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Monday 14 August 2023
Himax says gross profit rate will improve in Q3 but sales need more time to rebound
Taiwan-based display driver IC company Himax Technologies saw its sales and gross margin decrease in the second quarter of 2023. The company said demand from automotive electronics...
Monday 14 August 2023
Foreign-based automotive tier-1s under pressure in China
China's mature EV supply chain has challenged foreign automotive tier-1 suppliers and their joint ventures. Foreign-based companies have trailed behind the country's battery dominance,...
Monday 14 August 2023
Vestas, Tien Li produces 100th wind turbine blade in Taiwan
Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems and its Taiwanese partner Tien Li Offshore Wind Technology announced that they have successfully manufactured their 100th V174-9.5MW...
Monday 14 August 2023
India roundup: Confusion and concerns mount among notebook and tablet vendors over India's import restriction measure
India's surprising announcement to require license for imported notebooks and tablets raised confusion and concerns in the IT hardware industry. Hyundai is looking to launch more...
Friday 11 August 2023
Google's Waymo, Cruise get nod to expand San Francisco robotaxis
California regulators voted in favor of robotaxi operators expanding their paid driverless services in the city of San Francisco, a major milestone toward commercializing the techn...
Friday 11 August 2023
Cruise X accelerates the rollout of EV platform
Taiwan-based automotive design company, Cruise X took the wraps off the X-Platform for logistics trucks. Albert Yang, the company's president, said the parent company, Studio X-Gene,...
Friday 11 August 2023
Indonesia extends deadline for more EV makers to win subsidies
Southeast Asia's largest economy has decided to give itself more time to build a local EV hub. Indonesia announced on August 10 that it will push back the deadline for EV incentives...
Friday 11 August 2023
China's SiC semiconductor development grows into polarization
As the Chinese government becomes cautious about how it subsidizes the country's SiC semiconductor development, the gap between leading SiC companies and those falling behind has...
Friday 11 August 2023
Optiemus Electronics, Wistron's India partner, plans to double output near-term
Optiemus Electronics, an Indian electronics manufacturer partnered with Wistron Corporation's Indian subsidiary, Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing (India), is poised to ramp up its production...
Friday 11 August 2023
BYD reaches five million NEV production milestone as automotive electrification in China keeps growing
China's largest new energy vehicle (NEV) maker BYD rolled its five millionth car off the production line on August 9. Chairman and president Wang Chuanfu said automotive electrification...
Friday 11 August 2023
Tai-Saw steps up deployment in LEO satellite, EV sectors
Tai-Saw Technology, a Taiwan-based supplier of surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters and quartz crystal components, has cut into the supply chains for low earth orbit (LEO) satellite...
Friday 11 August 2023
High-end, specialty IC inspection demand rises
IC inspection labs have experienced a surge in demand from vendors of high-end and specialty ICs, as customers step up their R&D pace for AI server and Wi-Fi 7 applications, according...
Friday 11 August 2023
ODMs see Nvidia GPU shortage curb AI server shipments
ODMs including Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), Wiwynn, and Giga Computing have experienced delays in fulfilling AI server orders due to the ongoing GPU shortage at Nvidia, according...
Thursday 10 August 2023
GM's $130,000 Escalade is big, brash, expensive - and green
The Cadillac Escalade has long been one of the largest, most luxurious and biggest gas guzzling SUVs - in many ways, the antithesis of the environmental movement.
Thursday 10 August 2023
Green hydrogen is valid green energy source for Taiwan's semiconductor industry, says DIGITIMES Research
As more and more companies participating in the RE100 initiative will use 100% green energy by 2030–2050, green hydrogen is a key option in the long-term global energy transition...