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Monday 10 May 2021
Chief Telecom to build new datacenter in Taiwan
Taiwan-based telecom solution provider Chief Telecom will establish its fourth datacenter in northern Taiwan with the construction to begin in the second half of the year, according...
Friday 7 May 2021
Tripod Tech expects new capacity to come online in 2H21
Tripod Technology will have new production lines at its manufacturing site in Xiantao, China's Hubei province get ready for production in June, according to the Taiwan-based PCB manufacturer...
Thursday 6 May 2021
Advantech to see 2Q21 shipments hit by component shortage
Industrial PC maker Advantech expects its second-quarter 2021 sales to be affected by the ongoing shortages of upstream components, with 5-10% of the orders set to see delays in delivery,...
Thursday 6 May 2021
TSMC sees orders for cryptomining chips pick up
Bitmain, a vendor of bitcoin mining ASICs and equipment, has placed 5nm chip orders with TSMC with production slated to kick off starting the third quarter, according to industry...
Wednesday 5 May 2021
Highlights of the day: White-box server demand growing fast
Demand for white-box servers from datacenter operators has been growing fast, with Taiwanese ODM's shipments already accounting for more than one third of the world's total...
Wednesday 5 May 2021
Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panel shipments to grow sequentially in 2Q21
Taiwan's shipments of small- to medium-size LCD panels are expected to edge up 3.7% sequentially but decline 15% on year in the second quarter of 2021, after reaching 188 million...
Wednesday 5 May 2021
White-box ODMs see increasing penetration in global server shipments
White-box server ODMs such as Quanta Computer and Wiwynn saw their shipments to datacenter operators account for more than 38% of the global total server shipments in 2020, up 8pp...
Wednesday 5 May 2021
IKKA to be listed on TWSE
Japan-based IKKA Holdings (Cayman) will be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) in late May 2021, according to company chairman Hu Shiang-chi.
Tuesday 4 May 2021
China 1Q21 smartphone shipments increase 9%, says Digitimes Research
Smartphone shipments totaled 94.6 million units in the China market in the first quarter of 2021, up 9% sequentially and 99.6% on year, Digitimes Research has found.
Tuesday 4 May 2021
Highlights of the day: Packaging materials in severe shortage
Backend service providers face as much as a 50% shortage of packaging materials from until June as a result of production...
Tuesday 4 May 2021
Samsung sees profit drop in Vietnam in 2020
The four major subsidiaries of Samsung Electronics in Vietnam garnered revenues of US$63.25 billion in 2020, decreasing 4% from a year earlier, with their combined earnings sliding...
Tuesday 4 May 2021
MediaTek to scale down 4G mobile chip shipments
MediaTek has notified its China-based smartphone clients that it will scale down shipments of 4G chips in 2021 due to tight capacities at foundry houses, according to industry sour...
Tuesday 4 May 2021
MediaTek accounts for over 50% of China smartphone AP shipments in 1Q21
Shipments of smartphone application processors for use by China-based handset vendors reached 212 million units in the first quarter of 2021, increasing 0.2% from a quarter earlier,...
Monday 3 May 2021
Global server shipments slip 1.6% in 1Q21, but to grow over 10% in 2Q21
Global server shipments are expected to slip by only 1.6% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021 despite the quarter being a traditional slow season, according to Digitimes Research's...
Friday 30 April 2021
Advantech 1Q21 revenues, profits hit first-quarter records
Advantech has released financial reports for the first quarter of 2021, with consolidated revenues of NT$13.161 billion (US$463 million), operating profit of NT$2.287 billion and...