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Tuesday 17 July 2018
New businesses under Acer should be internationalized, says Acer founder
Acer founder Stan Shih at a recent event has noted that the Acer Group's current business operation consists of three major segments: core PC business; business derived from PCs such...
Monday 16 July 2018
Ultra HD TVs propelling flat panel TV market to 194 million units in 2022, says ABI Research
The rapid and increasing number of worldwide Ultra HD flat panel TV shipments over the past few years is contributing to the overall growth of the global flat panel TV market. Ultra...
Monday 16 July 2018
Worldwide PC shipments grow for the first time in 6 years during 2Q18, says Gartner
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 62.1 million units in the second quarter of 2018, a 1.4% increase from the second quarter of 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner. This...
Monday 16 July 2018
Technology is only one of the ingredients to startup success, says Tally Liu
In a media career spanning nearly three decades, Tally Liu served as senior vice president of Knight Ridder, in charge of finances, operations, internal audit and new technologies...
Monday 16 July 2018
SMIC expanding 8-inch fab capacity
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) held a ceremony recently to mark the start of equipment move-in at the new facilities of its 8-inch wafer plant in Tianjin, China,...
Monday 16 July 2018
Taiwan moving to help makers avert China-US trade war impact
The government in Taiwan has taken three major countermeasures to avert possible impact of the escalating China-US trade spats, including helping makers to boost their domestic R&D...
Friday 13 July 2018
Dell unveils innovations for enterprises in Taiwan
Dell has unveiled a series of new enterprise PCs in Taiwan including its Precision 7730 and 7530 workstations designed specifically for virtual reality (VR) purposes; Latitude 5491...
Friday 13 July 2018
Apple updates MacBook Pro
Apple has updated its MacBook Pro series with new hardware. The new MacBook Pro models with Touch Bar feature eighth-generation Intel Core processors, with 6-core on the 15-inch model...
Friday 13 July 2018
LG Display to ship OLED panels to Apple in 2H18, says report
LG Display has reportedly signed a deal with Apple under which it will start shipping both LCD and OLED panels to the US smartphone vendor for the production of its next-generation...
Friday 13 July 2018
Ichia swings to profit in 2Q18
Taiwan-based Ichia Technologies, which manufactures flexible PCBs (FPCB) as well as mechanical integrated components, has reported pre-tax profits of NT$97 million (US$3.2 billion)...
Friday 13 July 2018
Success is the mother of failure, says Sandy Chau, Acorn Campus co-founder
Sandy Chau, co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures as well as an active real estate investor, engages in investment undertakings throughout the United States and Greater China. His success...
Friday 13 July 2018
TAIFE 2018 focuses on self-driving electric vehicles
Taiwan Automotive Research Consortium (TARC), formed by some government-sponsored research organizations, on July 12 hosted Taiwan Automotive International Forum and Exhibition (TAIFE)...
Thursday 12 July 2018
UMC gearing up for auto electronics and China demand boom, says Digitimes Research
United Microelectronics (UMC) will be expanding production capacity in 2019, and is looking to grow its presence in the automotive electronics sector and also the China market.
Thursday 12 July 2018
Ennoconn ready to better tap IIoT market with new acquisition
Foxconn's IPC subsidiary Ennoconn has further sharpened its ability to tap IIoT (industrial Internet of Things) infrastructure market opportunities after completing its latest acquisition...
Thursday 12 July 2018
Increasing PC prices to lead to flat growth of global device shipments in 2018, says Gartner
Worldwide shipments of devices - PCs, tablets and mobile phones - are on pace to record 0.9% growth to reach 2.28 billion units in 2018, according to Gartner. The PC and tablet market...