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Tuesday 20 January 2015
Taiwan touch panel makers report dismal 2014 results
Price wars in the touch panel segment are said to have been a major factor in Taiwan makers' declining performances in 2014, resulting in TPK seeing an on-year 18.58% decline and...
Monday 19 January 2015
Taiwan makers halt expansion of PERC capacities
Many Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers in 2014 upgraded their production lines for P-type monocrystalline silicon solar cells to produce PERC (passivated emitter...
Monday 19 January 2015
Taiwan market: PC vendors step up competition
Toshiba reportedly will turn to focus mainly on enterprise products in Taiwan in 2015 as parts of its plan to gradually phase out from the consumer market worldwide and vendors including...
Monday 19 January 2015
Taiwan market: Ultra HD TV sales expected to reach 3,000 in 1Q15; 10,000 in 2015
Ultra HD TVs in the Taiwan market held an estimated 30% share of overall TV sales during the fourth quarter of 2014 and are likely to see a five-fold increase in on-year sales over...
Friday 16 January 2015
Taiwan market: LED light bulb penetration reaches 50% in 2014, says Philips executive
In the Taiwan market, LED light bulbs accounted for 50% of all types of light bulbs in 2014 and the penetration rate is likely to rise to 60% in 2015, according to Philips Taiwan...
Thursday 15 January 2015
China LED chip production value expected to surpass Taiwan's in 2015-2016
Many China-based LED chip makers have expanded or been expanding production capacities and consequently, China's production value for LED chips is expected to exceed Taiwan's in 2015...
Thursday 15 January 2015
Taiwan startups advised to target mobile Internet, smart household sectors, says Xiaomi chairman
Taiwan-based innovative startups are urged to step into two promising sectors: mobile Internet and smart household devices, optimizing Taiwan's well-established industry base and...
Thursday 15 January 2015
Taiwan 2014 optoelectronics production value estimated at NT$2.467 trillion, says PIDA
Taiwan's optoelectronics industries generated a total production value of NT$2.467 trillion (US$80.2 billion) in 2014, flat on year and accounting for about 12% of global total, according...
Thursday 15 January 2015
Quanta, Wiwynn not in hurry to join China data center competition
Although China is currently seeing strong demand for cloud computing data centers, Taiwan-based Quanta Computer and Wiwynn, a server brand subsidiary of Wistron are not in a hurry...
Thursday 15 January 2015
Taiwan market: So-net launches 2 mobile games
So-net Entertainment Taiwan, a subsidiary of Japan-based Internet service provider So-net, has announced two mobile games developed by Japan-based Colopl.
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Inventec chairman confident of shipping 100 million products in 2015
Inventec chairman Richard Lee, at Xiaomi's product launch conference in Taiwan, pointed out that the company is expected to see about 100 million ODM/OEM product shipments in 2015,...
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Taiwan 2015 export value to grow 3.58% on year, says TAITRA
Taiwan recorded total export value of US$295.2 billion for 2014, increasing on year by 2.75%, and the value for 2015 is expected to increase by 3.58% on year, according to Taiwan...
Wednesday 14 January 2015
China-based Cheetah Mobile to set up seed fund in Taiwan
Cheetah Mobile, a China-based Internet mobile company, plans to launch a NT$100 million (US$3.14 million) venture capital fund specifically for Taiwan startups in the mobile Internet...
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Taiwan PCB makers look to automotive for growth
Taiwan-based PCB manufacturers, including Apex International, Nanya Printed Circuit Board, Tripod Technology and Unitech Printed Circuit Board, will see sales from the automotive...
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Delta Electronics lands order for PV inverters from Japan
Power supply maker and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics has announced that its 750 20kW PV inverters, coded RPI-M20A, will be adopted by Japan-based Takara Leben,...