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Tuesday 9 August 2016
Digitimes Research: White-box tablet players see weak shipments in 2Q16
White-box tablet shipments were down 15.3% from sequentially to reach only 13.8 million units in the second quarter because the quarter was a slow season for North America and Europe,...
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Taiwan market: Samsung expected to ship 500,000 Galaxy Note 7s
Samsung Electronics has launched its new flagship model, the Galaxy Note 7, in the Taiwan market, and sources at the local retail channels expect the Korea-based vendor to ship over...
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Taiwan memory chipmakers post revenue growth for July
Specialty DRAM and flash chipmaker Winbond Electronics has disclosed revenues for July 2016 climbed to the highest since August 2010, while mask ROM and flash specialist Macronix...
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Taiwan prosecutors investigating Phison for possible accounting fraud
Hsinchu district prosecutors are investigating Phison Electronics and its subsidiaries for possible accounting fraud and the accuracy of financial representations made to the Taiwan...
Monday 8 August 2016
Taiwan sees increased July export value
Taiwan recorded total export value of US$24.12 billion for July 2016, increasing 5.4% on month and 1.2% on year, while the corresponding total import value of US$20.51 billion rose...
Monday 8 August 2016
Taiwan July CPI up, says DGBAS
Taiwan's July 2016 consumer price index (CPI) of 105.02 (2011 as base year) increased 0.22% on month and 1.23% on year, while the corresponding wholesale price index (WPI) of 84.87...
Monday 8 August 2016
AUO to combine wholly-owned subsidiary Taiwan CFI
AU Optronics (AUO) will merge with Taiwan CFI, a color filter subsidiary, on October 1, 2016, according to AUO.
Friday 5 August 2016
Nintendo to start production of NX in early 4Q16, say Taiwan makers
Nintendo will start trial production of its next-generation console, the NX, in the third quarter of 2016 and start volume production in early fourth quarter, about one quarter ahead...
Friday 5 August 2016
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship over 19 million LCD monitors in 2Q16
Taiwan-based makers shipped 19.629 million LCD monitors in the second quarter of 2016, increasing 1.2% on quarter but decreasing 4.1% on year, with the shipment volume accounting...
Wednesday 3 August 2016
Sigfox hopes to cooperate with Taiwan makers
Sigfox, a France-based developer of low-power long-range wireless communication technology specifically for IoT, hopes to cooperate with Taiwan-based semiconductor and device makers...
Wednesday 3 August 2016
Taiwan market: Smartphone shipments total 607,000 units in June
Shipments of smartphones totaled 607,000 units in the Taiwan market in June 2016, down from the 641,000 units shipped in the previous month and 640,000 units shipped a year earlier,...
Tuesday 2 August 2016
Windows 10 new project to benefit Taiwan supply chain, says paper
In addition to releasing an update for its Windows 10, Microsoft is also planning to partner with upstream suppliers to provide enterprises with Windows 10 for a licensing fee of...
Monday 1 August 2016
Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship 58.38 million large-size panels in 2Q16
Taiwan-based TFT-LCD panel makers shipped 58.38 million large-size (9-inch and above) panels in the second quarter of 2016, growing 18.1% on quarter and 0.8% on year, according to...
Monday 1 August 2016
TSMC capex hike to prompt capacity ramps by foundry houses in Taiwan and China
Many wafer foundry houses in Taiwan and China are expected to join the race to ramp capacity after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced recently that it will...
Friday 29 July 2016
Taiwan 2Q16 economic growth estimated at 0.69%, says DGBAS
Taiwan's GDP growth for second-quarter 2016 is estimated at 0.69%, upward adjusted by 0.21 pp from the forecast made in May 2016, according to the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting...