018
Taiwan IC designers expanding presence in car electronics sector
Zeroing in on automotive electronics as a new "blue ocean" market, Taiwan's IC design houses are expected to tap deeper into the sector in 2018 by enhancing innovative functions of...
Friday 13 April 2018
Gaming notebook vendors gearing up for competition in Southeast Asia
With the gaming notebook markets in China, Europe and the US becoming saturated, vendors including Asustek Computer, Dell and Lenovo have all moved to target the Southeast Asia market...
Friday 13 April 2018
Compal crossing into medical market
Compal Electronics' biomedical research subsidiary has recently partnered with a university in southern Taiwan to establish an animal hospital, providing services including computer...
Friday 13 April 2018
Semiconductor leaders continue to gain market share
The world's leading semiconductor suppliers have significantly increased their combined market share over the past decade. According to IC Insights, the top-5 semiconductor suppliers...
Friday 13 April 2018
GlobalWafers order visibility clear through 2020
Taiwan-based GlobalWafers, a supplier of semiconductor silicon wafers, has reported clear order visibility through 2020.
Friday 13 April 2018
ZenFone 5 launched in Taiwan
Asustek Computer has launched its new ZenFone 5 in the Taiwan market priced at NT$11,990 (US$410) targeting the mid-range smartphone segment.
Friday 13 April 2018
Taiwan university develops battery costing only 5% of lithium ones
Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University has developed an eco-friendly battery using sodium ion electrolyte as the source. The battery's non-corrosive, non-toxic and non-explosive...
Thursday 12 April 2018
Xilinx gearing up for FPGA market
Bolstered by its programmability trait, FPGA (field-programmable gate array) is gaining ground in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) chips and artificial neural networks...
Thursday 12 April 2018
Taiwan Mobile reports strong earnings for March
Taiwan Mobile outperformed peer telecom operators Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) in March and the first quarter of 2018 in terms of net earnings and...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Taiwan speeding up quantum computer development
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology will kick off a quantum computer development project in mid-April, seeking to pool the R&D resources of the domestic semiconductor...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Taiwan diode makers seeing clear order visibility
Taiwan-based diode makers have seen clear order visibility through the third quarter of 2018 while still facing tight supply of silicon epitaxial wafers, according to industry sour...
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Taiwan Star expanding 4G network infrastructure
Taiwan Star Telecom has continued to enhance its 4G infrastructure by adding 1,163 base stations to its 4G networks in the first quarter of 2018, according to company senior marketing...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Taiwan gearing up to create first startup unicorn
Taiwan is gearing up to improve investment environment for startups to facilitate the establishment of at least 10,000 startups to drive industrial upgrades and transformations, while...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Taiwan March export value hits record
Taiwan's March 2018 export value totaled US$29.99 billion, the highest-ever monthly level with growth of 34.1% sequentially and 16.7% on year, while the corresponding import value...