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Thursday 17 March 2022
China becomes largest EV manufacturer in 2021
China saw its electric vehicle (EV) exports surge 260% on year to nearly 500,000 units in 2021 and became the largest EV manufacturing country worldwide, surpassing Germany and the...
Thursday 17 March 2022
Silicon Motion obtains PCIe Gen4 SSD controller orders from major chip vendors
Silicon Motion Technology with its PCIe Gen4 SSD controllers is eyeing its entry into the supply chain of the world's top-5 PC brand vendors, as the company has obtained orders for...
Wednesday 16 March 2022
COVID lockdowns in China may affect shipments of new Apple devices
Shipments of new Apple devices may more or less be affected by the COVID lockdowns in Shenzhen and Dongguan, where its supply chain partners including Foxconn, Unimicron Technology...
Wednesday 16 March 2022
Notebook ODMs turn cautious amid market uncertainty
Macroeconomic uncertainty arising from the Russia-Ukraine war and surging coronavirus cases in China, as well as the ongoing shortages of certain chips and components, has cast a...
Wednesday 16 March 2022
China carmakers suspend production due to Shenzhen lockdown
The government-imposed weeklong lockdown in Shenzhen, China due to a spike in local COVID-19 cases is disrupting crucial electronics device shipments for automotive electronics, prompting...
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Nickel price volatility prompts packaging materials suppliers to stop taking orders
Nickel prices have been volatile, discouraging IC packaging material suppliers, such as leadframe makers, from taking new orders, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Asustek shipments to Russia come to standstill
Asustek Computer has disclosed that its product shipments to the Russia market have come to a standstill because of the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine.
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Device assemblers to closely monitor inventory
Downstream device assemblers and vendors in the networking device, notebook, and server sectors will be closely monitoring their inventory levels this year, as unfavorable macro factors...
Monday 14 March 2022
Gigabyte to spin off server business
Gigabyte Technology has announced it will spin off its network communication business group and transfer it to its wholly-owned subsidiary Giga Computing Technology. The transfer...
Monday 14 March 2022
Acer conservative about sales in 2H22
Acer is conservative about its operation in the second half of 2022 as inflation has continued hitting the global market and may undermine sales of consumer IT products, according...
Friday 11 March 2022
Highlights of the day: IT firms turning conservative about 2022
With the war between Russia and Ukraine not likely to cease any time soon, IT firms have turned cautious about their operation in 2022. Notebook ODMs, despite still having robust...
Friday 11 March 2022
Mobo and graphics card makers turn cautious amid demand uncertainty
Taiwan-based main motherboard (mobo) and graphic card vendors including Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI), as well as smaller peers ASRock and...
Friday 11 March 2022
Automotive component orders picking up
Automotive component suppliers, such as cooling fan maker Yen Sun Technology, have seen customer orders pick up substantially, which may indicate an easing of chip shortages, according...
Friday 11 March 2022
Silicon IP provider M31 expects up to 20% revenue increase in 2022
Taiwan-based silicon IP provider M31 Technology expects its revenue in US dollar terms to grow 15-20% in 2022, thanks to robust demand from its foundry and fabless customers.
Friday 11 March 2022
Taiwan IC design houses focus more on automotive electronics
Taiwan-based IC design houses including display driver IC (DDI) companies, network IC specialist, and suppliers of sensors, audio chips and MEMS microphones have all put increased...