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Monday 4 March 2019
Taiwan firms see niche in automotive electronics for driverless cars
Autonomous cars are emerging as a common industrial development trend worldwide with huge business opportunities looming ahead, prompting Taiwan makers to cash in on great demand...
Monday 4 March 2019
PCB makers may not gain much from Huawei P30 Pro release
China handset vendor Huawei is set to release new smartphone model P30 Pro in late March as one of its major offerings for the first half of 2019, but Taiwan PCB supply chain is conservative...
Monday 4 March 2019
Industry 4.0 brings lucrative opportunities for chipmakers: Q&A with TI manager Matthieu Chervier
Global chipmakers have been racing to develop chip solutions associated with Industry 4.0 applications to tap huge business opportunities arising from smart manufacturing in conjunction...
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Backend firms to gain from Xilinx tapping 5G FPGA chip market
Leading FPGA chip maker Xilinx is aggressively moving to tap into the market for chip solutions for 5G base stations, and the move is expected to increase orders by 15% for Taiwan-based...
Wednesday 27 February 2019
HTC unveils 5G mobile smart hub
HTC has unveiled a dedicated 5G mobile smart hub at MWC 2019. The HTC 5G Hub, designed for use in both home and office environments, enables 4K video streaming, low-latency gaming,...
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Cooling specialist Auras reportedly enters Samsung, Huawei supply chains
Taiwan-based Auras Technology has Korea and China smartphone vendors among its clients for cooling modules and will move to expand production of heat spreaders seen to be increasingly...
Monday 25 February 2019
Quanta shipping 5G x86 servers to new Japan telecom operator
Taiwan DOM Quanta Computer has reportedly kicked off shipments of servers adopting Intel x86 processors to Japan's new telecom operator Rakuten Mobile Network (RMN), marking a successful...
Friday 22 February 2019
Wiwynn expects slow cloud computing market in 2019, but fast growth to resume in 2020
After experiencing a rapidly growing 2018, the cloud computing market is expected to slow down in 2019 for some correction before fast growth resumes in 2020, according to Wiwynn...
Friday 22 February 2019
TSMC with EUV process gearing up for AI, 5G boom
Chipmakers are expected to showcase their new-generation chip solutions for AI and 5G applications at the upcoming Mobile World Congress (MWC) trade fair, with Taiwan Semiconductor...
Friday 22 February 2019
MediaTek reiterates target gross margin of 40% for 2019
MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai reiterated at a recent press event the company's gross margin target of 40% this year, and said the mobile SoC specialist is confident about the competitiveness...
Thursday 21 February 2019
Huawei demanding capacity support from Taiwan backend partners
Huawei has demanded sufficient capacity support from its Taiwan-based backend partners for the end of 2019 and the middle of 2020, as the device vendor is gearing up for 5G with plans...
Thursday 21 February 2019
Taiflex sees revenue decline in 2018, but keeps gross margin at above 20%
Taiwan-based Taiflex Scientific has announced financial results for the fourth quarter of 2018 and the whole year 2018. The company saw its 2018 consolidated revenues drop from a...
Thursday 21 February 2019
Taiwan must run faster in IC development: Q&A with science minister Chen Liang-gee
TSMC is likely to kick off volume production of 3nm manufacturing process in 2022-2023, when AI and 5G applications are seen to explode to drastically drive the growth of mobile communications,...
Thursday 21 February 2019
Samsung unveils Galaxy S10 series smartphones
Samsung Electronics has introduced a new line of premium smartphones, the Galaxy S10. The Galaxy S10+ features upgraded specifications; the Galaxy S10e is built for users who want...
Wednesday 20 February 2019
China smartphone AP shipments to drop 25% in 1Q19, says Digitimes Research
Smartphone application processor (AP) shipments to China vendors in fourth-quarter 2018 declined 10% on quarter with system manufacturers adjusting shipment targets downward. As system...